Tuesday, May 27, 2014

The workout regimen for people with HIV

People who have been living with HIV don’t have to worry about injury or illness as much as the side effects of the disease getting in the way. "The long-term survivors, have issues like more inflammation, more joint aches. Vergel said. "Some of us may have neuropathy, which is pain in the hands and feet." There are three categories Nelson Vergel, the founder of PoWer USA an HIV-wellness non-profit organization, puts HIV-positive people into when he discusses weight training. Himself HIV-positive for 30 years, Vergel breaks it down to: those whose health is failing; long-term survivors; and those whom Vergel calls the"newbies." If you’re not in good health, or you’re not reacting positively to various drug cocktails, you need to engage in exercise only under medical supervision.

The workout regimen for "newbies" can usually be the same one as anyone else’s. People who contracted HIV today have the additional advantage of not being exposed to the toxic drugs that once were the only way to try to prevent full-blown AIDS. "We used to treat people early and hard, with toxic drugs," Vergel said. "Now we’re treating people with better drugs that aren’t as toxic. So for the young generation, life is a little easier, and they can have an undetectable viral load and work out and move on with their lives." That said, HIV and the meds that fight its spread can bring with them side effects that impact a solid workout regimen, like joint ache, fatigue, and pain and weakness in the feet in hands. The key is learning the difference between soreness and injury. Soreness is a part of any weight training, especially at the beginning. Pain that endures and affect your daily routine means you’ve overdone it. The best cure is usually a few days off. Anyone planning on hitting the gym needs to keep safety first. Stacking the barbells with so much weight that your form is terrible won’t impress anyone. Instead, concentrate on low-impact workouts: more reps, less weight, which focuses on gaining muscle tone. Fatigue is another potential side effect of HIV and its attendant meds. A jolt of caffeine may be enough to get you going. Aside from a Starbucks grande, there are plenty of "energy drinks" whose basic ingredient is caffeine to give you a proverbial shot in the arm. As for supplements, Vergel recommends vitamin D. It’s key for bone density, which can help ward off workout injuries. And some HIV meds reduce the vitamin D in your body.

Whey is a great source of protein, and studies have shown it can increase the body’s production of T-cells. Many commercial protein powders use whey as their base. Taking creatine, a naturally occurring substance in the human body, in powder or pill form has become increasingly popular in recent years as a legal and effective bodybuilding supplement. But know that at least one study suggests it has no benefits for people living with HIV. You should also be aware that the Food and Drugs Administration does not regulate protein powders, energy drinks and supplements. A controversial new comprehensive study found that many supplements not only contain only trace amounts of what is claimed on the label, but also some contain none at all and some even contain substances that are harmful.

Because of possible interactions with meds and for a host of other reasons, all pozzers need to consult their doctors before using any supplement. And, even if you’re healthy and your viral load is undetectable, you should probably still discuss it if you haven’t lifted weights for a long time. Chances are, your doctor will probably encourage you, because he knows that most people cannot only weight train safely and effectively but also derive a host of benefits from it, physical and mental. Today, there’s no reason why having HIV should prevent having the body you want.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Proper Care Needed to Avoid AIDS

They must take extra vitamins,nutrients and proteins if they experience lack of stamina, energy and vigor.They will have to bring normalcy to the blood circulation inside the corpse.
Blood transmission is another greater drawback which must be handled properly. If you discover that the donor is affected by HIV virus, you should not allow your doctor to pump his blood into your corpse. It doesn’t matter how much   you have power and strength to check the disease. AIDS will eat into your cadaver.
If you log at authorized sites,you will have an excellent scope to read e-books and medical research stuff which present different tips to keep the body intact by overtaking AIDS.   Finally, you will have to learn steps to rebuild corpse steadily.  AIDS gifts humans nothing but death penalty.

