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What you drink in the morning, protects the liver

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Steaming cup of coffee or tea in the morning not only cheer you, but stand on guard your liver! A team of researchers from Duke University (North Carolina, USA) concluded that caffeine reduces the risk of fatty liver (hepatic "obesity") in patients with non-alcoholic liver disease. According to statistics, 70% of people suffering from diabetes and obesity , eventually become "happy" owners of steatosis. Unfortunately, the radical cure of the disease does not exist, even though it may provide some degree of control with diet and exercise. The research team led by Dr. Ian Paul and Rohit Sinha, conducted their experiments on cell cultures and laboratory animals. It turned out that increasing the proportion of caffeine in the diet past contributed to the accelerated metabolism of fat in the liver cells. The authors concluded that the people in order to achieve the above effect should drink four cups of tea or coffee a day. "We have become true pioneers i...

Therapy for smoking kills the pleasure of nicotine

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Can't kick cigarettes? A vaccine may one day help by preventing nicotine from reaching its target in the brain, according to research published this week. Most smoking therapies do a poor job of stopping the habit 70% to 80% of smokers who use an approved drug therapy to quit relapse. Scientists say this is because the targets of existing therapies are imperfect, only slightly weakening nicotine's ability to find its target in the brain. So some scientists have been trying a different approach creation of a vaccine. It would work like this: People would inject the vaccine like a shot, and the vaccine would create nicotine antibodies, molecules that can snatch up nicotine from the bloodstream before it reaches the brain. The vaccine could be used by smokers who want to quit or people who are worried about getting addicted to cigarettes in the future. Researchers have tried to create vaccines in the past, but the ones they've come up with have not been particularly effe...