Here I will show you the best medical advice on how to treat acid reflux!

• Eatsmaller more frequesnt meals to relieve your bodies internal pressures.
• Avoid foods which stimulate your bodies reflex acid creation, this includes foods such as
  • Citrus Fruits
  • Citrus Juices
  • Chocolate
  • Peppermint
  • Tomatoes and tomato based foods
  • Caffeine
  • Carbonated Drinks
• Do not eatat least two hours before you lay down to sleep.
• Take Antacids, which neutralize the acids.
• Increase Exercise.
• Surgery, a last resort,but teh only guarenteed medical treatment for Acid Reflux!

All these techniques will help to reduce acid reflux, some, such as exercise, is common medical advice for acid reflux, others such as surgery, are more dangerous, but also a more guaranteed to reduce acid reflux.

While each country has it’s own guidelines on when to check for breast cancer during your cycle, most experts now advise that you familiarise yourself with your breasts through several stages of the cycle.

Your breasts change throughout their cycle, however they change with a regularity that is consistant. You should learn to know how your breasts feel and look during your cycle for early detection of breast cancer.

If you have a history of breast cancer in the family you might want to consider tools such as the ‘Breastlight’, which shines a harmless red light through the breast tissue.  This can give early detection of lumps within the breast tissue, but it is important to remember  that not all breast cancer comes in the form of lumps.

When you are checking for changes in your breast tissue, you are looking for changes that do not return to normal during the course of your cycle.

There are several changes which you should look out for,

• Size – Most women have one breast larger than the other.
• Position – If one breast becomes lower than the other.
• Nipples – nipple Rash, Sudden Inverted Nipple, Discharge, or any change in position or shape.
• Persistant Pain, that is not linked to your period.
• Increased lumpiness or thickening which feels different to normal, and does not go away during the cycle.
• Skin changes around the breast area.

These changes do not neccessarily mean breast cancer, they are however some of the more common signs of breast cancer.

If you detect preliminary signs of breast cancer such as these, then it is essential that you contact your nearest medical practitioner as soon as possible to have more detailed checks made.

When you have had a specialist check made, the chances are you will not have breast cancer. Around 90% of women who go for a breast cancer check do not infact have breast cancer. Despite this, medical professionals stress that if you have any of the above signs you must still have any changes checked to be on the safe side.  Early detection of breast cancer can greatly increase your chances of survival.

Your liver removes over 90% of the alcohol from your bloodstream.  Because of this one of the first things you must do to help your liver recover is remove alcohol from your diet.  Doing this will greatly improve your livers chances of full recovery!  By removing alcohol your liver will have much more time to repair itself, rather than deal with toxins you pump in to your own body.

You can alter your diet to help your liver recover.  By choosing certain foods to help liver regrowth you will help your liver recover, and improve your overall fitness.  By eating lots of green vegetables and following a healthy dietary plan your body will be in much better shape to repair itself.  You should avoid fatty, sugary and large quantities of food, as all of these can put a heavy load upon your liver.

Exercise is also very important in improving your livers recovery.  Regular exercise will help your body remove toxins before they reach your liver, as well as lower blood pressure and increase your overall fitness.

By following these simple steps you should greatly improve your chances of a completely recovering your liver.

So sit back, read these top ten tips to help you quit smoking!

1) Keep a diary!  Keeping a diary of when and where you smoke will help you prepare for the coming steps, while you still smoke mark down every cigarette temptation to help you quit smoking!

2) Set a Date! – Pick a date where you won’t get stressed out, and definitely don’t pick a day where you will be bored.  The first day is nearly always the hardest, so make sure you have nothing in the way of quitting smoking!

3) Write down the reasons you want to quit smoking, keep reading them and recite them back to yourself so you have a clear image in your mind as to why you should stop smoking cigarettes!

4) Break the routine! Avoid the things that start you of smoking, take a day or two off work, if drinking sets you off avoid going out for a shortwhile.  Remember, the worst part of breaking the smoking habit is during the moments you normally smoke each and every day!

