5 Easy Steps to Protect Yourself Against Cancer
- Optimize your intake of Vitamin D
- Minimize red meat, high-fat dairy, and sweets
- Consume more cruciferous vegetables ie: broccoli, cauliflower, kale, brussel sprouts and bok choy
- Eat foods high in dietary lignans ie: flax seeds, sesame seeds, most fruits and vegetables, red wine, tea and coffee
- Take your supplements!
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Life is Good!!! Embrace it!!!
Mid-life stress ‘precedes dementia’: A new study suggests that stressful events in mid-life, including divorce, unemployment and bereavement, may up women’s risk of Alzheimer’s later in life. The study followed 800 women in their 30s, 40s and 50s over the course of several decades and found that the more stressful events there were, the higher the dementia risk became. Researchers suggested that stress hormones may be to blame, triggering harmful alterations in the brain.
Wine drinkers often overpour, study says: Do you really know how much you’re drinking? A new study suggests that if you’re pouring into a wide wine glass or if you hold the glass while pouring, you’re likely to pour yourself 12% more wine than if you used a narrow glass or set it on the table while pouring. Researchers found that color contrast affected pours, too -participants poured 10% more white wine than red. Even after participants were informed of their habits, they still poured more than a serving.
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Low Vitamin D Tied to Aging Problems: A new study has found that low vitamin D levels in people over 55 are associated with an inability to perform ordinary tasks of daily life. Dutch researchers studied two groups of older people – one of 725 men and women aged 55 to 65, and another of 1,237 older than 65 – to see if they could walk up or down a 15-step staircase, dress and undress, stand from a sitting position, cut their toenails, walk outside unaided for five minutes, and use their own or public transportation. Then they did blood tests for vitamin D levels. After controlling for factors including age, physical activity and chronic diseases, they found that in both groups, a vitamin D level below 20 nanograms per milliliter was associated with an increased number of disabilities compared with those with a normal level (above 30).
Why Breast Cancer Is More Likely to Kill Black Women: A diagnosis of breast cancer is more likely to lead to early death for black women than for white women, a disparity that’s mainly the result of having more health problems before cancer develops, new research shows. Of the black women on Medicare who were told they had breast cancer, 55.9% were still alive five years later. That compared with 68.8% of white women who were the same age, lived in the same area and were diagnosed in the same year, according to a study published in Wednesday’s edition of the Journal of the American Medical Assn. But the more that white women had in common with black women, the smaller the discrepancy became.
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One of the most common questions that I receive regarding robotic hair transplantation or even FUE hair transplantation is with the ARTAS procedure what will my hair look like. Surgical hair transplantation provides extremely natural looking results. Most patients experience minimal scarring that is frequently undetectable in the donor area.
Usually at a week, both the donor and transplanted areas are undetectable.
Patients can get a hair cut within a few days of the procedures and the can ultimately wear their hair at any length or style with confidence.
Another question that comes up frequently is., “ How does the ARTAS procedure results look different from strip grafting or the old fashioned hair plugs from the past that Dad got several years ago?”
The unnatural appearance of plugs came from harvesting larger patches of hair and placing them in awkward and unnatural places. The ARTAS robot uses a computer assisted robotic arm and digital mapping to pinpoint the individual follicular units from the donor area before dissection, or harvesting.
This specific advancement in this device allows the surgeon to provide more precision and control with dissection of the hair- no matter what any other hair transplant surgeon says…this is a simple fact. The punch sizes are not 1.65 mm either. This is misinformation and frustrating to dispel what other providers are seemingly and rambunctiously publishing within their patient education materials. The dissecting needle is 1.0 mm and we have smaller devices available in Q1 of 2013.
Because the ARTAS robotic hair transplant system offers reproducibility and accurate harvesting, I am consistently able to extract healthy and robust hair for optimal growth.
I am also consistently answering questions about the permanent results of the the procedures that are performed. The simple answer is that when we are taking hair from the back of the head and placing it in the hairline or on the vertex where hair is thinning we are dealing with genetically different types of donor hair follicles. These that come from the so-called universal donor area can often last a lifetime because they do not miniaturize under the effects of DHT- they are indeed resistant genetically to DHT.
Moreover, many people ask how long the procedure takes. It can range from three hours on up to seven or eight depending on the number of hairs that I need to transplant. During this time you can stand up and take breaks, go to the bathroom, make phone calls, buy and sell stocks, keep office tasks going remotely etc. We also take a short break lunch but for the most part- patients are situated in an ergonomic chair face down for the initial part of the procedure. Then for the last half of the robotic hair transplant patients lay back in a ultra comfortable chair and watch TV or read from their smart phone, Ipads, or Kindles. Others chose to sleep.
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Mark Bishara, M.D.
Medical Director
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Cosmetic Surgeon Dr. Mark A. Bishara, M.D., serving Fort Worth, Arlington, and the surrounding area.
