How to Get Rid of Your Double Chin With New Injections

A controversial new injection claims to be able to cure your double chin for good. This extreme anti-aging technique is purely cosmetically focused, rather than having any benefit for your wellness and wellbeing.

 

A double chin is a real problem area for many women, as it is a common area to store fat. People will do all kinds of things to try to disguise it, including wearing large, stylish scarves and using blending makeup to try to hide the line between chins. These non-surgical options are only partly effective, but people tend to go for them as they are anxious about the invasion of surgery, but now this injection promises to get rid of the excess fat without any need for anaesthetics and knives.

 

This injection is a synthetic, purified version of deoxycholic acid, which is a molecule that is naturally present in the body. This molecule helps to dissolve fat. When the drug was being trialled, about 70 percent of those injected found that they had a significant improvement in the look of their double chin. This result eclipsed even the company’s own projections about the drug.

 

A full course of the treatment involves having a few injections over the space of a number of months. These injections purportedly target the fat whilst leaving the other types of cells alone. The drug company anticipates that the drug will be approved for general use in the US and Europe in 2015.

 

This is a type of technique known as mesotherapy, and involves the injection of drugs into the fat. The product used in this case is a type of bile acid which cases fat cells to die, and therefore reduces the fat in problem areas such as in the double chin.

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The Birth Control Injection: How it Works and Side Effects

It’s important to take control of your sexual health and wellness, but the more obvious choices, such as the Pill, don’t always appeal to some women. If you have trouble swallowing pills or you won’t remember to take the Pill at the same time every day, you might like to consider protecting your wellbeing against unwanted pregnancies by using the birth control injection. While medical or other conditions – including blood clots, certain types of cancers, certain types of migraine headaches, unexplained vaginal bleeding and suspected pregnancy – make the use of the injection less effective or more risky, the birth control injection can be a great option for those unable to follow a birth control routine, and it’s even safe for breastfeeding mothers.

 

However, before you rush out for your prescription, you need to know a little bit more about the birth control injection. The injection works as a long-acting form of progesterone, a hormone that is naturally manufactured in your ovaries. Once every three months, you will be given the injection in your arm or buttocks, and this prevents you from becoming pregnant. The progesterone works to prevent the ovulation process, or the release of your egg during your monthly cycle. If you don’t ovulate, you cannot get pregnant because there is no egg to be fertilised.

 

As birth control methods go, the birth control injection is very effective – with a success rate of about 97%. Over the course of a year, fewer than three out of 100 typical couples who use the birth control injection every the months will have an accidental pregnancy. In general, how well each type of birth control method works depends on a lot of things, including your individual health concerns and on how accurately you use the contraceptive. When it comes to the birth control method specifically, your risk of getting pregnant increases if you wait longer than three months to receive your next injection.

 

Unfortunately, the birth control injection will not protect you against sexually transmitted infections (STIs) – only condoms or complete abstinence are able to offer this kind of protection. In fact, research has shown that the birth control injection may possibly increase your risk of getting certain STIs, although as to why this is, scientists aren’t entirely sure. Nonetheless, if you choose the birth control injection as your method of contraception, you will also need to use condoms to protect against STIs. If you’re in a committed relationship and you want to stop using condoms, you and your partner should both get tested for STIs and get the all-clear from a doctor.

 

There are some possible side effects to the birth control injection, albeit some more common than others. Many young women will find that their periods change when they start having birth control injections. The other, less common side effects include irregular or no menstrual periods, depression, weight gain, headaches, and breast tenderness. According to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it is potentially unsafe to use the long-acting progesterone injection, as studies have linked it to a loss of bone density in women, although your bone density may recover when you stop getting the injection. However, doctors aren’t sure as to how this happens, so if you are considering the injection as a method of birth control, consult your doctor and make sure you get enough calcium in your diet to prevent any bone loss. You may find a decrease in fertility for up to a year after you stop getting the birth control injection. However, this fertility decrease is not permanent and most women can get pregnant once they stop getting the injection.

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Autism Vaccination Scare Put Aside

A growing concern about American vaccines causing a severe rise in autism was addressed by U.S health officials.

Through an analysis of 1,000 toddlers, there was found to be no difference between those that developed normally to those who developed autism. The findings, published by the Journal of Pediatrics suggests that the average 2-year-old should have up to 10 jabs in order to protect themselves against such diseases such as rubella, measles and mumps.

Alongside the vaccines, the aforementioned illnesses were also thought to individually cause autism, following parental concerns that children were being given too many vaccines as toddlers, some of which were administered at the same time. Overall, there were concerns that this was unsafe. As a result, parents delay or even refuse the vaccinations out of fears for their child’s mental health.

“This is a very important and reassuring study,” said Geri Dawson according to NewsMaxHealth; Dawson is the chief scientific officer of Autism Speaks, an advocacy organization. She wasn’t involved in the study. “It’s going to be very helpful in addressing some of the concerns parents have had about vaccination schedules.”

The research concluded that 256 of the children had autism, whilst 752 did not; there were no differences in the vaccinations that the children were exposed to in their first years.

When you are injected, you receive antigens – dead forms of the virus. When this happens, your body creates antibodies, which defend your body from the virus. Should you ever get a live version of the illness, then the body knows how to defend itself.

The concerns are due to the antigens that are being injected too quickly into the body and harming children’s growth however, if the discovery is correct, then the administration of antigens is not the cause of autism. The reason that concerns are raised is because of the symptoms that develop during the toddler’s growth. As such, there is particular scrutiny as to the causes. The research proves that it is not the vaccines that are at fault.

Vaccinations are a necessity. By protecting your child from serious diseases, there will be far less to worry about than premature deaths and unwanted illnesses. The only issue is the timing.

Autism Vaccination Scare Put Aside

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Could a New Hormone End Your Daily Diabetes Injections?

One of the most difficult aspects of being a diabetic is the fact that sufferers often have to inject themselves with insulin on a daily basis in order to maintain their wellness and keep their sugar levels stable. Now, a new hormone has been discovered that could help to beat diabetes and restore wellness without sufferers having to resort to these daily injections.

Type 2 diabetes is a serious condition that affects sufferers on an ongoing basis. It occurs when people’s bodies are unable to produce enough insulin to keep their blood sugar stable and it can lead to all kinds of harmful side effects, including death.

Carried out at Harvard University, a new study has identified a hormone called betatrophin, which helps to promote the growth of the types of cells that secret insulin into the human blood stream. When trialled on mice, the scientists discovered that mice who were injected with the hormone produced  these insulin-secreting cells 30 times as fast as they normally did. As a result of this, scientists now believe that this same treatment could be used on humans, to trigger their bodies to make more of the cells the produce insulin and thus increase the levels of insulin in their body.

Type 2 diabetes affects almost 2.5 million people in Britain, meaning that this discovery has the potential to drastically improve millions of lives. If this treatment came to the market, diabetics would be able to forget about daily doses of insulin and instead just take this new betatrophin hormone on perhaps a weekly or maybe even monthly basis, and this alone would be enough to keep the insulin in their blood at an acceptable level.

Could a New Hormone End Your Daily Diabetes Injections?

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