Posts Tagged ‘pharmacological’
Olive Oil As Medicine
That the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest in the world is an indisputable fact supported by many medical studies. What I do not know yet is that one of its pillars, the extra virgin olive oil contains certain natural chemicals that produce an antiinflammatory effect in the body. It is therefore a reason to eat this beneficial product, rich in heart healthy essential oils and anti-cancer properties.
U.S. experts have found in extra virgin olive oil a compound that has christened oleocanthal, which according to his research, inhibits the enzyme activity of cyclooxygenase (COX), a pharmacological action of ibuprofen itself. The findings of this study have been made known through the scientific journal Nature.
“Some of the health effects related to the Mediterranean diet could be due to the natural anti-COX activity of oleocanthal found in olive oil quality,” says the Nature biologist Gary Beauchamp of Monell Químicosensoriales Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania (USA). Read the rest of this entry »
What is a Depression?
Depression (from Latin depressus, which means ‘killed’, ‘down’) is a mood disorder that occurs in colloquial terms as a state of depression and unhappiness that can be transient or permanent. The medical term refers to a syndrome or cluster of symptoms that affect mainly the emotional sphere: sadness pathological decay, irritability or mood disorder that can decrease performance at work or limit the normal life activity, regardless that their cause is known or unknown. Although this is the core of symptoms, depression can also be expressed through conditions of the cognitive, volitional or somatic. In most cases, the diagnosis is clinical, but must be differentiated from similar expression boxes, such as anxiety disorders. The person suffering from depression may not experiencing sadness, but loss of interest and inability to enjoy normal play activities, and a little experience motivating and slower over time. Its origin is multifactorial, although it is noted triggers such as stress and feelings (derived from a disappointment in love, contemplation or experience of an accident, murder or tragedy, the bad news disorder, grief, and having gone through an experience near-death). There are other sources, such as inadequate elaboration of mourning (for the death of a loved one) or even the consumption of certain substances (alcohol or other toxic substances) and predisposing factors such as genetics or educational status.
Depression can have important social and personal consequences, from incapacity to suicide. The different schools of psychiatry have proposed various treatments for depression: Biopsychiatry, through a pharmacological approach, endorsed by the success of recent generations of antidepressants (fluoxetine flagged by the “happy pill” of the twentieth century), school through procedures psychoanalytic or cognitive-behavioral therapy, through behavioral and cognitive proposals. Read the rest of this entry »
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