Marina T Alamanou
Stories (69/0)
When tech met depression
“The advice I’d give to somebody that’s silently struggling is: You don’t have to live that way. You don’t have to struggle in silence. You can be un-silent. You can live well with a mental health condition, as long as you open up to somebody about it, because it’s really important you share your experience with people so that you can get the help that you need.” By Demi Lovato
By Marina T Alamanou2 years ago in Psyche
Shikonin used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for centuries is now targeting cancer
“I’m in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I’m a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I’m doing handstands.” By Eve Ensler, an American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist
By Marina T Alamanou2 years ago in Longevity
Oridonin a potential anticancer agent
Herbal medicine's been around for thousands of years! Indeed it has. And then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became medicine. And the rest of it's just a nice bowl of soup and some pot pourri. By Dara Ó Briain
By Marina T Alamanou2 years ago in Longevity
Curcumin anti-cancer properties and therapeutic activity
Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck. By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (an Indian-American author, poet and Professor of Writing at the University of Houston)
By Marina T Alamanou2 years ago in Longevity
Green tea extract EGCG an effective chemopreventive polyphenol
"We were in Japan once where they had 30 kinds of green tea. I thought there was one." Billy Corgan EGCG, also known as epigallocatechin-3-gallate, is the main polyphenol in green tea (Camellia sinensis). In particular, it is found in high concentration in the dried leaves of green tea (7380 mg per 100 g), white tea (4245 mg per 100 g), and in smaller quantities in black tea (936 mg per 100 g). Trace amounts are found in apple skin, plums, onions, hazelnuts, pecans and carob powder (at 109 mg per 100 g).
By Marina T Alamanou2 years ago in Longevity
Fighting breast cancer with natural compounds backed by science
Approximately 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer (BrCa) sometime during their lives. Surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormone therapy are the classical methods used to treat BrCa. But the development of drug resistance, the occurrence of side effects and reoccurrence of the disease indicate that these drugs have limited efficacy.
By Marina T Alamanou2 years ago in Longevity
Artemisinin a class of remarkable drugs
Artemisinin and its derivatives are all sesquiterpene lactones containing an unusual peroxide bridge and they all derive from the annual sweet wormwood plant Artemisia annua L (also known as sweet wormwood, sweet annie, sweet sagewort, annual mugwort or annual wormwood), and originally they were used as Traditional Chinese Medicine for treating malaria and related symptoms such as fever and chills. Artemisinin's antimalarial properties are attributed to the unusual peroxide bridge it has.
By Marina T Alamanou2 years ago in Longevity
Cancer and AI Solutions
According to the World Cancer Day the key cancer facts are that 10 million people die from cancer every year, at least one third of common cancers are preventable, cancer is the second-leading cause of death worldwide, 70% of cancer deaths occur in low-to-middle income countries, millions of lives could be saved each year by implementing strategies for prevention, early detection and treatment, and the total annual economic cost of cancer is estimated at $ 1.16 trillion.
By Marina T Alamanou2 years ago in Futurism
Fighting renal cell carcinoma with natural compounds backed by science
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC), is a kidney cancer that originates in the lining of the proximal convoluted tubule (a part of the very small tubes in the kidney that transport primary urine), and is the most common type of kidney cancer in adults responsible for approximately 90–95% of cases.
By Marina T Alamanou2 years ago in Longevity
Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory
“Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough!”, is a famous quote by Richard Phillips Feynman, an American theoretical physicist particularly known for his contributions to quantum physics, quantum electrodynamics and particle physics, as well as quantum computing and nanotechnology.
By Marina T Alamanou2 years ago in Futurism