Chilli Peppers Could Prolong Your Life - New Study

Scientists have come to the conclusion that chilli peppers could help its consumers live longer. These are the findings of a new study published in the journal ‘PLoS ONE’.
Researchers from the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont in the United States, U.S, used data from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) III, to look at 16,179 participants at least 18 years of age, who were followed for up to 23 years.
The ‘Sunday Times’ reported that the researchers used the information to assess the characteristics of the participants according to their consumption of hot red chilli peppers. The chili pepper is the fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum, members of the nightshade family, Solanaceae.
The substances that give chili peppers their intensity when ingested or applied topically are capsaicin and several related chemicals, collectively called capsaicinoids. Although peppers and spices have been thought to be beneficial for health for centuries, studies on the ingredients are limited.
As only one other study—which was conducted in China and published in 2015 —has previously looked at a possible association between chili pepper consumption and mortality, the researchers wanted to find further evidence to support the link in their own study.
The study found that those who ate more of the spicy ingredient tended to be “younger, male, white, Mexican-American, married, and to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, and consume more vegetables and meats . . . had lower HDL-cholesterol, lower income, and less education,” in comparison to participants who did not consume red chilli peppers.
Similarly, they found that the participants who consumed hot red chilli peppers benefited from a 13 per cent reduction in risk of death, mainly thanks to a reduction in deaths related to heart disease or stroke.
It is as yet unclear what is causing the positive association between chili peppers and life expectancy. However, the researchers put forward the suggestion that it could be the principal component in chilli peppers, capsicum.
Capsicum is believed to play a role in the mechanisms that prevent obesity, modulate coronary blood flow, and also has antimicrobial properties that “may indirectly affect the host by altering the gut microbiota” with changes in bacterial composition linked to cardiovascular disease amongst other conditions.
Furthermore, the study found that the nutrients in hot red chilli peppers such as B-vitamins, vitamin C and pro-A vitamin could also partly account for its protective effect.
The team now suggest that red chilli peppers “may be a beneficial component of the diet” and that further research in the form of clinical trials should be carried out.
It must be noted that chilli peppers are predominantly used in Africa, especially in Nigeria as spices for most staple foods. "Red pepper", as it is commonly known, is consumed in almost every home in Nigerian villages on a daily basis. Experts say this could explain why people in the villages live longer than those in the cities where several other kinds of pepper (most of which are adulterated when ground) are sold.

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How Vitamin C Injestion Cures Cancer Cells - New Study

Scientists have disclosed that high dose of Vitamin C can fight cancer cells. This are the findings of a new study published in the journal ‘Redox Biology’.
According to the researchers from the University of Iowa, UI, giving vitamin C intravenously and bypassing normal gut metabolism and excretion pathways — creates blood levels that are 100 to 500 times higher than levels seen with oral ingestion.
This super-high concentration in the blood is crucial to vitamin C’s ability to attack cancer cells, they added. It is estimated that over 100,000 new cancer cases are recorded annually in Nigeria but majority of cases however, are presented very late when nothing could be done by health care providers to save the lives of affected persons.
However, Physicians at UI Hospitals and Clinics are now testing the positive impact of the Vitamin C approach in clinical trials for pancreatic and lung cancers that combine highdose, intravenous vitamin C with standard chemotherapy or radiation.
Earlier phase 1 trials indicated this treatment was safe and well-tolerated and hinted that the therapy improves patient outcomes.
The current, larger trials aim to determine if the treatment improves survival. According to a ‘sciencedaily’ report, the study shows that Vitamin C breaks down easily, generating hydrogen peroxide, a so-called reactive oxygen species that can damage tissue and DNA.
The study also shows that tumour cells are much less capable of removing the damaging hydrogen peroxide than normal cells. Normal cells have several ways to remove hydrogen peroxide, keeping it at very low levels, so it does not cause damage.
The new study shows that an enzyme called catalase is the central route for removing hydrogen peroxide generated by decomposing vitamin C.
The researchers discovered that cells with lower amounts of catalase activity were more susceptible to damage and death when they were exposed to high amounts of vitamin C.

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"Why We Are Offering An Opportunity To 50,000 Nigerians This Year" - Dr Harry Benjamen, International Consultant, Organo Health Product

In this interview with Nigeria Natural Health Online's Editor, Dumbiri Frank Eboh, a Diamond Consultant for Organo Health Product, Dr Harry Benjamen speaks on the extraordinary health benefits of using Organo product as well as the opportunities they are offering 50,000 Nigerian distributors in 2017.  

What’s Organo all about?

Oragano is a healthy living products company. So essentially, we have products that enhance healthy living. It all started with a unique, special herb called Ganoderma. That herb has very rich nutritional values and it was used by the emperors and kings in China in ancient times. Our CEO, decided to package it into products so that the rest of the world can enjoy what the Chinese people have been enjoying over the centuries. The result has been astounding. We have turn the herb into tea, coffee and chocolate that is so delicious you won’t know you are taking in something medicinal.

Are these products hundred percent natural or do they contain preservative additives?

