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The 2 evil epicentric health disorders - Heart Disease & Heart Attack - are very anti-women… For more female than male individuals fall victim of their unexpected attacks each year. To compare, they represent a much greater number of fatal and non-fatal life threats to women than all forms of cancer altogether.
Unfortunately, the majority of women do not know that there are purely womanly symptoms of an ongoing heart attack… and that they can significantly differ from manly ones. Doctor of Medicine C. Noel Bairey Merz - Chair of the
No woman should allow her Heart’s healthy well-being or, worse, her life to be put at risk because of Ignorance!
- If you’ve crossed the adultcy line, i.e., if you are over 18 years old – check your blood pressure once a year at the least;
- If you are a middle-aged woman over the 45-years-old line – annually check your blood sugar and blood cholesterol levels;
- If your family has a history of heart disease in relatives 60-minus of age, especially in a female relative – start getting these tests and a few additional ones (e.g., treadmill testing) done at an early age.
Tip #2: Know the difference! Note that women-inherent symptoms of heart-attack are often different from those occurring in heart-attacked men; however, there is a bunch of ‘unisex’ signs-symptoms indicating that your heart is in danger!
Classic symptomacy:
- Squeeze-like pain in the chest;
- Feeling of a ‘pressured chest’;
- Feeling of tightness in the chest;
- Shortness of breath;
- Pain in the heart area tending to spread into the shoulders, neck or arms;
- Dizzy-headedness and/or shortlasting fainting;
- Inexplicable feeling of indigestion or heartburn.
- Dizzy-headedness, nausea & vomiting;
- Indigestion and/or bloating-like pain;
- Inexplicable tiredness, weakness & overall fatigue;
- Painful sensations between shoulder-blades;
- Periodical discomfort sensation in the chest;
- Doomy mood.
Make annual reviewing of your risk factors for heart-disease a habit!
Tip #4: Regularly revise the list of womanly heart-attack symptoms with your family and friends along with the importance of calling Emergency Medical Services if any of the symptoms pop up.
Tip #5: Assure you fully understand all drug-use instructions or other heart-disease prevention and/or treatment directions your doctor provided you with. Don’t forget to write down the exact date, time and place you’re supposed to have your next follow-up test.
Tip #6:
- Stick to a healthy diet and a heart-friendly lifestyle. Avoid foods with a high content of saturated fats;
- Try to make 70% of your daily food-intake out of fruit and vegetable servings;
- Use the stairs instead of the elevator whenever you get a chance;
- Workout regularly, but do not overstress your heart with too much exercising.
Tip #7: Inveterate smoker or occasional smoker – Quit Smoking for Good! You have only 1 tender heart at your disposition and only 1 fleeting Life. And you definitely do not want to make it any shorter…
Tip #8: If you are experiencing symptoms that make you suspect the ongoing of a heart-attack –call 911 immediately!!
If you are doubting whether or not your self-diagnosis is right – go to the nearest emergency room as fast as you can and get medical assistance and advice as soon as possible. Such precautious approach will allow you to minimize potential damage to your heart.
Tip #9: Always carry a bottle of aspirin with you and pop 1 pill at the first heart-attacking thrill.
Tip #10: Attend some of the nearby cardiac rehabs and/or community programs seeking support to quit smoking, combat excessive weight and get regular exercise. Besides, meeting a few ‘brothers-in-misery’ and joining efforts with them will help you reduce stress and get through the whole therapy process more easily and happily.
If you experience symptoms suspiciously resembling those of a heart-attack or if you witness someone else experiencing them – call 911 immediately and summon an ambulance.
If YOU are the victim – do not attempt to drive your car to the nearest Emergency Room! This is no moment to test your driving skills!! Keep in mind that only paramedics have the necessary equipment to re-start your heart if it has stopped beating!
If someone else is a victim – feed her/him an aspirin while waiting for the ambulance. If her/his heart stopped beating before the paramedics arrived and you are trained at CPR – get to work.
