Benefit of dark chocolate!

Chocolate is a delicious food that my daughter always presses me to buy for her. However, this chocolate has greater beneficial effects on cardiovascular health. It is suggested that one bit of dark chocolate per week may reduce the risk of heart disease (risk of heart failure) [source: Journal of Circulation]. The mechanism is not clear enough; however, it is investigated that flavonoid ingedient in the cocoa acts on blood vessel and reduces the blood pressure. Therefore, it is wise to maintain a normal blood pressure as to prevent from heart diseases.

Brain hemodynamic imbalance and antihypertensive drug!

Drugs have therapeutic effects and as well they also have side effects. However, most of the drugs do not show their adverse effects strongly. It is observed that some important drugs sued
in the major clinical disorder, have sometime major side effects. For this purpose, I would mention, one important anti-hypertensive drug (nifedipine) has adverse effect on global cerebral (brain) blood flow. One case study using nuclear medicine technique (SPECT scan) revealed that administartion of anti-hypertensive drug, nifedipine among hypertensive patients initiated inhomogenous global cerebral blood flow; however, cogntive impairment was not suggestive. It is suggested to pursue a close observation of hypertensive patients during antihypertensive drug administration.

Significance of physical therapy in low back pain!

It is always a common problem from eraly middle age - low back pain. This low back pain usually is commenced at early morning. It is presuamably assumed that early morning back pain is related with temperature and/or hormonal balance. Physicians usually suggest normal pelvic X-ray, however, MRI scanning is useful in evaluating any disk prolapse. Spinal stenosis should be important cause of this low back pain - persuaded by degeneration or trauma. In this case, I always prefer proper clinical history, that would be important for appropriate investigation and management. Usually, symptomatic treatment with vitamin supplements are suggested (vitamin D or Vitamin B1). Rehabilitation is an important non-therapeutic management in low back pain - aerobic training (ergometer bicycle pedal) in flexed position (40 to 50 min for 4 to 5 days) are suggested by considering patients' condition.

How to preserve normal I.Q.!

Always I have a tendency to be clever, though I am not at all. From my childhood, I was always poor in I.Q. (Intelligence quotient); however, nowadays I try to elucidate to retain it in natural phenomenon. Our brain has complex network of neurons (brain cell) those are responsible for keeping a smart I.Q. Usually normal I.Q. should be 100 for a human. However, mentally retarded people (congenital neurodegeneration) have sometime less than 25 of I.Q., those who need full time care by family and/or by nursing home. For a normal human, after the middle age (after 40 y.o.), some natural degeneration of neurons are commenced that initiating some aberrant neuronal networking in the brain refer to decrease in I.Q. Now, it is to evaluate to retain the I.Q. after the middle age – the physical exercise, cognitive training, balanced nutrition etc. are useful natural approaches.