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Preventative Screenings Everyone Should Know About

 Being enrolled in preventive checkups is one of the most important things you can do to stay healthy. Screening tests are medical tests that identify cancer in its earliest stages, when the disease is easier to treat. Screenings may depend on age, and the most advisable ones generally require annual screening due to the fear of the disease beginning to manifest. Health screenings are necessary for people of all ages; the recommended tests vary according to individual needs. Talking with your Sanitas primary care physician about your medical history, lifestyle, and any changes will allow you to determine which health checkup is best for you. Having medical tests once a year is essential. In addition to medical diagnoses, they are useful for detecting diseases that only manifest as symptoms in advanced stages, where clinical care is more expensive in advance and for which a comprehensive solution is more difficult to achieve. That's why it's so important to do these checkup...
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Understanding Inflammation and How to Fight It

 The inflammatory process is a normal part of the immune system, that is, of our defenses, part of our body's structure. In fact, it is one of the first reactions our body carries out in the event of an infection and consists of creating a physical, non specific barrier, as it succeeds in isolating pathogens. Along with vasodilation, immune cells, such as neutrophils, are attracted to the blood vessels of the injury. The inflammatory response is a response that generally originates acutely so that the immune system can potentially eliminate pathogens that have entered through a wound, trauma, burn, or infectious form, and it revolves around the area of ​​repair, says immunologist Antonio J. Ruiz Alcaraz from the University of Murcia to SMC Spain. The goal of killing the aggressor is achieved, and the inflammatory chemical is deactivated. Healing is required, and the organ is moved. Until now, the perfect and ideal oscillation of what inflammation should be. But sometimes the s...

How to Strengthen Your Immune System

 The book "Medicine in Your Kitchen, published by UC Editions, shows which foods you can learn about to empower yourself and the most recommended ones to strengthen the immune system and prevent inflammatory diseases, tumors, allergies, among others, in the context of the current pandemic. The immune system has more to do with the digestive system, and especially the intestines. That's why the products you eat are important for physical and mental health, and, of course, why they have strengthened the immune system. How to strengthen it with scientific evidence is addressed in Medicine in Your Kitchen. How Foods Are Good for Your Immune System, a book recently released by UC Editions. The publication, led by researcher Ulises Ripoll and co-edited by Susan Bueno and Claudia Riedel, both researchers at the Millennium Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy (IMII), includes contributions from students and other young researchers associated with that center. In 105 pages, a...

30-Day Healthy Habit Challenge

 This quote represents my fascination with the daily routines we have everything about how we craft ideas, see the world, face challenges, celebrate achievements, have talents or face fears and vulnerabilities can be noticed in our everyday activities. After 365 interviews with artists, writers and entrepreneurs about their habits, I had not established a routine of my own. I became very nervous. Doing all this research on routines, I began to think I wasn't really qualified. I had no regular bedtime or wake-up time. In the evenings, I'd usually slump on the couch, race against the timer for a due date, go out with a friend for meals and usually finish off with a bit much wine. I didn't work out very regularly. We were getting taken away all the time. I used to spend too much time scrolling which meant going to sleep wearing a lot of makeup. Not everything was disorganized. Despite being a good planner, without a regular schedule I felt I would end up missing some goo...

Rethinking Productivity for Better Health

 The Dominican Republic (DR), along with Chile, is one of the economies with the strongest growth in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last decade and a half. However, maintaining this dynamic growth in the future and extending its benefits to more households and areas living in poverty will need to be sustained by greater productive growth through reforms in human capital, competitiveness, innovation, public spending efficiency, and resilience to natural disasters, according to a new World Bank report. The report, "Rethinking Productivity to Generate Growth Without Leaving Anyone Behind: Dominican Economic Memorandum," warns that the Dominican Republic has achieved an average economic growth rate of 5.8 percent per year between 2005 and 2019, twice the average for Latin America and the Caribbean (2.6 percent). But the engines of this astonishing growth are exhausted due to low productivity growth in recent years, due to a lack of human resources to meet the deman...