Cancer is  disease  in which the cells of the body become abnormal and multiply without control. There are more than 100 types of cancer cells in the world.Most cancers are named after the organs affected.

Beningn tumors are not cancerous- They can be removed and do not invade any other tissues,.

Malignant tumors are cancerous.-They divide abnormally and spread to other parts also.

-Carcinoma - cancer that begins in the skin or in tissues that line or cover internal organs.

-Sarcoma - cancer that begins in bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other                                                      connective or suportive tissue.

-Leukemia - cancer that starts in blood-forming tissue such as the bone marrow and causes large numbers of abnormal blood cells to be produced and enter the blood.

-Lymphoma and myeloma - cancers that begin in the cells of the immune system.

-Central nervous system cancers - cancers that begin in the tissues of the brain and spinal cord.

METASTASIS

Cancer cells may invade near by tissues and can spread through the blood and lymphatic streams to other parts of the body also. This is called as Metastasis

When the DNA gets damaged or changed mutations happen, and this will lead the cells to multiply abnormally instead of getting died off.

The risk of developing many types of cancer can be reduced by  healthy lifestyle habits. This includes eating a healthy diet, getting regular exercise, and not smoking.

The other reason are  occupational hazards, infections, radiations, sun exposure, exogenous hormones etc.

Also, the early detection of  a cancer and treatment, the chances are there for  the treatment to be successful.

The scientists are believing that the cancer treatment is always not fully successful as the oncologists are not able to treat the root cell, the single that initiates the mutation. This is why the cancer almost always relapses.

 STEM CELL THERAPY FOR CANCER

The search for cancer cure has been going on for a long time. One of the greatest achievements is the stem cell therapy in treatment and cure of the disease.

Stem cell therapies have been shown to improve the body’s ability to withstand devastating chemotherapy and radiation treatment therapies that may kill the cancer cells, but also damage and destroy healthy cells in the body at the same time. Many stem cell therapies help to boost up  anti-tumor immunity that may very well inoculate the individuals from further cancers in the future.

The stem cell research and its positive sides are still ongoing. The Stem cell therapy after the usual cancer treatments  has been proved very beneficial.

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When your hair gets wet, your tighter curls might seem to relax and your hair seems longer. Hair that is set when wet takes and holds its set much better than the same hair that is set when dry. Your hair is also more vulnerable at this time. What does water do to your hair to make it change, and why is it that water can undo the very style that it helped set? Let me explain

Wet Hair

I used to find it so frustrating when I was younger and wore my hair texturized. I believed it looked so much better when it was wet because my curls were defined then. It looked longer, it hung with a nice weight, it swung around when I moved my head, and the curls seemed like they were taking it easy instead of being their usual  lenched selves (at that time I wished for looser curls). I spent many years trying to figure out a way to get my hair to act like it was wet when it was dry. Perhaps this was the big appeal of the unfortunate Jheri curl. All that oil made hair seem permanently wet—which in a way it was, but with oil. I’ve since discovered that using a conditioner as described later in this book actually makes dry hair act more like it does when it’s wet. The great part about it is that your hair will look dry, but, unlike with the Jheri curl, it’s  touchable.

When your hair gets wet, water molecules break the hydrogen bonds in your hair by inserting themselves between the bonds. With water inserted between the hydrogen bonds, hair loosens and extends. Your hair is weaker when wet because the hydrogen bonds that reinforced it have been broken. With less reinforcement in the hair fiber, your hair needs to  be handled even more carefully when wet. Your hair can absorb 30 percent of its weight in water, so it’s now heavier as well.

With the additional water weight added to it and with the hydrogen bonds temporarily broken, curly wet hair hangs longer and has looser curls than when dry. When you wet-set your hair, your hair is held in this extended position while it dries and the hydrogen bonds return. The hydrogen bonds reform with your hair in the new, stretched-out position. The re-formed hydrogen atoms will hold in their new extended positions until water is introduced again, either in the shower, in the rain, or in high humidity. The hydrogen atoms will then break apart again, and when they break apart, they’ll settle back either to their default positions of your natural curl pattern (determined by the disulfide bonds) or into the positions determined by a new set. In this way, hydrogen atoms behave much like a swarm of flies. They can be shooed away by water but will return and land on whatever attractive surfaces they can find.

