Nitric oxide (NO) is a gas that is synthesised by nearly every type of cell in the human body in most body tissues, including the endothelial cells within the blood vessels. Its role in the body was [...]
Blood pressure is the force that your blood exerts against the walls of your blood vessels. There is a range of blood pressure measurements that are considered to be healthy. If your measurement exc [...]
All over the world, musculoskeletal disorders have become the second most common cause of disability and a global threat to healthy ageing. Arthritis, a musculoskeletal disorder, contributes signifi [...]
Do you sometimes go into a room at home and forget what you want there? When you return to what you were doing earlier, do you remember what you wanted in the other room? That is short-term memory l [...]
The digestive tract, the gut, influences the health of the whole body through the digestion of food, absorption of nutrients, elimination of waste, and control of the immune system. The digestive tr [...]