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Stem Cell Research
Every human body has special cells that, when they divide, have the potential to become any specific cell with a certain function such as blood cells, brain cells, or muscle cells. However, a type of stem cell called adult stem cells are limited. There are specific stem cells that can only grow into certain organ tissue. For example, humans have liver stem cells that can only grow into liver cells and not into any other type of organ or tissue. Embryonic stem cells are not limited in this way. In a blastocyst, or a fertilized egg that has not yet attached to the uterine wall, there are millions of stem cells that have the potential to grow into any type of tissue. The eggs used for stem cell research are not extracted from a woman’s body, but rather from a fertilized egg in a petri dish. Many scientists want to use the flexibility and potential of stem cell research to better human life and ease suffering. However, there are those who oppose the use of these type of cells. One cause of the controversy of this issue is that in many cases, the blastocyst is destroyed in the process of extracting the stem cells. For almost 20 years, scientists have been debating back and forth about the ethics of stem cell research, specifically concerning embryonic stem cells.
Ella MacQueenPublished 7 years ago in LongevityThe Life and Death of the Naturopathic Movement
Benedict Lust, ND, DO, MD (February 3, 1872 - September 5, 1945), born in Michelbach, Germany, was one of the founders of naturopathic medicine. When Lust worked as a waiter in Baden-Baden, Geneva, and then New York City, New York, he became ill. Lust thought that it could have been tuberculosis and thought that he did not have long to live, so he went back to Germany and was looking for anything that could act as a cure.
Marquis CanadayPublished 7 years ago in LongevityLonely World
500,000 years ago, The clan heads home after a long day of labor. I lag behind, tired. Every step feels heavier than the last. My cousin turns around and yells for me to hurry up.
Nutritional Medicine and the Medical Monopoly
Many times people will say, they don’t ‘believe’ in so called ‘holistic medicines’ meaning that they don’t believe in the healing and medicinal values of plants, herbs, and vegetables. This just points to the fact that they don’t know much about medicines in general.
Joe SnaithPublished 7 years ago in LongevityAntibiotics and the Bacteria That Resist Them
Since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first natural antibiotic, in 1928 we have been killing or slowing the growth of many types of bacteria with development of new antibiotics that are more and more powerful. At the time of Fleming’s discovery, he predicted that we would see the current rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria. After the discovery of penicillin other antibiotics related to it were developed such as benzylpenicillin, amoxicillin, and ampicillin that are still being routinely used to fight various bacterial infections. These usually work best for urinary tract, chest and skin infections. More modern antibiotics have been developed to treat a wide variety of bacterial infections.
Kathy CraigPublished 7 years ago in LongevityNew Treatment May Stop The Spread of Cancer Cells
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered that removing the limbs of human cancer cells impairs their ability to metastasize, spread and migrate. Most cancer patients die from the spread of tumors to the liver, brain or other vital organs. This new treatment may halt the deadly spread and contain the diseased cells.
Kathy CraigPublished 7 years ago in LongevityNew Nonsurgical Solution Doubles Down on Women's Jiggly Chin Flab
Nobody likes a double chin, and yet many women have them. Wobbly wattles are more likely if you're over 40 and overweight, and genetics is the likely cause.
Andrea DawsonPublished 7 years ago in Longevity- Top Story - July 2017
How Disease Shapes Human History
I'm going to talk about a subject that has become revitalized in the past few years and that is the impact that disease has on us as humans. Most people do things to prevent the spread of diseases in their day-to-day life as second nature because of the effect it's had on us in the past. Such as washing their hands or sneezing into their elbow. However, for the majority of people in first-world countries, it doesn't weigh on our mind 24/7 as it does in say, less developed countries. In modern life, with all of our current medicine, we don't seem to feel that a tiny micro-organism can be our undoing as it could have in ancient times but perhaps we'd better think again.
Alissa BudzinskiPublished 7 years ago in Longevity The War on Lectins: Of GMOs & Inflammatory Disease
Plants are living things, we often forget that. Like all living things, they have the ability to sense their environment and make changes that allow them to survive “better.”
Intelligent MovementPublished 7 years ago in LongevityI Constantly Relive My Past, Emotionally
In May 2013, the University of California, Irvine identified me as having HSAM (Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory). HSAM is an extremely rare kind of memory that makes a person able to recall all or most of their autobiographical memories in precise detail. Everyone has autobiographical memories, regardless of whether they have HSAM or not. Autobiographical memories are about what we’ve experienced personally throughout our lifetime. Essentially they are the kind of which we would include in an autobiography of our own life.
Rebecca SharrockPublished 7 years ago in LongevityIs Addiction a Disease?
Diabetes, cancer, and heart disease are caused by a combination of environmental, biological, and behavioral factors. Believe it or not, the same factors are what can lead to addiction. With meeting these criteria, we can say, empirically, that addiction is too, a disease.
Sarah FennellPublished 7 years ago in LongevityHolistic Medicine Explained
Holistic medicine treats the body as a whole instead of parts. Conventional medicine is used to cure disease, while holistic medicine will balance the body. The practice of holistic medicine has been used in many different cultures and in many different ways to bring a balance within the body and mind. Current holistic principles are to obtain optimal health by helping the patient mentally, physically, and spiritually; treat with love and unconditional acceptance, and establish a relationship so the patient realizes they are not a statistic to you.
Nathan ThompsonPublished 7 years ago in Longevity