...essentials that our bodies requires and need. Nevertheless, because our bodies vary from one another what might work for one may not work well for the other. There may be extenuating circumstances or conditions that person may have that would prevent them from may cause ri A dietary supplement is a food or nutritional addendum that was destined to improve the health of people that did not receive the necessary nutrients for the body to stay healthy. Dietary supplements come in capsule, pills, liquid, and powder form. The body requires certain nutrients on a daily bases because some nutrients do not stay in the body long, thus dietary supplements are used. People use some supplements that come in the pills, liquid, powder, and capsule forms and labeled as such. People use Dietary supplements to help or add to their diets and provide the necessary nutrients that may be missing or lacking in their diets. Many different types of dietary supplement like your vitamins and minerals have major nutrients to help the body to stay on course. There are herbal supplements that have medicinal purposes to help certain areas of the body such as the liver, bone, and or the skin. Taking dietary supplements adds to the nutrients that we lack or that dispels on a daily basis. Taking dietary supplements is beneficial in proper metabolism, aids in tissue repair, and some in the prevention of some disease like cancer. After we have eaten, our bodies commence to break...
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...Why Does The Same Drug Affect People Differently? By: Brianna Morse Basic Genetics and the Inheritance of Genes What are Genetics? Have you ever wondered why you have your mother’s eyes of your father’s hair color? The simplest answer for this would be genetics. Genetics is the study of heredity or inheritance. Genetics helps to explain how traits are passed from parents to their young. Parents pass traits to their young through gene transmission (for example hair and eye color, shape of ears, cheek bones, and mouth shape). Genes are located on chromosomes and consist of DNA (A chromosome is a long, stringy aggregate of genes that carries heredity information (DNA) and is formed from condensed chromatin). They contain specific instructions for protein synthesis. A protein synthesis is the process in which cells build proteins, and a protein is a dietary component that helps with things such as building strong muscles and other parts of the body. Genetic Inheritance of Single Gene Disorders The genetic inheritance process can be useful in predicting what sorts of disorders or mutations that an offspring will have in the future. This can basically be explained and shown in a punnett square. A punnett square is a tool that helps to show all possible combinations of an offspring in a cross of parents the DNA with known genotypes in order to predict the probability of their offspring possessing certain sets of traits. It makes a grid using letters, capital letters to represent...
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...Prescription drug abuse is severe today. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) says that more than 22,000 Americans who use Vicodin abuse it. When you're ready to get clean, you really should consider entering into prescription drug detox in luxury. You can't underestimate how important the proper detox environment is. Despite prescription drugs' legality, detoxification is just as dangerous as detoxifying from street drugs. Your likelihood of abusing prescription drugs again in the future also remains just as high. Understanding adults aren't alone in their prescription drug addiction is important. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) a rising number of teens are also abusing them today. They believe...
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...ever wondered about how far the human body can be pushed? The amount of stress that you can overcome that leads to a massive amount of growth. Are our bodies being limited from super natural abilities? If I told you that there was a possible way that you could feel stronger, faster, have an increase in muscle growth while also losing fat, would you take this product? Well what if this product offered several possible side effects such as development of male breast tissue, increased acne, hair loss, high blood pressure and causes temporary sterility. Would you still take this product? Lastly, if I told you that with proper dedication...
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...The drug is used to make them concentrate and focus for long periods of time. This of course was manipulated and overdose by people who don’t even have a problem. People who partake in sports, school, or any energy draining activity can overdose on the drug. This drug should never be taken without a prescription, but its becoming easier to obtain medicine due fake prescription, stock supply, and illegal purchasing. It is used as burst energy to enhance the body by telling it to focus. This gives advantages to people or just allow them to endure long periods of time with little to no break. The let down or after effects is where it begins to make the body want more and feel excited again. The process begins and now you have an addiction always wanting a feel of blood rush....
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...meaning berry. Which is exactly what Staphylococcus Aureus looks like when viewed from underneath a micro-scope. It is a group of bacteria that causes a multitude of diseases due either to direct infection, or because of the production of toxins by the bacteria. There are over 30 different forms of Staphylococcus in humans. However, most are caused by Staphylococcus Aureus. Which is very commonly found in the nose, as well as on your skin. TRANSMISSION Most types of Staphylococcus Aureus are highly contagious, and not always very easily treatable illnesses. The most common way to catch a staph infection is through direct contact with the sore or an open wound, and sharing personal hygiene items, like razors etc. As well as through intravenous drug use. However that is not always the case, or the only way to catch it. Another way to catch 2 Staphylococcus Aureus is by ingesting foods that are contaminated with the Staphylococcus Aureus bacteria, which is not considered a true bacterial infection because, it is ingested, and is considered as a poisoning of the bowels. This type of Staphylococcus Aureus is not considered contagious since toxins are not transmitted from person to person, but are ingested. SYMPTOMS/MANIFESTATIONS Staph related illnesses range from mild infections of the skin, to severe infections of the blood, and can turn potentially fatal. Staphylococcus Aureus causes many different diseases, and manifests its self in many different forms if it is left untreated. Such...
