Yourwellness Magazine Explores Botox and Other Anti-Ageing Possibilities

London, UK (PRWEB UK) 10 May 2013

National Institutes of Health researchers have recently used the popular anti-wrinkle agent Botox to discover a new and important role for a group of molecules that nerve cells use to quickly send messages. In the latest Cell Reports (http://www.nice.org.uk/newsroom/pressreleases/BotulinumToxinTypeAForHeadachesAssociatedWithChronicMigraine.jsp), the researchers explained they used Botox and similar toxins as tools to show that SNAREs may be involved in retrieving message carrier shells from nerve cell membranes immediately after release.

This is not the first time that Botox has been used in the brain, as guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends Botox injections to prevent headaches in some adults who experience chronic migraine . The stipulations are that the patients condition must not have responded to taking at least three prior preventative medications and must have been appropriately managed for medication overuse.

Professor Carole Longson, Director of the Health Technology Evaluation Centre at NICE, commented, "The NHS Constitution states that patients have the legal right to receive all drugs recommended by NICE if their doctors believe they are clinically appropriate. NHS settings in England and Wales now have until September to allocate funding for the use of Botox for preventing headache in chronic migraine, as outlined in our guidance."

With this in mind, Yourwellness Magazine investigated the anti-ageing treatment Laviv, which has been touted as the new Botox. Yourwellness Magazine reported that the product re-injects the bodys own cells into the face to eliminate wrinkles, taking a sample of fibroplasts from behind the ear (which produce collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid) and culturing them in a lab for 90 days before they are re-injected over a five-week period.

Yourwellness Magazine noted the reservations of Chris Inglefield, from London Bridge Plastic Surgery, who explained that the product has been around since the 90s, and has since only demonstrated good results in younger women. Most of the women who looked to Isolagen for skin rejuvenation were in their 50s, he said. But, as you get older, you have fewer active fibrolasts. As a result, you tend to have less raw material to work with.

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Yourwellness Magazine Follows Up Explorers Obesity Awareness Campaign

London, UK (PRWEB UK) 22 April 2013

In an innovative way to raise obesity awareness, Saudi explorer Youssef Al-Ruwaily has made a journey on foot from Makkah to Al-Aflaj, aiming to encourage Saudis to exercise to reduce obesity. According to WHO, worldwide obesity has nearly doubled since 1980, with 65% of the world's population living in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight. WHO also notes that more than 40 million children under the age of five were overweight in 2011, but this, and obesity, is preventable.

WHOs Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health provides a framework for their 2008-2013 action plan; a roadmap to establish and strengthen initiatives for the surveillance, prevention and management of Noncommunicable Diseases, such as obesity. 2011s Political Declaration of the High Level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases committed to advance the implementation of the WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health, including the introduction of policies and actions aimed at promoting healthy diets and increasing physical activity in the entire population.

With WHOs and Youssef Al-Ruwailys strategy in mind, Yourwellness Magazine took a closer look at the obesity epidemic, aiming to raise awareness and give readers the facts about obesity. According to the article, Its a common misconception that only the developed world suffers from issues with obesity. As fast food becomes cheaper it becomes available worldwide. In Dubai, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, weight loss clinics have performed more than two hundred surgeries recently. A lot of the patients have been citizens but several have travelled in from outside the country.

Yourwellness Magazine explained that obesity comes with a whole variety of health complications of its own, raising the risk of heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and asthma. Weight loss surgery is a risky step to take, but when these complications are more threatening than surgery itself, and obese patients have exhausted all other options, Yourwellness Magazine noted that weight loss surgery may be a way to tackle the obesity epidemic.

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