Month: August 2018

Weight Loss

How to calculate your ideal weight?

To “blind” the ideal figure, it takes a considerable amount of time and effort. However, before embarking on this difficult matter, go to the mirror and look at yourself critically, but with love. You can take a centimeter and measure all your circles, just do not make any gloomy conclusions, if you do not get […]

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Weight Loss

How does body weight affect health?

What does the number on the scales actually mean? How is it related to all the reasons why you dream of losing weight? Perhaps you want to look more attractive, improve your health, get into your favorite jeans, or wear a beautiful dress hanging in a closet for many years, improve your physical shape, return […]

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Antidepressants

Purpose of antidepressants

There is another not very pleasant moment, which we have to talk about only because we live in Russia. In order to get a prescription for drugs, you will have to contact the district psycho-neurological dispensary at your place of residence. It should be noted that these institutions are very different from similar western ones, […]

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Antidepressants

Mechanisms of action of antidepressants

How do antidepressants work? If you do not go into details, then antidepressants can correct the work of some brain mechanisms. Our brain consists of a huge number of nerve cells – neurons. Although there are connections between neurons, they do not touch each other directly – there is a gap between them, which is […]

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Antidepressants

Antidepressants

Antidepressants are drugs that alleviate or prevent depression. Before the discovery of antidepressants for the treatment of depression, substances with an exciting effect, capable of causing a state of euphoria (opium and other opiates, caffeine, ginseng) were actively used. To reduce anxiety and excitability, valerian was used, and bromine salts were also used. But a […]

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Antibiotics

Number of neurotransmitters in the body

Understanding what neurotransmitters are, the functions of these substances and their role in the body, it becomes obvious that their number should be balanced in order for a person to feel good. For example, when the concentration of serotonin decreases, a person feels unhappy, exhausted, devoid of motivation for any activity. And then the question […]

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Antidepressants

The neurotransmitter is

The neurotransmitter is: the definition, functions and features Neurotransmitters of the brain are substances about which we know little, but which affect the quality of our life, our state of health and our mood. Thanks to them, we can experience a feeling of pleasure or depression, be active or relaxed. What are neurotransmitters? Neurotransmitters are […]

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Antidepressants

Antidepressants

Antidepressants are an extremely necessary thing when a person is on the verge of life and death due to a mood disorder. The word “antidepressants” is alarming. We do not know much about mental disorders, especially if we are not interested in this specifically. Around mental disorders – if not a halo of romanticism and […]

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