Even small amounts of water can create a big change in the appearance of your hair. Humid air can make your curls lose definition and expand as if they were filled with helium. How does humid air tighten up your curls without a drop of water touching them?

Humidity and You

Humidity brings out the cloudlike qualities of our hair. Although humidity affects many people’s hair enough to give them “fly-aways” or make their ends fluffier, humidity can make our hair expand to the point that it might take up an entire doorway. Our curls seem to explode apart, in slow motion, enough to startle passersby. Many times we may want to play up our hair’s spectacular expansive nature, but at other times you may want to simply get through the day with predictable hair. If this is the case, it’s good to understand what humidity does with your hair.

You might be able to shield your hair from rain, but humidity is present  everywhere that air is present. When it’s extremely humid, there is a high percentage of water in the air, which means there is a reservoir of hydrogen available. If your hair has been flattened or set while wet, hydrogen atoms were removed and re-formed in new positions as the hair dried. When hydrogen atoms are absorbed back into your hair from the  humidity, they return to all of the old positions they’d been removed from when your hair was set. As the hydrogen atoms return, they reinforce and tighten each twist and curl. As strands of hair take in hydrogen, the curls draw up at slightly different rates or in varying amounts. Sometimes hair that’s closer to the outside is exposed to the humidity before hair near our scalp is. As the hairs spread apart, your curls no longer lie perfectly in sync with one another. Now, with each strand’s natural curl returning, it’s happily doing its own thing. With each strand behaving  independently, your entire head of hair blows up.

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Everyone is an Athlete!

“Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.” George Sheehan, physician, writer, and running philosopher, eloquently expressed the notion that the human body is made to be active and that people have different reasons and motivations for being physically active, exercising, or participating in sport. Athletes with this single-minded goal make up a very small percentage of the population especially in a country like India where for various reasons our country has woefully inadequate athletes. But the popularity of Marathon running is increasing exponentially in cities like Mumbai and a large number of men and women taking up this form athletic activity seriously. Athletes at the highest level usually pursue their  performance goals for a short amount of time relative to their lifespan. Few athletes remain highly competitive in their sports over a large portion of their lifetime.

Many adults who  exercise fall into the category of recreational athletes. Some may be former competitive athletes who continue to have a lifelong dedication to perform at the highest level they can achieve and who remain competitive within their age group in masters events. For other former athletes, participation rather than competition may be the motivation, particularly as they get older or have less leisure time to devote to training. Some recreational athletes are not former competitive athletes; they take up a sport as an adult and set a personal performance goal, such as running a marathon or scoring less than 100 in a round of golf. Recreational athletes may train or practice their sport, but the intensity and duration of training can vary tremendously. In addition to the benefits of participating and competing in sports, recreational athletes also benefit from  increased fitness that contributes to good health and the possible prevention of chronic diseases.

What is Physical Activity

While some adults are not recreational athletes, they do engage in routine physical activity. Physical activity is defined as bodily movement that results in an increase in energy expenditure above resting levels. The motivation to engage in physical activity varies, but typically the reasons  include improving health, “staying in shape,” maintaining or losing weight, and enhancing appearance. Physically active people have many of the same goals as recreational athletes, such as improved fitness, good health, and disease prevention, but they are not performing or competing against others.

There is a relationship between exercise and nutrition for physically active people and recreational athletes, but because training is less than that of highly trained athletes
some of the nutritional demands (e.g., caloric intake) are less. Physically active people typically need little modification of the principles of a healthy diet to support their physical activity. Similarly, the intensity and duration of training for most recreational athletes are not enough to require substantial modifications to a basic healthy diet. One exception may be the recreational endurance athlete whose intensity and duration of training (e.g., preparation for a marathon) necessitates the implementation of some of sports nutrition principles.

Why You Must be Physically Active

Because “everyone is an athlete,” it is important that all people be physically active on a daily or near daily basis. Exercise is one cornerstone of a healthy lifestyle; diet is another. There is a strong relationship between nutrition, physical activity, and long-term health, and a number of public health organizations have issued nutrition and physical activity guidelines. Many students reading this textbook will  eventually work with clients who are trying to apply these recommendations. In many cases, these clients or patients will have a history of being sedentary and consuming a poor diet. Working with a sedentary, overweight, or obese adult who consumes the typical fast food diet is a tremendous challenge because the need to change is high but the motivation to change is often low or hard to sustain. Changes are especially difficult because the environment and culture in the Western countries and now in India’s urban centres promote physical inactivity and over consumption of energy (kcal), sugar, fat,  and salt.

