Osteopatia in Ospedale #1

Ciao a tutti :)

Oggi vi scrivo questo articolo con il sorriso sulle labbra, ogni tanto le belle notizie attivano :)

L’Osteopata non è la morfina!

I pazienti arrivano dall'osteopata per un dolore che non passa e vogliono che, una volta usciti dallo studio, il dolore non ci sia più.. MA L’OSTEOPATA NON E’ LA MORFINA!

Diario #2

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Come state? :) Dopo una giornata stancante, ho deciso di scrivere un post veloce veloce :) Questa volta non parlerà di osteopatia, ma di tutt'altro :)
Ieri ho pubblicato un post sullo stile di vita sano, dicendo che bisogna fare movimento e mangiare in modo sano :) E indovinate cosa ho fatto oggi? :)

A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

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L'altro giorno in inglese abbiamo letto un articolo intitolato “Can a healthy lifestyle alter your genes?”, “Può uno stile di vita sano alterare i geni?”.

Questo articolo parla di uno studio fatto in America che è riuscito a dare una risposta a questa domanda. Ecco l’articolo:

“Comprehensive lifestyle changes including a better diet and more exercise can lead not only to a better physique, but also to swift and dramatic changes at the genetic level, U.S researchers said on Monday. In a small study, the researchers tracked 30 men with low-risk prostate cancer who decide against conventional medical treatment such as surgery and radiation or hormone therapy.

The men underwent three months of major lifestyle changes, including eating a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes and soy products, moderate exercise such as walking for half an hour a day, and an hour of daily stress management methods such as meditation. As expected, they lost weight, lowered their blood pressure and saw other health improvements. But the researchers found more profound changes when they compared prostate biopsies taken before and after the lifestyle changes. After the three months, the men had changes in activity in about 500 genes -- including 48 that were turned on and 453 genes that were turned off. The activity of disease-preventing genes increased while a number of disease-promoting genes, including those involved in prostate cancer and breast cancer, shut down, according to the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The research was led by Dr. Dean Ornish, head of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, and a well-known author advocating lifestyle changes to improve health. "It's an exciting finding because so often people say, 'Oh, it's all in my genes, what can I do?' Well, it turns out you may be able to do a lot," Ornish, who is also affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco, said in a telephone interview. “In just three months, I can change hundreds of my genes simply by changing what I eat and how I live?' That's pretty exciting," Ornish said. "The implications of our study are not limited to men with prostate cancer." Ornish said the men avoided conventional medical treatment for prostate cancer for reasons separate from the study. But in making that decision, they allowed the researchers to look at biopsies in people with cancer before and after lifestyle changes. "It gave us the opportunity to have an ethical reason for doing repeat biopsies in just a three-month period because they needed that anyway to look at their clinical changes (in their prostate cancer)”

Diario #1

Ciao a tutti, 

qualche giorno fa ho deciso di comprare questo taccuino delle Moleskine, così da poter scrivere i post anche quando sono fuori casa :) Un po’ alla vecchia maniera, senza pc, tablet o cellulare :)

Ho pensato ad un modo per rendere meno “serio” questo blog: scriverò una sorta di diario in cui vi parlerò di quello che ho fatto e aggiungerò una serie di foto alla fine, per rendere il tutto più leggero :)