Corpse builders should try their level best to lead their lives peacefully without suffering from cognitive trauma and stress. In this connection, a person should do a comparison study to choose useful bodybuilding programs which guide people to improve the immune structure for the preventing of fatal bodily disorders like AIDS.
Finally, you can contact any professional training school, condition care center and clinic for gathering information about the newly launched bodybuilding programs which can help  AIDS affected guys to live several years more comfortably.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

People with AIDS and AS

For the first years of the HIV epidemic, people with AIDS would literally waste away, their weight shrinking to starvation levels, as doctors looked helplessly on. The advent of the antiviral "cocktail" of meds in the mid-1990s greatly reduced wasting, but it still happens, especially in the developing earth, where HIV is still often referred to as "the wasting ailment."

The biggest reasons some people experience wasting include not taking med, which is yet another argument why conjunction pills have become so critical in helping pozzers stay healthy. But there are many other contributing factors to wasting, including poor appetite; side effects of various med, such as nausea, lack of taste or dry mouth, lack of energy to shop or motivation to cook; and depression.

HIV causes the corpse to burn calories fast, which was one of the main reasons why so many people suffered wasting in those dark early years. In addition, over the years, as the corpse fights HIV infection, it develops hormone deficiencies that cause the corpse to lose nutrients, as well as get-up-and-go and, last but not least, sexual drive.

To stimulate the desire, many people resort to a product that, since the ’60s, has been infamous for bringing on the "munchies" pot. HIV activists and organizations have been instrumental in changing drug laws. A pill form of the distillate in marijuana that increases appetite has been around for several years, although some people still seem to respond better to the real thing, whether smoked or added to food than pills. To combat wasting, build up muscle, and for overall condition, doctors in the mid-’90s discovered another popular illegal medication: anabolic steroids. The same "juice" that athletes and bodybuilders have been taking for years for better performance or to get big fast was doing the same thing for long-term pozzers, that is, boosting testosterone, the hormone responsible for our sex drive as well as increased muscle mass.

Pozzers routinely suffer from low testosterone, which is responsible for a lot of the fatigue (and, in some cases, depression) often found in HIV-positive men. Nearly half of all HIV-positive men, by some estimates, may suffer from a testosterone level low enough to cause decreased appetite, depression, low libido, poor food metabolism and even HIV-related illnesses. Not surprisingly, doctors in Los Angeles, the mecca of bodybuilding, first became aware of the beneficial effects of ’roids for people with HIV. A lot of these doctors had been prescribing them to bodybuilders on the down low, so they were more familiar with them. From there, anabolic steroid remedy began to creep into the mainstream. In 1994, a researcher at Columbia University in New York conducted a pioneering study that found people with low CDR cells and testosterone levels showed improvement in their mood and sex drive. If steroids sound dangerous, compare the side effects of antidepressant medications.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Actions of Testosterone and signs of testosterone deficiency

The actions of testosterone in peripheral tissues are mediated by the action of DHT on androgen receptors. Testosterone accounts for sexual differentiation and maturation and the development of secondary sex characteristics at puberty. In addition to its action on the hypothalamic-pituitary axis, testosterone acts on the cerebral cortex. Many of the behavioral characteristics that we associate with maleness are, to some extent, the result of the action of either testosterone or DHT on the brain. For example, in the limbic system, testosterone and DHT stimulate libido. These hormones also increase skeletal muscle mass, cardiac muscle mass, and the formation and mineralization of bone, and they stimulate erythropoiesis. In short, testosterone and DHT have far-reaching effects, which extend beyond sexual differentiation and fertility.

It follows, then, that the symptoms and signs of testosterone deficiency, whether associated with AIDS or with other chronic diseases, include decreases in:
- Energy.
- Sense of well-being.
- Libido
- Muscle strength.
- Muscle mass.
- Erythropoiesis.
- Bone mineralization.

Early in the course of the AIDS epidemic, these symptoms were considered to be manifestations of AIDS, but some astute investigators recognized that they could be associated with a deficiency of testosterone.

About 60% of testosterone in the circulation is bound to sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG); 38% is bound to albumin; and only 2% is unbound, or free. Testosterone that is bound to SHBG does not easily dissociate, but that bound to albumin can dissociate.