What I am stressing here is that a fundamental dietary principle—adequate nutrients within  caloric need—applies to everyone regardless of whether you are an athlete or someone just trying to keep in shape. Daily exercise is a powerful influence on the amount of kilocalories needed and the amount of daily exercise performed often changes as people age. Each has different goals, Demands, and motivations and therefore different needs. All can benefit from the application of scientifically sound nutrition and exercise information. Which is why if you are involved in moderate to intense physical activity on a daily basis then you must have a scientific nutrition plan individually mapped out to sync with your environmental, cultural, food and lifestyle schedule.

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The Accidental History Of Green Tea

Instant Tea Originated in China

During the Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD), production and preparation of tea changed throughout China. Even then, people were looking for convenience; a new form of tea emerged as a result of people wanting more and more tea without having to take the time to brew the leaves. The tea leaves were picked and quickly steamed to preserve their color and fresh character. After steaming, the leaves were dried. The finished tea was then ground into fine powders that were whisked in wide bowls. The resulting beverage resembled what we know of today as instant tea—you mixed the tea powder with hot water and voilà! Your tea was ready in an instant.

This tea was highly regarded for its deep emerald or iridescent white appearance and its rejuvenating and healthy energy. This style of tea preparation, using powdered tea and ceramic ware, became known as the Song tea ceremony. Although it later became extinct in China, this Song style of tea evolved into what is now the Japanese tea ceremony that endures still today. Today, there are between 12,500 and 20,000 green teas produced in China alone (although they are named and renamed so many times—for no apparent reason—that no one knows exactly how many there are). It is similar to wine in that respect. There are thousands of vineyards that produce wines; not all of them make it to market, or are meant to do so. It’s the same with tea in China.

There are thousands of individual tea plantations and each produces its own variety of tea. Some are meant only for an individual farmer’s consumption; others may be distributed in a local area; and still others are grown for the commercial market and shipped worldwide. As with white tea, the bud and leaves for green tea are picked, cleaned, and dried. The tea leaves then undergo a minimal amount of oxidation. Green tea has very low levels of caffeine, and derives its distinctive, healthy good flavor
from the area in which it is grown and the techniques used to produce the tea.

The processing sequence for green tea is:

1. Leaves and buds are harvested.
2. Leaves and buds are cleaned.
3. Leaves and buds are dried.
4. In Japan, the leaves are steamed, which stops any fermentation.
5. In China, the leaves are placed in very hot woks to stop any fermentation.
6. The tea is then rolled, cut, ground, or shaped into a form uniquely associated with the plantation on which it is grown.

Dragon’s Well is the most famous of Chinese green teas

It grows on the peaks of the Tieh Mu (t’yeh MOO) mountain range. Chinese mythology tells us that the dragon is the king of the waters. History tells us that in 250 AD, there was a drought at the Dragon’s Well monastery. A monk prayed to the dragon, pleading for rain. His prayers were immediately answered, and the tea produced there received its name.

The History Of Oolong Tea – The Champagne of teas

Oolong tea, referred to as the Champagne of teas, is a semioxidized whole-leaf tea, which retains all of the nutrients and natural healing factors contained in unfermented green tea, but without the raw, grassy taste. It falls somewhere between green and black tea, with complex flavor and aroma. The leaves go through a very brief fermentation process, which eliminates harsh irritants from the raw tea and creates the subtle fragrances and flavors that distinguish this tea from all other varieties.

Oolong legend tells us Wu Liang (who lived during the Ming Dynasty in China, around 1400 AD), a tea farmer, went out one day to pick tea, as he did every day in the tea-picking season. He had collected quite a bit when his eye was caught by a deer drinking by the river. He stopped his tea-picking activities and killed the poor animal (sorry to have to report this!). He took the slain deer home, as it would provide him with a week’s worth of meals. He forgot all about his tea. When he went back to collect his load, he found that the tea had started to blacken. We know today, it had begun to oxidize.