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...Professor Genevieve P. Freeman Personalized Medicine is a new revolutionary break through for doctors and scientists, seeking to treat patients as individuals, based on the actual biology of the disease and not as a member of a population to their symptoms. The whole concept of this new modernized medicine is to avoid wasting time with traditional medicine and risk patients dying before they got the right medicine. The Concept of Personalized Medicine Personalized Medicine is a new revolutionary break through for doctors and scientists, seeking to treat patients as individuals, based on the actual biology of the disease and not as a member of a population to their symptoms. The whole concept of this new modernized medicine is to avoid wasting time with traditional medicine and risk patients dying before they got the right medicine. Scientists have been working on Pharmacogenetics project which is a study of how an individual inheritance variation in genes affect to the body response to a particular drug. Every human being is different and has a unique sequence of genetic information. Individuals respond to drugs differently based on their genes, proteins and environment factors such as: smoking, occupational exposures, alcohol and drug use, exercise and diseases. This study will help tailor drugs to fit our genes, (the right dose of the right drug at the right time) and preventive option for our individual health. The goal is to provide a...
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...alcoholism is addicted to the effects of alcohol (Webster 1). He or she has a physical or mental desire to consume alcohol past their physical ability to control themselves. Alcohol is the second most commonly abused substance according to the NID (Pdf 1). This paper will present facts on, biological effects of alcohol on the body, the addiction to alcohol, genetic loading, and the deaths that are caused in some way by alcohol. Alcohol affects people differently. According to the CDC, the reasons are: Age, gender, race/ethnicity, physical condition, amount of food consumed before drinking, how quickly the alcohol was consumed, the use of other drugs or prescription medications, and family history (CDC 1). When alcohol is consumed, it bypasses the digestive system and goes directly to the blood stream; about twenty percent of the alcohol is absorbed into the blood stream via the stomach, and the other eighty percent by the small intestine (Dunlap 1). Alcohol acts as a sedative, but is perceived as a stimulant. The reason for this is that alcohol causes people to speak more freely; it impairs judgment and physical ability. Alcohol dilutes itself in water found in the body, this is one of the ways alcohol effects people differently, because there is more water in muscle tissue than in fat tissue, an athletic person will react differently to the alcohol than an over weight person. The strength of the alcohol plays a major factor in how quickly the alcohol is absorbed. Although there is the...
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...1. Why are drugs classified in the categories they are? Drugs are classified by the area the drug effects or its particular effect on the body. For example, if an individual has a headache they typically use one of two things, either a non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) or a vasodilator. Ibuprofen is a NSAID and is used to treat inflammation, which could be a cause of a headache. Aspirin, however, is a vasodilator and is used to open the blood vessels to allow more blood and oxygen to get to the brain. 2. Give a description of the actions of drugs in each category. Cardiac Medications – These drugs are used to stabilize the heartbeat or used to lower and control high blood pressure. Anticoagulant, Antiplatelet, and Thrombolytic Medications – These drugs are used to thin the blood apart to break up and prevent blood clots. Analgesic Medications – These drugs are used as pain relievers and most are over-the-counter drugs. Antihistamines and Endocrine Medications – Antihistamines are used to block the immune system response in allergic reactions, such as hives and swelling. Endocrine drugs include insulin, which lowers blood sugar, or glucagon, which raises blood sugar. CNS Medications – These medications are used to control problems with the brain, generally mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, or other mental disorders. Anti-Infective Agents – These medications are known as antibiotics, which are used to fight infections caused by bacteria. Viruses cannot...
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...studying infants and how they perceive speech Harry McGurk created a video that is quite baffling. In the video a volunteer is visually recorded saying “ga” but the sound “ba” is dubbed over it. (Haskins) When you watch the video however you hear the sound “da”. (Haskins) Our sense of sight is telling us one thing while our sense of hearing is telling us another. Because of the inaccuracy of these senses the information perceived by them, the sound “da”, is also incorrect. Another reason I believe our senses are inaccurate is phantom limb pain. This is a condition that results from the amputation of a limb and is a combination of psychological and neurological factors. This condition can be treated using a number of prescription drug treatments but success rates are slim. There are several forms of treatment that do not involve prescription medication and have equal success. One of the more interesting treatments is mirror box therapy. This is an example of the inaccuracy of our senses. Using mirrors it visually appears that there is a healthy limb when in reality there is not. Through our sense of sight...
