What the Experts Recommend to Improve Your Sexual Health

For men, sex is often purely a physical issue. For women, it is more emotional. When looking at their sex lives, women often feel that things aren’t going quite as well as they would like them to be, but they are often unsure as to why. In order to really look at their sexual wellness, they need to look at both their physical and emotional wellbeing.

 

Sex is massively beneficial, of course, in a number of ways. Not only does it bond and connect couples together but it can also improve communication, boost blood flow, reduce stress and help to boost the immune system. Then there’s the benefits associated with cardiovascular exercise, if you have sex that gets your heart pounding.

 

It is important, therefore, to constantly boost up your sex life, and there are a few little ways that you can do this on a daily basis.

 

First of all, be positive. Women are particularly guilty of telling themselves negative things such as ‘I look fat’. Instead, say some positive affirmations, like ‘I love my body’ and ‘I feel sexy today’.

 

Another way to boost your sex life is to get in touch with your own sexual pleasure. You cannot expect a partner to know how to satisfy you if you are not aware of your own erogenous zones. To do this, you can purchase (or upgrade) a sex toy and get to know what you enjoy, beyond mere clitoral stimulation.

 

It might also help to do some basic anatomy work, and to think about your body and where things are and how they work. You need to become intimate with yourself before you can share this with a partner, and if you do some self-exploration, you can find out what works, what you enjoy and how to translate this to your sex life.

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The End is Nigh? New Evidence for Global Warming Armageddon

In recent months, politicians have tried to deny the views of environmental wellness experts, and claim that climate change isn’t quite as scary as they’d have us believe. However, new research, published the journal Nature Geoscience, has found that a runaway greenhouse Armageddon is all too possible, and, the oceans could theoretically boil dry. However, it’s not all doom and gloom as we humans – planet harming as we might be – cannot do enough on our own to trigger such an end-of-the-world scenario in the near future.

 

Until now, experts thought that, for the Earth’s well-being to be truly in jeopardy from global warming, we would need more energy from the sun. However, researchers from Canada and the US have made new calculations which show that it’s far more easy for catastrophic warming to occur than the experts had previously supposed. Unfortunately, a runaway greenhouse effect is a realistic possibility, even for a planet receiving the same amount of solar radiation as the Earth.

 

According to the research team, which was led by Colin Goldblatt from the University of Victoria in Canada, ‘The runaway greenhouse may be much easier to initiate than previously thought. A renewed modelling effort is needed, addressing both Earth and planetary science applications.’ If you are struggling to imagine what it might look like if the Earth was ever caught in the grip of runaway global warming, you only need to take a look at your planetary neighbour. Many experts believe that Venus has experienced a runaway greenhouse effect in the past, and now – due to its average surface temperature of 460C – the planet’s dense carbon dioxide atmosphere is hot enough to melt lead.

 

Though the study’s simplified model didn’t take into account the effect of clouds, it is still a viable account of how a stable Earth could switch to a runaway greenhouse state under certain atmospheric conditions. However, during the Eocene period 55 million years ago (in which the Earth underwent more warming than at any previous time in its history) the atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and temperature were both higher than what we can be expected to see as a result of our man-made emissions, but there was still no runaway effect. The researchers concluded, ‘This implies that an anthropogenic (human-caused) runaway greenhouse is unlikely.’

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Silent Sufferers: Should Cancer Patients Talk About Pain?

It may sound surprising, and counterintuitive, but many cancer patients don’t tell their doctors about pain they’re experiencing from their disease. Eugenie Obbens, MD, acting chief of the Pain and Palliative Care Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York City says that it goes as far as patients having to be really ‘taught that they should speak up if they have pain.’ But why suffer in silence when your wellness could improve with speaking up?

Eduardo Bruera, MD, chair of the Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine at University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, surmises that patients may know that they only have so much time in a doctor’s appointment, and want the focus to be on being the disease, rather than the pain it causes, ‘so they may make less reference to pain, fatigue, and depression that they’re feeling.’

He adds that patients tend to want to delay medication so that they feel the benefit when the pain gets really bad. He says, ‘If the pain does continue to escalate, we do have very effective treatments down the line. We need to reassure them that we have multiple medications and treatments and that we are not concerned about dealing with the pain later, we’re concerned about dealing with the pain now.’