Wu Liang thought that it might have gone bad, but decided to proceed with his traditional preparations. He dried the tea by pan-firing, as was done with the green teas of the day. When he made a cup of this tea, he was surprised to find that it tasted different than his usual green tea, and discovered that he loved the flavor. He taught his neighbors and friends how to make the new tea, and it came to be named after him. Language being what it is, the name eventually evolved from Wu Liang to Oolong. The processing sequence for oolong tea is:

1. Leaves and buds are harvested.
2. Leaves and buds are cleaned.
3. Leaves and buds are placed in bamboo containers and air is blown through them. This process is referred to as “withering the leaves.”
4. The withered leaves are rolled, which releases the oils within the leaf. These oils mix with the oxygen in the air and the leaves begin to ferment or oxidize.
5. When the rolled leaves reach a dark blue-green color, they are placed into a hot wok to stop the fermentation process and add flavor.

Hope you enjoyed reading this. Please share and add your comments and continue sipping that magical elixir that promotes great looking skin, complexion and ensures longevity and eradication of toxins from your body. Oh Green tea also improves your mood and does wonders for your energy levels throughout the day. I don’t know how I would carry on throughout the day without my green tea. Make it a practice to always carry your favorite oolong or green tea sachets and leaves along with you wherever you go be it for meetings in the city or longer vacations thus ensuring that you are never more than an arm’s length away from your favorite flavor in spite of the surroundings!

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Hair Care Tips From The Best Hair Care Clinic in Juhu Andheri Malad

Hair is fairly strong and can generally withstand normal grooming techniques. However, there can be thinning or breakage of hair due to poor grooming habits, and following several tips can prevent these bouts of thinning and breakage. Avoid combing hair with finetoothed combs when wet, as this is a common cause of breakage. Although this is a tempting practice because hair straightens and detangles much better if combed when wet, the stress on the hair shaft is immense when the hair is wet because it is weakened. This goes for brushing the hair when wet also.

Brushing The Hair Technique

Brushing the hair in general can be stimulating to the scalp, encouraging blood flow to the hair follicles and maintaining their health. Brushing the hair before washing it can loosen up flakes of sebum and dead skin buildup and  make it easier to thoroughly clean the scalp during shampooing. Remember, over combing or over brushing generally will cause damage to the hair, which is quite contrary to the old 100-stroke brushing rule.

Do not Shampoo Excessively

Although clean hair is desirable and even necessary for the maintenance of healthy hair, excessive shampooing can strip vital minerals like calcium, phosphorus, nitrogen and iron from the hair. This is particularly true when using commercial shampoos. Most commercial shampoos contain formaldehyde as a preservative. To disguise the presence of formaldehyde it is listed in the ingredients as Quanternium- 15. This substance can be carcinogenic (cancer-causing) and poisonous to the entire system.

Beware of Chemicals in Shampoos. Use High Quality Shampoos

Unfortunately for those who suffer with dandruff, anti-dandruff shampoos are some of the most dangerous shampoos on the market. Selenium sulfide is the main ingredient in most dandruff shampoos, a substance that has  shown to cause degeneration of the liver. Other toxic chemicals such as polyvinyl pyrrlidone plastic (PVP), which is a proven carcinogenic, and creosol which has been proven to be highly toxic are commonly found in dandruff shampoos.

This is why it is very important to correct this condition as quickly as possible through natural means. Natural shampoos normally found in health food stores are a much better choice. Even with natural shampoos, be careful of the ingredient Sodium Lauryl Sulfate which can strip away too much oil from the hair, causing shampoo residue to be left behind. Ingredients that have proven useful in shampoos are cocamides, Panthenol Pro- B, of course the previously discussed vitamins, aloe vera, sage, nettle, burdock, chamomile, chaparral, horsetail and rosemary. Also look for shampoos that contain keratin, the protein substance that hair is made of, or amino acids. This will help seal breakages in the cuticle.

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Some nutrients may also act to protect the genome from damage. DNA is constantly replicating itself, and thousands of mistakes are made each day as a result. If the mistakes were not fixed, the genome eventually would be irreparably damaged, and we would develop diseases or die. Genes, nutrients, and lifestyle (exercise, smoking, environmental pollutants) determine how well repair takes place and how much damage occurs. Nutrigenomic scientists suspect that cell damage that is not effectively repaired is the cause of many diseases, such as cancer.

For example, in a 2007 experiment, special mice with genes that predisposed them to skin cancer were exposed to UVB radiation, similar to radiation from the sun. Half the mice were given a component of B vitamins called inositol in their drinking water. These mice developed far fewer skin tumors than those who received no inositol—23% versus 51%. The researcher, A.M. Shamsuddin, suggested that this result could have meaning for people who are airline pilots or frequent fliers. They might need more inositol in their diets to protect them from skin cancer. The experiment seemed to demonstrate one way  that nutrients can protect DNA when the environment is harmful.

