Balanced Immune Health

This is not your average changing room experience. Beware next time you’re clothes shopping. And remember, regular laughter can positively impact immune health.

Posted on January 29th, 2009 under Balanced Immune Health, Humor, Immune Balance, Immune System, Stress, Thursdays with Munnie, Video. Comments: None

Well I’ve been out snowblowing the driveway at 5:30 in the morning more times during this Iowa winter than Governor Blagojevich has been to his hair stylist.  It’s been snowy and dang cold here (my apologies to the state tourism bureaucrats).  So how’s the “germ environment” in our house? Well, one of my daughters is home [...]

Posted on January 27th, 2009 under Bacteria, Bacterial Environments, Balanced Immune Health, EpiCor, Flu, Germs, Immune Balance, Immune System, My Experience, Seasonal, Vitamin C. Comments: None

Editor’s note: Dr. Ed Wallace, consumer health contributor to Balanced Immune Health, provides some thoughts below on the topic of stress and gender. I asked Dr. Wallace if he sees any differences in the physical symptoms between male and female patients who encounter stress. While immune balance doesn’t necessarily act on mental or emotional stress, [...]

Posted on January 23rd, 2009 under Balanced Immune Health, Immune Balance, Immune System, Research, Stress, Stress-Related Illness. Comments: 5

Jane Brody is a leading health and nutrition columnist who writes for the New York Times. Her work often raises the hackles of a lot of people in any sector of the health universe as she harbors no sacred cows. Trained in both biochemistry and science journalism, she knows how to read a piece of [...]

Posted on January 21st, 2009 under Balanced Immune Health, Immune Balance, Immune System, Inflammation, Media, Nutrition, Research. Comments: 2

The site Natural News has a lengthy piece on Oprah’s much publicized weight gain and the attribution to a thyroid condition.
Contained in the article is a passage highlighting immune cell function pertaining to thyroid antibody production, and how that could contribute to thyroid health. Here’s the excerpt (boldface is mine):
“Classic hypothyroid is reflected by elevated [...]

Posted on January 16th, 2009 under Balanced Immune Health, Immune Balance, Immune System, Inflammation, Research, antibodies, thyroid. Comments: None

If this isn’t the health equivalent of FDR, McArthur, Churchill and de Gaulle joining forces to declare democracy must be preserved, I don’t know what is.
A Wall Street Journal opinion piece this past week jointly authored by Deepak Chopra, Dean Ornish, Andrew Weil, and Rustum Roy, four of the brain trust leading the preventive health and [...]

Posted on January 13th, 2009 under Healing, Media, Nutrition, Research. Comments: None

Did you know there are over 4 pounds of bacteria in a typical human gut? Most of these are good bacteria, they aid in digestion and live very happily. There are always a few rogue bacteria around, but in a healthy digestive system all the different species are in balance. However, just like the immune [...]

Posted on January 11th, 2009 under Bacteria, Bacterial Environments, Balanced Immune Health, Gut Health, Immune Balance, Immune System, Inflammation, Nutrition, Prebiotics, Probiotics, Research. Comments: 1

We’ve come upon a great piece of science and commentary that was actually published last year. It lays out the immune balance story as well as I’ve seen.  The piece is written by Jon Barron, who runs a health and nutrition enterprise called Baseline of Health.
Mr. Barron refers to, of all things, a published study of birds. [...]

Posted on January 6th, 2009 under Bacteria, Bacterial Environments, Balanced Immune Health, Flu, Germs, Immune Balance, Immune System, Nutrition, Research, Stress, Stress-Related Illness, Uncategorized. Comments: None