Cayenne pepper can stop heart attack !

In the event of you or a loved one having a heart attack, the first thing you’d do is call for an ambulance, but what if things go far south in the minutes between you placing your call and the emergency vehicle arriving? While this is a scary prospect for anyone, there’s one ingredient you’re likely to have in your home that can prevent a bad situation from getting worse.

To stop a heart attack or keep it from worsening, the person suffering it should be given cayenne pepper. It was a herbalist  who made this incredible discovery. It was a long process of trial and error before he found an herbal formula that is effective – he tried about 50 different ones before settling on cayenne pepper.

He found that it can stop a heart attack in under a minute. Even if you find yourself located within the vicinity of a hospital, those minutes waiting for the ambulance to arrive could mean the difference between life and death, so it’s perhaps a good idea to always have this ingredient on hand in your home.
So how does it actually work?  Cayenne pepper rapidly increases a person’s heart rate, ensuring that their blood is carried to their extremities. It also helps balance their circulation, which can buy them the precious minutes they may need to stay alive until help arrives.

This ingredient is not uncommon – in fact, you’ll be able to pick it up at your local supermarket for less than $5. It’s always a good idea to have some handy, because it’s impossible to say when an emergency will arise. Another idea is to keep instructions on how to administer in the event that the worst happens.

Experts in alternative health recommend using cayenne pepper to stop an attack. Cayenne is a form of pepper that measures 90,000 heat units on the Scoville scale for hotness. The ingredient is a very powerful stimulant. When it gets into the blood system, it facilitates faster blood circulation, increasing the movement of blood allows other parts of the body, including the brain to get oxygen. Cayenne is also useful in boosting the heart rate as it strengthens the pulse. Additionally, it discourages the adhesion of platelets, a condition that contributes to blood clots.

Two Ways to Administer Cayenne Pepper

1. For an individual who is still conscious during a heart attack, then give them warm water mixed in with a teaspoonful of cayenne pepper.
2. For an unconscious person, cayenne extract would be most suitable. A few drops of the extract under the tongue would suffice.

You can get cayenne as a powder or make a tincture to carry around. Buying from herbal experts is the best way to ensure that the cayenne you get is potent enough to do the trick. A majority of the cayenne sold for kitchen use may not be the best quality.

Cayenne Pepper’s Preventative Abilities

Besides stopping a heart attack, cayenne pepper has been documented as very efficient in reducing risks of heart failure for someone with a chronic condition. Past studies show the capsaicin compound contained in cayenne is one reason it works for protecting and alleviating heart problems. It lowers LDL cholesterol levels, in addition to reducing the risks of irregular rhythms. The phytochemicals present in cayenne do an excellent job of purifying the blood. Other compounds such as antioxidants and carotenoids play significant roles in heart health. Taking a teaspoonful in a cup of hot water daily can improve you or your loved one’s heart condition. Doctors also recommend Cayenne capsules as alternatives.

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Why hangovers get worse with age?

One of the finest lines that separate your early 20s from your late ones is your capability to handle a hangover. As tempting as a fun night of drinking with your buddies might seem, the idea of dealing with the ever so hated hangover the following day only becomes more and more dreadful with age.

While research suggests that hangovers start getting noticeable nastier at the age of 29, it is still unclear why it happens. Most experts believe body's fat content and diminishing ability to process alcohol is responsible for it, and here is exactly what goes down.

The body has the ability to adjust in order to survive, and that includes adjusting to heavy drinking too. The enzymes in the liver break down the alcohol to make it more digestible and tolerable to our system. But the liver also starts working in the opposite direction if you lower your drinking levels.

Simply put, the liver undergoes a sort of reset and starts producing lower amounts of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) enzyme, which is responsible for breaking down alcohol's content.

Funnily enough, a past study conducted, had found that alcohol-consumption peaks around the age of 25 for most people. This combined with our overall metabolism slowing down due to age is what contributes to the raging battle against dealing with alcohol in our system.

As a result, science says that the body fat content is also affected as we do not use up the energy stored in fat cells as quickly as in our younger years, just spurring the battle with hangovers.

It has been revealed that women are particularly more vulnerable to this after menopause, as the body produces less estrogen, meaning more production of fat cells, as fat cells also produce estrogen to create a biological balance.

