Olga Lukinskaya ANSWERS TO THE MAJORITY OF US QUESTIONS THAT WE ARE USED TO SEARCH ONLINE. In the new series of materials we ask such questions: burning, unexpected or widespread - to professionals in various fields. Last year, we talked about the risk of melanoma - an extremely dangerous skin tumor - and how to reduce this risk: you need to use sunscreen, regularly examine the skin, ideally undergo screening with photographing, and moles that seemed suspicious to the doctor, delete and send to research to the lab.
For many of us, a cup of strong coffee is the only way to make the morning more pleasant and help ourselves to wake up. Coffee is generally a good thing: there is evidence that it can reduce the risk of death from cardiovascular and oncological diseases, protect against type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and depression.
A healthy lifestyle has become an axiom: we have learned how important it is to be physically active, eat right and resist stress. And if in theory everything is more or less clear, in fact it turns out not without obstacles: attempts to adjust sleep patterns and a balanced diet fail because of night work, small children do not leave their parents a minute to take care of themselves, and after the daily watch there can be no thoughts in the hall - there would be enough strength to get home.
The pace of release of new technologies can not keep up. Recently, not only the seventh iPhone has appeared on the market, but also other gadgets of a narrower purpose, which brought us closer to an alluring and frightening technological singularity by another step. We spent the summer in the depths of hedonism, but the sun and the sea are not always around, and the new season is a time to think about ways to make our lives easier.
Olga Lukinskaya ANSWERS TO THE MAJORITY OF US QUESTIONS THAT WE ARE USED TO SEARCH FOR ONLINE. In this series of materials we ask precisely such questions - burning, unexpected or widespread - to professionals in various fields. Many of us have heard the phrase “give birth and everything will pass,” and “everything” could mean headache, inflammation of the skin, and painful menstruation.
The majority of women in the post-Soviet space are familiar with the phrase “Do not sit on a stone - chill kidneys,” which were first pronounced by grandmothers and mothers, and then teachers and even strangers in the park or on the street. We talked with the urologist and urogynecologist Alexey Tolmachyov and tried to figure out where the diseases of the kidneys and bladder come from and whether they are related to the fact that someone is sitting on the cool steps.
Various trends of alternative medicine gave the world a lot of "rules" of how to live and eat in order to be healthy. And although these trends themselves, like their followers, have long gone out of fashion, some of the myths they have generated are still alive. We deal with the next of them and find out whether it is still harmful to drink food with water or other liquid.
Every day a huge amount of information noise falls on us, and the Internet, social networks and new technologies do not contribute to calmness and concentration. If we add to this the psychological overload to which the average urban resident is exposed, it becomes clear why according to WHO forecasts, by 2020 mental disorders will be among the top five major diseases of the world’s population.
Interview: Karina Sembe Last week we thoroughly delved into the topic of menstruation - we found out why menstruation occurs, how to observe hygiene during menstruation and why this topic remains taboo in modern society. While menstruation is an absolutely natural process for the female body, for many of us regular bleeding is not easy.
Margarita Virova Answers to the most questions that concern us, we all used to look for online. In this series of materials we ask exactly such questions - burning, unexpected or common - to professionals in various fields. The study of fat and its functions is an important medical trend of recent times.
The presence of a loved one at childbirth has long become the norm in some countries and is not at all accepted in others - and in an ideal world depends on the personal choice of a woman. In our country, conservatism is traditionally combined with innovation, while many still give birth to joint births. We talked to women who decided that going on such a brave journey together is more fun or at least more comfortable, and asked about what they needed it for and whether the process left pleasant memories.
Good habits and a healthy attitude towards life are laid in people since childhood. The sexual sphere is not an exception: if in childhood they hid what sex is from a child, told about cabbage or slipped sexist books "for little princesses", it will not be easy to grow up with a healthy and relaxed attitude to sex.
Every fifth adult in the world suffers from arterial hypertension, and many do not even know about it. Symptoms of arterial hypertension (which is often mistakenly called hypertension) may not be present, but the myth that only elderly people complain about high pressure interferes with diagnostics of interest.
Any emergency that requires quick response and immediate action is stressful for an untrained person. It happens that health and life depend on an instant decision, but often we just don’t know what to do (especially if the conversation about indirect heart massage last time was on the lifeblood lessons a hundred years ago).
Masha vorslav Applications for self-diagnosis - the first step towards establishing a disease or a primary assessment of their health, much more adequate than panic reading forums on the Internet. They are not able to replace the medical examination (at least for now), but can be excellent assistants.
WE CONTINUE TO TELL ABOUT worthy accounts in social networks through which you can view the whole world. The more medical information becomes available, the less we are confused by questions about health - whether it is the effectiveness of certain drugs or the need for vaccinations. The main thing is to find a qualified specialist you will trust.
Text: Karina Sembe. The human memory is unpredictable: many of us still remember the words of the 1996 song “Wannabe” performed by the legendary Spice Girls, but forget to remove the laundry from the washing machine before leaving the apartment. Perhaps one of the reasons for total forgetfulness is the modern rhythm of life with an endless stream of information and a total course on multitasking.
The first electric toothbrush appeared more than sixty years ago, and opinions are still contradictory: some say that it cleans better than manual, while others say that it is dangerous for tooth enamel. The recommendations of the dentists, too, often diverge. We understand what electric toothbrushes differ from manual ones with, what they are and how enamel can actually be damaged.
All women are very different, and this is our strength, but something exactly unites us. Menstruation is a phenomenon with which women live half their life, which means that you should know about it as much as possible. Nevertheless, menstruation is still one of the most taboo topics in society - and this is in an era that is considered sufficiently advanced to be called postmodernity.
Medical science over the past decade has incredibly advanced: many tumors have ceased to be a sentence, cyber prostheses that have appeared almost indistinguishable from real legs, it is possible to give birth to myopia almost without serious consequences or in minutes to correct myopia. It is all the more surprising that the army of supporters of anti-scientific methods does not give up its positions - these are homeopaths, HIV-dissidents, and lactivists, who equate harm to the formula almost to the harm of heroin.