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People are fed up with Skincare’s thousand steps so the last Beauty trend is just one thing: exosomes

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A couple of years ago, beauty routines passed through multiple steps that combined tonic, essences, serums, acids and mists, among other things. Today, some extreme trends such as “Morning Sheds” – as viral routines involving masks and adhesive tapes to mold the face – they have shown that perhaps the issue of the Skincare too far. Faced with this exhaustion, social networks They are driving A new approach: do less, but better. And within this more minimalist beauty philosophy, a word begins to resonate: exosomes. More than a new trend. According to The Spanish Society of Aesthetic Medicine and some specialized publications such as Elleexosomes have become a revolution within the beauty sector. The hashtag #Exosomas on Instagram exceeds 51.5 thousand publications, and in English, #Exosome already accumulates more than 247,000. Also its popularity does not stop growing in Tiktok, where creators like @ROGERWHO has shared His experience: “It hurts, but the change in my face is unique.” But the boom has a name and surname. If something characterizes beauty products is that the boom is born with the Celebrities: Kim Kardashian, Lindsay Lohan, Sofía Vergara, Jennifer Aniston or Paris Hilton have already tried them. Here in Spain names such as Úrsula Corberó, Blanca Suárez, Jessica Goicoechea or Berta Vázquez have also declared fans. And finally, social networks have made the rest: Videos of the post-treatment “glow”, Real results (not sponsored), and A new narrative focused on taking care of the skin from its base. An aesthetic medicine revolution? Exosomes are small vesicles generated by stem cells (human, animals or vegetables) that act as cell messengers: they transport protein, lipids and genetic material with the mission of regenerating, repairing and improving the skin from within. Such as Glamor Spain has collectedthey function as “natural cellular activators”, capable of improving skin quality, stimulating collagen and elastin, and returning firmness, elasticity and light. Dr. Lidia Maroñas, dermatologist and Clinical Director of Ooneskinmed, has detailed Thus for Hola magazine: “They act as if they spoiled the cell. They are indicated how to behave to improve the skin. In our clinic we use E-50 Primacure exosomes, from salmon cells grown in bioactive media of dermis.” Where to perform the treatment? Although there are already products with exosomes to use at home, clinic treatments remain the most powerful. In medical and aesthetic centers, exosomes are vehicle with advanced apparatus (microneedling, fractional laser, radiofrequency with needles or morpheus 8), which allows them to penetrate in the deepest layers of the dermis and multiply their regenerative action. Besides, According to Elle SpainThey are integrated with other techniques such as LASH, especially useful for treating scripts, stretch marks or sensitized skins. A Hype more or a real change? Unlike other viral products, exosomes not only generate noise in networks, they also have clinical and dermatological support. Since the like They have explained that its use is consolidating within aesthetic medicine as one of the main collagen stimulators, even more promising than classic treatments such as polynucleotides or growth factors. In addition, they have an extra advantage and that they do not depend on the season to prepare or repair the skin against sun damage. In a world obsessed with doing more, we will see how this new beauty routine adapts where it is less, time will say it. Image | Tiktok Xataka |The contestants of ‘The island of temptations’ have made a new face after the program. It is a symptom of something else

50 years ago we discovered people whose blood did not fit into conventional types. We have just discovered why

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We have been classifying blood types for more than a century as a function of two characteristics, the antigens of these and the RH factor. The four types of blood depending on the antigens (0, A, B, AB) and the two depending on the RH (positive or negative) allow us to classify people’s blood into one of eight categories. But as always, there are exceptions and one had intrigued scientists since the 1970s. Until now. A new blood group. A study led by researchers from the University of Bristol a new blood group has describedANWJ (positive or negative). According to the study, the key to this group is in the evil gear, a gene that encodes a homonymous protein that we can find on the surface of the red blood cells. A more complex system than it seems. The antigens surrounding the cell wall of the red blood cells are a pillar of blood transfusions. The presence of antibodies linked to this type of molecules makes some transfusions associated with complications. For example, a person from Group A receives a transfusion of a person from group B, antibodies associated with antigens to attack newly arrived cells. There are two key systems, AOB and RH Factorwhich are key since they are the ones that present the most diversity, and therefore greater is the possibility that a blood transplant can generate incompatibilities. However to date we have found more than a quarantine Of variants that, although they affect a small part of the population, must be considered. 50 years of mystery. The ANWJ antigen was discovered in 1972 but it has not been until now that we have discovered the genetic background behind the existence of Anwj-negative people, that is, people whose cells do not contain this antigen on its surface. This absence affects less than 0.1% of humanity and is generally due to hematological and oncoligic disorders. The evil gear. The team responsible for the discovery investigated the few known cases of ANWJ-negative people who were not as a result of any disorder. They found that this antigen was in the bad protein. They found that the hostj-negative people lacked full copies of the protein badly. “The work was difficult because genetic cases are very scarce. We would not have achieved this without the sequencing of exams, since the gene we identify was not an obvious candidate and it is little that we know of the bad protein in the red blood cells,” explained in a press release Louise Tilley, co -author of the study. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Blood. Less risks in transfusions. Knowing the different blood groups, including those that only include a very small portion of the planet’s inhabitants is important. The more we know about these groups, the greater our ability to Avoid complications associated with blood transfusions. “Now it is possible Nicole Thornton addedalso member of the work responsible for the work. In Xataka | The unequal distribution of blood groups in the world, illustrated in this detailed map Image | Swiftsciencewriting