Nutrigenomics says…

Studies such as Shamsuddin’s, however, never yield results of 100% certainty. All the mice receiving inositol did not avoid tumors. All the mice eating a regular diet did not develop cancer. Whether with mice or human cells or people, scientists do not discover “magic bullets” or simple answers that explain how to prevent disease. Part of the reason is that individuals respond differently to the same diet. The trick for scientists is identifying both the specific genes and the nutrients that determine health and disease. For the most part, Dr. Kaput explains, nutrigenomic principles of disease prevention are most easily applied to groups of people who share similar metabolic genetic profiles and lifestyles. These similar profiles may be due to having the same ancestry or belonging to the same ethnic group. Some gene variants occur more frequently in one ethnic group than another. However, there are no genes exclusive to one race or ethnic group. All groups of humans are susceptible to the same gene variations.

Similar Ancestry, Similar Genetic Problems

One well-established gene variant, for example, occurs on the angiotensin gene, called ANG. One variation in ANG increases a person’s risk for high blood pressure. This gene variant occurs most commonly in African Americans. People with this gene variant can control high blood pressure with a low-salt diet. About 73% of African Americans are salt sensitive and will be helped by such a diet. Many people of European ancestry have the same variation in the same gene. Those people, too, will be helped by a low-salt diet. But the same diet will not help people with high blood pressure due to another cause. Some people, for instance, need a diet rich in calcium to lower blood pressure. If a physician knows a person has the ANG variant, he or she can better treat high blood pressure.

The thrifty genes that may lead to metabolic syndrome, obesity, diabetes, and heart disease also seem to vary among populations. Although these gene variations affect many people of European ancestry, they are even more common among certain indigenous populations, such as Native Americans, Polynesians, and aboriginal peoples in Australia and Canada. Among many of these peoples, the high-fat, high-sugar diets of wealthy Europeans have had devastating health effects. For example, the Pima Indians of Arizona have the highest incidence of type 2 diabetes of any group of people in the world. Out of 11,000 Pima Indians living along the Gila River, half have diabetes and 95% are overweight. Nutrigenomics researchers are trying to identify the genes that cause this reaction to specific diets. If they succeed, they will be able to warn vulnerable people and recommend appropriate diets to prevent the chronic diseases caused by the interaction of thrifty genes and diet. This would help to reduce some of the health disparities between ethnic groups.

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Cleansing should be a major part of your regimen to maintain and grow hair. Many scalp related diseases are directly the result of toxemia, while toxins in the body adversely affecting the body’s systems indirectly affect other conditions. Cleansing should be performed through oral means regularly and occasionally by enema or colonic irrigation; and the colon is the key to health and the root of nearly all of the body’s illnesses. A clogged colon blocks the ability of the body to absorb nutrients from foods you consume, therefore causing possible malnutrition of the hair. When the colon is clogged, toxins are harbored that harm the body.

Excess toxins send the body into a panic and overwork other organs of the body when the colon cannot eliminate them. Commonly overworked organs are the liver and the kidneys, however the trickle-down effect actually causes the adrenal glands to overproduce testosterone, leading to increased levels of DHT.

Polysorbate-80 is an FDA-approved surfactant that is also approved as a food additive. It causes water and oils or fats to mix, and according to research, is of very little toxicity. Although it is not proven, Polysorbate-80 is said to remove deposits of DHT and cholesterol from the scalp.

Polysorbate-80 is a common additive in shampoo and is also available in its stand-alone form inn health food stores. It is being recommended by some naturopathic practitioners as an application for the scalp approximately 15 minutes prior to shampooing. Fiber is vital to cleansing, and though traditional Indian diets were rich in fiber, most modern day diets are deficient in natural fiber.

Psyllium husk is a bulking laxative agent that can be used to safely move waste through the colon. Psyllium is a very good substance as it gently scrubs the walls of the colon to remove waste that is stuck to the walls. Activating agents such as the herbs cascara sagrada, senna and cayenne help activate the peristaltic waves of the intestines to push clogged waste through the colon and out. It would be best to consult an herbalist, naturopath or purchase a prepared herbal tea  containing the aforementioned herbs. However, the psyllium can be obtained from any health food store and mixed with water. Be sure to drink the psyllium as soon as you mix it as it will begin to turn into a gel-like substance that will be harder to swallow. Psyllium has no taste, and although many do not like its gritty feeling, the benefits far outweigh the unpleasantness.