5) Get Help Quitting Smoking.  Remember that sometimes the will is weak, having a friend around to keep you distracted, take your cigarettes away and prevent you from straying from the path of quitting smoking!

6) Find a substitute for smoking, one of the best tricks for getting past the initial routine cravings is by finding a substitute, some find carrot sticks another, while others use nicotine inhalers.

7) Nicotine Supplements.  Using particular nicotine supplements, be it nicotine gum or nicotine inhalers can give relief from the chemical cravings as you start dealing with the routine addictions.  Nicotine patches are particularly affective,  these give you an all day slow release which gives you the ability to completely remove any routine from your ex-smoking day.

Watch the money mount up, sometimes you need just that little bit of an extra boost, totting up your weekly spend can give you a smile every week as you look at an awesome saving! Quiting smoking can save you a huge amount, especially with the rising costs of cigarettes.

9) Learn to Relax, stress is one of the largest fences to quitting smoking is stress, taking up meditation, yoga or other relaxation methods can greatly increase your chances to sucessfully quit smoking.

10) Break through the barrier, in the first two weeks of quitting smoking you will face some pretty major temptations.  Fortunately though when this passes things will suddenly become a lot easier for you.  It is important to remind yourself that in next to no time the worst will have passed!

Follow these top ten tips to quitting smoking and you will find the whole painful experience that little bit easier!

After only finding small success with these results they finally found that revolutionary breakthrough they were waiting for.  the only problem is, it’s technically illegal under the Geneva convention.

the treatment they have found has an astounding success rate, and involves depriving the patient of sleep for days at a time.  Every time the patient drops into a full sleep they are woken up after 4 minutes.  This treatment trains the body to go through the initial sleeping stage, where most insomnia sufferers have the most problems.  After this has been repeated over 40 times the patient is finally allowed to drop off

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Narration: Lynn Valentine is a chronic insomniac. It’s now 2:30AM and Lynn’s finally fallen asleep- but she’s in for a rude shock. She’s being woken up. Again, and again.

Lyn Valentine: I’m starting to get very tired now.

Narration: It looks like torture. But could this radical experiment, revolutionise how we treat insomnia? Lynn is one of 30% of Australians who suffer insomnia. For 20 years, her hours of darkness have been a waking nightmare.

Lynn Valentine: It takes me perhaps one to two hours to sleep and then I wake up a number of times in the course of a night for longish periods of time. So I might have an aggregate of only four hours or five hours sleep, but very very broken sleep. It’s difficult to concentrate the next day. You feel quite tired, irritable. It has a big effect on mood. So it creates problems, quite significant problems.

Narration: Lynn’s tried sleeping pills, but found them dangerously addictive. Now, she’s ready to try anything. She’s volunteered to test an extreme new experimental treatment, here at Flinders University. The clock’s about to start ticking on 24 hours of severe sleep deprivation.

“Just sit up for now, you’ll be fine. Now imagine that you’re lying at home, in your own bed.”

This room has no windows, no doors – no way of knowing how much time is passing. While she lies in isolation, the researchers monitor Lynn’s temperature, skin conductance, and brainwaves.

Dr Leon Lack: What we look at is specifically alpha waves which are the green ones, so when you actually fall asleep the alpha waves will drop off.

Narration: These measures will tell them if Lyn drops off.

Jonica Newby: What happens if she falls asleep?

Jodie Harris: If she does fall asleep, I’ll let her fall asleep for four minutes & then wake her up again. She gets four minutes at each trial

Jonica Newby: 4 minutes?
Jodie Harris: 4 minutes that’s all.
Jonica Newby: Isn’t that against the Geneva convention?
Jodie Harris: It does sound a little bit like torture I know.

Narration: And right now, Lynn’s got 24 hours more of being woken up to go. The idea for this therapeutic torment came from Professor Leon Lack. He’s head of the Sleep Research Laboratory, and over the years, he’d become frustrated with existing treatments for insomnia. The big obstacle to treatment is that insomniacs have lost the ability to fall asleep. Instead of feeling sleepy, they’ve come to associate bed time with being highly alert.