The house is getting so expensive that in the United Kingdom there are already people opting for a plan B: living in ships

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In the United Kingdom there are hundreds of people who do not live in houses, buildings or urbanizations. Nor do they have neighbors. Not at least in the conventional sense. In a country that has seen how housing It was more expensive until it turns Privatethere are those who choose to reside in river channels and rivers. They do it aboard barges of several meters that, although they are not cheap and carry their own costs, remain much more affordable than The apartments Of the big cities. And there are reasons to think that over the years your number It has been increasing. Living between ducks and fish. Sounds romantic, but that is the lifestyle for which thousands of British who reside aboard barges have opted. And there are some data that suggest that their number has increased over the last years. A few months ago The Economist public An article in which he remembers that the last census of Canals and Rivers Trust (CRT) shows that at least 2022 there were 35,000 vessels With a license to operate in 3,200 km of river routes distributed by England and Wales, a third more than in the last two decades. The case of London. Moreover, in London, where the “navigators” stand out between 25 and 34 years, their number has almost doubled in a matter of a decade. In Your report The Economist It does not specify how many of these barges are used as the main residence, but slides that it is probably a good part. In 2021 The Guardian I was A little further And he pointed out that Canals and Rivers Trust surveys show that, at least at that time, the proportion of people who lived aboard their vessels was 25% at the national level (in 2011 they were somewhat less, 15%), although the percentage would be higher in London. Is there more data? Yes. And although the figures vary depending on the source that is always consulting in the same direction. Although the British who have decided to change conventional apartments and houses for barges continue to represent a minority, in February Sky News placed their number in about 15,000. And growing. According to Boats.com the number would be even superior. Your data They estimate the census of permanent residents in barges docked in the rivers, channels and coasts of the United Kingdom in around 30,000 people. Price issue. The big question is … why? Why change the comforts of an apartment in the center of Bristol, Manchester or London for a boat moored to a channel? Analysts answer those questions with Several keysbut there is one that is usually repeated: the price. A narrow barcaza and in good condition with which to move along the country’s river paths can cost near 50,000 pounds. It is a considerable figure (of course there are much cheaper), but that is far from what an apartment costs on the United Kingdom metropolis. Reviewing figures. According to official data, in January the average price of a home in the country was 268,500 pounds. If we talk about London, that reference is triggered until the 600,000 tires are touched through a house in a room, which makes the British capital one of the most expensive cities on the planet to become a owner, based on The data of Global Property Guide. In 2023 the London mayor spoke directly about “housing crisis” and crossed out “scandal” that there were dozens of houses and unused floors. Is it cheap to live on a ship? Depends. Yes, if you compare the cost of buying a barge with that of acquiring an apartment in London. But that does not mean that changing the streets, urbanizations and blocks through the channels is available to all pockets. First because their owners pay navigation licenses. Second, because a boat has certain expenses rigged. Recently the tenant of a United Kingdom barge confessed To the Sky News chain that spends around 4,500 pounds annually in invoices, including insurance, hubs, coal, fuel and navigation permits. If you want to keep your home in good condition every three or four years you must also get it out of the water and paint the helmet, which costs you approximately 1,200 pounds. Money … And something else. Although money is a key factor, it is not the only one that explains that in the United Kingdom there are thousands of people passing (at least) most of the year aboard boats. At stake they enter otherssuch as the influence of pandemic, the rise of teleworking, the interest in traveling along the British coasts or a simple issue of taste, either as a permanent or temporal vital option. After all, in life aboard a barge, not all are idyllic moments. “I wanted so much a ship that I didn’t care to live without shower, wearing a cube as toilet the first months or running cold,” Elizabeth Earle recallsfreelance writer and illustrator who chose to leave the comforts of an apartment to live in a barge. Now reside in a centenary floating house of about 20 meters. “I have no one to bother me and if I want to leave this place I can do it tomorrow. You are always covered with bruises and soot, and there is a lot of mud, but you also think ‘go, I can make fire’ and load 25 kg of coal.” An option with challenges. Navigation, maintenance or supply are not the only challenges facing the tenants of the barges. Elizabeth does not pay mooring as such, but that has its ‘face B’: when opting for the “Continuous Cruiser” Your floating house must change location from time to time. In a similar situation you can see the rest of British navigators who have no right (or paid) permanent moorings and are forced to move between squares along the same river, or beyond, every 14 days. “We pay a license that does not equals a rent, but rather to the municipal … Read more

