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Many people start preparing for the colder months as winter draws near by modifying their everyday habits, drinking warm beverages, and wrapping up. The effect of winter on blood pressure, especially for those with hypertension (high blood pressure), is one factor that is frequently disregarded. Blood pressure in general is lower in the summer and higher in the winter. This happens as blood vessels momentarily tighten at cold temperatures. To push blood through constricted veins and arteries, more pressure is required. Hence, blood pressure rises as a result. Maintaining cardiovascular health may need an understanding of how winter affects hypertension. Let’s discuss this in detail.

There’s a new birth control gel available in the market approved by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which has some notable advantages. This non-hormonal vaginal gel, available by prescription, helps prevent pregnancy and is inserted using a pre-filled applicator similar to a tampon. Once you insert the applicator into the vagina, push the gel in and remove the applicator. The contraceptive gel can be put up to an hour in advance. It is effective for an hour after you put it in but needs a new applicator, each time you have sex. It is a safe and effective way to prevent pregnancy.

Do you know that the brain has a strong impact on the stomach and intestine? The gastrointestinal tract (gut) is also sensitive to emotion. This brain-gut connection goes both ways. Just as a distressed brain can communicate with a troubled gut, a distress intestine can communicate with the brain. As a result, anxiety, stress, or depression may be brought on by or result from a person's digestive or stomach issue owing to the close relationship between the gastrointestinal (GI) system and the brain. Remember occasions when challenging situations triggered a sudden urge to visit the restroom. This simple example highlights the connection between the anxiety-gut connections. Prolonged sensations of worry, dread, and sadness are hallmarks of the common mental health disorders anxiety and depression. Anxiety is characterized by increased uneasiness about impending events while depression involves prolonged low mood and a decreased interest in activities. Both anxiety and depression can lead to physical symptoms and interfere with day-to-day functioning. Given how closely the gut and brain interact, let’s discuss this connection in detail and its impact on mental illness.

“You are what you eat, and so is your relationship.” A wholesome nutrient-packed diet fosters a healthy relationship. We generally consider trust, emotional intelligence, and communication to be the foundation of fruitful relationships. However, an unseen reason that plays an important role in building a solid bond is nutrition. The food does not just fuel our physical health; it also influences our emotional connection, mood, cognitive function, and energy levels. A balanced diet helps regulate emotions better and strengthens the emotional bond in a relationship.

Side effects are medically called as adverse drug reactions. Adverse drug reaction (ADR) is defined by World Health Organisation as a response to a drug which is noxious and unintended, and which occurs at doses normally used in man for the prophylaxis, diagnosis, or therapy of disease, or for the modifications of physiological function. Side effects are an important cause of health problems and deaths throughout World. An article in a medical journal ranked side effects among the first six causes of deaths in USA. These are property of medicine and should not be considered a mistake of doctor unless he made a wrong diagnosis or prescribed wrong medicine for the condition.