Winter Skin Care Tips

The cold, dry air of the long winter season can leave skin feeling irritated and itchy, destroying all your efforts throughout the year to build a great complexion. For a lot of people, the cold and the snow means dry skin on the face, hands, and feet, but it doesn’t have to be that way. With a few simple tips you can maintain your healthy skin even in the face of a long, dark winter.

Drink Lots of Water

Staying hydrated is important for your overall health year round. It helps to flush the toxins from your body that can contribute to skin problems. While it may not automatically give you healthy, moist skin, it will contribute to a healthy body and better skin.

Eat Healthy

There are a number of foods that can keep your skin healthy. Omega-3 or omega-6 fatty acids like fish oil and flaxseed oil can help, but there are many foods and vitamins (such as Vitamins E and C) that can produce the results you want.

Use Sunscreen Outside

Sunscreen isn’t just for the warm days of summer. The winter sun and the increased glare from the snow can still cause significant damage to your skin. Sometimes, it may seem particularly gloomy and overcast, but UV rays can still penetrate the clouds and create problems.

Avoid Overly Hot Showers

On those really cold days, a long hot shower or bath may seem like just the thing, but water temperatures that are too hot can break down the lipid barriers in the skin, leading to a loss of moisture. Luke warm water is the better choice for your skin, and even then you shouldn’t spend too much time under the downpour.

Moisturize Frequently

Moisturizer is an important component of a winter care routine, but it’s important to find the right one. The lotion that works in the summertime may not be the best choice for the colder months. Choose a moisturizer that’s oil based, rather than water based, and use it often. Be careful where you use it, though, as some of these oils are not meant to be used on the face.

Lower Your Thermostat

The minute you turn on indoor heating, your skin is going to start drying out. Obviously, we are going to need to heat our homes, but try setting the thermostat to a comfortable level, but cooler than you might otherwise use. 68°F to 72°F should help you maintain your healthy skin.

Avoid Harsh Soaps

Many soaps contain ingredients that may aggravate itchiness or dryness. A lot of this comes from the fragrances or other artificial components, so you might consider washing with a fragrance-free moisturizing gel or cleanser.

Avoid Irritating Fabrics

As you bundle up to face the cold, dry temperatures, you need to make sure you aren’t doing more harm than good. Avoid fabrics that can be irritating like wool or polyesters and choose something like cotton. Many fabric softeners also have some fragrances that can be irritating, so leave them out and use a mild laundry detergent.

Top 10 Tips to Control Diabetes

The following are helpful tips to help you stay in control of managing diabetes.

1. It's not about your diabetes — It's about your life

Ask yourself:

·         What do I love to do?

·         What things about diabetes keep me from doing it?

·         What are some solutions?

·         How can making an action plan help?

2. It's not just about blood sugar

Heart disease and stroke are the big killers for people with Diabetes. Here's how to lower your chances:

·         If you use tobacco, quit.

·         Keep your blood pressure at or below 129/79.

·         Consider taking a stain drug.

·         Ask your doctor about ACE-inhibitors.

·         Talk to your doctor about whether a daily aspirin is right for you.

·         Make healthy lifestyle choices.

3. Stress makes everything worse

Stress can get in the way of taking care of yourself and managing your diabetes.

·         Find out what's causing stress in your life.

·         Learn ways to reduce or cope with daily stressors.

·         Schedule something fun for yourself on a regular basis.

4. Exercise makes everything better

Exercise is good for everybody. It gives you more energy, reduces stress, helps you relax, and makes it easier to fall asleep.

·         Work towards doing at least 30 minutes every day.

·         Make it fun, not a chore.

·         Try a pedometer.

5. Don't diet — Make healthier food choices

Find a healthier way of eating that you can stick with for life.

·         Instead of thinking about food as either "good" or "bad," think about which foods support good health.

·         Eat a variety of foods to make sure you're getting the vitamins and minerals your body needs.

·         Talk to your dietitian to find a meal plan that works for you.

