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Pine bark extract boosts hair density in women

Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine (Germany), March 3 2023. 

A randomized trial reported in Health Science Reports resulted in improvements in hair density and scalp water loss among women who received Pycnogenol French maritime pine bark extract in comparison with a placebo.

“Female pattern hair loss affects females of all ages with a trend to increase after menopause,” Carr Cai and colleagues wrote. “This disorder may have significant psychological impact and lead to anxiety and depression.”

The study included 63 postmenopausal women aged 45–65 years. Thirty-three participants received 50 milligrams orally administered Pycnogenol three times per day while the remainder were given a placebo for six months.  

Average hair density was similar in both groups at the beginning of the trial, with 225.8 hairs per square centimeter (hairs/cm2) in the Pycnogenol group and 226.6 hairs/cm2 in the placebo group. Hair density increased significantly to 293.6 hairs/cm2 at two months and 278.6 hairs/cm2 at six months among those who received Pycnogenol while increasing nonsignificantly in the placebo group. According to Dr Cai and coauthors, “This beneficial effect was associated with a decrease in resting flux of the scalp skin, which might indicate an improvement of microcirculation.” 

A significant transient decrease in transepidermal water loss also occurred among participants who received Pycnogenol but not among those who received a placebo. Among potential mechanisms for Pycnogenol against female pattern hair loss, the authors suggested that the compound’s antioxidant effect may play a beneficial role. 

“Oral intake of Pycnogenol might have the potential to reduce hair loss in postmenopausal women,” they concluded.

Garlic extract could help cystic fibrosis patients fight infection

University of Edinburgh, February 24th, 2023

A chemical found in garlic can kill bacteria that cause life-threatening lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis, research suggests.

The study is the first to show that the chemical – known as allicin – could be an effective treatment against a group of infectious bacteria that is highly resistant to most antibiotics.

Allicin is produced naturally by garlic bulbs to ward off a closely-related group of plant pathogens found in soil and water habitats. In the 1980s, the bacteria – known as the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) – emerged as a cause of serious and transmissible lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis.

Researchers found that allicin – which can be extracted by crushing raw garlic – inhibits the growth of bacteria and, at higher doses, kills the plant pathogens. The team suggests that allicin kills Bcc bacteria by chemically modifying key enzymes. This deactivates them and halts important biological processes within the pathogens’ cells.

The team believes allicin-containing remedies could be used in combination with existing antibiotics to treat Bcc infections. However, the researchers say it is important to pinpoint the mechanisms by which allicin kills the bacteria before the chemical can be incorporated into new treatments.

The Bcc are highly versatile plant and human pathogens that have not been studied to the same extent as other superbugs – such as MRSA – the team says.

The bacteria produce potent antimicrobial agents which kill bacteria and fungi, making them naturally drug-resistant and allowing them to survive in polluted and antibiotic-rich environments.

Sleep too much or too little and you might get sick more, scientists find

University of Bergen (Norway), March 3, 2023

A good night’s sleep can solve all sorts of problems—but scientists have now discovered new evidence that sleeping well may make you less vulnerable to infection. Scientists at the University of Bergen recruited medical students working in doctors’ surgeries to hand out short questionnaires to patients, asking about sleep quality and recent infections. They found that patients who reported sleeping too little or too much were more likely also to report a recent infection, and patients who experienced chronic sleep problems were more likely to report needing antibiotics.

“Most previous observational studies have looked at the association between sleep and infection in a sample of the general population,” said Dr. Ingeborg Forthun, corresponding author of the study published in Frontiers in Psychiatry. “We wanted to assess this association among patients in primary care, where we know that the prevalence of sleep problems is much higher than in the population at large.”

Forthun and her colleagues gave medical students a questionnaire and asked them to hand it out to patients in the waiting-rooms of the general practitioners’ surgeries where the students were working. 1,848 surveys were collected across Norway. The surveys asked people to describe their sleep quality—how long they typically sleep, how well they feel they sleep, and when they prefer to sleep—as well as whether they had had any infections or used any antibiotics in the past three months. The survey also contained a scale which identifies cases of chronic insomnia disorder.

The scientists found that patients who reported sleeping less than six hours a night were 27% more likely to report an infection, while patients sleeping more than nine hours were 44% more likely to report one. Less than six hours’ sleep, or chronic insomnia, also raised the risk that you would need an antibiotic to overcome an infection.

“The higher risk of reporting an infection among patients who reported short or long sleep duration is not that surprising as we know that having an infection can cause both poor sleep and sleepiness,” said Forthun. “But the higher risk of an infection among those with a chronic insomnia disorder indicate that the direction of this relationship also goes in the other direction; poor sleep can make your more susceptible to an infection.”

