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Tuesday, 19 December 2017

Alternative Therapy: Yoga, The Ancient Technique in Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Kyle J. Norton

Epidemiological studies suggested that yoga intervention may improve psychological and physical aspects in patients diagnosed with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychological condition triggered by terrifically experienced or witnessed events.

Yoga, the ancient practical technique for harmonized external and internal body well beings, through breath control, meditation, bodily movement and gesture..... has been well known for people in Western world and some parts in Asia due to health benefits reported by various respectable institutes' research and supported by health advocates.

In the concern of 10 million women with histories of interpersonal violence in the United States who have developed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), researchers at the Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute, conducted a study included Sixty-four women with chronic, treatment-resistant PTSD randomly assigned to either trauma-informed yoga or supportive women's health education, with a weekly 1-hour class for 10 weeks, at the end of experiment indicated that yoga program expressed a significantly improved the syndrome, causing 16/ 31 participants no longer met criteria for PTSD in compared to 6 of 29 (21%) in the control group, linearly to the length of participation of the class of yoga in the trend of syndrome improvement.

According to the measurement of the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS), yoga group expressed a better outcome in exhibited significantly decrease complications related to affect and impulse regulation.

In fact, yoga exercise, using deep relaxation and meditation to create a state of consciousness in the present moment and increased the ability to maintain or positive feelings to minimize or regulate stress feelings and defensive states.

Although, the achievement of mind calmness and induced dramatization to individual with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in perform mediation may be difficult during the early state of treatment, instruction and guidance of yoga breathing was shown to gradually improved the individual attention of bodily sensations in modulation of autonomic arousal, and decreased cognitive patterns of distraction.

More importantly, Dr. van der Kolk BA, the led author said, " both groups exhibited significant decreases in PTSD symptoms during the first half of treatment, but these improvements were maintained in the yoga group, while the control group relapsed after its initial improvement" and " Yoga may improve the functioning of traumatized individuals by helping them to tolerate physical and sensory experiences associated with fear and helplessness and to increase emotional awareness and affect tolerance".

Additionally, yoga breathing and mindfulness practices also improved attention on sensory experiences and physical sensations, including body tension, rapid heartbeat, and short, shallow breath in triggerring emotional response in a positive way.

Some researchers suggested that yoga postures not only help PTSD to gain awareness of body and its strength, feeling calm and control of thoughts, but also overcome the bad experiences of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) life through expression of a friendly relationship with the body in confront internal sensations.

Interestingly, the investigation of the effect of yoga intervention on alcohol and drug abuse behaviors in women with PTSD,using data from a pilot randomized controlled trial by comparing a 12-session yoga practice with an assessment control for women age 18 to 65 years, measured by Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) and Drug Use Disorder Identification Test (DUDIT), showed that yoga group expressed a mean AUDIT and DUDIT scores decreased a reduction in symptoms and improvement of symptom management in yoga group in compared to control.

Amazingly, yoga participants after the experiment also expressed interest in psychotherapy for PTSD.

The efficacy of yoga intervention in recovering addicts was attributed to the relaxation and mindfulness intervention in induction of calmness of the body and mind to enhanced experience feelings of peace and comfort to deal with increased addictive temptation and to cop and tolerate the uncomfortable feelings and sensations that can lead to reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior.

The finding evidences suggested that yoga intervention can be used as an integrated form of practice to attenuate the symptoms of PTSD, through improving psychological and physical aspects in related to risk of alcohol and drug addiction and an adjunct therapy used together with the primary treatment in treatment of patients with post traumatic stress disorder.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrients, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.

Sources
(1) Yoga as an adjunctive treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized controlled trial by van der Kolk BA1, Stone L, West J, Rhodes A, Emerson D, Suvak M, Spinazzola J.(PubMed)
(2) The effect of a yoga intervention on alcohol and drug abuse risk in veteran and civilian women with posttraumatic stress disorder by Reddy S1, Dick AM, Gerber MR, Mitchell K.(PubMed)
(3) Yoga as an Adjunctive Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD; Laura Stone, MA; Jennifer West, PhD; Alison Rhodes, MSW Med; David Emerson, MA; Michael Suvak, PhD; and Joseph Spinazzola, PhD(Original Research)

Food Therapy: Legume (Chickpea) For Reduced Risk and Treatment of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases

Kyle J. Norton

Chickpeas may have a substantial and therapeutic effect in ameliorated production of proinflammatory cytokines in induction of symptoms of pain, swelling, redness,....during the early phase of infection, some scientists suggested.

