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Tis the season – fall chaos and immune system overload

We’re full swing into fall at my house, and that means big-time schedule frenzy. My high school kids are in every activity possible, and during the week, don’t get home until 9 or 10 at night, then begin homework. They just finished ACTs, my wife is studying for her next professional designation in financial planning, [...]

The immune balance “cloud”

I attended two presentations in the past two days on “cloud computing.” I was slightly out of place;  a nutrition and health communicator wedged into a swarm of IT geeks and computer engineering professors and researchers. But I wanted to learn because my blogging, my health social network building and other communications applications are all [...]

The top 100 immune health tips during winter crud season (plus 1 more)

What better than a nursing education blog to offer up 100 tips on staying healthy during the cold/flu season. They all make sense, but I pity the soul who tries to do them all.  Group just a few of these tips together: “#63 Don’t get too close: If you know someone is sick, avoid them [...]

Bacteria are kniving, scheming, smart little devils

Several years ago, when I worked for a human nutraceutical company, I recall one of the senior scientists there talking about skin cells and sunburn. To overly simplify his tutorial, he explained that when your skin turns red after prolonged sun exposure, a lot of that redness is not actual sunburn cells, but rather healthy [...]

Hear this: You can’t get H1N1 from pigskin. But high-intensity workouts may be another story.

My seasonal college football fanaticism is under way. And one of the first news makers of the young season this past week was the University of Wisconsin football team having to cope with 40 players being hit with H1N1. Wow. They barely got by Fresno State. I’m sure we will hear something wacky pretty soon [...]

Sense of community and group involvement can help maintain healthy immune function

Think about it. What do you feel like after you’ve sat around with a group of friends and reminisced about days gone by, plowed over stories of college hi jinks, talked about former jobs and trips and games? Most likely you come away from those group free-for-alls feeling great and in high spirits. You probably [...]

Can a balanced immune system help you better cope with life in a stressful city?

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The Forbes rankings for “America’s Most Stressful Cities” are out again this fall. Leading the way again in 2009 is Chicago, a repeat winner from last year. Number [...]

Big mainstream media piece on immune balance and inflammation today

The LA Times and Chicago Tribune both ran a feature on food nutrition today that provides the latest consumer information–very well packaged and explained–on the concept of immune balance.  This story pertains specifically to inflammation and how an over-reactive immune system can turn a simple inflammatory episode into a chronic health condition. The piece talks [...]

Immune cells attack! Film at 11. Uh…no. See the film now!

For the first time scientists have caught on film–in real time–immune cells attacking and gobbing up bacteria. This is pretty cool stuff.  Click the photo to go to a video, complete with narration, showing the whole process. (You’ll have to endure a 30-second ad before it starts). The immune cells are in green, the bacteria–e.coli [...]