 

Researchers find link between impatience and faster aging 

National University of Singapore & Rockefeller University, February 23, 2023 

Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is an emerging marker of aging at the cellular level, but little is known regarding its link with poor decision making that often entails being overly impatient.  A team of researchers with members from the U.S. and Singapore has found that young women who scored as more impatient on a common psychology test, tended to have shorter telomere length than their more patient peers. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes the experiments they conducted, the testing they carried out and the results they found.

In this new study, the researchers report that they have found what appears to be an external cause of telomere shortening, which could by extension mean, they have found a human trait that causes people to age faster.

The experiment consisted of enlisting the assistance of 1,158 Chinese undergraduate students (aged 21 to 22)—each was asked to participate in a common psychology experiment that involves giving participants a certain amount of money now, or more money at a later date. The experiment has been used as a means for measuring, among other things, the degree of patience a person has. After the psychology test, all of the students submitted to a medical procedure that involved taking blood samples and measuring the length of their telomeres. In comparing the result of the psychology test with telomere length, the researchers found a trend—female students who scored as impatient in the first test, were found to have on average shorter telomere length—there was no such connection with male students. The researchers suggest their data indicates that impatience was the cause of the shorter telomere length, but it is also possible that it works the other way around—those people with shorter telomeres are going to have a shorter life span, and thus they become impatient, somehow subconsciously knowing that they are going to have less time to live their life than their long-telomered peers.

Notably, oxytocin and estrogen receptor polymorphisms temper accelerated cellular aging in young females who tend to make impatient choices. 

New study finds forgoing one food may treat eosinophilic esophagitis as well as excluding six

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, March 1, 2023

Eliminating animal milk alone from the diet of adults with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is as effective at treating the disease as eliminating animal milk plus five other common foods, a new clinical trial has found. For people with EoE whose disease remains active after they forgo animal milk, a more restrictive diet may help them achieve remission, according to the researchers. These findings were published today in the journal The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology.

“Diet-based therapy for eosinophilic esophagitis will be much easier to follow for many people if it involves cutting just one food from the diet rather than six,” said Hugh Auchincloss, M.D., acting director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of NIH.

EoE is a chronic disease characterized by an overabundance of white blood cells called eosinophils in the esophagus. Allergic inflammation due to food drives the disease by damaging the esophagus and preventing it from working properly. For people with EoE, swallowing even small amounts of food can be a painful and stressful choking experience. About 160,000 people in the United States are living with EoE.

Excluding certain foods from the diet has been a cornerstone of EoE treatment. During the early 2000s, researchers found that eliminating six common food triggers of esophageal injury—milk, egg, wheat, soy, fish and nuts—substantially reduced signs and symptoms of EoE. This six-food elimination diet (6FED) became a common approach to managing the disease.

The new findings come from the first multi-site, randomized trial comparing the 6FED with a one-food elimination diet (1FED) in adults with EoE.

The investigators found that 34% of participants on 6FED and 40% of participants on 1FED achieved remission after six weeks of diet therapy, a difference that was not statistically significant. The two diets also had a similar impact across several other measures, including reduction in EoE symptoms and effect on quality of life. Thus, 1FED and 6FED were equally effective at treating EoE, an unexpected finding.

The researchers also discovered that nearly half of people who did not respond to 1FED attained remission after treatment with the more restrictive 6FED, while more than 80% of the non-responders to 6FED achieved remission with oral steroids.

Taken together, the investigators conclude that 1FED is a reasonable first-line diet therapy option in adults with EoE, and that effective therapies are available for people who do not achieve remission after 1FED or 6FED.

Self-compassion may protect people from the harmful effects of perfectionism

Australian Catholic University, February 21, 2023  

Relating to oneself in a healthy way can help weaken the association between perfectionism and depression, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Madeleine Ferrari from Australian Catholic University, and colleagues.

Perfectionistic people often push themselves harder than others to succeed, but can also fall into the trap of being self-critical and overly concerned about making mistakes. When the perfectionist fails, they often experience depression and burnout. In this study, Ferrari and colleagues considered whether self-compassion, a kind way of relating to oneself, might help temper the link between perfectionist tendencies and depression.

The researchers administered anonymous questionnaires to assess perfectionism, depression, and self-compassion across 541 adolescents and 515 adults. Their analyses of these self-assessments revealed that self-compassion may help uncouple perfectionism and depression.

The replication of this finding in two groups of differently-aged people suggests that self-compassion may help moderate the link between perfectionism and depression across the lifespan. The authors suggest that self-compassion interventions could be a useful way to undermine the effects of perfectionism, but future experimental or intervention research is needed to fully assess this possibility.

“Self-compassion, the practice of self-kindness, consistently reduces the strength of the relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and depression for both adolescents and adults,” says lead author Madeleine Ferrari.