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There is no miraculous recipe that gives us a “natural ozempic.” But science has some “tricks” that can help us

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The popularity of the semaglutida (the active substance of the well -known Ozempic) and similar compounds, has led many to the search for alternatives that allow replicating Its effects without having to go through the pharmacy. It is not something to miss, like any other drug, Ozempic and similar medications have side effects, not to mention their cost or the fact that it can only be acquired with medical prescription. Having more alternatives within our reach can be tempting. The search for a “natural ozempic” however has more shadows than lights, more pseudoscience than science. That does not mean that the door is completely closed. One of the compounds to which often It has hung This label It is the Berber. Although some studies have detected pharmacological effects of this compound, we lack solid evidence today that proves to help us lose weight. What we do have is A series of risks associated with its consumption. Another regular candidate to serve as “natural ozempic” It’s green tea. Although this drink can give us some nutrients and help us stay hydrated, its effects on or on our glycemic levels They are limited at best. In An article for The conversationMary J. Scourboutakos, an expert from the University of Toront A “Ozempic of Nature”. The key to her is not in a compound that these foods can give us, but to focus on those who in one way or another stimulate the production of hormones that these treatments “imitate.” To understand it, we must remember how these compounds work. Semaglutida is an agonist of peptide receptors similar to type 1 glucagon (LPG-1), that is, it is a compound that functions as this key hormone for our digestive processes. The LPG-1 is a hormone that our stomach segregates when we eat with the aim of transmitting a double message. On the one hand, this hormone warns the pancreas that you should begin to segregate insulin to control blood sugar levels. These types of medications are, in origin, drugs against diabetes that stimulate insulin production for glycemic control in people who have trouble exercising this control. On the other hand, this peptide also sends a message to the brain: satiety. This is the reason why these compounds also make those who consume them lose weight, since they flatten hunger. Other drugs, such as Zepbound, They work similarly. The formula of the American Eli Lilly is based on the tirzepatida, which acts as an analogous not only of the LPG-1, but also of the GIP (polypeptide gastric inhibitor). Not only what, also how According to Explains Scourboutakosour diet can help stimulate the production of the GLP-1 hormone. He does not only through nutrients but also through our habits, when and how, in addition to what. With respect to nutrients, the expert highlights two, being the first, and perhaps the most important, fiber. The fiber is key Because it serves as food to our intestinal microbioma, and this in turn would be responsible for segregating compounds capable of stimulating hormone production. A study Posted in 2018 in the magazine Science He indicated that the fiber could help feed bacteria in charge of segregating short-chain fatty acids, which would be in this case those responsible for encouraging the secretion of the LPG-1. Recently, Another studyis published in Nature Microbiologyobtained similar results. The team responsible for this analysis detected that greater Presence of bacteria Vulgatus bacteroids and of its metabolite, vitamin B5 or pantotenic acid were able to activate the secretion of the peptide similar to type 1 glucagon. Returning to Scourboutakos articlethis highlights another key nutrient, monounsaturated fats, which we can find for example in the olive oil. Again, some studies support this notion, such as The published in 1999 In the magazine The American Journal of Clinical Nutritionwhich detected that olive oil stimulated better than butter the secretion of both LPG-1 and GIP. Regarding the “How”, ScourboTakos quotes for example A study In the magazine Diabetologyfrom which he concludes that consuming the most protein foods before the richest in carbohydrates (such as eating a fish dish and then one of rice) would give rise to a greater secretion of LPG-1. Other relevant factors mentioned by Scourboutakos include the time we consume food and even if we chew or consume in a liquefied form. Our diet affects our health and our well -being in very diverse ways. It may seem anti -limitic, but the closest thing to a “natural ozempic” we have is A varied diet, rich in fibers And in fats such as olive oil, whose positive properties have been well known for a long time. A diet of this type may not be able to cure diseases, but it is a necessary complement to many treatments and is an important preventive tool when avoiding problems for the future. In Xataka | Ozempic is supposed to increase the risk of erectile dysfunction. Thousands of people think exactly the opposite Image | Chemist4u / She Olsson

Google has just announced the closest to the holographic science fiction: Project Beam