Garbanzo beans also known as chickpea is an edible legume of genus Cicer and the family Fabaceae, high in protein and minerals. It is one of the earliest cultivated vegetables, native to Middle East.

Inflammation is a natural process of immune system in protect the damage tissues against invasion of foreign substances.

Evaluation of the effect of chickpea anti inflammatory activities may involve expression of several aspects and mechanisms.

Legume intake including chickpeas, in the study of 486 Tehrani female teachers expressed a strong effect in reduced levels of E-selectin induced by expression of cytokines during the inflammatory process, and down regulated of rapid E-selectin may have a profound effect to protect against chronic inflammation.

E-selectin, also known as CD62 antigen-like family member E (CD62E), is a cell adhesion molecule expressed on inflamed endothelial cells activated by inflammatory cytokines in acute phase of infection.

Further analysis also found that application of legume intake including chickpeas, exerted significant effects in lower levels of soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (sICAM-1) and soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule-1, the markers in expression of inflammation. Increased median sICAM-1 serum concentration was considered as an indication of inflammation and Lower the levels of vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) is a maker in expression of chronic inflammatory diseases.

Vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) is a protein expressed on the surface in activated endothelial cells.

Interestingly, the administration also exerted antioxidant effect in reduced serum concentrations of high sensitive CRP, a protein has been used to measure the risk of CVD and local inflammation, if presented in high levels and tumor necrosis factor alpha TNFα, which is a cell signalling involved in systemic inflammation, particularly in the acute phase infection, with function in regulated immune function during tissues damage, over expression of TNFα, may be an indication of serve inflammation.

More importantly, the inhibition of interleukin-6 may also be another expression of the application effect in reduced gene interleukin-6 (IL-6) secreted by T cells and macrophages in production of pro inflammatory cytokine to induce the acute phase of inflammation.

Interleukin 6 (IL-6) is an interleukin with duo function of a pro-inflammatory cytokine and an anti-inflammatory myokine

Intrusively, in a randomized cross-over clinical trial investigated the effects of two intervention diets (non-soya legume-based therapeutic lifestyle change (TLC) diet v. isoenergetic legume-free TLC diet) on inflammatory biomarkers among type 2 diabetic patients of 31 participants (twenty-four women and seven men; weight 74.5 (SD 7.0) kg; age 58.1 (SD 6.0) years) randomly assigned to one of the two following intervention diets for 8 weeks: legume-free TLC diet or non-soya legume-based TLC diet, researchers at the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, found that the the non-soya legume-based TLC diet expressed a significantly supportive to above study by decreased high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, IL-6 and TNF-α in overweight diabetic patients.

Taking altogether, legume included chickpeas expressed a significant effect in ameliorated inflammatory activities may be considered as an adjunct therapy used combined with standard treatment for chronic inflammatory diseases.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton, Master of Nutrients
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.

Sources
(1) Legume consumption is inversely associated with serum concentrations of adhesion molecules and inflammatory biomarkers among Iranian women byEsmaillzadeh A1, Azadbakht L.(PubMed)
(2) Non-soya legume-based therapeutic lifestyle change diet reduces inflammatory status in diabetic patients: a randomised cross-over clinical trial by Hosseinpour-Niazi S1, Mirmiran P2, Fallah-Ghohroudi A1, Azizi F3.(PubMed)

13 Unbelievable Health Benefits of Chickpeas

Kyle J. Norton

Chickpea(Garbanzo bean) is an edible legume of genus Cicer and the family Fabaceae, high in protein and minerals. It is one of the earliest cultivated vegetables, native to Middle East.
Garbanzo beans (chickpeas, Cicer)
12 Unbelievable Health Benefits of Garbanzo beans (chickpeas, Cicer)
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6. Food Therapy: Garbanzo beans( chickpea) reduce symptoms and complications of patients with diabetes
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8. Food Therapy: Chickpeas Isoflavones In Ameliorated Risk and Treatment of Breast cancer
9. Food Therapy: Chickpeas Isoflavones Genistein In Reduced Risk and Treatment of Prostate Cancer
10. Food Therapy: Chick pea Pulses and Fibers in Reduced Risk of Metabolic Syndrome
11. Food therapy: Chickpeas Lectin in reduced Risk and Treatment of Oral cancer
12. Food Therapy: Chick (Garden) Peas Inhibited Platelet Aggregation in Ameliorated Risk of Cardiovascular
13. Food Therapy: Legume (Chickpea) For Reduced Risk and Treatment of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases

