How did I get my fifteen hours?
Blogging and research: 3 hours
Walking on campus:
Monday - Friday: 30 minutes daily
2.5 hours
To the store Saturday:
40 min
Exercise:
30 min run MWF
1.5 hours
4.5 hours weekly
4.5* 4 (1 month) 18 hours
18+3=21 hours!
Wow lots of work into this project!!
In closing I just want to share how much I learned! I want to keep trying to change things that may not be too healthy for me, and to keep on researching. It's amazing how many conflicting views there are on many medical related subjects! Being able to distinguish what is correct and what is not is hard!
http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/scientists-anti-alzheimers-gene-mutation-151901443.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=US&.lang=en-US
This article specifically talks about finding the anti-Alzheimer's gene. It is Yahoo news, so not quite sure what to think of the accuracy of the article, but I am hoping to do more research about it and let you guys know what I find!
Until next time! :)
Monday, July 16, 2012
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Rest in peace little Alex Hansen!
Alex was a beautiful, smart, brave, young girl who fought cancer 9 years.
She was in my ward in New Hampshire and has recently passed away due to a terminal brain cancer.
I wanted to post about her, because growing up in my ward she was always so happy, and had the biggest smile on her face even though she had been through so much in her short lifetime already. Her family has a blog about her, and it shows through her actions what a special girl she is! Her mom is an RN and speaks of the medical terminology of her condition. I am glad I am taking the DNA class, I now understand what is going on medically with her.
Living in the Boston area, I was privileged enough to tour the Boston Children's hospital research facility. Cancer is a top funded, and researched area in their labs. Dr. Faulkner was Surgeon General there for 14 years and after, became a surgical researcher. Angiogenesis was a hypothesis of his, that stated that a tumor attracts blood vessels to it, that will nourish it and allow it to grow. He guessed that if you get rid of the blood vessels, the tumor would wither and die.
I know for the past couple posts I have done things about cancer, and this post will probably be the most bounced around one of all, but since we have been learning about cancer, so many different things in my life that I have learned, or even wondered about have been about cancer. I think it is interesting the many studies that are going on since one man like Dr. Folkman even thought about angiogenesis.
SOOO angiogenesis how do we stop it? Dr. Folkman thought if you could stop the tumor from turning "on" you would stop it from growing.
1. Stop the switch
2. Testing is under development that would test blood or unine to check if angiogenesis has turned on.
3. delay the angiogenic switch--by giving naturally-occurring, nontoxic angiogenesis inhibitors preventively
Now there is a lot more going on, but these were some of the areas that were brought up on the tour.
Second to last post!!!
Alex was a beautiful, smart, brave, young girl who fought cancer 9 years.
She was in my ward in New Hampshire and has recently passed away due to a terminal brain cancer.
I wanted to post about her, because growing up in my ward she was always so happy, and had the biggest smile on her face even though she had been through so much in her short lifetime already. Her family has a blog about her, and it shows through her actions what a special girl she is! Her mom is an RN and speaks of the medical terminology of her condition. I am glad I am taking the DNA class, I now understand what is going on medically with her.
Living in the Boston area, I was privileged enough to tour the Boston Children's hospital research facility. Cancer is a top funded, and researched area in their labs. Dr. Faulkner was Surgeon General there for 14 years and after, became a surgical researcher. Angiogenesis was a hypothesis of his, that stated that a tumor attracts blood vessels to it, that will nourish it and allow it to grow. He guessed that if you get rid of the blood vessels, the tumor would wither and die.
I know for the past couple posts I have done things about cancer, and this post will probably be the most bounced around one of all, but since we have been learning about cancer, so many different things in my life that I have learned, or even wondered about have been about cancer. I think it is interesting the many studies that are going on since one man like Dr. Folkman even thought about angiogenesis.
SOOO angiogenesis how do we stop it? Dr. Folkman thought if you could stop the tumor from turning "on" you would stop it from growing.
1. Stop the switch
2. Testing is under development that would test blood or unine to check if angiogenesis has turned on.
3. delay the angiogenic switch--by giving naturally-occurring, nontoxic angiogenesis inhibitors preventively
Now there is a lot more going on, but these were some of the areas that were brought up on the tour.
Second to last post!!!
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