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Videollamar have been useful for years. A solution that works, although with obvious limitations. See and hear the other person is fine, but the Sensation of real closeness It is still far away. Google has been trying to solve that problem for some time, and now has decided to take a more determined step to get it. That step is called Beam. It is the new name of a technology that we already knew as Project Starline, an experimental proposal that sought to recreate the experience of a three -dimensional face -to -face conversation, and that we had the opportunity to try last year. Now, that idea evolves in the form of a platform. Beam was born as a communications system designed to integrate into real environments, supported by the infrastructure of Google Cloud and enhanced with advanced artificial intelligence models. A conversation with volume, not only with image. Google Beam’s key is in its volumetric video model. A IA -based system that transforms a 2D video signal into a realistic three -dimensional representation, visible from any angle. When combined with a type screen Light Fielda sense of depth is achieved that allows to maintain visual contact, interpret expressions and generate more natural communication. According to Google, this helps generate trust and understanding as if the conversation were face -to -face. The objective declared by the company is to create more significant connections between people, wherever they are. To achieve this, Beam relies on two fundamental pillars: the reliability and scalability of Google Cloud, and his experience accumulated in artificial intelligence (AI). Everything designed to integrate without friction in existing workflows. Real -time translation without giving up naturalness. Beam not only focuses on the image. It also wants to facilitate understanding. One of the most striking functions is real -time voice translation, now available today in Google Meet. It allows to maintain a fluid conversation between people who speak different languages, retaining the tone, cadence and expressions of each interlocutor. The result is a more natural conversation, where technology is perceived less and connection between people, more. For Google, this functionality is just the beginning. His long -term vision is clear: to ensure that anyone, anywhere in the world, can be seen and understood with total clarity. Beam arrives at work. At the moment, Beam points to the professional environment. Google has announced an agreement with HP to launch the first compatible devices, which will reach selected customers this year. It should be noted that it does not work with any configuration. These devices will have several cameras to capture the subject from different angles. In addition, the company is collaborating with companies such as Zoom, Diversified and AVI-SPL to integrate this technology into different corporate environments. Great organizations have already shown interest, including Deloitte, Salesforce, Citadel, Nec, Hackensack Meridian Health, Duolingo and Recruit. From Deloitte, for example, they emphasize that Beam is not only a technological advance, but a way of rethinking how we connect in the digital age. A clear promise. Be there without being. This is Beam’s central idea. It is not just a technical improvement, but an evolution in the way of communicating. Beam wants to talk to someone at a distance does not feel like a video call, but as a face -to -face conversation. Images | GOOLGE In Xataka | Google has put a price on the future of AI: $ 250 per month

Eating fermented col can seem an unpleasant idea. Science is increasingly clear that it is excellent for your diet

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The Germans call it Sauerkraut and the French Choucroutea term that usually is castelling as sauerkraut. It is a fermented col, a typical preparation in various European countries where it is used as accompaniment in dishes of different kinds. A beneficial preparation. We have been indicated that this traditional preparation could contribute important benefits to our health. Now, a new study by two researchers from the University of California, Davis has found new tests that Chucrut can help our health through digestion. According to the study, the fermented col can help maintain the integrity of our intestinal cells. Good news is that this beneficial effect occurred both with the Homemade Chucrut as with which we buy already prepared. “It doesn’t matter, in a way, if we do Sauerkraut at home or if we buy it in the store; both types of Sauerkraut They seem to protect the intestinal function, ”Maria Marco, co -author of the study, explained in a press release. Three elements. The team compared three elements related to the chucrut and its fermentation process: the “raw” vegetable, the brine extracted from the fermented product, and product itself, the Sauerkraut. Team efforts They focused on the study of metabolites present in this food. Metabolites are compounds that occur when biologically decomposing food and its compounds. When passing through a fermentation process, the chemical changes that occur in a food can be important, hence its flavor and aroma, but also its nutritional value. Nutritional changes. The chemical analysis by the team showed changes in the nutritional profile of the Col after fermentation. They found beneficial metabolites, including lactic acid and amino acids, but also observed a lower carbohydrate contribution. Some of the metabolites found were identical to those generated by the intestinal mcirobioma. The changes found, the team stands out, could explain the digestive benefits often attributed to fermented products. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Applied and Environmental Microbiology. More than probiotics. The study conducted in the laboratory is one more indication in favor of the idea that fermented colm is a healthy food that we can include in the context of a balanced and varied diet. Fermented foods are not just a contribution of nutrients metabolized by the microorganisms responsible for fermentation, they can also contribute to us as Probiotics beneficial bacteria that perform similar processes in our digestive system. In Xataka | We have been studying chocolate and tea compounds for more than 75 years. Now we know that they help control blood pressure Image | Jana Ohajdova