Monday, 18 December 2017

Food Therapy: Lentils (Legume) Ameliorated Risk of Hyperlipidemia

Kyle J. Norton

Intake of lentils daily and regularly may have a profound effect in maintaining and normalizing right levels of cholesterol through expression of ratio of high-density lipoprotein (HDL/total cholesterol number(overall amount of cholesterol found in the blood).
Lentil, a type of pulse or tiny legumes which can be cooked quickly and rich in protein and fiber.is a bushy annual plant of genus Lens the Fabaceaefamily, native to Middle East.

Hyperlipidemia.is a medical condition chreacterized by abnormal high blood cholesterol in the blood stream.

The evaluation of the effect of lentils in risk of high blood cholesterol was found to associate to certain mechanisms through numbers of aspects.

According to the study of the effects of frequent consumption (five cups/week over 8 weeks) of pulses (yellow peas, chickpeas, navy beans and lentils), compared with counselling to reduce energy intake by 2093 kJ/d (500 kcal/d), on risk factors of the metabolic syndrome in two groups (nineteen and twenty-one subjects, respectively) of overweight or obese (mean BMI 32·8 kg/m2) adults, at week 8, after a 75 g oral glucose load, measurement of HDL increased by 4·5 in the pulse group, in compared to decreased of 0·8 in energy group.

Further more, treatment of pulse diet also expressed a significant improvement in restriction of energy intake to promote weight loss and reduced weight circumference which have been considered as some risk factors in facilitated abnormal blood cholesterol in over weight and obese subjects.

According to general belief, weight loss in obese and over weight adults plays an important role in reduced risk of having high LDL (low density lipoprotein) bad cholesterol and triglyceride levels, and low HDL (high density lipoprotein) good cholesterol.

Additionally, in the investigation of hydroalcoholic extract isolated from lentils to examine the hypocholesterolemic action in diet-induced hypercholesterolemic animal model for 70 days, by studying the plasma cholesterol level and the concentration of bile acids in the feces, researchers found that at day 71, injection of hydroalcoholic extract demonstrated a strong effect in decreased cholesterol level of rats by 16.8%, in compared to non treatment group.

Further analysis also suggested that the extract also increased the level of bile acids, metabolic regulators of lipid, in the feces of rats which is an indication of decreased LDL-cholesterol concentration, and increased HDL-cholesterol concentration.

Dr, Färkkilä M, the lead author in the study of lipid metabolism in bile acid malabsorption said,
"Enhanced cholesterol and bile acid synthesis in ileal dysfunction is reflected by raised concentrations of plasma cholesterol precursors, especially lathosterols, which can be used as an indicator of increased bile acid loss to faeces".

More interestingly, the measured and compared the metabolic variables, weight loss and inflammatory marker concentrations of 30 obese subjects (17 M/13F; BMI: 32.5 ± 4.5 kg/m(2); 36 ± 8 years) randomly assigned to either (4 weeks): Calorie-restricted legume-free diet (Control: C-diet) or calorie-restricted legume-based diet (L-diet, different cooked-servings (160-235 g) of lentils, chickpeas, peas or beans) conducted by the University of Navarra indicated that group treated with L-diet displayed a significant effect in induction of weight loss, reduced both total and LDL cholesterol levels in compared to Calorie-restricted legume-free diet control group.

The weight loss in the treatment group also demonstrated a decrease concentration levels of CRP and C3 which may be an indication of lower inflammatory process in facilitated lipid deposit in the inner wall of arteries induced by oxidative stress through stimulation by reactive oxygen species (ROS).

Dr. Hermsdorff HH, the lead author at the University of Navarra said, " the reduction (%) in CRP concentrations was positively associated with decreases (%) in systolic BP and total cholesterol concentration specifically in the L-diet group, independent from weight loss (p < 0.05)". t

Taken together, lentils and other species of legume may be considered as functional foods in reduced ricks of hyperlipidemia, through lowering levels of low density lipoprotein(LDL), increasing levels of high density lipoprotein(HDL) and improving ratio of high-density lipoprotein (HDL/total cholesterol number, particularly in inducing weight loss in over weight and obese population.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton, Master of Nutrients
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.

