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health briefs Try Rhodiola and Have Conflicts Mediated for Best Results Black Cohosh for Menopausal Symptoms The herb black cohosh has long been used to relieve menopausal symptoms, and a new study in Pharmaceuticals suggests that it’s most effective when combined with rhodiola, an adaptogenic herb known for balancing stress responses, as well as supporting brain, liver and heart health. Researchers from the Democratic Republic of Georgia Zhordania Institute of Reproductology divided 220 women into three groups. After 12 weeks, those given the combination of the two herbs reported 71 percent fewer menopausal symptoms, davis kokanis/Unsplash.com such as hot flashes, and 67 percent fewer psychological and physical symptoms. These were significantly better results than for those that received either a high or low dose of black cohosh or a placebo. Active mediation by a third party provides better outcomes Take Vitamin D and Calcium for couples’ arguments by heightening activity in the “reward” part of the brain that generates romantic love. That’s to Reduce Vertigo the conclusion of researchers from the University of Gene- When a change va in a study in the journal Cortex that included 36 hetero- in the position of sexual couples that had been married for one year. After a person’s head receiving brain scans with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and filling out a questionnaire, the couples argued for an hour about a key conflict such as intimacy, finances or in-laws. Half the couples received guidance from a professional mediator; the other couples did not. Afterward, couples with the active mediator reported feeling more satisfied with the content and progress of the discussion and had fewer residual issues. When inresults in a sudden spinning sensation, it’s a condition known as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. For 86 percent of people afflicted with it, daily life can be interrupted, including missing work. michelle blackwell/Unsplash.com dividuals were shown photos of their spouse and another Treatment usually involves a doctor or health practitioner unknown person during a second fMRI, the couples that performing a series of movements to the patient’s head had mediation were more likely to experience heightened that shift particles in the ears, but scientists in South Korea activation in the nucleus accumbens, a key region in the have found another simple solution: 400 international reward circuit of the brain linked to pleasure, motivation units of vitamin D and 500 milligrams of calcium daily. In and feelings like love. The more satisfied a person was a study of 957 people published in Neurology, 445 in an with the mediation, the greater the neural activation. “Our intervention group were given supplements if vitamin D results suggest for the first time that third-party media- levels were less than 20 nanograms per milliliter. The 512 tion has a significant and positive impact on the way cou- people in the observation group did not get supplements. ples argue, both behaviourally and neurally,” concludes After a year, the supplement-takers had 24 percent fewer Olga Klimecki, a study author and researcher at the Swiss episodes, and those with very low vitamin D levels at the Center for Affective Sciences. start experienced a 45 percent reduction.

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A joint project by India and Israel to develop a quick, inexpensive coronavirus detection test should be ready to distribute “in a matter of days,” andrey popov/AdobeStock.com according to an October 10 report in the Jerusalem Post. The project has been nicknamed “Open Skies” because the test is expected to make it quick and easy for airlines to screen passengers for the virus onsite. It requires someone to blow into a tube, with results available in 30 seconds. The tests are expected to be manufactured in India. The Post quoted Israel’s ambassador to India, Ron Malka, who told the Indian news agency PTI, “What I hear from those involved in the process, is that it should not take more than two to three weeks to finalize one reliable and accurate technology or a combination of more than one from among the four different technologies being analyzed.” According to the Post, those technologies were “sound waves, breathalyzers based on terahertz waves, isothermic identification and checking polyamino acids.”

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