Confronting pain, strain, crud and bugs. Naturally.
…for every time my family had to go to the doc and get a Zpack prescription for my kids, I would be another Warren Buffet (even with the current market slide). We’ve got one at home from school today. She sounded like the Creature from the Black Lagoon yesterday, due to a quick onset of [...]
Why can’t men take part? Bitching, stress and immune balance know no gender preference.
Well, I’ve continued to endure the fall allergy season with nary a symptom. Dont’ get me wrong, I’ll still have a sneeze from time to time. But morning and evening breathing is all clear, itching is next to non-existent, and I have yet to take an over-the-counter allergy pill (Claritin, Zyrtec) since early August.
I got [...]
Stanford researcher Robert Sapolsky was the focus of the PBS show tonight (Sept. 24) on how stress impacts our long-term health. The show covered in detail stress conditions caused by dominant/subordinate power dynamics among people at work and in society; bosses vs underlings; rich vs. poor, and how the stress imposed upon the subordinate class can result in a lot [...]
My wife just got back from a meeting at her company’s headquarters. She works for a major financial services company (thankfully one that is financially sound and not wallowing in the credit crisis…at least not yet). The home office staff presented some summary results from a health and benefits survey distributed to the company’s 23,000 [...]
The PBS program guide describes the show: “neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky (”Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers”) explores the corrosive effects that stress can have on health.” I picked up the scoop on this from the Web MD blog of Dr. Patricia Farrell. She’s a psychologist specializing and stress disorders.
Looks like it airs at 7:00 central time, [...]
An investment of 30 minutes will get you a great audio briefing on the immune balance story from one of our contributors. Dr. Stuart Reeves completed an interview with with Total Heath magazine, a consumer publication serving the retail nutraceutical market. Click the radio icon to hear the interview.
“The immune system in sport: getting the balance right” is the title of a recent publication by Richard O’Kennedy in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. In this paper, he points out that “It is becoming increasingly evident that it is highly integrated with our neurological and endocrine systems, and research now seeks to understand [...]
I’m not sure how this whole banking and credit liquidity crisis is going to play out. If the Wall Streeters couldn’t get it right, I sure as heck won’t offer a forecast. I do, though, have a theory that at least a few folks are probably experiencing some significant stress due to budget difficulties, especially if [...]
My in-laws are back from their Mediterranean cruise. No report of sickness outbreak, and they were able to fully enjoy their trip. On the other hand, I was talking with an administrator in my local school district where my daughters are enrolled. It’s hardly two weeks into the school year and they’re already getting a rash [...]