Sources
(1) Evaluation of the hypocholesterolemic effect and prebiotic activity of a lentil (Lens culinaris Medik) extract by Micioni Di Bonaventura MV1, Cecchini C2,3, Vila-Donat P4, Caprioli G4, Cifani C1, Coman MM2,3, Cresci A2,3, Fiorini D5, Ricciutelli M4, Silvi S2,3, Vittori S4, Sagratini G4.(PubMed)
(2) Regular consumption of pulses for 8 weeks reduces metabolic syndrome risk factors in overweight and obese adults by Mollard RC1, Luhovyy BL, Panahi S, Nunez M, Hanley A, Anderson GH.(PubMed)
(3) A legume-based hypocaloric diet reduces proinflammatory status and improves metabolicfeatures in overweight/obese subjects by Hermsdorff HH1, Zulet MÁ, Abete I, Martínez JA.(PubMed)
(4) Lipid metabolism in bile acid malabsorption by Färkkilä M1, Miettinen TA.(PubMed)

Herbal Therapy: Green Tea, Bioactive Epigallocatechin-3-O-(3-O-methyl) Gallate (EGCG3"Me) Anti Allergic Effects

Green tea may have a particular and special effect in ameliorated auto immunity in precipitation of allergic diseases, some scientists opinionated.

Green tea, a precious drink processes numbers of health benefit known to almost everyone in Asia and Western world. However, as yin in nature herbal medicine or food, long term injection of large amounts may obstruct the balance of yin-yang, induced "yin excessive syndrome" or "yang vacuity syndrome" including weaken immunity and painful case of GERD,... according to traditional Chinese medicine's Yin-Yang theory.

Allergic diseases are a class of conditions characterized by over reaction of the immune system to substances which cause little or no harm to the body.

Investigation of the effect of green tea bioactive compounds in reduced abnormal immune allergic expression was found to associate to certain mechanisms.

According to the Kyushu University, Epigallocatechin-3-O-(3-O-methyl) gallate (EGCG3"Me) isolated from cv. "Benifuuki" green tea expressed strong and positive activities in inhibited the mast cell production in precipitated allergic inflammatory responses and suppressed the high-affinity IgE receptor (FcεRI) function in expression of mmunoglobulin E (IgE), an antibody isotype involved allergy disorder through 67 kDa laminin receptor in mediation of the suppressive effect by epigallocatechin-3-O-gallate.

Further analysis also found that the bioactive compound binds to 67 kDa laminin receptor to attenuate allergic expression induced by mast cell by suppressing the myosin light chain phosphorylation in regulated immune response to osinophil (a type of disease-fighting white blood cell) migration in the tissue, a characteristic feature of allergic diseases and ERK1/2 phosphorylation signalling by modulation of inflammatory cytokines expression.

A double-blind clinical study of the green tea effect on subjects exposed to Japanese cedar pollinosis, administration of Benifuuki green tea containing O-methylated catechins showed a significantly relieved allergic symptoms induced by pollen such as nose blowing, eye itching in compared with the placebo group without effecting the normal immune responses.

More interestingly, in mouse bone marrow-derived mast cells activated by antigens, bioactive compound epigallocatechin-3-O-(3-O-methyl) gallate (EGCG3″Me) in combination with ginger extract also demonstrated a strongly anti-delay-type allergic effect by suppressing cytokines secretion of tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α), a cell signaling protein (cytokine) in response to systemic inflammation in the acute phase infection.and macrophage Inflammatory Proteins(MIP-1α), a chemokine involved host response to invading bacteria and virus.

In compared to the dose of 5.1 times higher in EGCG, injection of 8.5 mg of EGCG3″Me exhibited a much stronger anti allergic activity than 43.5 mg of EGCG, observed by the area under curve AUC (area under the drug concentration time curve; min μg/ml) of 6.72 ± 2.87 in EGCG and 8.48 ± 2.54 in EGCG3″Me.

Taken together, green tea with abundantly bioactive Epigallocatechin-3-O-(3-O-methyl) gallate (EGCG3"Me) may be considered as a functional food for protection against auto immune response stimulated by unharmful allergens.
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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrients, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.