Europe is so desperate for housing that there are already people asking for rehabilitating factories like houses

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More than the progress of the economy, unemployment, emigration, politics or corruption. If there is something really We are worried To the Spaniards, something that takes away our dream, is housing. The CIS says it in Your latest barometerbut it is something that is perceived in the street: only a few weeks ago tens of thousands of people mobilized in almost 40 cities to show their discontent anger precisely because of the escalation in the price of houses, with rentals Beating records and the cost of m2 Nailing with the values ​​prior to the real estate bubble. With that backdrop (which It is not exclusive from Spain) There are those Believe That part of the solution to the housing crisis is right before our noses: the thousands of square kilometers of unused industrial areas distributed throughout Europe. “Urban Regeneration”. Proof that housing worries, in Spain (and many other countries), is that every time studies, comparative and statistics are published that either put the thermometer to the sector or venture to propose solutions. Does A few months It was done by the Systemiq company with a report that insists again and again on the potential of the “Urban Regeneration” To alleviate, at least in part, the housing problem of Europe, where prices in cities They have climbed until hinder access to homes. And what does “urban regeneration” understand? “Transforming infra -utilized land and obsolete buildings into compact and dynamic places to live, work and do business,” he explains The study Before stressing that it is “a strategy that could relieve the housing crisis in Europe and at the same time revitalize its cities.” That last nuance is not accidental. The company recalls that it grows above all the interest in housing located in urban environments, which leaves cities in the face of the challenge of finding the ground with which to cover the demand. A fact: 19,000 km2. Systemiq’s study is just that: a study. With their biases, strengths and weaknesses. However, it is interesting to approach an approach that over the last years It has sounded In the sector and even big promotions residential And it is among other things because it provides some illustrative figures. According to the authors of the report, in Europe there are approximately 19,000 square kilometers of “abandoned industrial land” and between 200 and 300 km2 of offices “available for conversion in attractive areas”. All this, the firm recalls, while in Europe you seek precisely new developments. “The demand for housing in dynamic cities is booming, just like that of mixed and alternative spaces, such as coexistence developments or new types of work spaces,” The technicians add of system. Enough for more than 10 years. “The appropriate locations for urban regeneration could satisfy most, if not the totality, the demand for new buildings provided in Europe for the next 10-15 years and would save cities about 20% of the planned infrastructure costs,” The report abounds. Its authors even throw themselves with some calculations and projections in the future, although without specifying how they get to them. In his opinion, “a fraction” of that wide area, around 300 square kilometers of empty offices and commercial premises and between 1,000 and 1,500 km2 of “vacant lots”, to meet the European land demand for a decade or decade and a half view. The key would go to allocate to spaces for housing and commerce. The report It also estimates that during that same period a total considerable investment would be reached that would be around four or six billion. Is it a new proposal? No. The country appointment For example, a 2024 JLL manager report that identifies 20,529 km2 of wasteland in Europe that could be used for that purpose. “His analysis suggests that the re -urbanization of a small part of those lands in the region would create between 713,750 and 1,247,500 new homes,” Comment to the newspaper Laura Nolier, from the Ginkgo firm. A few years ago the organization Habitat for Humanity He also performed A study in which he explored the potential of empty spaces to face the lack of housing. As remember The Archdily Specialized Website, Habitat technicians chose the United Kingdom as a pilot study area. His study ended up locating about 7,000 commercial and businesses in England, Scotland, Wales that were in the hands of local authorities and carried out without use for more than a year. Only empty office spaces could be transformed, according to their calculations, in more than 16,000 residential units. Commercial disuse spaces would give for 3,500. Beyond the theory. Not everything is theory. There are public administrations and promoters who have already opted to give a second life to empty buildings. In recent years, both inside as Out of Spain They have converted into homes office buildings, quarters, temples, Factories of different guys either Wineries that they have ended up reopening like luxury residences. Any initiative has even gone further by raising the transformation of an entire industrial zone into a residential area, as is the case In Vallecas PuenteMadrid. Are all advantages? No. Urban regeneration projects or give a second chance to industrial spaces and offices for homes to also face challenges. Both urban and architectural, normative and bureaucratic. In fact there are projects that directly They stay along the way and others end with a questionable result, such as Terminus Housein Essex, a rehabilitated office building as a block of floors. For frustration of his tenants, he ended up with tiny apartments and away from basic services. Opportunities and challenges. “A change in land use may imply urban impact studies, municipal approval and compliance with specific regulations. Depending on the city, there may be restrictions,” warns in The country Juan Antonio Gómez-Pintado, of the promoter Corporation Vía Agora. To those challenges are added the licenses, certifications, the need for technical studies, the possibility that the soil is contaminated and, the case, the adaptation of constructions that were originally thought for residential use. 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Openai’s hypothetical social network does not want to connect people. Want your data to train your AI

