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Sclerotherapy: Out With Spider Veins, In With Sexy Legs
March 18th, 2008 | 
Author: It’s summer. The weather is beautiful, the water warm and inviting. It’s time once again for shorts and swimsuits. “Oh, no!” you grown. “I can’t go out like in that with these ugly old spider veins all over my legs.” Sounds familiar. Well, it’s a common complaint for the millions of people who have these unsightly little blood vessels.
Spider veins, so called because the “arms” of these tiny dilated blood vessels appear to project outward from a central denser area like the legs of a spider from its torso, are also called sunburst varicosities, for a similar reason, or telangiectasias (“broken” blood vessels). In fact, they are simply diminutive, thick venules (literally: little veins) that lie close to the surface of the skin. And because they principally carry deoxygenated blood (blood that is not saturated with oxygen needed by the tissues) they actually serve no useful function. Even nutrition-wise, it is the function of the the blood vessels hidden below the surface, within the dermis, that carry nutrients to the skin. In short, spider veins are just a plain, disfiguring nuisance.
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Botox: Its Latest, and Most Exciting Cosmetic Uses
Undoubtedly, the fastest growing non-surgical cosmetic procedure is Botox injections, with over 1.3 million administered last year alone. Type-A exotoxin, or Botox Cosmetic®, marketed by Allergan, Inc., Irvine, CA, is produced, perhaps surprisingly, by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, the cause of botulism.
While skin researchers have demonstrated that wrinkles in the aging face are clearly related to the accumulated effects of excessive sunexposure, smoking, volume loss, and gravity, facial expressions and animation, known as dynamic wrinkling, also play a major role in the development of many types of neck and facial lines and furrows. By binding to the junction between nerves and muscle tissue, Botox effectively blocks the release of acetylcholine, the chemical responsible for normal muscular contractions, weakening the ability of certain facial muscles to induce fine lines, wrinkles, frowns and furrows through their repetitive use.
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Don’t Be Bullied by the Blues
Depression is a bully you must finally face down. I’m a board-certified cognitive behavioral therapist who was once diagnosed with manic depression. I’m one of those who went into the field of psychotherapy to help myself. I found out that, when forcefully encountered, depression lets you alone. Depression is like living in a room of pain. You can learn how to leave the room.
Depression only occurs in the subcortex, the feeling part of the brain. There is never any depression in the neocortex, the thinking part of the brain. You can learn to switch from one brain system to the other when depression hits. The use of simple mind techniques can thoughtjam depressive focus and keep it at bay.
