It is holiday (summer in Europe) time, and if you’ve been following the European news lately, you might have noticed a worrying trend: the West Nile Virus is on the rise across Europe – especially the southern regions, namely, Italy, Greece, Romania, North Macedonia, and to a lesser extent, Spain and France.
Category Archives: The Medical Perspective
Perhaps you’ve heard: “You are what you eat,” or the Hippocrates classic, “Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food.”
These and other sayings have been around since the beginning of time.
In my 30 years of practice, I was always fascinated by the conversations with very old and yet healthy patients. I distinctly remember a 91-year-old lady who had walked 3 kilometers to my practice because she had back pain.
In keeping with the analogy of NANO SOMA® being the conductor of our body’s many coordinated functions, we can also see how NANO SOMA – like a conductor – supports the body’s natural heart rhythm and function.*
Where I grew up in South Africa, Zulu was the most commonly spoken language in our area. In Zulu, the word for liver and the word for courage is the same: “Isibindi.”
When I was a student, it amused me that the textbooks describe beans as kidney-shaped and kidneys as bean-shaped.
Today, as the heading suggests, I am shining a spotlight on our kidneys. Peeing, as you will find out, is a lot more complicated than most of us think.
Ah, Valentine’s Day – that annual celebration of love, flowers, heartfelt cards, expensive dinner … and truly heroic quantities of refined sugar. Chocolate hearts, boxed pralines, pink icing piled centimetres high.
“Retinoic” and “retinoid’ share a common sound with the word “retina” – that light-sensitive layer of tissue at the back of the eyeball which converts visual images to electric signals and sends them to the brain – and with the word “retinol”, which is vitamin A.
In my last blog, I spoke about the 3 nuclear receptors that regulate the sex hormones in our body. There are two more in this group of (steroid) hormone receptors that contribute to establishing harmony and homeostasis across our entire biological symphony. In keeping with our analogy, NANO SOMA® once again acts as a conductor, and helps guide these two string players into balance, maintaining the rhythm and checking the tempo.
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