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In Openai they do not conform to being absolute referents in the segment of artificial intelligence. The last rumors point to that They intend to create a social network that would go beyond Chatgpt. The reason, eye, is not to compete with Facebook, Instagram or X. At least, not directly. Social network = data to feed the AIThe movement responds without a doubt to that voracious hunger of new data that the AI ​​models have and that allows them to improve and polish their behavior in different scenarios. A social network would allow Openai to use all those data entered by users to train their models. X already discovered that trend. The Fusion between X and XAI It was already a clear demonstration of that strategy: suddenly I had a perfect system to train its AI, Grok model, with all the posts of X users. And goal, of course, too. Goal takes time doing the same With Facebook and Instagram – although The EU forced her to slightly change your plans – and also collect data when we use ai target at whatsapp, Although you can avoid it. All with the same goal: to have “fresh food” for its artificial intelligence models. A social network to share images. Apparently the prototype that is already developed focuses on Chatgpt’s ability to generate images. It would therefore be a social network more similar to an instagram full of images generated by AI, from which we imagine that users would be generated. Altman already warned. The funny thing is that the rumor occurs weeks after Sam Altman himself, CEO of OpenAi, jokes with that possibility. When the news appeared that Meta was preparing an independent app for goal AI, Altman replied saying “ok, perfect, perhaps we make a social app.” This does not connect people. Perhaps they already had the project and it was not a joke, but although Altman pointed out that that could allow “revenge” of Facebook, the intentions would not be those of competing with Facebook when connecting people – the original purpose of that social network, at least – but that of collecting more and more data for their AI, which is what they have also ended up doing social networks. And the AGI for when. The problem of this theoretical project is that it would be partly a distraction for Openai. It would certainly allow for more data for the training of its AI models, but it is not clear that the scaling is the right path for the ultimate end of OpenAi: get a general artificial intelligence or agi. Too many parallel projects. Altman is famous for generate excessive expectations about the AGI. However, this challenge is tarnished by their last releases, especially in the case of GPT-4.5. The company seems to be somewhat scattered with gigantic projects like Stargatethe development of Your own chips o The mysterious hardware project In collaboration with Jony Ive. Too many apples in the basket? We will see. Image | Xataka with chatgpt In Xataka | Chatgpt is already the most downloaded app in the world. His only problem is that he does not know how to make money with it

Those responsible for the Robinson list deny having been hacked. The data of more than 600,000 people are at stake

