Archive for August, 2008

Xanax details

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Xanax is a prescription pill given to you by your doctor for the treatment of anxiety and the subsequent disorders of anxiety. When you experience anxiety, xanax’ll be your best friend. Marked by nervousness, and apprehension that may be unexplainable, anxiety attacks or panic attacks occur without any warning. With the help of your family physician, you can learn to live your life without worry or anxiety. There are many different types of anxiety. These include the inability to be around crowds, new people, or new places. With the help of Xanax you can slowly become less inclined to having attacks. Soon, you will be able to understand the way your body reacts to crowds, people, places, and anything unfamiliar so that you can take the doses as needed or properly as prescribed by your doctor. Xanax is prescribed to mainly treat any form of anxiety. This may include the treatment of panic attacks and irritable bowel syndrome. Your doctor will be able to determine what your needs are and prescribe you the doses accordingly. You can also take Xanax for extreme anxiety disorders which may include agoraphobia. Be sure to follow the doctor’s prescriptions exactly as they are ordered so that you do not suffer the more extreme cases of withdrawal. While the sufferer may be feeling fear for nothing at all, the perceived danger is extremely real to the person experiencing it. Because of this, anxiety is a disorder that should always be taken seriously, especially if the sufferer has any family history of mental illness or other disorders.

Side effects

Side effects of Xanax may include changes in weight, decreased libido, fatigue, impaired coordination in addition to others. There are also food allergies that should be considered when you take Xanax. Overdosing on Xanax is possible if you are not careful and if you think an overdose has occurred, call your emergency doctor immediately.

What’s in a name? What about cannabis?

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

On 15th July, the Federation of European Pharmacological Societies Congress began a discussion of the medicinal role of cannabis. It is routinely used for controlling nausea among patients on chemotherapy and for encouraging appetite among AIDS patients. It is now licensed for the control of neuropathic pain in adults suffering from cancer and multiple sclerosis. So medical science has been able to strip away the “unwanted” psychoactive symptoms and use the cannabinoid components to target the specific diseases. Why does this work? Because the human body naturally produces cannabinoids and has cannabinoid receptor cells in all parts. Science is now designing medications that focus on the parts of the body affected by disease and not the central nervous system. So, for example, when the body is injured cannabinoids are naturally released in the affected area and reduce pain. Unfortunately, the effect is very short-lived. Thus, research is now aiming to produce more medications that maintain cannabinoid levels in the affected areas for pain relief and for the control of anxiety and depression. The converse treatments are also working well for dealing with nicotine addiction and obesity. One of the problems with cannabis is that is tends to be addictive and it causes the “munchies”, i.e. it encourages users to eat more. So, medications like acomplia that block the cannabinoid receptors help to reduce addictive behavior and reduce appetite. Acomplia is now a front line treatment for obesity in Europe, second in effectiveness only to the use of gastric bands or surgical bypasses (which reduce weight by an average of 30%). The July conference heard news that one constituent of cannabis, THVC, may offer a better way to reduce appetite than acomplia and, more importantly, may be effective to treat neurodegenerative disorders like Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Why is more not heard about these advances? Possibly because of the prejudice that cannabis is a drug that should be banned. It is a shame society cannot see beyond a name to the good results science can produce. By coincidence, the French health authority Afssaps also released new statistics confirming the safety profile of acomplia in relation to depression. People with no history of depression show no adverse symptoms. Others only show an increase in depression at the beginning of a course of treatment. This can easily be monitored and compensated for.

Am i alone?

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Up to thirty million American men are affected at the present time. More new cases arise (or don’t arise!) every day, on the order of 600,000-700,000 new cases each year. That means that almost two thousand American men roll over every night and say, “This never happened to me before.” Even so, most of these men have not yet sought treatment.

The incidence goes up substantially with age, increasing significantly above the age of sixty-five-which is rapidly approaching for the baby boomers. Although erectile dysfunction becomes more likely with advancing age, there is certainly no age cutoff for a sexually fulfilling life. Some men enjoy sexual activity into their eighties and nineties.