Sources
(*) Anti-Allergic Action of O-methylated EGCG in Green Tea Cultivar Benifuuki by MARI MAEDA-YAMAMOTO1 * AND HIROFUMI TACHIBANA2(Journal of Food and Drug Analysis, Vol. 20, Suppl. 1, 2012, Pages 313-317)
(1) Human clinical studies of tea polyphenols in allergy or life style-related diseases by Maeda-Yamamoto M1.(PubMed)

(2) In vitro and in vivo anti-allergic effects of ‘benifuuki’ green tea containing O-methylated catechin and ginger extract enhancement by Mari Maeda-Yamamoto,

1 Kaori Ema,1 and Ikuo Shibuichi2(PubMed)

Sunday, 17 December 2017

Alternative Therapy: Yoga Exercise in Reduced Symptoms Intensity and Frequency in Patients with Bronchial Asthma

Kyle J. Norton

People with bronchial asthma participated in yoga class are likely to experience lower symptoms intensity and frequency, some researchers suggested.

Yoga, the ancient practice for harmonized external and internal body well beings, through breath control, meditation, bodily movement and gesture..... has been best known for people in Western world and some parts in Asia due to health benefits reported by various respectable institutes' research and supported by health advocates.

According to the study to evaluate a one month in-patient naturopathy and yoga programme effects for patients with asthma with retrospective data of 159 bronchial asthma patients, yoga participants showed a significant increase in the Forced Vital Capacity and Forced Expiratory Volume from the date of admission up to 6th month post Bonferroni correction, observed by the paired sample t test results.

In compared to the beginning of the invention, yoga group also expressed significantly increase from admission till the date of discharge according to the Maximum voluntary ventilation assay

Furthermore, the Peak Expiratory Flow Rate also significantly increased from admission till the 36th month of follow-up, observed through post Bonferroni correction.

These illustrations demonstrated a strong effect of yoga in reduced over all symptoms through improving the physical lung function. Because of these traumatic results, Dr. Rao YC,, the led authors author suggested that yoga in combined with naturopathy may be considered as a secondary management of bronchial asthma.

In deed, yoga breathing and yoga posts such as Bridge, Cobra, Wheel, and Upward-Facing Dog open and stretch the chest, stimulated the blood circulation to the lung area to improve lung function and strengthened the lung muscles, thus increasing lung diffusion capacity.

Further more, yoga breath and retention with "inhale air into the abdomen and feel it expand into the rib cage, into the chest and collar bone then exhale from the chest, rib cage, and lastly from the abdomen slowly", according to some yogic instructors can increase oxygen absorption and maximize CO2 expelling to prevent blocking of space for air circulation, thus cultivating greater lung capacity in absorption of prana in precitipation of maximized metabolic function of lung cells and reduced symptoms of intensity in patients with bronchial asthma.

Interestingly, German scientists in following up to the above study of long term effect of yoga breathing exercises and yoga intervention in patients with bronchial asthma also found that
yoga interventions demonstrated a significant amelioration of the psychological symptoms such as depression and mood disorder and induced a significant improvement of lung function parameters, observed by the Forced expiatory volume (FEV) assay.

According to the review published in the March, 2013 issue of the “Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.” the Yoga postures (asanas) and breathing (pranayama) showed to improve lung capacity in healthy adults averaging 90 minutes per day over a 10-week period in yoga participation.

In the concerns of yoga class may have any effect in enhanced quality of life in related to mental state of patients with bronchial asthma, researchers conducted a randomized trial with 120 non-smoking male and female patients of asthma in the age group of 17-50 years randomly assigned into two groups i.e. Group A (Yoga group, with patients practiced yoga breathing exercises for 8 weeks) and Group B (control group), after assessing asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (AQLQ) and diary record returned from patients, and indicated that yoga group expressed a statistically and gradually significant improvement in "symptoms", "activities" and "environmental" domains of AQLQ during the periods, specially in reduction in daily number and severity of attacks in compared to control.

The finding evidences showed that yoga breathing exercises used adjunctively with standard pharmacological treatment significantly improved quality of life and decreased symptoms frequency in patients with bronchial asthma.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrients, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.

Sources
(1) Efficacy of naturopathy and yoga in bronchial asthma by Rao YC, Kadam A, Jagannathan A, Babina N, Rao R, Nagendra HR.(PubMed)
(2) Assessment of the quality of life in patients with bronchial asthma, before and after yoga: a randomised trial by Sodhi C1, Singh S, Bery A.(PubMed)
(3) [Long-term effects of breathing exercises and yoga in patients with bronchial asthma].[Article in German] by Flüge T1, Richter J, Fabel H, Zysno E, Weller E, Wagner TO.(PubMed)

Herbal Therapy: Green Tea EGCG, A Potent Iron Chelator in Regulation of Progression of Parkinson's disease

Green tea may be considered as a functional food and iron chelator in reduced risk and progression of Parkinson's disease, some scientists suggested

Iron chelation therapy is a primary and standard treatment for patients with iron overload.

