According to Dr. Molly Hembree, an American nutrition expert, eating seven foods regularly helps improve the quality of sleep at night.
The expert indicates that these foods are:
1 - Sour cherries - because they contain melatonin - the main sleep hormone. Drinking cherry juice at night helps prolong sleep and solve the problem of waking up in the middle of the night.
2 - Kiwi- because it contains a high percentage of dietary fiber. In addition to improving digestion, it helps you sleep well. For this reason, you must eat kiwi every day for four weeks.
3 - Turkey meat - Turkey meat contains the amino acid tryptophan, which affects the sleep-wake cycle and acts as a precursor to the neurotransmitter serotonin.
4 - Salmon - Salmon is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which, in addition to playing an important role in cardiovascular health, also improve sleep.
5 - Yogurt - The alpha-lactalbumin protein found in yogurt helps you wake up easily. Calcium, found in dairy products, also helps you sleep easily.
6 - Pumpkin seeds - Pumpkin seeds contain magnesium, which is beneficial for the nervous system. According to scientists, a low level of this element in the body reduces the duration of sleep.
7 - Tomatoes - In addition to melatonin, tomatoes contain lycopene, the low level of which in the body reduces sleep duration. To obtain greater benefit, it is recommended to eat tomatoes two hours before bedtime.
Digital twins may become the basis for successful personalized health treatment!
Scientists believe that within five to 10 years, “in silico” trials, where hundreds of virtual organs are used to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of drugs, could become routine.
While patient-specific organ models can be used to personalize treatment and avoid medical complications.
Digital twins are computational models of physical objects or processes, updated using data from their real-world counterparts. In medicine, this means combining huge amounts of data about the functioning of genes, proteins, cells and entire body systems with patients' personal data to create virtual models of their organs – and, ultimately, their entire body.
Professor Peter Coveney, director of the Center for Computational Science at University College London and co-author of Virtual You, said: “If you practice medicine today, a lot of it is not very scientific. Often, it is the equivalent of driving a car and deciding where to go next by looking at "Rearview mirror: Where you're trying to figure out how to treat the patient in front of you based on past cases with similar conditions. What a digital twin does is use your data inside a model that represents how your physiology and pathology works."
Already, companies are using patient-specific heart models to help design medical devices, while Barcelona startup ELEM BioTech is offering companies the ability to test drugs and devices on simulated models of human hearts.
Speaking at the Digital Twins Conference at the Royal Society of Medicine in London, Dr Caroline Rooney, from Queen Mary University of London, described efforts to develop personalized heart models that would help surgeons plan surgery on patients with irregular and chaotic heartbeats.
“Often, surgeons use an approach that works on average, but making patient-specific predictions, and then predicting long-term outcomes, is a real challenge,” Rooney said. “I think there are many applications in cardiovascular disease where we will see this type of approach.” "Approaches, such as deciding what type of valve to use, or where to insert it during a heart valve replacement."
Artificial intelligence experts at the pharmaceutical company GSK are working with cancer researchers at King's College London to build digital replicas of patients' cancerous tumors using images and genetic and molecular data, in addition to growing patients' cancer cells in 3D and testing their response to treatment.
By applying machine learning to this data, scientists can predict how individual patients will respond to different medications and dosing regimens.
Proof-of-concept trials are expected to begin next year.
Researchers are also working on developing digital twins of pregnancy, which may help in developing medications for conditions such as placental insufficiency or preeclampsia, and better understanding the physiological processes underlying pregnancy and labor.
Professor Christine Myers, from Columbia University in New York, is building models of the cervix, uterus and membranes surrounding the fetus, with the aim of combining them into a single model for the individual that can predict how pregnancy will occur.
There are also attempts to build digital twins for hospitals to try to improve the efficiency of individual patients' movement through the healthcare system.
Spain : Finding common traits among centenarians
Spanish scientists have discovered common personality traits among people who live a long time.
The JoHS portal said that scientists from the University of Madrid identified the main personality traits of centenarians, and published the results of their study in the Journal of Happiness Studies.
The study included nearly 14,000 centenarians, ranging in age from 100 to 107 years, allowing scientists to conduct an in-depth analysis of their personality traits.
The study found that centenarians have 19 common traits, including honesty, love of learning, gratitude, a high level of intelligence, activity and curiosity. Scientists particularly highlighted curiosity, recognizing it as one of the most important traits. In addition, cheerfulness, religious faith, courage, and a sense of humor were important factors. These qualities, according to experts, help maintain health, including brain health.
Scientists plan to continue research in this area in order to study the impact of these traits on human life expectancy in more detail. The researchers said: “Studying the life characteristics of centenarians opens new horizons for us to achieve healthy aging.
The authors of the study stressed that it is important to remain curious, actively learn new things, travel, read and develop intellectual activity, which increases the chances of a long and happy life.