Occasionally, a full colonic irrigation should be sought from a licensed professional. Colonic irrigations clean the colon through the gentle application of water into the colon by a colonic irrigation machine. Licensed practitioners who perform this function are available in most states and the benefits are unequalled. Commonly called a colonic for short, this process can remove far more waste than cleansing by taking herbs orally. With a proper diet, one should only need to have a colonic seasonally or even as little as bi-annually, for those who are maintaining a high-fiber diet. For the first treatment however, one should go through a series of colonic irrigation cleansings, since waste is impacted in the colon and must be gradually loosened.

Once one has cleansed internally, cleanliness must be maintained to avoid the buildup of toxins reoccurring. Detoxifying herbal teas such as saffron are gentle and can be drunk to remove toxins from the body. Saffron has the effect of carrying toxins from inside the body out through the pores of the skin. Chamomile, mullein or watermelon seed tea can be substituted for saffron tea for this purpose. This process is assisted by utilizing a steam bath to open the pores to allow toxins to come out easier. Be sure to consume plenty of fluids such as water and sports drinks that contain salts your body may lose before entering a steam bath. Steam baths are extremely beneficial, yet your body will lose a large amount of water and salt, so you want to be sure to consume extra amounts of water and salt before going into the steam bath, and keep some sports drinks on hand in case you feel depleted. Of course if you have any medical conditions that affect your stamina, endurance, blood pressure, or breathing, consult your physician before engaging in steam baths.

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There is only one plant in the world (besides one obscure mushroom) that contains an important secret ingredient found in tea, and that plant is—you guessed it—Camellia sinensis. L-theanine (el-THEE-uh-neen) is a non-protein-based amino acid that constitutes between 1 and 2 percent of the dry weight of tea leaves. Caffeine makes up only about 0.5 percent. As it was mentioned in an earlier blog post here, caffeine is a stimulant. It revs up many of your body’s processes and sends your nervous system into a state of shock. After ingestion, it is secreted into the bloodstream and makes its way to the brain where it stimulates your beta brain waves.

What are Brain Waves

Brain waves are electrical impulses that correlate to different types of mental states and moods. There are four categories of brain waves:

Alpha: predominantly present during states of relaxed alertness

Beta: predominantly present during highly stressful or exciting situations

Delta: predominantly present during the deepest stage of s eep

Theta: predominantly present during light sleep and drowsiness

Beta brain waves are meant to be stimulated for the fight-or-flight response: when you are in danger, when you get into a car accident, when something happens to a member of your family. That’s when your body needs to get stimulated, and you actually want to get into a state of stress. You want to be able to lift a car off your loved one, or run a 100-yard dash in ten seconds to get away from a mugger in the night. But most of the time, we are not in situations that produce such intense states of excitement or stress, even though the caffeine rush is signaling so to the brain.

This is why the L-theanine in tea is so important, and what makes Cami the most perfect plant. Several minutes after the caffeine has entered your system, the L-theanine is secreted from the small intestine into the blood system and into the brain where it stimulates alpha brain waves, which produce a state of relaxed and effortless alertness, thus canceling out the harmful effects of the caffeine. Since caffeine has already reached the brain and gotten a bit of a head start, so to speak, you will still get that short wake-up blast you want in the morning — but without the jitters and palpitations that come from other caffeinated beverages like coffee, the ubiquitous energy drinks and cola.

Now you begin to see why I love the Cami plant; caffeine is allowed into your system for the weight-loss benefits and stimulation, then shortly thereafter, L-theanine comes along to cancel out its harmful effects. Because of L-theanine’s effect on alpha brain waves, it is a natural medicine for the relief of stress, anxiety and tension. In fact, in 2004, researchers in
Australia compared L-theanine to alprazolam (Xanax), a medication often prescribed to relieve anxiety. They found that L-theanine tended to reduce anxiety during a relaxation phase of the study, while the drug had no such effect.

