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Bristol Palin shares surprising update on her facial paralysis after scary six-month ordeal
Bristol Palin took to Instagram on Saturday to give her 549,000 followers an update on her facial paralysis ordeal. The 34-year-old mother-of-three announced in a reel, 'My face is slowly getting better.' She estimated that it has been '200 days' since she was first plagued with the mystery condition, but made a correction, writing that she was actually at day 194. Bristol — who recently talked about her 16-year-old son Tripp's academic future — was clad in a black T-shirt, skirt, aviator-style sunglasses, and a trucker hat from her brand Boyhart in the clip. She appeared to have gained mobility and improved symmetry in the brief snippet. The media personality, who is the daughter of Alaskan politician Sarah Palin, first revealed the condition in January. Bristol Palin took to Instagram on Saturday to give her 549,000 followers an update on her facial paralysis ordeal The 34-year-old mother-of-three announced in a reel, 'My face is slowly getting better' And in mid July she posted photos of her lopsided visage and took questions from curious online fans. She said to one follower, 'I woke up and it was paralyzed, completely out of the blue - no warning, wasn't sick, didn't get the v@x, no recent Botox... just paralyzed.' Another person asked how she was handling the situation on an emotional level, to which Bristol replied, 'I feel like I'm handling it well. I can't look at pictures of myself right now.' She estimated her face was 'probably like 70% back to normal.' At the beginning of the year Bristol said her doctor believed she has a case of Bell's palsy — which is temporary paralysis or weakness of the facial muscles — as the tests she'd undergone had turned up 'nothing.' Just weeks later she said she'd seen very little improvement as the health crisis went past the three-week mark. 'We're on day 23 of this, which is absolutely insane,' she said in February. 'Can't move the left side of my face at all. It's really hard to blink. I can't blow out a candle. My sisters makes so much fun of me because I look crazy.' In an attempt to correct the condition, she said she'd undergone acupuncture, massage therapy, oxygen chamber treatment and red light therapy, as well as cutting out 'most of the processed foods' in her diet. Bristol spoke about her ongoing bout with facial paralysis in series of posts Thursday on her Instagram Stories. The media personality, who is the daughter of Alaskan politician Sarah Palin, first revealed the condition in January When asked how she was handling the situation on an emotional level, Bristol replied, 'I feel like I'm handling it well. I can't look at pictures of myself right now'; pictured in January She added that she was 'eliminating most caffeine' in her daily regimen. In July a social media user asked Bristol why she hasn't been spending much time on Instagram lately. 'Maybe it's just me - but IG feels self absorbed the older I get,' Bristol explained. 'I LOVE connecting with y'all and having friends on here but I don't love posting a whole lot.' She said she would try to share more with her followers if there was a purpose-driven opportunity. 'Maybe when I have more house projects and I'm playing bob the builder – I want to show you guys but right now I enjoy an offline quiet little life,' she said. In addition to Tripp, she is mom to two daughters: Sailor, nine, and Atlee, eight. She shares the girls with ex-husband Dakota Meyer.
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Doctors say 20,000 women a year - some as young as 30 - may need their healthy breasts removed to avoid cancer. Here's how to find out if YOU are one of those facing an agonising dilemma
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Couples using IVF to conceive may be more successful during the summer, research suggests
Couples using IVF to have a baby may be more successful during the summer, research suggests. A study involving 1,100 women undergoing fertility treatment suggests a pregnancy may be up to twice as likely when the weather is sunnier and warmer. Even in spring, the pregnancy rate was 75 per cent higher than during the colder months, scientists found. They suggest that higher levels of vitamin D – the so-called 'sunshine vitamin' – may improve hormonal balance and boost fertility naturally. The pregnancy rate particularly soared when the weather outside was a balmy 26 to 30 Celsius, which suggested patients having IVF 'may benefit from treatments conducted in this temperature range', the researchers said. They suggest fertility clinics could use their results to schedule more patients for treatment during the spring and summer – which they say would help boost success rates. 'Our findings suggest that season and temperature play a significant role in influencing the success rates of clinical pregnancies, and suggest that summer treatment may optimise IVF outcomes,' the team wrote in the International Journal of Biometeorology. The study was conducted on patients attending a fertility clinic at the Reproductive Hospital of Guangxi in China between June 2021 and October 2023. All were having IVF for the first time, and using fresh – rather than frozen – embryos. Those having treatment in the spring were 75 per cent more likely to get pregnant, and those in the summer were 53 per cent more likely to be successful. However, among those women having IVF using a process known as the 'long protocol' – which is standard in the UK and involves using drugs to suppress natural hormone production before stimulating the ovaries to produce more eggs – the pregnancy rate was twice as high during the summer months. Similar findings have also been reported in other studies. The researchers, from the hospital, said it was not clear why there appeared to be such a marked difference but suggested vitamin D levels could be a factor. The vitamin is naturally produced in the body in response to sunlight and the NHS recommends everyone in the UK takes a vitamin D supplement during the winter months. A deficiency of vitamin D is linked to a range of chronic conditions such as osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis and heart disease. The researchers said that while the impacts of season and temperature on pregnancy were 'not fully understood', more research was needed to clarify the role of vitamin D on pregnancy outcomes.