Dr Leon Lack: They’ll be tossing and turning getting anxious that they still have to wake up the next morning at say 7 o’clock, now it’s 1 o’clock now it’s 1.30 now it’s 2 o’clock. It means they’ll get less and less sleep the longer they’re awake. They get more anxious about that and that then reinforces that automatic arousal response.

Narration: For the last 20 years, the main therapy for insomnia has tried to re-train people to fall asleep quickly.

Dr Leon Lack: The instructions of that therapy are don’t go to bed till you’re really sleepy and if you don’t fall asleep quickly get out of bed again and go back to bed when you’re sleepy again.

Narration: The problem is, few people persevere. They have to do it by themselves, at home. And on cold winters night, especially, they struggle to drag themselves out of bed.
And the training takes at least four weeks to work. That’s because you only practice, or trial, falling asleep once per night.

Dr Leon Lack: That’s only one trial, only one trial to reverse this experience of years and years of having difficulty. It takes more than one trial. It takes you know 30 or 40 or 50 trials.

But suddenly, it struck Leon, there could be an answer. Might it be possible to run all 50 sleep training sessions in just 24 hours?

Dr Leon Lack: They would experience a lot of sleep deprivation across that one day, but they would get a lot of trials every half hour.

Narration: Excited by the idea, he decided to put it to the test. Lynn is now 15 hours into the gruelling regime Leon devised. The key is to let patients fall asleep, then quickly wake them up, and keep them awake, until the next sleep training attempt. So far, Lynn’s been woken up 30 times. Yet surprisingly, far from suffering, she almost seems to be enjoying it.

Lynn Valentine: If I can continue to fall asleep the way I am at the moment that will be quite wonderful.

Narration: Far from feeling tortured, says Leon, insomniacs can actually find this experience exhilarating. For the first time, they realise they can learn to fall asleep. At the beginning of the trial, Lynn was taking more than 20 minutes to fall asleep. Now she’s taking just a few minutes.

Dr Leon Lack: The way they feel is that sleep is something that they’ve lost. Now you know in a short period of time we’ve shown them that they in fact can fall asleep really quickly under the right conditions.

Narration: But by Sunday evening even Lynn is starting to show the strain.

Jonica Newby: Fed Up?
Lynn Valentine: Lying around for what must it be now a day and a half. But don’t think it’s much longer to go before I get to go to sleep.

Narration: Finally at 8:00PM, after nearly 50 wake-ups Lynn is allowed to drift off into her first deep sleep. It’s a relief for her, but for the research team, this is the exciting bit. So far, 17 people have been through the trial. Preliminary results show most of them have vastly improved sleep following the treatment. It’s early days. But Leon hopes this could be a genuine breakthrough.

Dr Leon Lack: This promises to be a long-term cure to insomnia so they can leave it behind and for the rest of their life they won’t be plagued with the daytime tiredness which they now experience.

Narration: Last night was certainly a breakthrough for Lynn. She slept uninterrupted through the whole night.

Lynn Valentine: :I had a very sound nights sleep it was lovely…..8 0r 9 hours…I haven’t slept this long since I don’t know when.

Benzodiazepines are addictive, and users can become dependant on the drug within 3 weeks. If this occurs to a large extent users may suffer from severe Benzodiazepine withdrawl symptoms. Benzodiazapines come in many forms for different applications, these include:

Anticonvulsants

• clobazam
• clonazepam
• clorazepate
• diazepam
• lorazepam
• midazolam

Anxiolytics (Anti-Anxiety)

• alprazolam
• bromazepam
• chlordiazepoxide
• clonazepam
• clorazepate
• diazepam
• lorazepam
• medazepam
• nordazepam
• oxazepam
• prazepam

Insomnia (Hypnotics)

• brotizolam
• diazepam
• estazolam
• flunitrazepam
• flurazepam
• lorazepam
• loprazolam
• lormetazepam
• midazolam
• nimetazepam
• nitrazepam
• phenazepam
• temazepam
• triazolam

Unfortunately Benzodiazapines have many side effects, some of them more serious than others!