Although impossible to document, almost every adult male experiences at least one occasion when he is not satisfied with the outcome. When surveyed, at least 50 percent will complain of difficulties at some point in life about some degree of erectile insufficiency. The definitive research quoted is the Massachusetts Male Aging Study, published in 1994.2 This survey was the first comprehensive look at sexual activity since the Kinsey survey forty years earlier.3 The researchers studied 1,290 men and found that over half of them complained of some degree of erectile dysfunction. This was broken down into those with minimal (17 percent), moderate (25 percent) or severe (10 percent) erectile dysfunction.

Strikingly, almost 40 percent of the men had some degree of erectile dysfunction by the age of forty. By the time their subjects reached seventy, two-thirds of them reported erectile dysfunction. These percentages represent huge numbers of men of a similar age in society. Moreover, if you add in cofactors like heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, ulcers, arthritis, and allergies, the percentage of men with erectile dysfunction went up even higher. The same thing was found among men taking medications in several categories. Psychological factors that increased risk or erectile dysfunction included depression, excessive alcohol use, and anger.

The greatest risk factor of all was found to be smoking. Smokers were almost three times as likely as nonsmokers to be completely unable to achieve an erection. Thus, the incidence of erectile dysfunction is huge, perhaps as high as 150 million men worldwide. Assuming two-thirds of men have at least some trouble by the age of seventy as shown in the Massachusetts Male Aging Study, most men will experience problems if they live long enough. That doesn’t have to be discouraging news, however. Instead, it should let you know that you’re not alone. Be sure to speak up to your physician if there is a problem. Help is readily available, so you are only alone if you choose to be.

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Keeping both the mind and the body healthy.

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

The pharmaceutical company, Sanofi-Aventis, has always promoted acomplia as achieving the best results when combined with a low-calorie diet and exercise. There is a simple explanation for this. People who are sufficiently motivated will lose weight if they reduce their calorie intake below their normal daily requirement and increase their metabolic rate through exercise. This forces the body to burn fat as stored energy to fill the gap. So why take acomplia? In the clinical trials, many of the people on placebo also lost weight.

There is another simple explanation. It is an application of the placebo effect. When people believe strongly enough that a medication is effective, it will produce the relevant healing effect. Even though a tablet is actually chemically inert, it can heal in the right context. More importantly, the placebo effect amplifies the therapeutic effect of all real medications. So back to the question of why anyone should use acomplia.

The answer depends on the precise effect that acomplia has. This medication is specifically designed to help people feel less hungry. Hunger is the psychological trigger to eating. Thus, if people feel only slightly hungry, they will naturally eat less leading to two opposing statements:

Acomplia should therefore not be seen as a weight reduction medication.

Acomplia should therefore be seen as a weight reduction medication.

Both statements are true consequences. Acomplia is not in itself a “fat buster”. The active chemical ingredients do not circulate through the body via the blood stream metaphorically killing fat cells whenever they find them. It is only a psychological prop to help people maintain their motivation to diet. The body will lose weight naturally if people consume more energy than they take in. If people feel less hungry, this is easier to achieve. Now let us go back to the idea of a placebo making a drug more effective. If everyone believes that acomplia is a fat buster, then it is more likely that people will lose more weight using it.

Now to add one further reason for following the formula of acomplia + diet + exercise. It is suggested that acomplia is associated with mood changes. In this respect, the research published in the April edition of Br. J. Sports Med. makes interesting reading. It has always been intuitively obvious that regular physical activity helps to improve mood, although no-one has ever been able to suggest exactly how much of whatever activity achieves this effect. All researchers have said is that if the physical activity is affecting the body positively, the body releases dopamine to reinforce the sense of pleasure or enjoyment and so encourage more of the activity.

The study focussed on some 20,000 adult Scottish participants using the General Health Questionnaire. If there is regular activity, there is a clear reduction in the levels of psychological distress after adjusting for factors of age, gender, BMI, smoking, marital status, social economic group, and the presence of any chronic illness. Less frequent activity has an effect, but it is less significant. The strongest effect was obtained through engaging in a sport, but there were also good results from gardening and other hobby activities involving physical exercise. Even twenty minutes per week had a good effect on mood.

Thus, whether by accident or design, the linkage between acomplia and physical exercise is genuinely valuable. If acomplia does potentially have an adverse effect on mood, this may to some extent be relieved if you are also exercising regularly. This article is not, of course, suggesting that physical activity will be a guaranteed cure for any looming depression. But whether you exercise to lose weight or to improve your mood, acomplia with exercise is obviously going to be better than acomplia without exercise.