Researchers have also found that L-theanine appears to play a role in the formation of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), which blocks the release of the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin to promote a state of calm relaxation. But that’s not all. When stress levels decrease, so do levels of cortisol, a hormone that, when stimulated, increases appetite and influences where body fat will be stored (mainly in the abdominal region). In January 2007,  scientists from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University College of London published findings on tea’s effect on cortisol levels. The study, in the journal Psychopharmacology, found that people who drank tea were able to lower their stress levels faster than those who were given a placebo. For six weeks, participants drank either four cups of black tea a day, or four cups of a caffeinated placebo. After the six weeks, both groups were given two challenging behavioral tasks. Both groups were found to have similar stress levels when the tasks were completed; however, an hour later the cortisol levels had dropped by an average of 47 percent in the teadrinking group compared with 27 percent in the caffeinated placebo group. So it seems that L-theanine not only reverses caffeine’s harmful effects but assists to reduce stress, which in turn reduces appetite and the storage of fat in your body.

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Dr. Sunita Banerji received her MBBS degree from The Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, one of India’s leading Medical Institutes and received her DGO credentials in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1982. She started her successful Aesthetic Medicine practice in Lokhandwala, in 1989 after undergoing extensive training in London. She was far ahead of her time in starting this type of practice in India. Eternesse –  the Best Weight Treatment Clinic Mumbai - her brainchild helps treat major medical problems related to lifestyle, aging and cosmetic treatments and surgery.

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Nutrition Gene Relation

People with metabolic disorders or inherited diseases are not the only ones who have variations and mutations in their genes: Everyone does! Vulnerability to disease and how our metabolisms work depends partly upon the gene variations we have inherited. How much of a nutrient we need to prevent disease and achieve optimum health may be as unique to each person as appearance and personality.

Our particular set of genes and all of our DNA is called our genome. Each individual’s genome is unique, although we share many similarities with others. An emerging science named nutrigenomics focuses on the interaction between nutrition and our genes. Its ultimate goal is to someday tailor each person’s diet to his or her specifi c genetic needs. With personalized nutritional advice, each person could live a longer life and have fewer diseases.

Nutrients and Gene Interactions

The idea that we should eat what is best for our genes is a logical one and based on a good deal of evidence. No one can genetically tailor people’s diets today, but nutrigenomics scientists are working toward a future when they will know enough about nutrients and genes to make the idea a reality. In a 2008 interview with Whole Foods magazine, nutrigenomics expert Dr. Jim Kaput explained what he said are “the five guiding precepts” of nutrigenomics research. They are:

● Common dietary chemicals act on the human genome, either directly or indirectly, to alter gene expression (the translation or interpretation of information coded in the gene’s DNA) or structure.

● Under certain circumstances and in some individuals, diet can be a serious risk factor for a number of diseases.

● Some diet-regulated genes (and their normal, common variants) are likely to play a role in the onset, incidence, progression and/or severity of chronic diseases. 

● The degree to which diet influences the balance between healthy and disease states may depend on an individual’s genetic makeup.

● Dietary intervention based on knowledge of nutritional requirement, nutritional status, and genotype (each individual’s articular set of genes; i.e., “individualized nutrition”) can be used to prevent, mitigate or cure chronic disease.

Nutrients as Gene Switches

In 2000, scientists Randy Jirtle and Robert Waterland experimented with the effect of nutrients on gene expression and disease with some specially bred laboratory mice. The mice carried a gene known as the agouti gene. The gene made them yellow instead of brown, caused them to be ravenously hungry and become obese, and made them susceptible to diseases such as diabetes and cancer. The scientists mated the agouti mice and, when the mothers were pregnant, Jirtle and Waterland fed them food supplements rich in methyl donors. Methyl donors are nutrient chemicals found in some B vitamins and common in foods such as garlic, beets, and onions. The nutrient chemicals attached to the agouti genes in the developing baby agouti mice and acted like a chemical switch for the genes. The genes and DNA coding were still there, but gene expression was turned off. The baby mice were born brown, had normal appetites, and lived long, disease-free lives.

Writing about this experiment in a 2006 Discover magazine article, journalist Ethan Watters notes, “More and more,  researchers are finding that an extra bit of a vitamin, a brief exposure to a toxin, even an added dose of mothering…[can] alter the software of our genes.” In the case of the baby agouti mice, it was a nutrient that changed the phenotype (the looks,  behaviors, and traits) of the mice, even though the genotype was not changed. Mice are not people, and people do not have agouti genes, but nutrigenomics experts believe that different nutrients can act as switches that turn genes on and off in humans, too. Scientists now know that not all nutrients are metabolized for energy or maintaining cell functions.

