Your best guarantee of not getting impacted by infected ink (tattoo pigment) is to have it done by a medical facility that test the source for contamination and sterilizes pigments before they use them. That is our approach to this potential dangerous risk.
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Iodine deficiency causes a failure of the brain to develop and is very common in India and the third world. Heretofore, the use of iodine supplements were too expensive for the masses; however, the Gates Foundation funded the development of a tiny RED patch that Indians can wear between the eyebrows. See Here:
https://www.upworthy.com/behold-the-bindi-how-one-small-dot-can-stop-a-deadly-nutrient-deficiency-in-its-tracks?c=upw1&u=2e5444bda57f3d655ac82c611d1d18451703dc66
IN 1911, Polish chemist Casimir Funk made one of the most influential biomedical discoveries of all time. He learned that a disease called beriberi affected those who ate a diet of mainly white rice, but not those who ate mostly brown rice. He isolated a chemical from rice bran, showed it could prevent beriberi, and called it “vitamine”.
We now call that compound vitamin B1. It is one of many essential nutrients that the human body cannot produce in sufficient quantities and that we must obtain from food. Casimir’s breakthrough led to similar discoveries, including the compounds that prevent scurvy and rickets. In 1920, the British chemist Jack Cecil Drummond proposed dropping the “e”
This patient came in, now 49 years old, with the hairline he had when he was 20. He loved his new hair, something that can only be done by a good hair transplant. Note the normal appearing hairline, so normal in fact, that no one ever knew he had it done despite the slowly appearing look. To him, there was a big change in his see-through appearance of his frontal hairline. He had a widow’s peak when he was 20, so we put it back for him
“People who divorce face a higher risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) than those who remain married” said an article published online in Circulation some time ago as shown in a website for the Journal of the American Heart Association. The overall risk of death from a heart attack is eight percent but it is not as simple a statistic as it appears to be.
“Among women, those who were divorced once were one-quarter more likely” to have a heart attack than men who are at a lower risk. The risk rises significantly for men who were divorced multiple times, as high as 77 percent. Men on their second divorce had a 30 percent increase of heart attack. “Once men remarried, that increase disappeared,” said the article.
Married men and women have less heart attacks when compared to divorced pairs. It does seem that marriage may decrease stress and stress may be the important factor in the risk of having a heart attack.
I spent about an hour reviewing a Denmark based hair stem cell clinic with offices around Europe. What I saw was flamboyance with 8 start offices, some out of a castle, very impressive spokesperson, communicative in multiple languages including English, and lots of fluff. When it got down to the reality of what they were doing, it was FUE, plain and simple. It was a limited procedure that they demonstrated, and despite the claims that they were extracting stem cells and that one hair would produce two, and two would produce for and so on, the reality of what my professional eye was seeing was nothing more than a limited FUE procedure. I teach my patients a very basic principle about balding, that the buyer must beware of the con-artists that are always there to take you money.
The following is a quote taken from the 23andme website. This is a most interesting site as it allows you to look at some of your similar genetics to other people in the general population that also participated in this set of genetic tests. I took this test about two months ago (a swab from my mouth at a cost of under $200) and would recommend this test for others who are curious about their genetic make-up as well as people who want to know their risks for a variety of conditions from multiple sclerosis to auto-immune diseases. The following section was sent to me today, telling me that I would probably have normal wavy hair. They were correct, of course, and I wanted to share it with you. If you go to the site, you will see what insights they can offer you into your risks for various conditions.
“From straight to wavy to twisty to kinky – the texture of human hair runs the gamut. Hair’s curliness (or lack thereof) comes from the shape of the bulb at the base of the hair follicle. In people of all ethnicities, a curved bulb translates into curly locks. Not surprisingly, this biological trait has a strong genetic component, although a simply inherited “hair curl” gene that completely determines hair texture has not been found and likely does not exist.
“Using the survey answers and DNA data of thousands of customers with European ancestry, 23andMe scientists identified two genetic variants associated with the amount of curliness in hair. Each copy of the T version at rs7349332 was associated with slightly curlier hair. Each copy of the A version of rs17646946 was associated with slightly straighter hair. Another research group also found this latter association, which is why it appears in an Established Research Report.
The Big Picture: Why is this important?
“Understanding the genetics of hair curl is important for more than just staving off bad hair days. Several serious diseases include misformed hair as a symptom, often in addition to other malformations of the face and skin. Understanding how normal hairs develop may give scientists clues about these diseases and how they might be best treated.”