Do You Find Hard To Sleep At Night? This Could Be The Reason

Insomnia has a really significant impact on millions of people worldwide. We’ve long known there’s a link between insomnia and chronic disease. Finding it hard to sleep at night? If so, blame your genes, say researchers, who identified 57 genes associated with symptoms of insomnia, affecting 10 to 20 per cent people worldwide. “Our findings confirm a role for genetics in insomnia symptoms and expand upon the four previously found gene loci for this condition,” said lead author Jacqueline M. Lane from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). “All of these identified…

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Put a brake on Adrenal Fatigue with these 10 Simple Lifestyle Changes

Do you regularly feel tired and even minor inconveniences shoot your stress needles to the roof? You depend on mugs of coffee and other sugary/salty pick-me-ups to power you through the day? No matter whether you try the latest diet or workout intensely, you cannot shed those extra kilos? Lacklustre skin, hair loss, and sleeplessness that makes you stay up until the wee hours? Feeling grumpy, bone-tired, and in a word, on the edge of burnout? Do these scenarios ring a bell? If yes, you may be one among the…

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Don’t ignore that persistent back-ache! It could be the first sign of lung cancer

By Dr Gagan Saini Lung cancer conjures up an image of a chronic smoker. While it is true that smoking causes 4 in 5 cases of lung cancer, the trend of lung cancer in non-smokers is also on the rise. A recent study reported a doubling of lung cancer incidence in non-smokers and this was not due to change of proportions but due to rise of absolute numbers. This brings up the question of why non-smokers get lung cancer. Cancer is a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal…

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