Some chemicals from nutrients, such as the methyl donors, may actually prevent gene variations from causing harm or leading to disease. Jirtle and Waterland’s experiment is a good example of how a nutrient might affect cell activity and gene expression, whether that nutrient is a macronutrient, a micronutrient, or another nutrient chemical. In Watter’s Discover article, Jirtle is quoted as saying “Now everything we do—everything we eat or smoke—can effect our gene expression and that of future generations.”  And that is a fact!

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Dr. Leroy Rebello is a well established and internationally qualified anti-aging consultant and cosmetologist from Mumbai and a director in Eternesse – the best liposuction clinics in Mumbai. He lectures in reputed Institutions such as AIIMS, JIPMER and other Medical Colleges around India. With over 10 Research Papers published in Indexed Journals, Dr. Rebello is continuously researching and developing new treatments and cures.

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Weight Loss Mumbai's Favourite Drink

Everyone and their mother knows that tea is good for you. Just think about when you were last ill. Did you say, “Can you get me a cup of coffee?”

No way! You said, “Can you get me a cup of tea?”

But only in the last ten years or so have scientists begun to turn their attention to the connection between drinking tea and losing weight. It turns out there are three incredible ingredients in tea that work synergistically to influence the metabolic and nervous systems to help take the weight off and keep it off. Each one of these ingredients taken alone has a degree of efficiency in helping the body to shed pounds. But it’s the combination — the mighty triumvirate I call “Tea3”—that gives tea its weight-loss wallop. And remember, these three ingredients are found naturally in the Camellia sinensis plant, not manufactured in a chemical plant. Tea is truly a miracle of nature — what I consider to be the most perfect plant ever created. I can’t help but get passionate when I speak about tea because I get so caught up in just how much nature
can provide for us, if we only let it.

And every day I get more and more excited about tea as one scientific study after another proves that my faith in Cami is justified, especially where tea and weight loss is concerned. There is hard science behind the tea – weight loss connection
that explains the synergy of the Tea3 powerful ingredients: caffeine, L-theanine, and epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG). The names may be tricky but the science isn’t, and in this article I will explain what Caffeine is and how they work together to increase your metabolism, keep you feeling satiated, and give you more energy without setting your nerves on edge.

Secret Weight Loss Ingredient # 1: Caffeine

It is difficult to separate Tea3’s ingredients in terms of each one’s influence on weight loss, since each has an effect on the other. But to help you understand how the overall process works, I’ll give it a try in simple nonscientific terms, because I need things made simple for me to understand them and then incorporate them into my life.

Let’s start with caffeine. Caffeine is a chemical found naturally in more than sixty species of plants, including coffee, tea, and cocoa. Mother Nature put caffeine in plants as a defense from insects consuming the leaves; caffeine is very bitter. Too much caffeine can be detrimental to your health. However, caffeine is not all bad. It is a natural stimulant that has been shown to boost the process known as thermogenesis, or the generation of heat in the body. This process is at the center of weight loss; it is the way in which fat molecules are “burned.” Thermal energy is divided into calories; the more energy that is expended, the more calories you will burn.

Numerous studies have shown that caffeine increases energy expenditure. A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 1989 concluded that “caffeine at commonly consumed doses can have a significant influence on energy balance and may promote thermogenesis in the treatment of obesity.”

This is why you find caffeine in most of the over-the-counter diet supplements on supermarket and drugstore shelves today, many of which have extremely unhealthy side effects. In another study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, this one in 1999, scientists studying the use of green tea extracts concluded that tea not only promoted thermogenesis, but that unlike caffeine alone, which arouses your nervous system and speeds up your heartbeat, the use of green tea extract was “not accompanied by an increase in heart rate.” To summarize these two studies, the consumption of tea will increase the burning of calories and promote weight loss without increasing your heart rate.

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Dr. Leroy Rebello is a well established and internationally qualified anti-aging consultant and cosmetologist from Mumbai and a director in Eternesse – the best weight loss centers in Mumbai. He lectures in reputed Institutions such as AIIMS, JIPMER and other Medical Colleges around India. With over 10 Research Papers published in Indexed Journals, Dr. Rebello is continuously researching and developing new treatments and cures. 

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