Our products do not contain additives. They are organic in nature. Most of the products out there are not completely organic even though they are hundred percent natural. What do I mean by this? If you go to the farms where those coffees are grown, you would find out that they use pesticides in the process of producing them. So, you cannot say it is hundred percent organic. But for us in Organo, we have some coffees and teas that are completely organic. And as for preservative additives, we don’t have any of those in our products. We don’t use pesticides in farming the teas, we don’t use pesticides in farming the coffees. Everything is natural.

How are these products positioned in the market – for the rich, middle or low income earners?

Am so grateful that the leadership has put the products into sachet so that it can be easily affordable. They are sold in packs that the distributors can buy, but these distributors can break the parts into sachet and sell to consumers. This way, the products get right into the grassroots. A sachet goes for N200 which the average man along the street can afford.

How can somebody get these products?

That is why we are developing the market in Nigeria. We are looking for consumers and we are also looking for distributors. Distributors can earn significant income from our company because we pay bonuses for getting distributors in the company. To become a distributor or get the products for consumption, you may call our contact person on 07031040178.

What incentive are you giving to distributors?

 The incentives are amazing. First, you earn money directly by selling the products for instance, one of our distributors called me yesterday saying that she has sold N50, 000 worth of products on a single day thereby making a profit of N24, 000 just on that day. Everyday, she sells an average of three or four packs. And this was somebody who used to earn N14, 000 a month at Shop Rite selling skin care products. Now she has created a business for herself and does no longer work for anybody. She is currently two years in the business and has recruited over 30 people working under her as a team. We have others in Nigeria who have earned close to N10, million a month by selling these products. Some of these people have moved from rented apartment into their own homes.

So, as a business person under us, you earn much money by building your customers and the number of distributors you get into your team. The more you do this, the more money you make from our company. We are working on a massive project for this year, it is called Project 50,000. Our goal is to create jobs for 50,000 Nigerian distributors in 2017. An average distributor buys a products with 100,000 when they start the business. And the good thing there is that our company pays back some of its profit as bonuses into the team for bringing distributors on board. So if you help us to bring one thousand people or two thousand people or five thousand people, you are going to get a great chunk of the profit that the company will be making and paying to these fifty thousand distributors.

Now let’s do a comparison here. Suppose we say let’s get fifty thousand people who will help distribute Nescafe, Bournvita or Milo. Would that be easy to do? Yes, but would they pay part of the profit they make back apart from the commission and the profit you make from the sales? The answer is No. You do not get anything from the profit made by those companies. But our company pays back part of their profit to their distributors, because our marketing strategy does not rely on those big advert on radio, TV and billboards like Nestle does. We use relationship marketing because we trust the efficacy of our products. For instance, Mr. Richard met Mr. Soni Irabor are you in turn get to know about the products through Mr. Soni Irabor and the readers of your blog get to know through you and so on. So we create awareness through the building of relationships amongst distributors and consumers.

So in this year, readers of your blog have an opportunity to be among these 50,000 people we are engaging in our distribution chain...(TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW)

Prospective distributors should call or SMS 07031040178.

 

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Insulin Capsules To Stop Daily Injections For Type 1 Diabetics

A world in which Type 1 diabetics no longer need to inject themselves every day may be just a few years away.
This came after British scientists launched a project to create a system which will deliver insulin automatically. Currently, people with Type 1 diabetes must undergo prick tests several times a day to monitor their blood sugar, and inject themselves with insulin when it gets too high.
In the next five years, the daily injection may end as scientists at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, UK, are developing smart capsules which would travel through the body and release insulin when they came across high  levels of blood sugar.
According to a report, the Birmingham scientists said they were confident that the capsule would be ready for animal trials within five years, and humans soon after.
“This could be a step change in the management of Type 1 diabetes,” said Dr. John Fossey, senior lecturer in the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham, who is leading the project.
The research team has already discovered molecules which bind to glucose from which they plan to build a shell which can contain insulin, but melts away in the presence of sugar, releasing its payload.
Type 1 diabetes occurs when the pancreas (a small gland behind the stomach) doesn’t produce insulin – the hormone that regulates blood glucose levels.
If the amount of glucose in the blood is too high, it can, over time, damage the body’s organs. Just 10 per cent of all diabetes is type 1 but it’s the most common type of childhood diabetes.
Fossey said: “We want to make the lives of patients better. Imagine if patients could go through a week without having to worry about their blood sugar levels, or injecting themselves.
“I’ve talked to the parents of kids with Type 1 diabetes and they said, if only my children could do things, like go to sleepovers, their lives would be so much better. Most parents aren’t confident enough to entrust injections to other adults.
“We’re trying to create a system which will deliver insulin in response to glucose levels, releasing more if blood sugar is high.
“We can now recognise glucose in the body and my proposal is to take the same chemistry, take these molecules and build a container for insulin which will break open when it comes across glucose and deliver its cargo.
“The patient could be injected with these containers, say once a week and they would slowly degrade in the presence of glucose to keep blood sugar at a constant level.”
“It will give people the freedom to live their lives without constantly worrying about monitoring their condition.”