6. Be smart and use your "flashlight"

Your blood sugar monitor helps you see in the dark, like a flashlight. Test your blood sugar to get information you can use, for example:

·         When you first wake up in the morning.

·         Before or after meals.

·         Before, during, and after exercising.

·         Whenever you feel "odd."

7. Get regular checkups

Keeping regular appointments with your doctor and getting tests and screenings on time, helps you be an active partner with your health care team.

·         Know what questions to ask.

·         Write them down ahead of time.

·         Let your doctor know at the beginning of each visit what specific things you want to talk about.

8. Make sure you're not depressed

It's often hard for people to know when they're depressed. Here are some common signs:

·         Feeling down, blue, hopeless, sad, or irritable

·         Not enjoying activities that used to be enjoyable

·         Feeling as though you're letting other people down

·         Trouble concentrating

·         Tired all the time, no energy

·         No interest in food

·         Overeating

·         Trouble falling asleep

·         Feeling like life isn't worth living

9. Write down your care plan

Work with your doctor to design a diabetes care plan that's right for you. Be sure to include:

·         What drugs you're taking and why you're taking them.

·         Your daily targets for the numbers you can control.

·         The goals you want to achieve.

·         Who you should call and when.

10. Join a group

Groups work magic!

·         A problem shared is a problem solved.

·         You'll be amazed at how much you have to offer others.

·         Check out the Living Well With Diabetes workshops.

World Trauma Day 17 Oct

Trauma means "any injury caused to the body". The injury may be caused due to many reasons like road accidents, fires, burns, falls , acts of violence and crimes against the vulnerable population including women, children and elderly.   Amongst all the causes, Road Traffic Accident (RTA) is the leading cause of trauma across the world. Every year, about 5 million people die from injuries across the world. In India alone, it is estimated that one million people die and 20 million are hospitalized  every year due to injuries. According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), about 1,37,000 people died in road accidents in India in 2013.

Our government can design safe roads but it is the duty of every citizen of every country to act responsibly. Remember, prevention is always better than cure. Trauma is no accident. It can be easily prevented by staying alert. So, help yourself as well as others by acting responsibly.

Points to remember:

Do's 

· Follow the road safety rules carefully. 

· Pay close attention to the warning signs and traffic signals while driving. 

· Always wear a helmet while riding a two-wheeler. 

· Avoid distractions like mobile phones and loud music while on road. 

· Take short breaks in case of long, continuous driving. 

· Keep your children away from electric switches and wires, sharp objects and medications. 

· Always keep a first aid safety kit at your home and in your vehicle. 

· Ensure that your stairs, windows, balconies and roofs are secure in order to prevent falls. 

· Learn basic life support techniques and help the injured.

Don'ts 

· Do not drive when you are tired, sleepy or drunk. 

· Do not take any risks while driving, in case you are in a hurry. 

· Do not operate hazardous machinery. 

· In case of a head or spinal injury, do not move the person from the site of accident without any         professional's help. Moving the injured person may cause serious back or neck injuries. 

- Do not give fluids to any unconscious or semi-conscious traumatized person.

Go “Sugary” With Your Diabetes Using Stem Cell Treatment

Laughter is the best medicine unless you are a diabetic; in that sense insulin can be the best option!

Same as with many PWD’s (People with Diabetes), you must be getting irritated and cranky when people make fun of you! But the fact is that like dealing with the bugs under the bed, accepting and laughing over your diabetes is the better option than hiding it under the cover.

Diabetes is a serious, inverterate ailment affecting routine pattern of your lifestyle and thus leading to various life threatening complications such as heart attack, kidney failure, blindness and the list goes on. In medical terminology it is named by the Greek and Roman doctors as “ Diabetes Mellitus”, where Diabetes means passing through in Greek and Mellitus is a Latin word for sweet or honeyed. Factual meaning of the two words is that the urine of the people with diabetes contains sugar and it passes through the body very quickly.

