Articles, tagged with "pineal gland", page 5

The Benefits of Melatonin to Promote Sleep

Melatonin is also called the "hormone of darkness." This is because production of this particular hormone is only permitted at night. It is present in human beings, animals and in some other living organisms like algae. It has been seen that these hormone... Read >
Author: Fabiola Castillo

Grave Yard Shift and Cancer

The October 6, 2008 Nursing Spectrum Magazine has a great fear inducing headline. It reads: "Cancer Risk On The Night Shift" with a white cup filled with coffee directly below the headline. The coffee looks cold, which certainly would be true to life for ... Read >
Author: kate loving shenk

Finding Yourself SAD – Relief From Seasonal Blues

SAD is the acronym for Seasonal Affective Disorder. A legitimate mood-related disorder, it stems from the deterioration of the long hours of daylight into the long winter hours of darkness. The disruption to the body's internal clock with the changing lig... Read >
Author: Rosana Horowitz

Why Fluoride is Not Good for the Health?

For a long period of time it was believed that fluoride is good for the health especially for the teeth. But there were researches and studies that say fluoride has bad effects on health specifically to the brain.Recent human studies from China have conf... Read >
Author: Laura Roberts

Fast Guide to 5 Popular Natural Sleep Aids

You want a natural sleep aid for natural sleep. You want something safe and perhaps not too heavy duty for your sleep problems. However, there are just so many different types of natural sleep aids you don't quite know where to start. There are natural sl... Read >
Author: Isabel T.

Right Hormonal Balance For the Right Energy Level

It would neither be wrong nor an overstatement when we say that the hormonal interplay within our body practically controls our life including the way we eat, live, think and sleep. In other words, a slight hormonal imbalance can not only throw our mind a... Read >
Author: Samuel

Mystery of the Soul Part 1

"They will ask thee concerning the Spirit. Say: The Spirit is by command of my Lord, and of knowledge ye have been vouchsafed but little" (Koran Al Israa 17:85) Introduction At present we are living in a very complex era that humankind's intelligent... Read >
Author: Leonard Lee

Increase Melatonin Naturally And Get Some Sleep

Melatonin is a naturally occurring hormone produced by the pineal gland, a small, pea sized gland located in the centre of the brain. The discovery of melatonin and the understanding of its role in maintaining good health and vitality is relatively new wi... Read >
Author: C. Gray Flynn

How to save your blood pressure

Copyright (c) 2008 Duanphen Singhaphan Somewhere around 25 million Americans are currently taking high blood pressure drugs of some kind. These medications consist primarily of diuretics, beta-blockers, calcium antagonists, and ACE inhibitors. But they... Read >
Author: Peter John

Facts about Insomnia: Information To Help You Rest

Sources of information and advice about insomnia are seemingly everywhere: magazines, websites, and TV health showss. Some of the information is valid, but individual cases are characterized by particular elements that are a vital part of the gener... Read >
Author: Mike H

Depression Medication

Antidepressant drug:. This group of drugs has proved extremely effective in treating depression. While there are many kinds of antidepressant drugs, they all work in basically the same way, causing subtle changes in the brain's neurochemistry that seem to... Read >
Author: pattrickjhonson

How the body adapts and responds to a training stimulus

What is the definition of a stimulus An agent, action, or condition that elicits or accelerates a physiological or psychological activity or response. When we put the body under conditions that are more stressful than it is used to, it responds in a... Read >
Author: AlexPoole

Brain Tumor and Cancer Treatment

A brain tumor is any intracranial tumor created by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division, normally either in the brain itself (neurons, glial cells (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, ependymal cells), lymphatic tissue, blood vessels), in the cranial nerves ... Read >
Author: Alien

Melatonin, Sleep Enhancement, and ADHD

Melatonin is the hormone that regulates sleep. Produced by the Pineal Gland, this hormone controls the body's circadian rhythm, the internal clock that tells us when to fall asleep and when to wake up. Melatonin is also a very powerful antioxidant. In... Read >
Author: Anthony Kane, MD

Energy Therapies for Healing

Most Alternative therapies hold that human beings are not only physical, but consist of a "subtle energy" system that relates to the mental, emotional, and spiritual self, all of which may be addressed in diagnosis and treatment. Though not yet scientific... Read >
Author: Alien

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