Remember! The longer an attacked heart remains untreated… the more damaged it will be in the end.
Take Care Of Your Heart – And It Will Gratefully Serve You A Long Long Time.
“A Man & His Penis”. A story with no beginning and no end… Living in a sex-mad society. Penis worshipping forever! Unfortunately…
So much talking about its pleasing merits and qualities… But so much secreting about its unpleasing defects and inabilities.
But what if we try to view this ouchy & catchy 5-letter-word as just another male organ with just another male function? Then we can probably omit the delicacy of the issue and just sober-mindedly go over the list of main penis problems, their causes and escape paths.
- Penis Curvature, commonly referred to as a Curved Penis condition and scientifically referred to as Peyronie’s disease.
Now, if your penis is slightly curves left or right when erected – don’t panic! - it’s absolutely normal and not uncommon in men. However, if the curvature line is VERY pronounced, if you experience discomfort while having sexual intercourse with your lady – you might want to see a doctor for Peyronie’s disease is a very crafty one and requires treatment.
It is yet uncertain what may be the cause of such penis deformation… The best explaining “guess” for today is that a hard, inflamed, fibrous tissue builds up in the shaft of the penis. The one and only symptom manifesting through the 1st disease-emerging stage is pain during erection. Painful sensations occur because the inflamed penile tissue is being stretched. So watch out! With time, the pain subsides and the fibrous tissue develops pulling the penis aside – to the left, to the right or upward.
Peyronie’s disease usually requires medical attention but it is 100% curable. There is even a bunch of natural penis-correction methods that supposedly help straighten a curved penis.
- Priaprism – a persistent and pathological penis erection.
What makes the erection last? Why doesn’t the penis return to a flaccid state how it’s supposed to?? The answer is – an obstructed blood flow out of the penis. At first, blood flows into the penis at increased speed and amounts to cause an erection but the tricky part is it can’t flow out of it on the exit path – for it’s been blocked by some nasty disease affect, drug use or other unknown peculiarities.
Priaprism is an extremely painful and hardly bearable condition that, if neglected, can seriously damage male sexual ability and function. It requires medical treatment and sometimes even surgical intervention.
- Erection Failure – is more of a non-medical condition usually caused by non-medical physical or psychological circumstances, such as painful penis stimulation (physical), fear-, guilt-, -shame, anger- or anxiety- induced stresses (psychological). These can temporarily block all potential pleasure sensations and cause an inability to get a hard-on.
Even a fear of NOT getting or losing an erection can cause erection failure. However, this is a surmountable difficulty that can be safely and naturally overcome.
- Impotence or Erectile dysfunction – is an officially recognized men’s health disorder usually caused by medical physical circumstances such as injury, disease or post-drug use side effects.
- Premature Ejaculation – this diagnosis is given whenever a man ejaculates upon minimal sexual stimulation before, during or very shortly after vaginal penetration.
Premature ejaculation does have an official clinical-based explanation and ‘diagnosis’ status… However, it is not regarded as an illness or a disease. It mostly occurs as a consequence of certain psychological issues and not physical ones.
- Blue Balls – a term closely associated with our adolescence. It’s a slang version for a medical condition called vasocongestion or congested prostate.
Upon each and every sexual arousal, blood supplying arteries of the genital area enlarge, while the blood outflow vein-paths become more constricted than in the non-excited state.
The in & out of blood flow become uneven, bigger amounts of blood are trapped in the genitals > as a result the engorged with blood penis becomes harder and testicles – larger (up to a 25-50% increase in size).
Orgasm = Ejaculation return the arteries and veins to their normal size… thus adjusting the disturbed balance between incoming and outgoing blood flow. This renders the penis flaccid and the testicles – normally sized again. However, if ejaculation doesn’t occur – the continued vasocongestion compels you to experiencing a whole bunch of unpleasant sensations such as heaviness, discomfort or, worse, pain.