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Hackmanac hackeos monitoring account published A few hours ago a worrying advertisement: the Robinson list It has supposedly hacked in Spain. According to hacking data, personal data of 614,197 people They would have been exposed. Among these data are full names, postal addresses, ID, telephone, date of birth and emails. These data represent a real treasure for cybercriminals who make use of the phishing technique to try to cheat users. With this information they can make personalized messages even try to supplant identities in attacks more specific to anyone. Our partners Xataka mobile indicate who have contacted Adigital, the agency that manages the Robinson list. Those responsible deny that this hacking has occurred And they have issued the following statement: “We have carefully reviewed the information available with our technical and legal team and we can conclude with total security that there has been no hacking or illicit access to our systems. In any case, we will be attentive to evolution and make our knowledge and tools available to the Spanish Agency for Data Protection.” The Robinson list is An advertising exclusion service to which any Spanish citizen can sign up for free. Its objective is to send advertising to registered users, both to their postal addresses and email or by mobile messages. A potential theft of the data on the list could precisely cause the opposite: that these users became direct victims of future Phishing attacks. It remains to be seen if the information published by Hackmanac and other media was really true or not – the authenticity of cyberboo is To be confirmed– But the organism presume to maintain the most important repository in the world of “verified, successful and publicly known cyberbrays.” In Xataka | The Robinson list works. And the companies that jump are already known the punishment: 10,000 euros

The traditional couple model is in crisis. And it has translated into more people eating alone in restaurants

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Eating is a necessity, a pleasure … and also (in your own way) A social act. Around the tables we celebrate, remember and honor. We remain for dinner in our first events, to celebrate birthdays and promotions, the arrival of the New Year or say goodbye to that friend who moves to another city. Eating has always been synonymous with sharing, especially if we do it in a bar, where it also becomes a public act, exposed to unknown looks. Or at least so it was until now. Table for one, please. It is very simple. He arrives with any restaurant at rush hour and observing the room: There are more and more people eating alone. And not by obligation or because he does not have anyone to share dinner. On the contrary. We do it by choice, to enjoy loneliness and backs to the stigma that until not so long persecuted those who sat alone at tables that were designed precisely to gather large groups. Impressions … and data. As with most trends, there are studies and percentages that help us better understand their scope. Although finding a site to eat alone It is not always simplein the OpenTable US calculates that the reserves for a single diner 64% have shot Since 2019. Moreover, between 2022 and 2023, Resyanother New York reservation platform, calculates that requests of this type increased by 21%. They are forceful percentages and it is not unreasonable to think that they are short. After all, both opening and resy register only those who reserve in advance, not those who appear in the premises without calling before. Is there more data? Yes. And although there may be variations from one study to another, most point in the same direction. In 2024, opening calculated that the alone dinners in the United Kingdom had experienced a year -on -year increase of 14%percentage that in the case of Manchester stretched until reaching 23%. Other studies They also talk that the ‘Only Dining’ He has gained weight in Germany and Japan or that the number of Americans who recognize having recently has grown by 53% In just two decades, between 2003 and 2023. And Spain? There are some indicators that suggest that Spain does not remain oblivious to that trend. In 2022 Mapfre published A FOOD REPORT in which he revealed that, although most of the Spaniards continue to enjoy the family meals, between 2017 and 2022 the number of people who sit at the table without company, especially during working days, increased 5%. In 2020, in full pandemic, Thefork also perceived that the reserves for a single person had grew by 4% In our country. Of course, they were still a minority. In an attempt to go further in 2024 Reasonwhy did A poll Among several restaurant chains with presence in Spain that showed that, at least in part of them, it is increasingly common to see customers without company. Well because they are more or because those who already ate alone before do it now more often. Alsea, behind Vips, Ginos or Foster´s Hollywood, requires that 7% of Foster´sy customers 18% of those of VIPs eat without anyone next. And what is the reason? The right thing would be to talk about reasons, in plural. When analyzing the trend, so much The sector As analysts usually coincide in certain factors that have clearly influenced customers. Above all there are two: pandemic, with its restrictions and fear of infection; and a cultural change that leads us to look with other eyes to those who sit in a restaurant without a company. “That a person was lonely has always been might, but now that taboo to exhibit loneliness has broken,” Notice in The country José A. González, anthropologist. “It was growing before pandemic, but now it has been strengthened because we have become accustomed to being alone,” agrees Chef Lola Marín. “In addition, it was unthinkable that a woman was alone to eat or take a wine to a bar. Luckily it is now more common.” Even in networks They can be found Videos of people who presume that: to enjoy their dinner alone. Generational issue? There are those who believe that there is another factor that has influenced so much or more than the COVID: the change of mentality that accompanies the Z generation and the Millennials. Whether or not the truth is that the trend is accompanied by a transformation of Spanish society itself, in which It is increasingly common meet people living alone. If the INE forecasts do not fail in 2039 there will be some 7.7 million of unipersonal homes, 33.5% of the total. Question of loneliness (s). That we normalize loneliness does not mean that all loneliness is the same or all its positive effects. In fact it also carries certain challenges, as I collected recently An article of The New York Times in which a curious relationship is pointed out: in the US the increase of the people who eat alone has coincided with a worsening of the country’s general happiness index. The reason: not all loneliness is deliberate. The professor of the University of Oxford Jan-Emmanuel de Neve even It goes further and reflect on the implications that excessive isolation can have. “That we are increasingly socially isolated also assumes that we do not test our ideas about the world with other people,” he says. The result, in his opinion, is an amplification of echo chambers and polarization. Image | Ismail Hamzah (Unspash) In Xataka | More and more Spanish bars refuse to pay at the table. Its objective is very simple: greater rotation

