What is DHEA?
DHEA, or dehydroepiandrosterone, is popularly known as the “mother hormone,” in medical circles as it has the ability to produce various hormones on demand like estrogen, progesterone, cortisone, and testosterone. A steroid hormone, DHEA is produced in large quantities in your body and contributes significantly towards your good health. Moreover, studies have also [...]
Have you ever wondered why, despite the advances in medicine and medical technologies these days, a lot of people still get sick? One of the reasons is that we live in an age where the expectations to perform well are very high. Also, everything moves so fast wherever we may be, be it [...]
Obesity is generally a clinical condition that poses health risks. Obesity is storage of excessive fat in the body which is measure by the body mass index. In medical sense, obesity is bad because there is no movement of calorie from the body. People become obese when they lack exercise and takes in too much [...]
CRP is the ‘C-Reactive Protein’ which is produced by the liver & released in the blood to chase the goose down! It is basically a marker/ signal for the body which tells us that something, deep inside, has gone haywire! It is a major part of the inflammatory response which our body produces to combat [...]
Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), commonly known as coronary artery disease (CAD), atherosclerotic heart disease or ischemic heart disease, is a result of formation of cholesterol plaques on the inner side of the arterial (type of blood vessels) walls that supply oxygen and nutrients to the myocardium (heart muscles). The plaque often narrows the arteries blocking [...]
C-reactive proteins are the major acute proteins produced by liver in response to tissue damage. Its name derives from its pattern recognition activity as they act as soluble receptors which can recognize receptor patterns on microbial surface and bind to these surfaces and promote their opsonization. Precisely, C-reactive proteins bind to the C-polysaccharide cell-wall components [...]
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