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...Definitions A drug is considered to be any chemical substance which when taken into the body, alters the body's function either physically and/or psychologically. Drugs may be legal (alcohol, caffeine and tobacco) or illegal (ecstasy, cocaine and heroin) (Hemphill, 2009). One such class of drug is known as performance-enchancing drugs. Hemphill defines a performance enhancer as any drug or treatment that improves an athletes level of achievement through physical and/or mental means (2009, p.315). Though others see a performance-enhancer as more then just a drug or treatment, but as ways of training/ recovery technologies and innovations which improve performance (Savulescu et. al, 2004). Innovations is quite a broad term, but in terms of competitive sports it is referred to as the development of new or altered training and recovery techniques which are introduced into competitive sports to gain any athletic advantage possible, this being mainly of new technological advances (Loland, 2009). Affirmative Performance-enhacning drugs are ethically different from innovations and technologies in sport as performance enhancing drugs can potentially damage the health of those taking them, while anyone using them is gaining an unfair advantage and how the morals and the spirit of sport is affected by the use perfromance-enhancing drugs as compared to innovations in sports. The health of athletes in sport has always been a number one priority by sporting governments, while drugs do improve...
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...A GUIDE ON THE MIRACLE STEROID: CLENBUTEROL What’s a Clenbuterol? It is a myth that an Asthma patient cannot opt for the gym to reduce weight because there they have to carry out a physically intensive task and thus attracting an asthmatic attack. Well, it is true; however, it is not possible with Clenbuterol. Let us see how? Clenbuterol is a supplement, when taken, opens up the airways in the body and thus allowing the person to breathe larger quantities of oxygen. It is found that the drug works effectively even for chronic asthma patients [source] in addition to open up the airways. Clenbuterol also allows increasing the rate of metabolism, which in turn helps in boosting the performance of the individual. As with the increase in metabolism,...
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...follow (i.e. Causation). Liability for inaction (omission) is difficult to establish, usually because it is challenging to prove a direct causal link between the act of omission and the consequences that occurred. This is because the general rule is that ‘you are not your brother’s keeper’ (you shall bare no responsibility for the actions of another). However, there are certain situations where there is a positive duty to act (ex. if the defendant created the dangerous situation or if there is a certain special relationship between the defendant and the claimant). For causation to be established, a factual and legal analysis needs to be undertaken, followed by a scrutiny of the facts to see if there is a new intervening act, which may break the chain of causation. This new intervening act needs to be sufficiently independent of the defendant’s conduct and it should be sufficiently serious. Pagett sustains the idea that if the defendant’s conduct causes a certain foreseeable action by a third party, then...
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...nicotine, which is a highly addictive drug that can cause habits that are extremely difficult to break. People today look pass the risk that are attributed to smoking and only focus on the pleasure they obtain, which in the end can be deadly. Smoking leads to bad breath, cancer, and is a gateway drug that can lead to even more harmful addictions. The chemicals that are found in cigarettes cause bad breath. The tar and nicotine from cigarettes are deposited into your mouth. The chemicals build up in your mouth, which stick to places like your teeth, gums, tongues, and the sides of your cheeks. Smoking cigarettes causes bad breath because it dries out your mouth, which causes saliva from continuously flowing and cleansing out your mouth. Cigarette smoking leads to yellowing of the teeth, cavities, and damages to the oral tissue. Eventually this may lead to more serious problems with your dental hygiene if the smoking of cigarettes continues. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body and diminishes a person’s overall heath. Smoking cigarettes is the number one leading cause of cancer and death from cancer. It causes cancer of the lungs, mouth, throat, stomach, kidney, bladder, and cervix cancer. Cigarette smoke contains more than 70 different cancer- causing substances such as nicotine, tar, arsenic, chromium, and other harmful substances. When you inhale cigarette smoke, those chemicals enter your lungs and spread around the rest of your body. Scientist has shown that those chemicals...
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...Chain of Custody in Criminal Proceedings Introduction The production of physical evidence is essential for the conduct of criminal trials. Chain of custody procedures represent the application of a legal principle intended to ensure the evidence produced at trial is the same evidence seized by law enforcement authorities related to the crime, and has not been confused with evidence related to other crimes. In addition, chain of custody procedures are necessary to ensure the evidence has not been altered or tampered with between the time of seizure and the time the evidence is produced in court. Both documentation about the way the evidence was protected as well as the legal adequacy of the procedures used by law enforcement authorities is necessary to establish chain of custody. The failure to establish a chain of custody may result in the exclusion of the evidence at trial, although in some situations involving a broken chain of custody the evidence may be admissible if it can be precisely identified by a unique characteristic such as a serial number. While the documentary requirements to establish chain of custody are relatively similar for the evidence for most crimes, there is variation in the procedures used to maintain a chain of custody depending on the type of crime and the nature of the evidence. The burden of establishing the authenticity of the evidence with chain of custody generally rests with the party seeking admission of the evidence at trial, although there...
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