Also, both men and women lose muscle mass. Muscle tissues comprise 75 percent water, while in the fat tissues, it is just 10 percent. Alcohol being water soluble is much more quickly absorbed by water-rich, or muscular bodies than by fattier bodies.

The problem of hangovers is also a two-fold one, affected not only by just absorption but dehydration too. While the root cause of hangover is yet to be revealed, experts believe it's a minor withdrawal of sorts along with major dehydration, which results in headaches.

Science also states that with age, our inherent feeling of thirst is replaced by fatigue – thus leaving us more dehydrated, as we don't realize that what our body really needs is a big glass of water.

Simultaneously, aging degrades kidney function too. The body loses its ability to retain the proper balance of water, which increases risks of dehydration, ultimately leading to a hangover.

But The Alcohol Hangover Research Group believes that instead of dehydration, the major symptoms of hangover can be linked to sleep. They suggested that hangover symptoms are most consistent with the effects of cytokines.

The quality and quantity of sleep a person gets was shown to be linked to how bad their symptoms were in the hangover state, and while they didn't explore causes, the fact that sleep degrades with age has been supported by science too.

So be it lack of water or poor sleep – if you're nearing your 30s, you might want to keep in check the number of drinks you allow to come your way!

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Hormonal changes during menopause could worsen arthritis symptoms

Menopause is a testing phase for every woman, especially when it happens earlier than expected. The fluctuating hormonal changes – including hot flashes and vaginal dryness, sleep disturbances and sometimes even anxiety and depression – tend to take a toll on them.

For women who are already suffering from symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, hitting menopause at the same time could make it worse, a study has said.

 According to the study, the hormonal changes caused by menopause make rheumatoid arthritis symptoms worse.


Researchers analysed 8189 women with rheumatoid arthritis and found that pre-menopausal women experienced a slower physical decline than those that were post-menopausal.

Physical function is an important aspect of study in patients with rheumatoid arthritis as it impacts their quality of life. Women experience rheumatoid arthritis at a rate three times greater than men, and also have more severe decline and increased disability, yet the sex-based differences in the condition remain poorly understood.

Previous studies have shown that women with rheumatoid arthritis experience shifts in their disease surrounding reproductive and hormonal life events, such as childbirth.

During pregnancy, women have decreased incidence of rheumatoid arthritis, yet they have an increased incidence of disease development and flare during the post-partum period.

Similarly, women who experience early menopause are more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis compared to those who experience normal or late menopause.

Given these connections between hormonal or reproductive life events and rheumatoid arthritis in women, researchers conducted an observational study to investigate the association of menopause with functional status in women with the disease.

The results indicate that menopause has a significant impact on the level and rate of functional decline in women with rheumatoid arthritis and is associated with a worsening progression of the effects of the disease.

"Further study is needed as to why women with rheumatoid arthritis are suffering a greater decline in function after menopause," said the paper's lead author.

"Not only is this decline causing suffering for women, it is costly to both individuals and the healthcare system as a whole. Research is specifically needed on the mechanism connecting these variables with the eventual goal of identifying interventions that can maintain or improve function in postmenopausal women with rheumatoid arthritis."

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Winter can make periods worse

Winter can make periods much worse than usual, according to a report .

"As the days are shorter and darker, your mood can be adversely affected and add to that the monthly rollercoaster of hormones that arrive with your period and it can all seem even bleaker," Dr told.

"Sunshine helps us make vitamin D and dopamine, both of which boost mood, pleasure, motivation and concentration," she goes on to explain.

"Furthermore, winter means we spend more time indoors and we move less and eat more. This can have a bad effect on premenstrual symptoms as it has been found that women who are more active had much more regular and manageable cycles than those that hardly worked out," she added.

Previous research has also found that during winter, women have increased hormone secretion and shorter cycles by 0.9 days in the summer month compared with winter, the report revealed. This seemed to affect women who lived in much warmer climates as well.

While the severity of pain can change and is normal, the Dr. recommends getting it checked if the pain persists. "If symptoms of low mood are so bad you cannot motivate yourself to go to work or enjoy the things you usually do, you should consider whether this is seasonal affective disorder or depression," she told .

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