Less science fiction is being written than ever, and the fault does not have the lack of ideas or the lack of readers

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Literary science fiction interests less than ever. Devoured by subgenres of fantasy with more popular pull, such as Romantasythe books that were previously guaranteed Best-Sellers are now only oddities, samples of a genre that is disappearing from libraries. Why has a genre that has been so popular now languishes? What has changed since a couple of decades ago was the king of the mambo of fantasy? Sales fall. In an article on reading habits, The Washington Post revealed A singular fact: only 12% of readers are interested in science fiction. The figures accompany that fall, to the point that in what we have been in, if we analyze the sales figures in the United States which provides publishers weeklyonly a gender book has sneaked into the top 10 of each year: ‘Ballad of singing birds and snakes’, very significantly the sequel to one of the great successes of the previous decade, ‘The Games of Hunger’. The power of Young adult. The science fiction had never sold as much as in the previous two decades, and all thanks to the dystopic and youth variants of the genre: 12 books sneaked into the best-sellers lists of the Decade of 10 and in the first ten years of the centurywith sagas such as ‘The Hunger Games’, ‘Divergent’, ‘The Host’ and ‘A Time Fold’. There was also space for adult science fiction, no doubt pushed by this receptive state for the genre, especially works of big names such as Stephen King or Michael Crichton. And now, al Romantasy. What makes all the meaning: simply the same readers who augated youth dystopias are now interested in genres such as light fantasy and Romantasy… And that is what occupies the highest positions. In the last two years, books and sagas of the genre such as ‘Alas de Blood’, ‘A court of roses and thorns’ or ‘blood and ash’ have almost totally dominated (especially the 2023 and 2024) lists. Authors such as Rebecca Yarros or Sarah J. Maas repeat, year after year, with a frequency that was only available to the aforementioned King or Crichton. Media avalanche. This change in interest within the fantastic genre of readers who propel sales is the most immediate reason for the descent of science fiction in sales lists, but there are other more endemic causes, not so apparent. One of them is the media ecosystem: The public’s taste for science fiction stories is satisfied with films and series, faster and less demanding to consume. As contradictory that may seem, the absolute relevance of fantasy and science fiction in the mainstream audiovisual has played against books: Who wants to read science fiction sagas if In the cinema it has it embodied more spectacularly? The dystopia is here. From a more sociological perspective, interest in science fiction may have dissipated because reality has advanced to any fiction. It is a recurring bitter joke to talk about how reality has exceeded before planned Future pessimistsas those presented at ‘Blade Runner’ or ‘The maid’s story‘. With the Truncated future sensation That it occurs to generation Z, it is normal for the romantic escapism of ‘blood wings’ to be preferable to reminders that ‘1984’ has come true by advancing on the right and without caught the irony. Creative crisis. To all this is added the creative crisis that crosses current culture and the fantastic genre in particular. Most of the productions that They triumph at the box office and in the book sales They are sequelae or belong to franchises. Science fiction has always been a genre that has fed on risk, innovation and new ideas and with this panorama, it is normal to be stagnant. A classic like Orson Scott Card (‘Ender’s game’) in an article entitled ‘Are we facing the end of science fiction?‘: It is said that “all the really good stories that were possible within science fiction have been written.” Is there salvation? Orson Scott Card himself details in that article that a possible problem of gender is that science gives rise to less narrative formats, such as space trips or stellar wars. Now science focuses more on “theoretical, or sub-psychopic, or trans-cosmic” aspects. But in those sections where authors such interesting and renovating such as Greg Egan arise, Liu Cixin either Ted Chiangperhaps away from the tastes of the general public, but more than trained to make the genre remain alive. And perhaps that is the key: what else does it give whether or not you enter the supervent lists, while the genre continues to innovate Header | Daniel in Unspash In Xataka | The 25 best science fiction books

