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According to data from the Centers for Disease Control, nearly four million American women give birth every year. Almost a third of them have some kind of pregnancy-related complications. Those who do not receive adequate prenatal cares are exposed to such complications are not detected or are not treated in time. This, in turn, can have serious consequences both for the mother and the baby. These statistics are not revealed with the purpose of alarm to the reader, but to demonstrate the importance of begin prenatal care as soon as possible, preferably before you get pregnant. Of course, this is not always possible or feasible. But, as soon as possible to start prenatal care, best will be both for the health of the mother and the baby.

The ideal is that prenatal care begins before you get pregnant. If you plan to have a baby soon, go to your doctor so that carry out you a full review. Systematic tests made in these reviews allow making sure that a person is in good health and not suffering from any disease or other conditions that could impact on pregnancy. If you have recently had any symptoms, this will be a good time to inform your doctor. If he is receiving treatment for a chronic condition, such as diabetes, asthma, hypertension (high blood pressure), a heart problem, allergies, lupus (an inflammatory disorder that can affect various systems of the body), depression or another type of ailment, you should talk with your doctor to find out whether this treatment might affect your pregnancy.

In some cases, it is necessary to change or eliminate medication, especially during the first trimester (12 weeks) in order to reduce the risks to the fetus. Or it is possible that it should be even more careful control of their disease. For example, women with diabetes should pay special attention to maintain glucose concentrations in blood under control before conception and during pregnancy. This is also a good time to talk to the professional health to carry her pregnancy on habits that pose a risk to the baby, like smoking and drinking alcohol. Ask about when start taking prenatal vitamins should supplement, which contains folic acid, calcium, and iron.

It is very important for women wishing to become pregnant to take a vitamin containing folic acid before conception. This is because the malformation of the neural tube (problems in the development of the spinal column and nervous system) occur during the first 28 days of pregnancy, often before a woman knows she is pregnant. If you or your partner have a family history of a genetic disorder that is important, and suspect that one of the two could be the same carrier, it would be advisable that they submit to genetic testing. Talk to respect to the professional health to carry their pregnancy, who, if necessary, could lead them to a genetic counselor. If he finds out that she is pregnant and has done none of the above, don’t worry. It is still not too late to receive the medical care that will help her take care of their own health and the health of the baby.

Today the probiotic foods have great relevance at the global level, since through numerous studies have been demonstrating various beneficial effects for the human being, such as facilitating the balance of the intestinal micro flora, stimulation of the immune system, competition against pathogens, among others. Probiotics are live micro-organisms, ingested in adequate quantities, and are beneficial to the health or human physiology. Different probiotics studies suggest that these would have a number of potential health benefits of probiotics, but the effects described only can be attributed to the strains analyzed in each study and not it can be generalized to the entire species or to the entire group of probiotics.

Probiotics are microorganisms similar to “not harmful” bacteria that are naturally found in the digestive system of the human body and have been best known for his ability to help reduce the symptoms of digestive disorders such as diarrhea, swelling. Researchers postulate long the role that they play probiotics increase immune function through the promotion of a healthy bacterial ecosystem in the digestive system, covering approximately 70% of the immune system of the body.  Not all probiotics microorganisms to induce the same type of effects or with the same intensity on the immune response or microorganisms present in the intestinal light.

In addition, the effects of different probiotics may vary depending on the host (there are that recall the flora diner was established from 2 years of age-varying according to various factors including the type of nursing – and, since then very little varies in each individual) and the characteristics of their disease. Other benefits not immune probiotics are the digestion of food competing with the pathogens for nutrients, altering the pH of the medium to create an environment unfavorable to pathogens and increase the role of intestinal barrier.

Probiotics occur naturally in many foods fermented as yogurt. Buttermilk and sour cream are other sources of these beneficial bacteria. The results obtained with regard to the activity of probiotics in general, once again demonstrate ability that have crops probiotics eliminate and compete against certain intestinal pathogens, hence the great potential for the food industry.  Today, people take medicines for symptomatic of colds and flu relief once they are already experiencing them. This research adds to the growing scientific support which indicates the promise of probiotics, to increase the immune function of healthy adults in the defense against infection and the reduction of the symptoms of the disease.

The professionals have applied basic physics and chemistry to understand what was happening with the stars and is excited to use the same knowledge in the area of health. The idea came during an analysis of substances that make up the stars. In computer simulation, astronomers detected as heavy metals absorb different levels of radiation. Through research that initially had as its focus the study of galaxies, it was possible to discover which metals such as iron and gold emitting low-energy electrons when exposed to x-rays in some specific situations. For astronomers, the concept could be used in the destruction of tumors, with the advantage of the radiation load on healthy cells be smaller than that used in current devices. From there, scientists arrived at the possibility of injecting heavy metal nanoparticles inside and around the tumors, that they would receive a short and concentrated load of radiation to fight cancer. For astronomers, with survey of physic-chemical data by transmission, absorption or reflection of the radiant power incident on a sample – of x-rays cannot say what the energies needed and which atoms or molecules are most effective in each treatment.