Green tea, is a precious drink processes numbers of health benefit known to almost everyone in Asia and Western world.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, causing severe depletion of glutamatergic and dopaminergic inputs in the striatum.

Investigation of the green tea EGCG effect in risk and progression of PD has been found to associate to many mechanisms involved numbers of aspects.

Application of metal chelation was found to ameliorated the expression of ROS in induction of oxidative stress through a chain of reaction and precipitation of aggregation of alpha-synuclein and beta-amyloid peptides deposit in the brain, main leading causes to the onset of PD.

In iron abnormality PD subjects, oxidopamine, also known as 6-hydroxydopamine or 2,4,5-trihydroxyphenethylamine(6-OHD), a neurotoxic synthetic organic compound was found to disrupt iron metabolism, leading to over expression of the iron induction of dyshomeostasis cause of iron toxicity and oxidative damage in dopaminergic neurons.

Green tea major polyphenol, (−)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate used in metal chelation, ameliorated iron dependent free radicals located in the subcellular compartments and cellular membranes, through the effect in inhibited iron input and exhibited iron output in brain areas where it preferentially accumulates in neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Parkinsons' disease.

Further analysis of the neurotoxin 6-OHDA causes of iron unstable equilibrium, green extract GECG administration improved the function of hepcidin, a liver-derived hormone in regulated iron dyshomeostasis and gene expression of the iron metabolism through expressions of iron regulatory proteins (IRP1 and IRP2) in regulated the RNA level, between the transcription and the translation of the gene in expression of the iron homeostasis.

Indeed, In the differentiation of neurotoxin 6-OHDA induced iron dyshomeostasis has shown to increase oxidative stress in damage to neuron cells, green extract GECG effects demonstrated a significant inhibition of free radical and iron free radical expression in the cellular membranes through the antioxidant activities and anti-inflammatory system and expression of nuclear factor-like 2(Nrf2) in stimulated production of antioxidant in protection against oxidative damage during injury and inflammation; heme oxygenase-1(HO-1) in increased production of superoxide dismutase and catalase against ROS and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) in regulated production of pro and anti inflammatory cytokines and mytokines..

By reducing the over expression of oxidative damage to neuron cells through regulation of iron related factors as mentioned above, iron chelator EGCG can counteract these adverse effects and prevent onset of PD.

Further study of the mechanism on disruption of iron metabolism by 6-OHDA in PD cell line N27, discovered that application of the iron chelator EGCG also disrupts the iron dyshomeostasis in N27 cells (dopaminergic neural cell line) induced by 6-OHDA through regulating iron transporters and regulators expression, such as DMT1 with function in mediation of the entry of dietary iron into these mucosal cells and TfR, a carrier protein for transferrin with function in import iron into the cell and regulated response to intracellular iron concentration and hepcidin, a central regulator in maintain iron homeostasis.

Dysregulation of hepcidin production results in a variety of iron disorders.

Additionally, in 6-OHDA induced neurotoxicity to cause PD, administration of green tea GECG also reduced the intracellular iron retention by decreasing the iron importers and increasing iron exporters, through regulation of the function of iron-regulated transporters, such as ferroportin.

Interestingly, there was a report suggested that intervention of 3 cups of green tea daily for 3 months improved the antioxidant status and reduced oxidative damage in early PD patients without affecting their iron status.

The findings evidences revealed that green tea bioactive polyphenol, (−)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate may be considered as iron chelator in regulation of PD progression.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrients, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.

Sources
(1) Neuroprotective Properties of the Standardized Extract from Camellia sinensis (Green Tea) and Its Main Bioactive Components, Epicatechin and Epigallocatechin Gallate, in the 6-OHDA Model of Parkinson's Disease by Bitu Pinto N1, da Silva Alexandre B2, Neves KR3, Silva AH3, Leal LK3, Viana GS1.(PubMed)
(2) Green tea polyphenols prevent Parkinson's disease: in vitro and in vivo studies Dan Chen by Iowa State University

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