If you think you are not the same person after a long shift, the science of being right. The reason is in the brain

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Fatigue can affect us in different ways and the different contexts, it is something that we have surely perceived in our own meats, trying to remain awake at night, studying before an exam or during a prolonged trip. Also, it is likely, we have noticed it after a work day that for some reason we can have lengthened. Significant changes. A study has detected Neurological changes in professionals prolonged working hours. The study was conducted in health professionals who faced days above 52 hours per week. “The overfracha can induce neuroadotative changes that can affect cognitive and emotional health,” Explain the team responsible for the study. Although it is a pilot study, which implies caution when drawing conclusions, the work provides new evidence on the impact of excess work on our well -being and in our productivity. The price of excess work. The global cost of excess work It is considerable. Beyond conventional occupational hazards, overfracha It has been related with an increase in the risk associated with cardiovascular diseases or metabolic disorders, among other problems. Recently, A study Posted in the magazine Environment International He estimated in almost 750,000 deaths attributable to excess work in 2016. This resulted in the loss of more than 23 million years of life adjusted by disability (Daly) linked to certain cardiovascular diseases. Excess work, marked in the brain. In addition to physiological problems, excess work can also cause mental health problems. In an effort to better understand their neurological context, the team responsible for the new study began studying the brain of professionals in a field, that of medicine, where marathon days are relatively common. The team He turned to the Gachon Regional Cohort (Grocs) to obtain certain data, which complemented with magnetic resonance scanning, for which they had a total of 110 participants, the majority sanitary. 32 of the participants (28%) met the requirements to be included in the group of those who worked in excess, while the rest would have “standard” days. To study the changes, the team resorted to a technique called voxel -based morphometry (VBM), a useful technique when identifying and comparing regional differences in the gray matter of the brain. Changes in 17 brain regions. They ran into significant changes in some regions related to executive function and emotional regulation. An example cited by the team is in A 19% increase In the volume of the average frontal turn, an area involved in key cognitive functions. The analysis allowed to detect increases in 17 regions of the brain. One of these areas was the upper frontal turn, an area involved in attention, planning and decision making. Another area of ​​interest was the insula, key zone in the integration of sensory stimuli and engines, but also in emotional processing and understanding of the social context, the team points out. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Occupational & Environmental Medicine. Small scale. The team itself warns that there are limitations that imply the need to be cautious in the interpretation of the results. For example, this is a pilot study on a limited sample of participants. In addition, experimental and control groups are not random, which implies a possibility of self -selection and with it a possible bias in the analysis. In Xataka | Productivity dysmorphia: toxic productivity that makes you believe that you never work enough Image | National Cancer Institute

Obssing with losing weight is a very bad idea to lose weight. Luckily, science has many more effective

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A young doctor appears before his boss and, although he does not say it out loud, he thinks “the last time I was in front of him, I swept at least a liter. But now I’m going to sweat at least ten, that guy will find out what is to sweat!” Then, do not sweat a drop. It is not fiction, it is A real case collected by psychiatrist Viktor Frankl In 1994. He did to explain that many times our fears, objectives and intentions play against us. And yes, we are talking about losing weight. Against us? It’s as if, for using A metaphor of another psychologists (Steven C. Hayes)“We fell into a deep hole and the only thing we had to go out was with a shovel. As we don’t know very well what to do and we despair, we started using the shovel.” The result, despite working day and night, is that we are deeper than before. What in the background tells us a good number of psychologists (from Logotherapists to Specialists in acceptance and commitment) is that we are so culturally attached to certain behavioral strategies that, although they are not useful, we cannot get rid of them. The obsession with “losing weight” is a problem. And yes, obsession is the word. In Spain, where 52% of the adult population presents overweight or obesity, seven out of ten people (72%) They have tried to lose weight at least once in their life. In fact, According to the Mapfre Foundation datathey have done it, on average, about seven times. That leads to “53% of Spaniards has ever followed a popular or miracle diet with the aim of losing weight.” It is not an accident; It is the consequence of what I commented: in the popular imaginary, the way of losing weight is that. That is to say, In words Giuseppe Russolillopresident of the Spanish Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, “the population is not fully aware that the methods that use weight losing are extremes and can put their health at risk and that the recovery of the lost weight is frequent.” And what can we do? The first is to banish false myths. Sï, obesity is a health problem; but Not so clear that overweight is in general terms. “The life expectancy of people overweight is not less than that of Normopeso”, He told us Juan Ramón BarradaProfessor at the University of Zaragoza. Many ideas that we have above all this and that we use to justify our behaviors, are still disciplinary stories. That does not mean that health is not important. It means that many of those ideas about overweight, health and beauty are cultural strategies equivalent to getting to cabin being inside a well. So? There are no scientific knowledge that can help us? “From what we can extract from current investigations, there are three tips that can be given to anyone: Eat healthyexercise and Accept your body. Today, everything is reduced to weight loss, “he continued Barrada. Therefore, “we must be clear that stigmatizing people overweight or obesity such as ‘vague’ or ‘lack of will’ is to promote suffering” unjustified. And do it with ourselves too. Luckily, as Barrada pointed out, there is another way of doing things. Image | I Yunmai In Xataka | The scientific reason why miracle diets do not work is

