Posted on March 19th, 2009 by Craig Maltby, Editor
Pain from the brain which immune balance can constrain
A Wall Street Journal health piece this week goes into some impressive depth on new ways that conventional medicine is approaching 
stress-related illness. Instead of “Where does it hurt? Here’s a prescription,” treatment is moving toward, “Where does it hurt? Tell me what’s going on in your life.” The medical community increasingly is recognizing what alternative and natural health practitioners have advocated all along: that many health conditions result from mental stress.
At quote from the story summarizes the familiar theme we’ve emphasized in this blog all along: “Stress also creates biochemical changes that can affect the immune system, making it underreact to viruses and bacterial infections, or overreact, which can set off allergies, asthma and skin disorders like psoriasis and eczema. And stress can raise the level of inflammation in the body, which has been associated with heart disease.”
Overract. Underreact. It’s the epicenter of the immune balance story.
