Olea Fresh Healthcare in Nigeria was established as a business organization in 2012. We are consultants in healthcare self management, public health promotion, software development and personal trainings for agencies, NGOs and healthcare facilities.

MISSION

Oleafresh healthcare is determined to contribute her slice in the improvement and sustenance of affordable healthcare in Nigeria in disease prevention through information and communication and technology.

After seeing the growing need for individuals to be empowered with actionable health information, which will enable them make healthy decisions about their lifestyle and health matters; oleafresh embarked on the campaign of promoting first, hygiene and its irreplaceable place in disease prevention and secondly, empowers women and youth with skills and knowledge for financial savings.

OUR PRODUCTS

Oleafresh Handbook on hygiene for kids in lower and upper basics
We believe that disease prevention and hygienic practice is a habit and should also be part of the basic education. The kids will naturally grow to adapt it in their lifestyle. Therefore, we encourage school managers and parents to get them for their wards

OleaCare software app for everyone.
An android application for smartphones and computers. Which gives you a control over your health in your hands.

Heart Failure: 1st Uk treatment with novel nerve stimulator!!

Researchers at the University of Leicester have announced that the UK's first operation to tackle heart failure (HF) with a novel nerve-stimulating device will be performed August 23 at Glenfield Hospital.

The operation, which is part of a clinical trial called INOVATE-HF, could pave the way for a revolutionary treatment of a condition that scientists say has reached "epidemic proportions."

INOVATE HF is a global investigational study to determine the safety and efficacy of the CardioFit system, an implantable electrical stimulation device designed to improve heart function in patients with HF. The study will evaluate the system's ability to reduce hospitalization and death among patients with HF, while also exploring whether combined treatment with CardioFit and prescription drug therapy is more effective than drug therapy alone.

Dr. André Ng,  a senior lecturer in cardiology at the University of Leicester and consultant cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital who carried out the world's first remote heart procedure using a robotic arm alongside 3-D mapping in 2010, is the study's principal investigator at the site, and also the UK chief investigator at the National Institute for Health Research Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit. It is the first site in the UK to enrol patients in INOVATE-HF.

 

Heart failure is a common condition in which the heart's pumping function is compromised, leading to a cascade of limiting symptoms and poor overall body function.

In patients with HF, the nervous system is out of balance. This imbalance leads to added stress on the heart and progressive deterioration of cardiovascular function. The CardioFit system is intended to restore balance by activating a specific part of the nervous system (called the "parasympathetic" nervous system) to reduce stress on the heart, thereby alleviating HF symptoms and reversing HF deterioration. It operates by stimulating the vagus nerve on the right side of the neck.
"This is a potentially ground-breaking treatment for desperate patients with HF, a serious condition that has increased over the past years in epidemic proportions," Dr. Ng said

Where is Love? In the Brain or the Heart?

Thanks to modern science, we know that love lives in the brain, not in the heart. But where in the brain is it -- and is it in the same place as sexual desire? A recent international study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine is the first to draw an exact map of these intimately linked feelings.
They found that that two brain structures in particular, the insula and the striatum, are responsible for tracking the progression from sexual desire to love. The insula is a portion of the cerebral cortex folded deep within an area between the temporal lobe and the frontal lobe, while the striatum is located nearby, inside the forebrain.
Love and sexual desire activate different areas of the striatum. The area activated by sexual desire is usually activated by things that are inherently pleasurable, such as sex or food. The area activated by love is involved in the process of conditioning by which things paired with reward or pleasure are given inherent value. That is, as feelings of sexual desire develop into love, they are processed in a different place in the striatum.
According to Jim Pfaus, professor of psychology at Concordia University, member of the Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology and a co-author of the study- "No one has ever put these two together to see the patterns of activation,"

Have You Heard your Baby Recite these Rhymes?

Kids are usually fun to be with, though the insticts to behave silly flashes few times, but thats why they r kids you know. They are always ready to learn, why what they are exposed to becomes so important.
In days past, we learn sophisticated subjects with songs, rhymes  and poems.
Psychologists have demonstrated many advantages of listening to your Baby recite rhymes. Detecting your child's ability to comprehend well with the environment, discern and probably make decisions is one of the advantage.
How long have you listened to your child, when last did s/he recite any rhyme or song taught them in school?

Bitter Leaf Based Drug - Breakthrough for Diabetes Cure!!

You must have heard about the many medicinal and cleansing properties of the ancient plant -Bitter Leaf. Not long, it was approved for a final stage drug for diabetes as it passed the clinical trials.
An indigenious plant common among the eastern part of Nigeria, popularly called Onugbu in  Igbo, Oriwo in Edo, Ewuro in Yoruba and Ituyuna in Tiv languages.
Researchers led by the Amiable Izevbigie had said that "treatment of cells with physiologically relevant concentration of water soluble bitter leaf extract, potently inhibited DNA synthesis in a concentration-dependent fashion, both in the absence and presence of serum.. this suggest that the vegetable leaf if incoperated in the diet may prevent the onset of breast cancer".

Have you seen a happy family? do you think they had no rough times, what is the secret? what coould keep them going? Find out one of the best ways to keep your family, as a Father, Mother, son, daughter, and even pet- to keep the family happy, enjoyable and ever growing!