‘The Eternaluta’ is a masterpiece of science fiction. But the story of its creator gives him an absolutely unique background

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Netflix’s new science fiction series, ‘El Eternalauta’, has a very emotional story for comic fans: not only is it based on a legendary cartoon whose adaptation to cinema and television has been frustrated on countless occasions, but its creator owns a biography that makes its humanistic background, but tragic. This is the story of ‘The Eternaluta’ and its creator, Héctor Germán Oesterheld. The production that opens Netflix is ​​an Argentine series, such as the original comic, and has the prominence of an international fame actor like Ricardo Darín. It has occurred under the supervision of one of Oesterheld’s grandchildren and is the end point of a long list of attempts to adapt a comic that in Argentina has an extraordinary fame. Hence the prestige of the directors who tried to adapt it on previous occasions. In 1998, he assumed the Adolfo Aristarain project (‘A place in the world’, ‘Martín (Hache)’) among other directors such as Gustavo Mosquera (which ended, yes, embarking on a long journey to stand up a biopic of Oesterheld, which has not yet curdled). The project was frustrated due to lack of financing. In 2008 the possible adaptation was reactivated, in a film that would direct Lucrecia Martel (‘The Holy Girl’). Martel distanced himself from the project due to conflicts with the Oesterheld family and the adaptation was canceled. Finally, Netflix began the production of its ‘eternalauta’ in 2020although the filming was interrupted by the pandemic. THE IMPORTANCE OF ‘THE ETERNAUTA’ With a very modern point of view, the story of Oesterheld, drawn in its first phase, in 1958, by a superb Francisco Solano López, tells an extraterrestrial invasion that begins when a mysterious lethal snow on contact with the skin annihilates most of the human beings. The offensive will increase with the appearance of insectoid beings, cascarudes, servants of higher intelligences that will unleash a mixture of intrigue and action where we will have even walks through parallel dimensions. Cascarudos are not the last border of the alien invasion: the protagonist and an impromptu land resistance group will face an alien disturbing who has numerous fingers around the hand (which wins his appeal of hand), and that It is only the servant of even superior and unknown aliens. It would be said that Oesterheld senses an alien presence in the way of Lovecraft, with entities for those who do not assume the slightest threat, but nods them at our level and injects them very understandable intentions. This stage is published in Spain By comic planet. ‘The Eternaluta’ Illustrated by Solano López The adventures of ‘The Eternaluta’ would not end there. A decade later, in 1969, and with Radicalized Oesterheld in his political commitment, the author would script By Penguin). It essentially tells the same story, but with explanations for the invasion much more politicized. Later, in 1976, an official sequel would arrive, set in a desolate and apocalyptic future, a consequence of the ravages we saw in the first installment. I would draw her again Solano López. After her, with missing Oesterheld, we would see multiple sequelae, often with the participation of the original cartoonist. But … What does ‘the Eternaluta’ have to have become an absolute classic of the Argentine comic? When Oesterheld did not know what his destiny would be, the first ‘eternauta’ can be read as a local version of ‘The War of the Worlds’, but with bulls references to the policy of the moment: In 1955 Perón had been expelled from the Argentine government in a coup d’etat led by military. This first version of history is more humanistic than politics, and as Roberto Bartual details In your newsletter on comics And he launches the message that “there are good and bad on all sides”, allowing even demonstrating some compassion for the villains. It has all the meaning that this white and harmless version is the one that takes the Netflix series as a reference. ‘The Eternaluta’ Illustrated by Breccia However, the authentic combative content of ‘The Eternaluta’ would come in the second version that Oesterheld would re-guide and illustrate Breccia: in it, invading aliens have reached a pact with foreign powers. In the 1969 version, the villain of history is imperialism that a few years later would cause coups in Chile in 1973, and later again in Argentina, in 1979. The humans of this version of ‘El Eternalauta’ are the countries of Latin America fighting for their independence. And there is more. The sequel ‘El Eternalauta II’, again with Solano López to the drawings, tells how men and women live in caves to escape the invasion. It is impossible not to think about the authentic oesterheld, which This second part of ‘The Eternaluta’ ended in hiding. The end of the story is absolutely bleak and turns the iconic eternal, with his diver glasses to protect himself from lethal snow, an anti-authoritarian resistance symbol. Even much later, in the demonstrations against the Financial Corralito at the beginning of this century, posters were seen with the images of the Eternaluta remembering their rebel spirit and, above all, denouncing the leaders of any sign that betray their own. ‘El Eternalauta II’, illustrated by Solano López Oesterheld’s fate The radicalization of the creator of ‘The Eternaluta’ would start shortly after the publication of the first version of the story: Oesterheld would begin to fill their stories of criticisms of capitalism and colonialism, reaching a script to political sign as clear as a biography of Che in 1968, before his collaboration with Breco. In the seventies he would join the Montoneros (the second part of ‘El Eternalauta’ ended in hiding, dictating the scripts he later received Solano López, exiled in Spain), and the last thing that was learned of him is that he was arrested in 1977 by the military dictatorship. It was last seen in a clandestine detention center, and as happened with so many other Argentines, from that moment to be part of the list of arrested and missingvictim of Argentine state terrorism. … Read more