"I never say that I have lost weight thanks to Ozempic": The ‘Ozempicazozo’ taboo, the people who hide that they consume it

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There is a certain pattern around the social perception of thinness: we glorify it, yes, but we stigmatize the shortcuts to achieve it. AND That little contradiction has become very visible with the rise of Ozempic. Who thinns with effort receives admiration; Who does it with medication receives contempt. “Ozempicazo“It is the derogatory term that is being used in networks to indicate to those who are suspected that they have lost weight by resorting to this drug. Figures such as Ibai Llanos in Spain either Mike Pompeo in the United States They have been suspicious objects after their bodily transformation. A few weeks ago we published a report in which those who turned to Ozempic to lose weight They told us their long -term experience. Today we rescue some of their voices and add new ones to talk about this phenomenon. How complicated it can be to admit the use of Ozempic. Ismael, 35 -year -old Alicante, explains that “people see very well that you are thinner, they congratulate and comply with you, but when you tell them how you have achieved it, the perception changes.” In his case, he went from touching 100 kilos at 81 kilos, something he considers more acceptable for his stature. In Xataka Ozempic will soon become a thing of the past: this is what we know about the new generation of drugs for weight loss “It is a double moral, I have friends who put protein powder, creatine and several more things to be strong, with them there is never a problem. If I turn to a drug to lose overweight, then they do tell me that I have not struggled, that it is a shortcut,” he explains. “It seems that losing weight must imply suffering to be legitimate. So I stopped giving explanations about my weight loss, I don’t comment on, I thank and change the subject. “ Ismael’s point is that no one questions the use of pain or antidepressants for mental health, but to lose weight, pharmacology is considered a trap. Clara, which fell from 87 to 69 kilos, synthesizes it: “I have tried or remember how many diets without results, or with results but rebound effect, and when I find something effective, it seems that it is not acceptable because I have not been enough hungry.” Cristina, a 46 -year -old Valencian, has lost more than 16 kilos with Rybelsus (pills) first and Mounjaro (Injectable and Ozempic competitor) later. “I never say that I have lost weight with Ozempic, nor that it is with a puncture or with pills. I have turned it around,” he confesses. When asked for his weight loss, he turns half truths: “I tell that I did an analytical and saw that I had a little high thyroid and insulin resistance, so they gave me a treatment and that has derived in a certain weight loss.” In Xataka If the alcohol industry no longer had enough problems, it has now encountered one more: Ozempic “It’s like I feel bad to put it,” he explains about his reluctance to reveal the real method. “It is as forbidden, as is frowned upon.” This stigma is so entrenched that even when someone asked him directly if he used Ozempic, he denied it: “I got out of my heart to tell him no“. This contradiction generates frustration:” Now that I think about it, it gives me anger. Why do I hide? If my money I spend it on what I want. “ The Dr. Alicia Taboadasubspecialized family doctor in cardiovascular risk and endocrinological diseases, offers A nuanced vision of the phenomenon: “First of all, I would like to remember that obesity is a chronic disease and in the same way that we treat other diseases with drugs, it is normal to use a medication that has shown to lower weight and reduce cardiovascular risk, joint problems and even mental problems.” According to Dr. Taboada, the stigma has its nuances: “As for the people who hide Ozempic, They are normally patients who have a discreet overweight or who want to lose a few kilos. A patient with morbid obesity has no shame in saying that Ozempic is being punctured. “ There are legitimate criticisms, mainly The shortage that has affected diabetic patients. “The fact that it was so criticized has also been because until now we only had Ozempic, a drug in principle only for diabetics,” explains Dr. Taboada. “The one that many people were using it made the diabetics run out of the drug. But today this would not have to be because there is because it exists Wegovywhich is the same molecule but specific for weight control. “ Criticism increases to public figures that do not transparent its methods. Influencers that attribute physical transformations exclusively to diet and exercise, omitting possible pharmacological aids, They generate unreal expectations in vulnerable audiences. It is complicated. {“Videid”: “X7ZO910”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “Added sugars: how to avoid them and improve the diet?”, “Tag”: “sugar”, “Duration”: “220”} “We have met people who do not want to prick, who want to make a normal diet,” says Dr. Taboada. “And really if they do well, if they make food changes, they get weight off too. You never have to force anyone. To clicking you will be easier because you are not going to go hungry, it is true, but if you have a lot of willpower, you can make a diet without the need for any drug.” The rebound effect adds another layer to the stigma. Pilar recovered 30 kilos after suspending the treatment, reinforcing the narrative that the method was not “authentic” or “sustainable.” On this, the doctor is clear: “It is said that they are drugs that should be taken for life, but unfortunately their price makes not everyone to do it, which is the vast majority. The most important thing is to establish changes in the lifestyle, because if we leave that drug, the patient will bounce.” Outstanding image | HAVEREDAS in … Read more

