Hair is affected by different factor from inside the body or outside of it. If we want to keep our hair healthy and beautiful, we should take a good care it. Natural hair shampoos provide perfect natural hair care as they don’t contain any aggressive synthetic ingredients or artificial coloring. Natural hair shampoos are produces… Continue reading
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Choosing Appropriate Skin Care Products
There are literary thousands of skin care products available on the market. This makes is difficult to choose the right one for you. What should the right products contain? How should it work? Will it be effective? The answers of these questions depend on the skin type and on the problems and needs every skin… Continue reading
What is vitamin K
Vitamin K is one of the fat soluble vitamins required for the formation of several of the proteins, called ‘clotting factors’, that regulate blood clotting. Vitamin K is actually 3 different compounds, all of which are fat soluble. It is absorbed from the upper small intestine with the help of bile (or bile salts) and… Continue reading
Access in Canadian public hospitals to private drugs
Governments are under increasing pressure to provide access to expensive new drugs. Canadian patients who want access to drugs that are not publicly insured are seeking to pay for these drugs within public hospitals, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) This analysis by Colleen M. Flood, Canada Research Chair in Health Law… Continue reading
Vitamin D – sunny vitamin
Vitamin D, also known as calciferol, is a fat-soluble vitamin found in food, but also can be made in your body after exposure to ultraviolet rays from the sun. Vitamin D exists in several forms, each form acting differently, some actually relatively inactive in our body. The liver and kidney help convert vitamin D to… Continue reading
First image with help of cryo-electron tomography of pathogens, causing borreliosis
Tiny details in three dimensions They are borne by ticks and can cause acute and chronic symptoms in joints, muscles and the nervous system – the bacteria that cause Lyme borreliosis, which 80,000 people in Germany contract every year. Heidelberg researchers have now succeeded in identifying their structure more accurately. Using a cryo-tomography microscope, the… Continue reading
Vitamin E /d-alpha tocopherol/ review
Vitamin E is a fat soluble antioxidant vitamin that helps to neutralize potentially damaging free radicals in our body. It exists in eight different forms, d-alpha-tocopherol being the most active form and one of the most powerful biologically active antioxidants. Each form has a different level of potency (functional use) in the body. The tocopherol… Continue reading
Information for beta carotene
Ten carotenes, colored molecules synthesized only in plants, show vitamin A activity. In other words, they function like vitamin A. However, only the alpha- and Beta-Carotenes and cryptoxanthin are important to man, and Beta-Carotene is the most active. Beta-Carotene and other carotenoids that can be converted by the body into retinol are referred to as… Continue reading