In Tiktok there are men shaving the eyelashes to look more masculine. Science has bad news for them

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There is nothing written about fashion. On health yes. And in one of the latest trends that has gained strength in networks among men, both (fashion and health) collide so clearly that medicine professionals already They are warning of its risks. The reason is simple: the Trend It consists neither more nor less than to rise the eyelashes to achieve One more “manly” appearance. Aesthetic issues apart, experts remember that it is a horrible idea for health. “Ojito with this”, warn. Tessels and fashion. The relationship between eyelashes and fashion is old. A lot in fact. In the nineteenth century the perfume Eugène-primel already invented a Mask for them So popular that his last name was linked to the world of cosmetics. Since then the industry has devised false, curizers, serums and a long etc. of products designed for eyelashes. It is not surprising. After all, they have helped to lock great stars like Elizabeth Taylor. 11 tricks to dominate Tik tok Goodbye tabs (male). Perhaps because of that ancient association between long eyelashes and female faces, on Instagram, Tiktok and X has begun to be the opposite: men who are shaved. Arrives A quick search To find a good handful of videos (especially on the Bytedance platform) of boys determined to get rid of the hairs that border their eyelids. They do it with the help of barbers, machinillas or scissors. @billybeebaddestbitch Eyelashes are not their to show masculine or femininity, they are Needed to Protect Your Eyes! This is a whole New Level of Stupid. What’s Next Removal Maple? Ridiculous! 😳 #ToxicMsCulinity #Masculinity #Masculine #Feminine #Crazy #trend #WTF #omg #Sick #Eyelashes #Beauty #Menshealth #Mentalhealth #insecurities #MenophtikTok #fyp #Shocking #badidea #Awful #SCary #ToxicMSCulinityCck ♬ Disease – Lady Gaga But … What is the reason? Supposedly look for an aspect “More masculine”as the CNN chain explained recently in an article about the trend. The same idea can be read in some videos that circulate through networks. The Truth The Barber Artist specialized account He has shared one for example in which he ensures that the Trend He is “totally true” and recounts a specific case: “I saw a client to ask a barber to shave the eyelashes. He said he did not like how long they were and that his wife criticized them because they seemed feminine.” Another account of an Auckland Barber (New Zealand) has shared a video in which a hairdresser can be seen by profileing the tabs of a teenager with a machinilla. “I wanted to look more masculine by cutting the eyelashes,” Comment. They are not unique cases. Tiktok circulate More pieces that basically show the same: men shaking their eyelashes to have a “Virile” appearance. History is complicated. That’s how it is. Not everyone believes that the objective of those who shave the eyelashes is to strengthen their masculinity. There is