Millions of people drink from the water that arrives from the snow of the K2. We have just discovered pollutants in them

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The K2 is the second highest peak on the planet after Everest and probably one of the most difficult and dangerous peaks to reach for climbers. It owes its name to the Karakórum mountain range, where it is located. It is located in a remote puppy area played between Pakistan and India, but its remoteness has not prevented pollution from reaching it. And with it the risk of thaw. Black carbon. A study by an international team of researchers has found black carbon traces in the Godwin-Austen glacier and on the surface of the K2. According to Explain the study responsible for the studythis pollutant can be an ice risk in a mountainous area that feeds a river responsible for supplying more than one billion people. Black carbon is presented as small carbon particles as a result of the incomplete combustion of some compounds. These particles are part of the volatile compounds known as particular matter and can affect our health and the environment. As explained by the team responsible for the study, being deposited in snow or on ice, black carbon can accelerate its melting. This may imply the loss of frozen mass, reducing the time that snow passes on the surface, they add. Taking samples. In its study, the team collected samples of superficial snow in fields 1 and 2 of the K2 between 2018 and 2019. Sampling was also carried out along the walls of two well -excavated wells in the snow layer on the glacier. The team performed an isotopic analysis of the snow layer to estimate when the snow began to accumulate. All this for, In the words of Nicolás González-SantacruzCo -author of the study, “Determining the moment of formation of the snow layer is essential to precisely interpret black carbon data.” The details of the work done were published In an article In the magazine Journal of glaciology. A seasonal snow. The analysis concluded that the snow of the glacier has a seasonal character, that is, that it accumulates between October and until the end of winter and then disappear completely between spring and summer. This fact allowed to know in detail when the different concentrations of black carbon were deposited. Looking for the source of pollution. The team analyzed the black carbon samples also to track the origin of this pollutant. They found that the accumulated carbon during the fall of 2018 had their main origin in the North Basin of the Indo River, while in the subsequent concentrations (winter 2018 and 2019), the influence of regions such as the Middle East, Asia Central and Eastern Europe, González-Santacruz added. The sum of several problems. We associate the thaw of glaciers and other icy areas of the world to climate change derived from high atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. However, neither thaw is the only phenomenon attributable to this change nor global warming has to be the sole responsible for the thaw. Understanding the diversity of factors that are interconnected in the context of climate change is key to understanding the potential effects of this, both in terms of people and in what affects ecosystems. In Xataka | Snowing stations at the end of the century: the most pessimistic models show what could happen in our high mountain Image | Zacharie Grossen, CC by-SA 4.0

If the question is “what are people reading most around the world”, there is only one answer: Romantasy