This very disagreeable sensation is called Blue Balls. Why such an expression??… Because of the bluish shade your testicles get when engorged with too much blood for too long. The condition, however, is not everlasting and goes away quickly enough. The degree of pain experienced in the meanwhile is usually low and often hyperbolized.
Now that we’re done with most commonly occurring male penis problems let’s turn to a widely believed misconception…
“Men are conditioned to ejaculate every time they get a hard-on” – that is Oh so F a l s e!
Keeping up with this so-called ‘truth’ can result in disappointment and frustration. Ejaculation failure and occasional inability to experience orgasmic feelings should not exert psychological pressure on any of the partners. It’s normal, it’s not uncommon and it’s not an absolute requirement for each and every sexual intercourse. Just relax and learn to experience pleasure no matter the eventual outcome.
And remember! There is no untreatable male penis problem.
Found the problem - found the cure.
What is meant by complementary and alternative medicine, commonly referred to as
Complementary and alternative medicine introduces treatment methods that are not lectured and demonstrated in medical schools, practiced in hospitals or covered by health insurance companies.
Not to confuse our reader a meaning specification is required:
- Alternative medicine = alternative medicine treating techniques.
- Complementary medicine = alternative + conventional medicine treating techniques.
Now, in order to provide a deeper understanding of what alternative medicine is and how it differs from conventional medicine - we need to present a comparative analysis of the two branches. The difference in between them is more of a philosophical nature.
If you ask a conventional medicine practitioner to define “Health” – he/she will describe it something like “a disease-free body” and enumerate a few most common isolated (!) factors responsible for the occurrence of various illnesses (e.g., viruses, bacteria, biochemical imbalance). Use of pharmaceuticals and surgical intervention will most probably feature among offered treatment schemes.
In contrast, if you ask an alternative medicine practitioner to provide his/hers interpretation of “Health” – be ready to hear about balance of physical, emotional and spiritual body systems as a perfect health guarantee and the disharmony in between these 3 as the main disease process launcher. That is, as you can see, a more integrated approach. The treatment idea is to restore the shattered balance by reinforcing body’s own defensive abilities.
Alternative medicine also stresses the importance of cultivating a preventive approach to potential health problems.
Inhabitants of Western countries have been lately exploring alternative medicine techniques as part of their overall treatment programs. Some patients even switched over to
Among popular “alternatively treated” conditions are stress, chronic lower back pain, arthritis, migraine headaches. Also, more and more hopeless patients turn to
In 1992, within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was formed the “Office of Alternative Medicine” department. Its main responsibility was to research the effectiveness and safety of alternative medical practices. The office was renamed into the
Now, alternative medicine treatment techniques and practices… are they truly effective??
Many proved to be effective for certain conditions…
Many didn’t even undergo thorough examination and assessment procedures… However, this is not at all stating a therapy is ineffective, but rather, that its effectiveness is yet to be studied and proved/disproved.
But what happens if some CAM-technique is voted ineffective? Nothing much… it does not acquire a scientific explanation basis but it still remains accessible to the public. However, consider and reconsider twice before you turn to such “ungrounded” technique. Especially if there is an already proven conventional approach you could resort to instead.
What about safety?? Safety/unsafety of some alternative therapies is regarded as another stumbling block in modern medical circles. For instance, herbal-based medicines are not FDA-regulated and can be manufactured without any safety guarantee. This poses the “lack of trust”-dilemma. Therefore, the ingredients should always be thoroughly revised and marked “safe” prior to swallowing and/or applying.
Most
Official classification of
- Alternative Medical Systems;
- Mind-Body Interventions;
- Biologically-Based therapies;
- Body-Based Therapies;
- Energy Therapies.
Some of the approaches can be scientifically understood and explained. Others are considered to be deprived of all scientific logic and method and, therefore, are totally inexplicable within that context. I.e., for now - their mechanism of action remains a mystery….
Alternative Medicine = New Age Medicine and, to be successfully implemented, requires a whole New Age Thinking Pattern! If you think you are ready - Go For It! 