Who slides that the end (at least part of the videos) is another good: strengthen hair. According to them they do it with the belief that he will return to grow longer and thick. The most widespread theory points, however, in the first direction, which relates the Trend with the search for a more virile aspect. “No, they don’t do it for their eyelashes to grow thicker. They do it for toxic masculinity and because they believe they look more masculine with shaved eyelashes,” he says Another user. @halal.barbers Client Wanted to look masculine by Trimming His Eyelashes #Eyelashes #Barber #Halalbarbers #halalbarber #viral #trend #trending #barbershop #Explore #perthbarber #AUCKLANDBARBER ♬ Way Down We Go – Kaleo Where are they doing it? In Tiktok they can be found above all pieces in Englishbut that does not mean that the phenomenon is limited only to countries like the US. Fashion has extended enough to find also Videos in Spanish and has caught the attention of media as New York Post, Buzzfeed either The CNN. Yeah The viral video That supposedly the trend was or not a trolley, the truth is that it has extended so much that the CNN gives it for a practice that other men are replicating. Not just that. He has also made the alarms jump. “Don’t do it!” You can find videos of men paying for their tabs to be shaved and videos of health professionals can be found (more and more) warning that it is a lousy idea. In February Helena Rodero, a pharmacist with about 1.2 million followers on Instagram, Warning of risks of the tendency to ocular health. “The eyelashes have a very important function, which is to protect the eye. They avoid the entry of particles and sweat.” In a similar line they have ruled Nurse Jorge Ángel either Fernández Pharmacistwho warn that shaving the eyelashes can lead to a greater risk of eye irritation and contract infections. It is not even a good idea for those who want hair to improve its growth. “Shaving the eyelashes will not make them grow stronger or long. In fact it could damage the follicles and affect their normal growth,” remember Fernández Pharmacist. @juanitoecutz Let me know for you Eyelash Trim Needs i’m Located Here In Grand Prairie Tx📍 Link In Bio Too Book‼ ️💈 #Arlingtonbarber #Gandprairiebarber #DallasBarber #dfwbarber #fyp ♬ Original Sound – Dallas Barber Think twice. “Is it a tendency to wear a more masculine look? Explain Markys tend their 2.5 million followers in Tiktok. The surgeon Vickie Lee Add a reason To better think of saying goodbye to the eyelashes: “In addition to acting as a barrier and triggering the protective reflex of flickering, the eyelashes help reduce air flow over the eyes, keep moisture and healthy eyes, filtering sunlight, reducing glare and improving visual quality.” The trend coincides with a reinforcement of the PERICA and its stereotypes about masculinity in social networks. Images | Tiktok In Xataka | “I do not go out again with a Span

France has put the soy in the spotlight. Science is not so clear that it is a good idea

