Hearty Health Links On This Fine Sunday…
Here are a few good links and articles that go right along with our Hearty blog… Have a great Sunday!
We all know that smoking cigarettes increases your risk for heart disease, right? Then why don’t more people quit? Well duh, it is an addiction after all so that makes it more than tough. Researchers have found that the individual differences in brain chemistry can have a profound effect on a person’s susceptibility to addiction, and smoking may predispose adolescents to mental disorders in adolescence and adulthood such as affective disorders like depression. It is a vicious cycle!
Another risk factor in heart disease… obesity. Scientists can now measure how full or hungry a mouse feels, thanks to a new technique which uses imaging to reveal how neurons behave in the part of the brain which regulates appetite. Wouldn’t it be swell if we could figure out how to turn that food craving thing off in our heads? I know I would be happy. I am feeling over the top hungry lately and am trying to steer as far away from the kitchen as possible, that’s for sure!
And finally we may just figure out that whole paradox of resuscitation and restored blood flow and heart function and dying heart tissue! That would be very exciting. Using chemical probes and a novel technique called dual-wavelengths excitation spectrophotofluorometry, the Scientists saw that after the mitochrondria were subjected to ischemia followed by reoxygenation, a boost of calcium occurred in the mitochondria. So they went with it to further uncover the specifics.
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