Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, May 18, 2022 1:07 PM Telehealth usage-and investments-have surged amid the coronavirus pandemic, underscoring how virtual care solutions are already making a sizable impact on the US healthcare... |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, May 18, 2022 12:55 PM Rush University System for Health is promoting Dr. Omar Lateef to the role of president and CEO |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, May 18, 2022 12:49 PM Cultivated oat is an old crop thought to have been domesticated over 3,000 years ago, while growing as a weed in wheat and barley fields. Oat has a low carbon footprint... |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, May 18, 2022 12:45 PM An employee has filed a lawsuit against Duke University Health System alleging he was fired for reporting his manager's racist remarks. |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, May 18, 2022 12:45 PM Opioid overdose deaths have steadily climbed in Texas, rising from 4,154 deaths in 2020 to 4,831 deaths in 2021, according to the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics. |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, May 18, 2022 12:41 PM As some states are poised to make abortion illegal, data tracking could expose sensitive health information. |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, May 18, 2022 12:31 PM MINNEAPOLIS - Health officials in Minnesota tallied an additional 2,120 cases and six deaths Wednesday. Overall, there have been more than 1.48 million COVID-19 cases in... |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, May 18, 2022 12:25 PM Many life-limiting conditions can only be detected 12 weeks into pregnancy-but some US states are planning to set to the abortion limit much earlier. |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, May 18, 2022 11:51 AM Science journalist Sonia Shah says private money is influencing the decisions of the World Health Organization. The WHO responds. |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, May 18, 2022 11:51 AM Despite similar leadership at the start of the pandemic, Brazilians are more trusting of government and view vaccination as a necessity and a right |
WebMD Health Wednesday, May 18, 2022 2:12 PM Parents are being cautioned against watering down formula in an effort to stretch out what they have. |
WebMD Health Wednesday, May 18, 2022 10:38 AM Read WebMD's interview with dermatologist Valerie Harvey, MD, MPH, FAAD, president of the Skin of Color Society, about common skin conditions in people of color. |
Mark's Daily Apple Wednesday, May 18, 2022 12:00 PM Creatine is an extremely popular supplement with thousands of studies attesting to its effectiveness in humans. It works well in athletes, older people, women, men, teens, vegans and vegetarians, and probably even children. It's well-tested, safe in normal amounts, and there are very few downsides. But because so many people use it, creatine also generates a lot of questions. Every time I do a post on creatine, I get more queries in my inbox. Does it cause hair loss? How much should you take every day? Is there a good time to take it? Will creatine make you gain weight? And is creatine bad for the kidneys? What about side effects—anything we should worry about? Let's dig right in and answer those questions. Does creatine cause hair loss? This is a persistent concern, but there's not much solid research lending credence to it. The majority of the "evidence" lies in an older study where college rugby players took creatine for a few weeks and saw their dihydrotestosterone, or DHT, rise over baseline. (The placebo control group saw no rise in DHT). DHT is a more active or potent form of testosterone that has powerful anabolic effects. It can also bind to hair follicles and cause them to shrink, reducing your ability to support a dense, healthy head of hair. However, the creatine group had lower DHT levels at baseline, so it may be that the creatine was simply correcting lower starting levels. Other studies on creatine and testosterone have failed to find any consistent links between creatine and higher testosterone, free testosterone (from which DHT is produced), or DHT itself. Finally, there are no studies showing that taking creatine causes hair loss. It's not impossible or even improbable. It simply hasn't been definitively shown. Anecdotally, some people notice hair loss after starting creatine, but those are the toughest connections to draw without a control group and good methodology. Would they have lost the hair anyway? Were there other factors at play? How much creatine per day? There are two basic strategies people commonly employ. If you want to speed creatine uptake in the muscles, you can do a "loading phase" of 20 grams a day (split up into 4 doses) for a week before dropping down to 3 to 5 grams a day. If you don't, you can just take 3 to 5 grams a day from the get-go. Both strategies work just fine. If you have a lot of muscle mass—and thus higher creatine storage capacities—or if you burn through a lot of creatine with intense activity, you might benefit from larger daily doses in the 8 to 10 grams range. Once you've been taking creatine consistently enough at high enough doses to saturate your muscle stores (20 grams a day for 5 to 7 days, or 3 to 5 grams a day for 28 days, to give two common examples), you can probably get away with "cycling" your creatine. Taking days off, doing lower doses here and there. … Continue reading "More Questions on Creatine" The post More Questions on Creatine appeared first on Mark's Daily Apple. |
HEALTHIANS BLOG Wednesday, May 18, 2022 8:41 AM Contributed by: Anjali Sharma Introduction Nothing is as soothing as a post-dinner walk. Over the years, people have become serious about regular exercising and keeping the body fit and healthy. Walking after dinner unlocks a wealth of health benefits. Walking is a complete body exercise, as many experts have validated walking to be a […] The post The 6 Amazing Benefits Of Taking A Walk After Dinner Everyone One Must Know appeared first on HEALTHIANS BLOG. |