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Soy has become one more element in our kitchens. Soja drinks, for example, are no longer a simple substitute for milk used by vegan people, but as one more drink. However, soy has also aroused the suspicions of some, generally focused around one of its components. Now those who have just paid their food in this food have been the French health authorities. Advise against. A few weeks ago, ANSES, the National Agency for Health Security of Food, the Environment and French work, issued a recommendation in which soybean products were advised in collective restoration. The motive wielded is in the isoflavones, but Not everyone is convinced in which it has been a good idea. Soy and isoflavonas. The Isoflavonas They are estrogen -like substances (hormones linked mainly to female reproduction) that are produced by some plants. Among the plants that produce these compounds are soybeans, and also to a lesser extent in other legumes and vegetables. The impacts on the human health of these compounds have generated interest in the community, scientific, not only for the risks that could entail but also for potential benefits. Since these compounds can be “coupled” to our hormonal receptors, the possible risks associated with the consumption of these phytoestrogens usually associate with their impact on our hormonal system, especially in that of children and adolescents, even in the growth stage. Avoid excessive consumption. According to details Radio France Internationalthe new measure is focused on avoiding excessive consumption, through the recommendation to eliminate soy products from collective restoration. This includes from nurseries to elderly residences, as well as other teaching centers and the canteens of companies. The new guide of the French agency establishes toxicological reference values ​​(TRV) by ingestion that try to delimit the safe consumption of these compounds (those that are below the value), of which they could begin to suppose a risk. According to the agency, these values ​​would be 0.02 mg per kg of body mass and day in the general population, and 0.01 mg/kg of body mass and day in pregnant women and children. Doubts. The measure has generated some skepticism. As It is explained from Sincthe new limits are based on studies conducted with animal models. While this type of studies represent a fundamental pillar when studying the impact of some substances, extrapolating its results to humans is not always simple. There are at least three factors that could alter these results continue to explain the article. The first, metabolic: mice metabilize these compounds less efficiently, which causes them to accumulate more easily in their body. Secondly, because some of the studies would have been using high doses that would not correspond to those we absorb when we consume isoflavones orally. Finally, the intestinal microbiota could also play a fundamental role in our absorption of these compounds. And in this sense, the gastrointestinal microbioma of humans and mice differs too much to be able to perform reliable extrapolations. And in humans? As they detail from Sinchumans do not yield especially alarming results. Rather on the contrary. These studies, including A technical review published in 2022 In the magazine Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionThey tend to point out that endocrine disruption tests associated with soybean consumption or its isoflavones are not detected. Controlling food concentration. Although the recommendations to collective restoration have focused the debate of the new French recommendations, these also pay attention to soy producers and food manufacturers. Not all soy varieties and not all products of this legume contain comparable isoflavone concentrations. That is why It is recommended To these sectors choose plant varieties, agronomic techniques and elaboration processes that minimize the presence of these compounds. In Xataka | In full tariff war, the EU has found a weapon to press the United States: soybeans Image | Tankilevitch polyina

Finding quick and reliable tests for Alzheimer’s is a key mission for science. And we have a new candidate

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Ahead of Alzheimer’s. It is a simple but difficult objective to achieve since the symptoms of this disease tend to appear when the disorder is advanced and has already caused important damage to our brain. A difficult objective but what It can help us treat the disease With greater efficacy, managing to delay the appearance of some of its symptoms such as cognitive deterioration. Maybe one day helps us cure it. In the blood. A group of researchers has tested a new blood test aimed at the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. The test is based on a biomarker present in the blood, P-TAU217, which shows changes long before the appearance of symptoms in people with the disease. The study showed precision when detecting the disease greater than 90%. These results also did not depend on the age or gender of the participants, either on the existence of comorbidities or whether the test was carried out by specialists or primary care personnel. This marker can be measured with simple and cheap tools and the process is automatic, which can facilitate detection in various circumstances, democratizing the diagnosis of the disease. “This is an important step to bring simple blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease to health systems around the world,” said the team responsible for the essay in a press release. P-TAU217. Detection methods based on the P-TAU217 compound They are not exactly new. These types of tools are already implemented in the United States and it is expected that they will soon reach the rest of the world, says the team itself. The new method seeks to offer a simpler alternative to the available tools. The new study analyzed the precision of this New Test in the conditions in which it would be used, not only in specialized clinics but also in primary care. In three countries. The essay was carried out from 1,767 participants with cognitive symptoms distributed in three countries: Spain, Italy and Sweden. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Nature Medicine. The New Test included two cut points. One of them served to interpret the negative results: from this threshold the test rules out the presence of the disease. The second of the cut points serves to find the positive ones: this threshold shows the presence of the disease. This leaves, between one cut and another, a “gray zone” in which the results are inconcuing, however the use of a test with a single threshold slightly reduced the accuracy of the diagnostic tool. Above 90%. The study showed that the test achieved an accuracy between 92% and 94% when used in its two cuts mode. However, this precision fell to levels between 83% and 87% when only a cutting point was used and applied to more advanced ages. “When the method was tested in patient sides, the precision was between 92% and 94%,” NOëlle Warmenhoven explainedfirst signer of the study. “This is promising since this method will probably become one of the most used in clinical practice around the world.” In Xataka | We have a new “theory of all” to understand Alzheimer’s. Your key is in small granules Image | Kaboomps.com

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