Many ignorant people, who have not been preyed for this mighty, chronic disease so far; can take it synonymous with too much of sugar. Although the coverted fact is that the sugar is not the only element responsible for the condition, but is associated with the obesity, age and also important metabolical abnormality due to faulty gene inherited from the family. Being not just a single disease, but an umbrella under which several forms exist; Diabetes commonly comprises of two regular forms Type 1 Diabetes and Type II Diabetes. Though the leading cause is still unknown, it affects the way our body utilizes food.  In general our body needs glucose in the form of energy for performing day to day activities. For that matter, the healthy body turns carbohydrates obtained from food into glucose; which is transported to cells through the blood stream. Once inside the cells it waits for the pancreas to do the job.

Stem Cell Treatment for Diabetes

The pancreas is a small organ behind the stomach containing the glands called the “Islets of Langerhans”. These glands contain a special kind of cells known as “Beta Cells” responsible for producing a hormone known as Insulin. The main function of the Insulin is to allow glucose to be utilized by the cells. Without Insulin it is just impossible for cells to employ glucose for the normal functioning of the body; if something goes wrong with this generalized metabolic processes the onset of Diabetes occurs.  The disease is characterized by too little or no production of insulin as in case of Type 1 Diabetes or in other sense insulin being unable to metabolize glucose as in case of Type 2 Diabetes, either way since the glucose cannot get into the body’s cells; it builds up in the blood and eventually passes out by the urine.

Unlike the customary supportive treatment options such as medications or insulin shots, today people with diabetes have better chances of survival and improving life. With the progressive development, exploitation of Stemcells Treatment for Diabetes can be a smarter choice.They are like a fresh debutante with the desire to explore to be any type of cells of the body. If treated in a right direction, any recipes can be made with them. In that direction, the research has always shown great  promises, with the important advancement being in vitro development of insulin producing beta cells of the pancreas from stem cells.  Further to achievements and progress with the autologous use of stem cells from your own body has taken care of the key issues like safety concerns, teratoma formation, transplantation and autoimmune responses etc.

Thus, with all the controversies surrounding, stem cell treatment fordiabetes ; have shown a highway of the enormous potential in improving health and quality of life with the additional benefit of living without medicinal and dietary obligations.

Foods To Cure Kidney Disease

The main function of Kidneys is to remove wastes. They also regulate salt and mineral balance of our body there by keeping blood pressure under check. When kidneys become damaged, wastes build up and abnormal oxidation begins, this can lead to shortness of breath, swelling, frequent urination, heart problems and others. If left untreated, renal failure may set in, which can lead to cardiovascular diseases and even fatality.  You can fight against kidney disease by eating a well balanced diet.

There are many fruits and vegetables which are rich in antioxidant and vitamins that can do wonders for renal function. For Example:

Pineapple is rich in the natural enzyme, bromelain, which is known to fight inflammation. In the case of renal disease, bromelain can help to reduce amyloid deposits in the kidneys.

Red Bell Peppers

Red bell peppers along with being tasty contain abundant vitamin C and A, B6, folic acid and the powerful antioxidant lycopene and are low in potassium which is good for a kidney diet.

Onions

Onion rich diet, including all varieties of red, white, brown and vidalia among others, help battle oxidation by giving generous amounts of phosphorus and plenty of flavonoids including quercetin, which fight cancer and helps reduce risks of heart disease.

Red Grapes

Red Grapes are a powerful diet element for Kidney Disease. Red grapes get their color from the many flavanoids they contain, which help in the reduction of blood clots and prevent oxidation and heart and kidney disease.

Since prevention is always better than cure therefore ‘Eat Healthy, Stay Healthy’.

