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Balanced Immune Health is transitioning to "More Healthy Days" in June 2013. You'll find it at www.epicorimmune.com

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Year end reflection: Your outlook and your immune health. Which way do you lean?

As the year and decade winds down, what is your outlook on the future of the world, the future of your daily life, your kids’ future, our economy, our quality of life?  Do you see a business environment where job security is scarce and standards of living are declining?  Where global warming is inevitable and [...]

Make New Year’s weight-loss resolution one that doesn’t damage immune health

Forty-six percent of  U.S. adults make New Year’s resolutions, and the most popular one, according to information portal USA.gov, is losing weight. Some people attempt to do it the right way: slowly, steadily, not denying yourself good nutrition, getting exercise, good sleep habits, and staying with it over the long term. Others will do it [...]

Immune balance, stress and vitamin B

I’ve been writing about stress lately and nutritional intakes that might help mitigate physical symptoms of stress. The EpiCor I take has a rich mixture of nutritional compounds contained with its proprietary natural fermentate complex. Within that mixture are B-vitamins.  B-vitamins have been described in health literature as aiding against stress. The EpiCor ingredient doesn’t [...]

Music can help counter the holiday stress on your immune system

I’m sure I’m pretty much like a lot of people when it comes to the holiday season. I don’t mind a little shopping, but spare me the Black Friday crowds or last-minute gift-buying frenzy. I’ll avoid them like the plague. What I do like is putting on a little Bing Crosby, Dean Martin or Nat [...]

Holiday cheer may make immune cells cheer…or jeer.

When I was in college taking some training in “alcohol awareness” (even though I was already very aware of alcohol), one of the myths that our training material addressed was the old bromide that a little nip of hooch when you’re outside in the fall or winter (as in football games) will “warm you up.”  [...]

How valuable are ORAC values? Immune balancers want to know

Several years ago I worked with a researcher at a supplement ingredient company who may have been one of the absolute smartest guys I’v known. He was a Univ. of Florida Ph.D. food nutritionist. When we  were sitting in acompany conferernce room and looking at the Biochemical Pathways chart, which looks like the schematic for [...]

Need more immune balance as lay-offs go out of balance.

Just a quick post today. This animation below (just click the image) really puts a new perspective on the economy and the tough unemployment scene. Hopefully, with new numbers out today showing a sharp drop in the job-loss rate, maybe we’ve started turning the corner.

Click map to go to animation

Still, watching the animation [...]

Baby it’s cold outside. Is that why people get sick? Or is the cold weather story a myth?

According to my research, the Cold Weather School of Thought — that being outside in cold weather can greatly increase the chance of getting a cold or flu–has some validity and some myth to it. I’m especially tuned into the Cold Weather Theory today because the temps in Iowa have gone from a balmy 61 [...]