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A few well-controlled scientific studies have been published demonstrating the possibility of pheromones in humans. The best-studied case involves the synchronization of menstrual cycles among women based on unconscious odor cues. This study states that there are two types of pheromone involved: One of them is produced prior to ovulation and shortens the ovarian cycle, and the second, is produced just at ovulation and lengthens the cycle. This is analogous to the Whitten effect, a male pheromone mediated modulation of estrus observed in mice. Other studies have suggested that people might be using odor cues associated with the immune system to select mates who are not closely related to themselves. In 2006 it was shown that a second mouse receptor sub-class is found in the olfactory epithelium. Called the trace amine-associated receptors (TAAR), some are activated by volatile compounds found in mouse urine, including one putative pheromone. Orthologous receptors exist in humans providing, the authors propose, evidence for a mechanism of human pheromone detection.
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World is based on attraction between women and men. Nowadays when people just rush communication between sexes is more difficult then ever. Many people rely on pheromones and it is acceptable in the currant circumstances. In the next lines you will be informed about everything you must know - what are pheromones, how they work and why there are moment when we need them the most.

Actually there maybe more that two decades since men in Europe have been using sexual attractants laced with pheromones. Recently pheromones have been available and legal in the U.S. Pheromones exist everywhere in the organic world. They are a chemical sex signal that all insects, animals and humans secrete to attract the opposite sex. In fact, the behavior of insects and animal in most cases is controlled by pheromones. Pheromones are detected by the vomeronasal organ which is located in the Nasal Pit (directly under the nose). When the vomeronasal organ receives a pheromone signal it sends a massage to the brain. The brain stimulates the body and creates the very important increase in sexual desire. First of all, scientists found vomeronasal organ in the nasal cavity of mammals in 1703. It is a chemoreceptor organ which is completely separated from the nasal cavity the majority of the time, being enclosed in a separate bony or cartilaginous capsule which opens into the base of the nasal cavity. It is a tubular crescent shape and split into two pairs, separated by the nasal septum.
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Painkillers

First, make sure the painkiller isn’t acetaminophen. Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is metabolized by the liver and the combination of alcohol and acetaminophen can cause your liver to release a toxic metabolite. Alcohol mixed with acetaminophen is very dangerous and can do serious damage to your liver. Tylenol was recently forced to include warnings on its packaging telling its users not to mix it with alcohol. Ibuprofen and naproxen sodium are better, but can cause stomach bleeding and lead to kidney damage if used long term (longer than two weeks). Aspirin, taken with milk and food, is another option but it can also cause stomach bleeding when used long term in combination with alcohol. A simple rule: Never take aspirin before you.

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Water

As we said above alcohol causes dehydration that why some people think that if they drink a lot of water in the end of the night, the problem will be solved. Too much water can lead to hyponatremia called also “water intoxication,” which dilutes the sodium in the body and can be fatal. Remember, the standard guideline of 12 eight-ounce glasses a day should be adequate for rehydration. Some scientists claim that fruit juice is more suitable for solving the problem because it contains fructose. The fructose speeds up the rate at which the body rid itself of toxins.
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Hangover is a problem for people who drink to get drunk. It is not feeling or a condition which can be understand by people who don’t use alcoholic drinks even if they try to imagine it. There is no age limit for hangover. Once you gone too far there is no way back. The hangover is in the bag. The last statement is really true for people who don’t educate themselves about the ways and medicaments for curing hangover. In the present article you can find information about how hangover works, who to prevent ourselves from hangover and you will learn simple tips and rules.

The Norwegian word for hangover is kneis and means “the uneasiness following debauchery”. The medicine knows it as veisalgia (algia is Greek for “pain”). The etymology of the term: hangover was originally a 19th century expression describing unfinished business – something left over from a meeting – or ‘survival.’ The first when the term is used as “after-effect of drinking too much” was in 1904, on notion of something left over from the night before. The reason why people who drank a lot last night feel exhausted and have headache is that alcohol is diuretic and this cause dehydration.

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Dehydration makes the brain shrinks away from the skull and the blood vessels in the head expand, causing headaches. In fact dehydration starts as you digest that first drink, but the effect begin several hours later. Alcohol breaks down into acetaldehyde, which the body attempts to expel because it’s toxic. Fat builds up in the liver, which swells, reducing blood flow and preventing toxins from being flushed from the body. And finally, alcohol inhibits the synthesis of glutamate, one of the body’s stimulants. At first, this inhibition makes the imbiber feel nice and mellow, but as the alcohol wears off, the body overcompensates for the lack of glutamine by producing more of it. This prevents deep sleep and can cause early-morning insomnia.
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To prevent yellow teeth you have to keep a proper dental hygiene. There are some tips how take care for our teeth:

a/ You should be brushing at least two or three times a day. Brushing your teeth is one of the most effective ways for removing plaque from the exposed surfaces of your teeth. Contrary to what you might think, a gentle brushing with a soft-bristle toothbrush is just more effective than a vigorous scrubbing with a stiff-bristle toothbrush.