Stem Cell Treatment For Cardiac Diseases- Beat Back The Weak Heart

It’s a great weekend morning, you don’t have to prepare your kids for the school, neither in a hurry to make lunch, nor to rush to the office. You glance over and are delighted to watch your husband and children, who are still in a bed! With the relax state of mind, you go to your favorite window, facing lush green gardens and fountains and enjoy the nature with a cup of tea as a supplementary pleasure. Suddenly you feel that your hands are shaking, which increase to the extent that you no longer able to hold the cup! You feel short of your breath, start sweating profusely and feel the strong initiation of an arrow of pain from the middle of the chest to the neck which disappear within no time!  You just sit on the chair, relax with your head down on the table. Although after few fractions of minutes, everything start getting under control. When you get complete hold over your normal being, you have a glass of water, and start wondering, what happened to you but then ignored immediately as mere a state or stress! Have you ever experienced this? If yes, then please don’t ignore it as just a state or stress, but it’s the first signal given from your heart, that it is getting weak and need your attention!

It is very alarming that the heart diseases, are the leading cause of death affecting people of all age groups and backgrounds. There are many people who survived the heart attack but are left with the scar tissue, reducing the heart’s pumping ability to one third! They can’t dance, can’t play with their children, can’t enjoy life and sleep every night wondering if they could wake up in the morning! Every year, thousands of victims undergoing heart treatments and suffering from consequences post surgeries pray  and wish to find out an alternative medicinal boon, which can transform their weak heart into the strong one without the need for the surgery and medicines. This desperation, motivated many scientists worldwide to gain access over stem cell treatment. Stem cell therapy for heart disease is a contemporary recipe, employing strategies such as damaged cell regeneration, improved muscle movement thereby increases pumping capacity.

Stem cells are the master cells of the body, which are capable of differentiating into many or all kinds of cells. These adult stem cells lie dormant in an adult tissue. We have a quota of them even in our heart! These cells are involved in replacing the damaged cardiac cells in case of normal wear and tear of the heart. Although in case of diseased condition, the heart tissue is already damaged due to excessive resident cell death and hence impose heavy burden on stem cells to remove, replace and regenerate the scar tissue. However, at some point of time, these stem cells are unable to cope up with the burden and need an extra force to help them. This is not the reason for the attack, though it can be one of the reasons of major heart failure. In that regard, the very recently invented Stem Cells have shown great promises in cardiac regeneration as opposed to clinical controversies. As many as 5000 clinical trials are underway all over the world, demonstrating an effectiveness of stem cells as a potential medicine in treating heart diseases and have so far shown no medical complications.

Since, your own stem cells are employed for the treatment which are isolated from the two most potent sources such as bone marrow and adipose tissue, the heart would repair itself to the great extent, posing no harm in terms of immunological rejections. The injected stem cells will immediately start migrating to the scarred tissue if injected intravenously, and become damaged heart muscle cells, this way the heart can be way back to the normal.

Thus, with each advancing day, the progress is happening in every aspect of stem celltherapy for cardiac diseases, making physicians enthusiastic and hopeful to treat the patients suffering from heart diseases in a better way and getting them back to the life!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Stem Cell Treatment for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

Stem Cell Treatment for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)  Video

Advancells provides Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Treatment which is a progressive degeneration of nerve cells that control muscle movements by ALS Therapy.

Reaching Out To Those In Need

Autism is a spectrum disorder of the brain affecting the child lifelong. It is called a spectrum disorder because how each symptom will affect a child is unique.  The symptoms of Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) usually become noticeable from18 to 24 months, but they become more apparent during early childhood (24 months to 5 years). It affects how the child communicates with and relates to other people. A autistic child sees the world from a very different perspective and for them people’s body language and social behavior can appear just as strange as if people speaking in Greek. That’s why children dealing with Autism find it very hard to deal with family interactions and social behavior. And because of this disability they mostly resort to using of sign languages.

Though each child deals with broadly the same condition, some can live relatively independent lives whereas others are totally dependent lifelong. Mostly the prime areas of difficulty faced are in social communication, interaction and imagination.

They have difficulty in comprehending the meaning of words said by people; they find it difficult to understand people emotions and feeling and at the same time don’t know how to express theirs. They also find it hard to interpret other people's thoughts, feelings and actions.

Autistic people usually live in their own imaginative world and many people with autism are very creative and may be, for example, accomplished artists, musicians or writers.

