There are thousands of adherents of “walrus” all over the world who are convinced that swimming in cold water helps to strengthen health and prolong youth. In 2018, scientists found that such water treatments can improve mood and positively affect the mental health of people suffering from depressive disorders. And not so long ago, scientists…
Why do we study so carefully what the thermometer shows us with every cold? What determines the tactics of our further treatment to a greater extent: the state of health or the numbers on the thermometer? And if, due to the peculiarities of the body, the temperature increases slightly with an infectious disease, as it…
Vitamin C or ascorbic acid has been known to everyone since childhood. This vitamin, recognizable due to its pleasant acidity, is often included in the composition of dietary supplements, multivitamins. Vitamin C has antioxidant, wound-healing properties. Ascorbic acid improves the absorption of iron, which is necessary for the formation of hemoglobin in the human body. …
Eating disorders are diseases that cause people to overeat, starve themselves, or adopt other unhealthy habits related to food and body weight. These disorders – overeating, anorexia nervosa and bulimia – are not just bad habits. They interfere with daily life and, without proper treatment, can cause serious health problems. Eating disorders affect at least…
Every year, as soon as the warm season comes, all people, and even animals, are in danger of being bitten by a tick. In fact, it is not the bite of this small blood-sucking insect itself that is dangerous, but the fact that when bitten by a tick, there may be infection with the encephalitis…
Researchers at Stanford University, using the capabilities of artificial intelligence, have created a tool that is able to predict age-related inflammatory diseases and assess the overall state of the immune system. The development was called the “aging clock” or iAge. What is iAge The fact that the level of health directly depends on the state…
Embryologists of St. Petersburg State University, in the course of studying the mechanism of tissue repair in marine worms, found in them a substance that can be useful for humans, in particular used in medicine for faster wound healing, tissue regeneration. The results obtained by scientists during the study were published in the scientific journal…
A vaccine is a medical immunobiological agent containing weakened or completely inactivated pathogens of the disease, and in some cases their synthetic analogues. Such drugs contribute to the development of immunity to a certain antigen. The introduction of the vaccine into the body causes an immune reaction similar to the response to the action of…
It is important to monitor the health of teeth and gums not only for the sake of a beautiful smile. Teeth grind food so that then, in the course of complex biochemical processes, the body can extract important nutrients from it. But the products that a person absorbs affect not only the general condition of…
Everyone knows about the dangers of smoking. Nevertheless, the number of people with this bad habit continues to grow every year. According to a study published in the scientific journal The Lancet, in 2019 the number of smokers in the world reached 1.14 billion people. In the 1990s, there were 0.99 billion of them. At…