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Women Who Have More Sex Have Better Memories - New Discovery

Canadian scientists have affirmed that women who often have sex have better memories. These are the findings of new study published in the journal ‘Archives of Sexual Behaviour’.
Research into how penile- vaginal intercourse (PVI) affects a woman’s brain found that it can help women to remember abstract words.
The research team at McGill University in Canada found a link between sex and the growth of nervous tissue in the hippocampus – the area of the brain that controls emotions, memory and the nervous system.
To make their findings, the team asked a small cohort of 78 heterosexual women under the age of 30 to take part in a memory test involving people’s faces, and another with abstract words.
They also completed a questionnaire to record their Grade Point Average, and whether they used birth control.
The results showed that the women who had sex most frequently were better able to recall abstract words.
Sex didn’t,however, affect their score for remembering faces. According to a report in the ‘independentuk,’ the study’s findings suggest that having sex often is linked with memory function and the hippocampus.
The connection could be due to the fact that sex is a form of exercise, or that it helps to ease mental conditions – such as depression and stress – that impact the memory.
Further research is now needed to pinpoint whether achieving orgasm affects the memory. Reacting to the development, a Professor of Psychology at McGill University, Jens Pruessner said: “The chemicals involved with signaling reward to the brain – hormones and neurotransmitters – have been shown to be associated with both memory and sexual activity.”
The findings follow a separate study which suggested that middleaged women can enjoy sex more as they get older due to a boost in selfconfidence, and better communication skills.
 But does this impact of sex on memory depend on the quality of the sex itself? In a recent study of adults 45 and older, nearly half of women respondent’s reported dissatisfaction with their sex lives with reasons ranging from the lack of available partners to health concerns. At the same time, the majority of the study’s participants age 45 – 59 said sex was an important part of their lives.
“Good sex is a huge quality of life issue,” says OB/Gyn David Eibling, M.D. “It affects the quality of our relationships, how we feel about ourselves and even the divorce rate. If you’re not enjoying sex, it’s important to ask why.”
Eibling and other experts encourage women to talk openly with their doctors about the quality of their sex lives and any associated problems. Everything from chronic pain conditions and medications to hormonal changes can dramatically impact sexual relationships. A good practitioner can help sort through problems and explore solutions.
“As a doctor, I’m very happy to experiment and ally with each individual patient to find out what works,” says OB/Gyn Leslie Hardy-Hood, M.D. “Everybody has their own unique issues. No one single person’s story is ever the same.”
It is hoped that the new discovery on the effect of sex on memory will go a long way in addressing some vital issues confronting sexual partners, especially married couples.

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Mouthwash Can Prevent Gonorrhea - Research

Regular use of common mouthwash can help curb spread of gonorrhoea infections. A commercial brand of mouthwash that is readily available from supermarkets and pharmacies can help curb the growth of the bacteria responsible for gonorrhoea, reveals preliminary research published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Daily rinsing and gargling with the product might be a cheap and easy way of helping to control the spread of the infection, suggest the researchers.

New cases of gonorrhoea among men are on the rise in many countries amid declining condom use, with the bulk of cases among gay/bisexual men, say the researchers.

Rising rates of gonorrhoea heighten the risk of the emergence of antibiotic resistant strains of Neisseria gonnorhoeae, the bacteria responsible for the infection, making the need for a preventive measure that doesn't rely on condoms even more urgent.

As far back as 1879, and before the advent of antibiotics, the manufacturer of Listerine, a commercial brand of mouthwash, claimed that it could be used to cure gonorrhoea. But no published research has tested out this claim.

In a bid to rectify this, the researchers assessed whether Listerine could curb the growth of N. gonorrhoeae in laboratory tests and in sexually active gay/bisexual men in a clinical trial.

For the laboratory tests, different dilutions (up to 1:32) of Listerine Cool Mint and Total Care, both of which contain 21.6% alcohol, were applied to cultures of N. gonorrhoeae to see which of any of them might curb growth of the bacteria. By way of a comparison, a salt water (saline) solution was similarly applied to an identical set of cultures.

Listerine at dilutions of up to 1 in 4, applied for 1 minute, significantly reduced the number of N. gonorrhoeae on the culture plates, whereas the saline solution did not.

The clinical trial involved 196 gay/bisexual men who had previously tested positive for gonorrhoea in their mouths/throat, and who were returning for treatment at one sexual health clinic in Melbourne, Australia, between May 2015 and February 2016.

Almost a third (30%; 58) tested positive for the bacteria in their throat on the return visit.
Thirty three of these men were randomly assigned to a rinse and gargle with Listerine and 25 of them to a rinse and gargle with the saline solution.

After rinsing and gargling for 1 minute, the proportion of viable gonorrhoea in the throat was 52% among the men using Listerine compared with 84% among those using saline.

And the men using Listerine were 80% less likely to test positive for gonorrhoea in their throat five minutes after gargling than were the men using the saline solution.

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