Autism is a behavioral disorder for which many conventional therapies are available like speech therapy etc. These therapies might help a child reduce incidences of repetitive behavior or tackle speech abilities but do not address root cause of the problem and there is no breakthrough progress in dealing with this condition.

But Thanks to the advent of stem cell research there is a new hope in Autism cure.  Stem Cell Therapy for autism has the potential to repair weakened neurons in the brain and therefore improving communication and behavioral skills.

It has been researched that earlier stem cell therapy for autism is done; the higher are the success rates for cure.

One such company which has been successfully providing Stem Cell Treatment for Autism in India is Advancells.Advancells is passionately exploring the unlimited possibilities of Adult Stem cells in therapeutic application of regenerative medicine.

Umang was born autistic and had not spoken any meaningful word till the age of 7. But after Stem Cell Therapy he has recently started spoken his few meaningful words besides showing signs of significant improvement in symptoms, behavior pattern and cognitive abilities, following his first round of adult stem cell therapy. In this context, Umang’s improvement is nothing short of a miracle and his parents have started dreaming of his future again.

Liver Treatments with Stem Cells: “The powers” need power to make them powerful!

“Stop acting like a god in Greek mythology without any empathy for the human beings!”

Sounding weird? But for those who believe in mythology or has a strong interest in reading the myth can correlate the phrase with the Greek titan Prometheus, who was tortured by the hideous attempt of Greek God to punish him for exposing the secrets of gods to men! His liver was preyed by the eagles and his sufferings went eternal due to the liver’s ability to redevelop. Although eagles grew weary of the daily feast from a constantly replenished source; the legend tried to explain the world, the unexplainable………….the substratum of the “Power of Regeneration”.

As per the mythology,” There could not be any life without regeneration!” but the science says “There could not be any death with regeneration”

Let’s explore a science behind the enigma of regeneration! Regeneration in medicine, as has been tagged, typically involves achieving back the lost functions of various organs to address vast majority of medical problems. However scientists, who have commented on the history of the regenerative medicine, have also debated over the facts that organs most liable to be injured and therefore most likely in need of regenerative treatments are indeed those with the greatest regenerative capability. The Liver can be topped amongst this list.

Our liver is a phenomenal organ with an intrinsic capacity to regenerate after its loss either by accident or from injury. This tremendous regenerative potential of liver has been observed in number of rat models wherein after partial removal of the liver approximately 70% of the lost tissue is generated. The similar situation has also been observed in case of human beings where few years after the liver transplants, liver becomes hypertrophic i.e. gets bigger to compensate for the loss. If this is the case then questions might arise in your mind that how does liver regenerate on its own, and if it does, then why does it need an external dose of regenerative medicine?

The answer to this question lies in the fact that the tissues like liver have inherent sources of power inside them. These powers are entities which are ready for the action all the time. If given appropriate circumstances these powers can interact with the surrounding environment to stop further destruction and to enhance repairing of what has been damaged, as a routine practice! They are named as “Stem Cells”. 

Stem cells, with the capability to be any cells of the body can trigger reparative regeneration inside the liver to form lost hepatocytes. But in chronic conditions such as scarred liver tissue, liver injury etc, these cells have to do whole lot of work and hence become overburdened. This stressful situation provides the rationale for liver losing its ability to regenerate over the period of time with the complete functional damage.  But with the scientific advances it is possible to boost the process of liver regeneration externally.

Apart from liver there are some other habitats for residential stem cells such as Adipose Tissue, Bone Marrow which can be isolated outside the body. Thanks to the advances of the tissue culture techniques! The Technique is helping worldwide healthcare professionals to isolate stem cells outside the body, concentrate them in large number and reinsert back into the targeted site, where they can secrete number of growth factors, cytokines etc to start the process of healing.

Liver Treatment with Advancells

At Advancells, we are utilising your own stem cells isolated from the two abundant and potent sources such as Adipose Tissue and/or Bone Marrow as a treatment regimen for Liver Diseases. Our top priority is to provide very comprehensive, individualized treatment pattern which is best suited for the patients undergoing treatment.