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With their colored loins, dream covers and mixture of romance and fantasy, novels Romantasy They are probably bombing you the subconscious in both social networks and in your library visits. What is more complicated is to elucidate exactly what we are talking about and which book or author enters this category, so we will try to shed some light on (sometimes unabarcable) term Romantasy. What do you refer to Romantasy? We would be facing a subgenre either of the fantastic or romance genre that combines those two factors in their books. Within that construction, the fantasy world has to cohabit, yes or yes, with one or more love stories to adhere to this definition. In a good novel Romantasy Or romantic fantasy does not prevail one genre over another, fantasy and romance are at the service of the narrative and enriches the entire plot on which the book or book saga is supported. The possibilities, as is usually the case with romance novels, are endless. Thanks to the multitude of tropes that authors can include, diversity within the romance part is very wide, but without a doubt the one that stands out the most in the best -selling books is a good Enemies to lovers (“Enemies to lovers”). Romantasy It does not refer to something new. Romance and fantasy have always formed a perfect hybrid and have complemented themselves in stories for many years. Diana Gabaldon, the successful writer of the Saga ‘Outlander’ began publishing this romantic history of travel in time in early 1990. If we appeal to the most youthful public we also have the case of the saga ‘Twilight’. Stephanie Meyer’s absolute teenage 160 million copies. At the time of its launch, marketing was not aimed at using a label like Romantasybut the truth is that they adapt perfectly to their requirements. The already omnipresent sales strategy linked to this term is something that we find more or less recently and thanks to social networks, specifically #BookTok. Its origin is not clear or we can place it on a specific date. The editorial Bloomsbury He declares that he coined him to identify the genre of one of the most famous writers of romantic fantasy, Sarah J. Maas. But “Romantasy“It was already published in the Urban Dictionary Since 2008. These different versions do not overshadow the fact that their complete explosion happened from the pandemic and especially, since 2024 on social networks. The queens of Romantasy If there is an absolute queen of romantic fantasy that is Sarah J. Mass with its saga ‘a court of roses and thorns’ (saga limit). The series began to be published in 2015 but undoubtedly its peak, and when the conversation around Romantasy I copied it, it happens from 2021. The author herself acknowledges that Tiktok He has played an essential role in his sales number. Bloomsbury, its editorial, affirms that videos with hashtags related to books have more than 14,000 million of visualizations on the Bytedance platform. Looking made the author the best selling in the United States last year, exceeding the figure of 7.7 million copies And, in turn, the English editions of his work exceed 55 million copies sold worldwide. The key to Maas’s success is the ability to attract followers not only the saga to limit, but to all his previous work and loyalty for upcoming publications. Elucubrations and search for Easter Eggs In all your videos, in pure style Swiftie, They are the order of the day in #BookTok. Sarah J. Maas has triumphed with ‘a court of roses and thorns’, which tells us the story of Feyre and her sisters in the world of FAE, a fantasy place where her loyalties both in war and love will be committed. But the truth is that with this series the foundations for knitting a magical universe that expands to other series of his as ‘crystal throne’ (2012) or ‘Crescent City’ (2020) were laid. With that methodology as planned, and reaching figures as 4.83 million Sales only in books printed in the first half of 2024, it is difficult not to catalog it as absolute queen of the romantic fantasy. But the undisputed success of this subgenre is not only due to Sarah J. Maas. If we review the list of best -selling we also find names such as Rebecca Yarros (Empyre Saga), Callie Hart (Saga alchemia & Fae), Cassandra Clare (shadow hunters saga), Lauren Roberts (Powerless Saga), Jennifer L. Armetrout (blood saga and ashes), Holly Black (Holly Black (Saga of the air) among others. But once again, nothing better than numbers to corroborate the success of Romantasy. Five of the 10 best -selling titles of 2024 were written by Sarah J. Mass and Rebecca Yarrosaccording to the statistics of Publisher’s Weekly in October. In addition, in 2024, romantic books reached 610 million dollars In sales, compared to 454 million in 2023. We talk about 11 million books of this subgenre sold in the first five months of 2024, almost double that in the same period of 2023. Circana, a well -known analysis company, provides that The end of the bubble arrives this same 2025but it seems unlikely that the romantic and especially the Romantasy Stop having that privileged hole that you have been getting in bookstores. A proof of this is the large number of special editions and reissues that we find for the sale of the main titles of this category, with colored and print looms that have begun to be replicated by other authors of different genres. Another fact that makes us doubt that imminent end of leadership we find it with the numbers harvested with ‘Onix wings’ of Rebeca Yarros. The third installment of the empyreo saga, which continues the story of Violet Sorngagail at the Higher School of Basgiath, where candidates live or die in the attempt to become dragon riders, has gone on sale at the end of January 2025 and has sold more than more than 2.7 million of specimens in … Read more

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