Side Effects of Benzodiazepine

• Drowsiness
• Dizziness
• Upset stomach
• Blurred vision
• Headache
• Confusion
• Depression
• Impaired coordination
• Changes in heart rate
• Trembling
• Weakness
• Amnesia
• Grogginess
• Hangover
• Dreaming or nightmares
• Chest pain
• Vision changes
• Jaundice
• Paradoxical reactions

Paradocial Reactions from Benzodiazapine includes mania, schizophrenia, anger, impulsivity, and hypo-mania. All of these are sever and are much more likely to occur in Benzodiazepine users with pre existing borderline personality disorders.

Using Benzodiazepine during Pregnancy is not recommended, though it is still the most commonly used anti-anxiety drug used during pregnancy in America.  Unfortunately Benzodiazepine used during pregnancy can cause reduced cranial size and facial anomolies in children exposed to Benzodiazepine in the womb.

The small bumps, sometimes mistaken for pimples are infact completely harmless and not that noticeable. Some people however do pick at these small bumps, causing scarring in extreme cases.

Fortunately Keratosis Pilaris is treatable.  Treatment for Keratosis Pilaris does not involve any real pill or medicine, but instead it is better to use exfoliating lotion twice daily and moisturise to reduce inflammation.

More on treatment later however, Keratosis Pilaris is a genetic condition, and therefore not something that can just be easily avoided.

It is believed that Keratosis Pilaris is caused by the bodies exfoliating cell process, keratinisation. This occurs when Keratin, usually a little sticky and found within hair follicles, becoming hardened.  When this occurs the keratinisation process forms thorny areas from the keratin which stretch and open the hair follicles rather than exfoliating them naturally, causing redness and irritation.

Treatment of Keratosis Pilaris is limited in effect and usually temporary.  While in most conditions Keratosis Pilaris clears up naturally in adult life in some instances it does last the entire lifespan of a person.  The visual appearance of Keratosis Pilaris can be reduced by careful exfoliation and moisturising.  This must be continued for the effects to continue though.  When you stop exfoliating and moisturising it is almost certain Keratosis Pilaris and the bumps on your skin will return almost immediately.

The hardest part of stopping smoking is getting past the mental cravings, these tend to be at their worst when you are bored or stressed, you will feel a longing for the relaxation that smoking once afforded.

Unfortunately there are not many products that can truly help with the mental aspects of smoking, however things like hypnotism have been known to significantly reduce cigarette cravings.

Apart from hypnotism the only real true way of getting past the mental cravings for cigarettes is pure strong willpower. If you do not feel like you have this I strongly suggest buying an Hypnosis CD or DVD to help you combat your addiction.

Paul McKenna is one of the worlds foremost hypnotists and has released a DVD and CD which are aimed to reduce your mental cravings for cigarettes, whether you are at the office, in the pub or waking up first thing on a morning, these products should greatly reduce your desire for a cigarette and help you significantly ni your quest to stop smoking.

The Physical Cravings of Cigarettes usually fade after a few months, but slight twinges will most likely be felt forever. Many people find sitting in a pub or bar, with a drink in one hand and nothing in the other the most stretching, others simply find themselves bringing their fingers to their lips.

One of the oldest and surprisingly effective methods is infact carrot sticks. Chewing these when craving can infact subdue cigarette cravings and help you to quit smoking cheaply.

Other methods include Nicotine inhalers, which copy the motion and suction of the cigarette and release a small puff of nicotine into the bloodstream, these should not however be used if you decided to go cold turkey.

There are many other things to do, though not many suitable for the pub, but all of them have one thing in common, they mimic the movement of your arm, they involve chewing or sucking and they have some pleasurable response, usually a nice taste.

Some people find slightly melted icecream, liquorice root or even the sherbert filled straws particularly effective.

The fact of the matter is though that whatever you do here you will be replacing one habit with another, though the differences in cost and health risks are massively different!