Insomnia effects more than 70 million American a year, with the elderly and women being most impacted by this sleep disorder.
Lack of sleep on a continual basis can lead to illnesses such as depression.
The number of people seeking treatment for insomnia is expected to rise over the next few years.
Medication may be helpful for insomniacs, and one such compound: Org 50081, a serotonin 2 blocker, has just entered phase III clinical development.
This product showed positive results for helping patients fall asleep more quickly and to feel more rested when they woke up.
Org 50081 is unique for an insomnia drug, because it works on the serotonergic and histaminergic pathways rather than interacting with the GABA receptors.
For the layperson, this translates into better sleep without dependency on the drug.
Org 50081 is expected to be released, at first, to treat insomnia and the hot flashes associated with menopause.
Skin care just keeps getting more and more decadent.
If it wasn’t enough to have chocolate, fruits, teas, and coffees in your skin products, a new spa in New York: Delluva is now set to offer vinotherapy skin care. (Vino as in wine.)
All the spa products are made from wine extracts, grape seeds, grape seed extracts, grape seed oil, and vine leaf extracts.
Each of these ingredients deliver [tag-tec]antioxidants[/tag-tec], which can help improve the tone and texture of skin.
Delluva is the first [tag-tec]vinotherapy[/tag-tec] spa in New York, and one of the first in the U.S. (And yes- all spa packages offer wine as a beverage of choice.)
If you’re tired and bored with your usual spa routine, try out vinotherapy. It could feel good (and taste good too!)
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A new study finds that adding milk to tea diminishes tea’s antioxidant and cardiovascular benefits.
The casein proteins of milk seem to decrease the concentration of tea’s catechin’s, which are the flavanoids responsible for its protective effects against cardiovascular disease.
Black tea, alone, significantly improves the ability of the arteries to relax and expand, which would reduce blood pressure and tension on the heart.
Adding milk to tea completely prevents this effect.
Milk also prevents (or at least significantly reduces) the antioxidant and (perhaps) the cancer protective effect of tea.
These findings are published in the most recent issue of the European Heart Journal.
Perhaps the most striking example of this finding is that in countries where they drink a lot of [tag-tec]tea[/tag-tec], heart disease is reduced- except in Great Britain, where it is typical to add milk to tea.
Researchers recommend using lemon instead of milk to retain tea’s benefits.