The laboratory assay for free testosterone is more expensive than that for total testosterone. Thus, many laboratories determine only the latter unless they are specifically requested to assay the former. The normal serum value for total testosterone in males is 280 to 1100 ng/dL (9.7 to 38.2 nmol/L); the normal serum level of free testosterone is 50 to 210 pg/mL (174 to 729 pmol/L).

Hypogonadism in HIV-Infected Patients:
Male hypogonadism is defined as the failure of spermatogenesis and the failure of synthesis of normal levels of testosterone by the testes. Two principal types of man hypogonadism -- primary (testicular failure) and secondary (failure of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis, also called central hypogonadism) exist. The differentiation between primary and secondary hypogonadism is relatively simple but is not made on the basis of the level of testosterone. In both conditions, the serum levels of testosterone will be low. Instead, measurement of the levels of the gonadotropins FSH and LH can help differentiate between primary and secondary hypogonadism. Serum levels of both FSH and LH will be normal or reduced in secondary hypogonadism but increased in primary testicular failure.
The early studies of HIV-infected patients indicated that most patients who had hypogonadism had secondary, or central, hypogonadism. Only rarely found to be a result of prime testicular failure, hypogonadism usually occurred because of opportunistic infection. In a study of 70 HIV-sure men seen at a Johns Hopkins University clinic, 19 were asymptomatic, 42 had AIDS, and 9 had what used to be called AIDS-related complex. Of the 42 patients who had AIDS, 66% reported decreased libido, 33% had erectile dysfunction, and 50% were found to have low serum levels of testosterone. Even asymptomatic, HIV-positive patients were establish to have decreased serum levels of testosterone. Seventy-five percent of the hypogonadal men had hypogonadotropic hypogonadism.

Friday, May 2, 2014

Deca Durabolin Use and even treat specific blood disorders

If you want to use an anabolic steroid that is productive and affordable besides being safe and free from side effects of steroids and execution enhancing drugs, Deca Durabolin, which is also known as Deca and Nandrolone decanoate, will be an perfect choice for you.

Deca Durabolin has an active life of 14-16 days and is detectable over a interval of 16-18 months. Belonging to the category of anabolic-androgenic steroids and classified as a 2.16 anabolic steroid, Deca is a highly effective medication that is available in different forms such as creams, pills, capsules, and gels. Medically, the medicament is advised to stimulate immune combination enhancements and offer dramatic relief to HIV/AIDS patients and even treat specific blood disorders as part of the adjuvant therapy. This steroid is used by sportsmen to better from the improved recuperation time between workouts, protein synthesis, and nitrogen retention.

Moreover, this steroid is admired as its use even for long anabolic steroid cycles does not result in side effects like fat epidermis, male pattern baldness, and prostate complications. If that was not all, Deca use is considered of big use to mask minor joint pain and old nagging injuries besides reducing the inflammation of soft tissues and promoting masculine (secondary reproductive) characteristics, including growth of the vocal cords, testicles, and corpse hair. This steroid is commonly used in doses of 300-800 mg per week by men and 50-100 mg per week by women or in doses of 600 mg per week for 12-16 weeks by men for bulking cycles and 400 mg per week for 12-16 weeks by men in cutting cycles.

A popular Deca Durabolin cycle is all about using Dianabol-30 mg every day for week 1-3 and then 40 mg every day for week 4-6 and complementing it with Sustanon 250 mg every week for week 1-12, Clomid 50 mg every week for week 10-12, and Deca Durabolin-200 mg for the first week and then 300 mg per week for 2nd and 3rd weeks, and 400 mg every week for 4th and 5th weeks, and 300 mg every week for the sixth week. Overdosing or use of low grade or abuse of Deca Durabolin can conduct to side effects such as may even cause heart attack, edema, prostate enlargement, menstrual problems, liver toxicity, liver damage and gynecomastia. It may even cause elevated blood pressure, shrinking of the testicles, bone age advancement, bad effect on cholesterol levels, increased aggression, oily epidermis, acne, clitoral hypertrophy, infertility, and sexual dysfunction and therefore it is best to use it only after a qualified medical practitioner has authorized its use after evaluating all medical reports and history.