L. Michael Glodé, MD, professor of medical oncology at the University of Colorado Cancer Centre, adds that they don’t want cancer to win: ‘I’ve had patients who have absolutely refused pain medicines even though you can see by their face and their body habits that they’re in enormous amounts of pain. They have some misconception that by taking pain medicine they’re giving in to the cancer or something like that.’

However, Obbens believes that cancer patients may refrain from speaking up because they want their doctors to like them: ‘Patients want to be on their best behaviour. They feel if the doctor likes them he will give them good treatment and they will live longer.’ Finally, you may be afraid to admit you’re in pain because more pain means more cancer, but Bruera says, ‘Increasing pain does not necessarily mean tumour growth. It means many things such as developing tolerance to the painkiller, or they’re a little more stressed out and depressed.’

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Treatments to tackle osteoporosis could change, because of a drastic effect a medicine may have on our wellness. Scientists have been investigating the knock-on effects of medicines that aim to boost bone density when it begins to deplete, finding that a hormone in a drug has been linked to cancer. Why bones change Bone cells are changing all the time, but there are specific treatments and wellness issues that can significantly alter bone mineral density, making it lighter and increasing the likelihood of fractures. If we suddenly found ourselves bedridden and immobile our bones can lose density, or if we suffer from conditions like Paget’s disease, our cells may need a boost. Osteoporosis is another health problem where bones become lighter to such an extent fractures can occur more easily. For these conditions, doctors may prescribe us calcitonin, but the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recently reviewed information relating to this drug and cancer development in people that use it. Treatments Calcitonin comes in various forms, and if we have osteoporosis we could take it as a nasal spray or via mouth. The research showed that people who take it as a nose spray had a cancer rate 2.4 per cent higher than groups taking a placebo. Oral preparations of the medicine are linked with a 0.7 per cent increased cancer risk. The results have proved so important to our wellness, the scientists have recommended withdrawing the nasal spray from the market to protect our health, because the benefits do not outweigh the risks involved. For other diseases or conditions, the EMA says doctors ought to stick to very specific time-lines, to try and prevent the development of cancer. Although doctors may have one less way of treating osteoporosis there are still other medicines on the market designed to improve our quality of life if we have the condition. Also, making sure we limit home tripping hazards can prevent fractures, while diets featuring calcium and Vitamins, C, D and K, can combat the condition. Are experts advising the withdrawal of osteoporosis drug?

Treatments to tackle osteoporosis could change, because of a drastic effect a medicine may have on our wellness. Scientists have been investigating the knock-on effects of medicines that aim to boost bone density when it begins to deplete, finding that a hormone in a drug has been linked to cancer.

Why bones change

Bone cells are changing all the time, but there are specific treatments and wellness issues that can significantly alter bone mineral density, making it lighter and increasing the likelihood of fractures. If we suddenly found ourselves bedridden and immobile our bones can lose density, or if we suffer from conditions like Paget’s disease, our cells may need a boost. Osteoporosis is another health problem where bones become lighter to such an extent fractures can occur more easily. For these conditions, doctors may prescribe us calcitonin, but the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recently reviewed information relating to this drug and cancer development in people that use it.

Treatments

Calcitonin comes in various forms, and if we have osteoporosis we could take it as a nasal spray or via mouth. The research showed that people who take it as a nose spray had a cancer rate 2.4 per cent higher than groups taking a placebo. Oral preparations of the medicine are linked with a 0.7 per cent increased cancer risk. The results have proved so important to our wellness, the scientists have recommended withdrawing the nasal spray from the market to protect our health, because the benefits do not outweigh the risks involved. For other diseases or conditions, the EMA says doctors ought to stick to very specific time-lines, to try and prevent the development of cancer.

Although doctors may have one less way of treating osteoporosis there are still other medicines on the market designed to improve our quality of life if we have the condition. Also, making sure we limit home tripping hazards can prevent fractures, while diets featuring calcium and Vitamins, C, D and K, can combat the condition.

Are experts advising the withdrawal of osteoporosis drug?

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