by farngar
Green tea has become one of the US’s most popular drinks and for a good reason. The compounds in this drink are amazing. It can help prevent wide ranges of diseases such as bacterial or viral infections, chronic degenerative conditions including cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer <http://www.healthnews.com/natural-health/green-tea-may-reduce-lung-cancer-riskeven-for-smokers-4036.html> , diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, and periodontal disease. Green tea can also be used as a weight loss drink when drank with a healthy diet. But one of the most amazing things it does is if you have the common eye diseases such as glaucoma; and you drink a cup of green tea every day. It will cure your glaucoma in about 2 months.
I would like to know what kind of green tea they’re talking about. Because you can buy tea bags and you can buy the cans of Arizona or lipton green tea.
I would also like to know what component in the green tea causes all these amazing effects.
http://www.healthnews.com/natural-health/compounds-in-green-tea-may-protect-against-common-eye-diseases-4115.html
http://www.latestnewsfromindia.com/2010/02/24/compounds-in-green-tea-may-protect-against-common-eye-diseases/
After watching the video “The Beast Within,” write a Comment on what you learned & what you liked (or disliked) about the video. Also, include a question you still have pertaining to Anatomy & Physiology. Be sure to use complete sentences & spell check before submitting.
Scientists at Harvard University have discovered a new way of fighting cancer. They created a vaccine that is a fingernail sized implant that is put directly under your skin. They have already tested it on mice with melanoma and it cured them completely. What it does is it attracts cells to the disk and exposes them to antigens which reprogram them to go to the nearest lymph nodes and produce cells to attack the cancer. The body can’t do this on its own because it doesn’t recognize cancer cells as foreign.
Dr. Joanna Owens said “This study provides some useful insights into how we can effectively train the immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells. The use of an implant to deliver the vaccine is particularly interesting and the results look encouraging but more research is need to see if the technology can be scaled up and adapted for use in people.”
More information of this new vaccine can be found at http://ecancerawareness.com/cancer-news/small-cancer-fighting-disk-blasts-tumors-away-healthnews/
I would like to know if they have started trials in humans yet because this sounds like a major breakthrough.
I would also like to know if it would cure more than just melanoma.
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What would it be like to never have an itch again? Well, scientists are one step closer to answering this question for chronic sufferers of the itch. According to this recent article, scientists at the University of Washington have not only isolated the “itch gene,” but also successfully found itch nerve cells. The researchers were able to control itching in mice by knocking out the gene that controls these cells. The surprising thing was that the mice could still sense and react to pain but had no itching response. Up until now, most scientists believed that the itch was carried in pain neurons.
Why do we care about the itching gene in mice anyway? Well, think of all those times when you just wanted to climb out of your skin because of an itch. As it turns out, millions of people suffer from chronic itching. According to Dr. Glenn Giesler of the University of Minnesota, knowledge of the source of the itch could “pinpoint targets for future treatments” and help those with this “debilitating condition produced by more than 50 diseases.”
So, next time you have the urge to scratch, think about those little itch cells that are being triggered in your skin and think about having the power to turn them off!
What is the benefit of having an itch and thus the harm if the itch response was gone? How could we safely knock out the itch gene in humans if the mouse treatment involved a toxin injection?
