Travel to Health

Figure 1.  Dr. Eric Berg's cheat sheet on how to fix frequent urination Your  kidneys  are part of your urinary tract – along with your  bladder  and the tubes that connect these organs (the  urethra  and  ureter ). The main purpose of your  kidneys  is to clean the waste from your blood. The good news is that  kidney infections aren’t common . They’re essentially a much more serious urinary tract infection. [1] Video 1.   Frequent bladder infections are tied to breast cancer (YouTube link ) Bladder Infection vs Kidney Infection Bladder infections very rarely progress to kidney infections . You will be pretty sick if you have a kidney infection , and it’s important that you seek treatment right away . Symptoms of a bladder infection are: Urgency and frequency in using the bathroom Burning with urination while symptoms of a  kidney infection  are much more severe and include: [1] Fever and flu-like symptoms Lo...

Even if you have great genes and look much younger than you are, age-related changes in our facial appearance are unavoidable. Those changes reflect our joys and challenges in life. Over time, as stem cells decrease, our skin becomes thinner, which decreases its protection.   How the Face Ages As we age, number of stem cells are reduced.  Dozens of changes take place as the years add up, some of them obvious and familiar: [1] Foreheads expand as hairlines retreat Ears often get a bit longer because the cartilage in them grows Tips of noses may droop because connective tissue supporting nasal cartilage weakens . There are also: Skin wrinkles   Because two components of our skin — collagen and elastin — degenerate By your mid-20s, the collagen in your body starts to diminish, and by the time you reach your 80s, you have around 4 times less  collagen Those deep ones in the forehead and between the eyebrows are called expression lines (or animation lines) They'...