b/ You have to brush your teeth within an hour of eating or drinking anything that may stain them.

c/ You also need to remember to have dental cleanings at least once a year.
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Once upon a time I had a bright smile. My teeth were white, I didn’t have bad breath and I felt more comfortable. Why did everything change? Many people ask themselves the same question but do we have a right answer that is so convincing to ensure us that there is a solution. Nowadays there is a wide selection of products available for people who are victim of yellow teeth.

Tooth discoloration can be caused by many different factors. Some of them influence the formation of the enamel; others cause the staining of enamel. Discoloration also may be uniform or may appear as spots or lines in the enamel. Discolored areas may also have a different density and porosity than normal enamel. On the other hand there are factors influencing tooth color include genetic, congenital (existing at birth), infectious, and environmental.
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- 40 percent of all women and half of all men will experience hair loss in their lifetimes.
- The most common causes of hair loss are genetically related.
- Everyday shampooing, combing and blow-drying does not speed up hair loss.
- People with certain nutritional deficiencies can sometimes experience hair loss.
- We each have about 100 000 hairs on the scalp.
- It is normal to lose 50–100 hairs from the head each day.
- Each hair on the head grows for about 5 years before being shed.
- The thickness of each hair depends on the size of the follicle from which it is growing.
- Eyebrow hairs grow for only 10 weeks.
- Scalp hair grows at a rate of about 1 cm (just under half an inch) a month.
- A survey has shown that about 7.9 million men and 1.6 million women in the UK have hair loss problems.
- Each year, American men spend about $900 million on efforts to regrow hair.
- The number of hairs on the head varies with the color of hair: blond - 140,000, black - 108,000, brown - 110,000 and red - 90,000.
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The diagnosis
There are many things that can cause hair loss. The medical term for hair loss is alopecia areata (AA). This condition affects 1%-2% of humans and usually hair is lost from the scalp. We know different types of this illness. There can be diffused alopecia areata (the hair is lost diffusely over the whole scalp), alopecia areata monolocularis (baldness in one spot), alopecia areata multilocularis (baldness in more than one spot), alopecia areata barbae (bald spot on the beard), alopecia areata totalis (there is no hair on the scalp) and alopecia areata universalis (all body hair is lost).

More frequently hair loss occurs in people who have already affected family members or in people who have relatives with autoimmune diseases. In the last case hair loss is a result of autoimmune disorder in which the body attacks its own hair follicles and suppresses or stops hair growth.
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There are plenty of reasons why we should smoke but a lot more why we shouldn’t. If smoking makes us more confident, more relax and concentrated it is worthy. Is it worthy enough if this little piece of pleasure damages our health unmendably? Many scientists say that smoking is the single most preventable cause of death and disease. If this is true, it cannot be so hard to stop smoking.

The most important though we must put into consideration is “Do I need to smoke in order to feel better?”, “Is it so impossible for me to stop this habit? Every single smoker knows that ingredients in each cigarette we can buy and smoke contain so much poison that harms every part of our bodies. Smoking not only can kill us faster than time but it can make us regret for our foolishness.

Recent examinations found out that cigarettes cause more deaths than cocaine, auto accidents, AIDS, alcohol, heroin, fire, suicide and homicide combined. This is not a lie. This is a conclusion. What can we do to stop the man made killer? Is there a power which can stop us take measures? We are dyeing from the moment we were born. Humans are not immortal. Is this truth enough to convince us that we do not need to take care about our longevity?
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Many people think that smoking is not as harmful as many organizations and anti-smoking campaigns are trying to convince. But the truth is obvious. Nowadays we have access to plenty of sources which can give us the appropriate information about the history of smoking or the culture of smoking. We have information about the whole process of producing cigarettes and stuff of this kind and this is not all. The public society - people, organizations, national medical institutes and so on, we meet in internet is a big argument about the problem we have today. In XXI century each person is facing up against difficulties connected to his own health and his need to take care for it.

Smoking is a habit bad or good but the central problem is that when we smoke we don’t give a chance to people near us to make their choice. We have made our choice. We feel good when we smoke and everything is alright. Do we ask ourselves about other opinion? Is it enough to know that we feel comfortable and this is all we need to bear in mind?

Smoking is a problem of freedom. We are free to do whatever we desire no matter what it pays to. Nowadays we often disregard other people’s will in order to impose ours. We don’t feel necessity to look forward and pay attention to child’s feelings and needs for example.

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