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An immune balance roundup: what’s being talked about

The end of the month and the end (hopefully) of winter make it a good time to lay down some links and commentary to some of the news and community discussion on immune health and balanced immune function that’s been circulating lately:

A nurse writes a health column in the Concord (NH) Monitor about balance [...]

Another “balancing” act discovered

Don’t let the title of the journal send you running for the hills. It’s “R&D”. As in drug and bioscience research and development. However, yesterday, this journal posted a short piece online describing some new research involving auto-immune conditions and Crohn’s disease, and how out-of-balance immune function may play a big role in [...]

To Dara: An answer to an immune balance question

We recently received a comment/question from someone named Dara. It was a darn good question, and one that I want to address in this post, as opposed to confining it to a response in the comments section.  The question is:

“My concern is symptoms. How does one know that their immune system is not balanced? [...]

Is zinc the long awaited answer?

The New York Times Wellblog this week wrote at length about a study examining the body of evidence on zinc and its impact on the common cold. “Scientists still haven’t discovered a cure for the common cold, but researchers now say zinc may be the next best thing,” wrote the author, Tara Parker Pope.

Apparently, [...]

My Oscar pick helps my immune health

I’ve been trying to see as many of the Oscar-nominated films as I can before the Academy Awards show in a couple weeks.  I haven’t  seen them all. The Social Network was interesting and well done, but not at all best picture caliber. Inception is one I could not understand. Grand special effects, but the [...]

Genes vs. Environment vs. Hygiene Habits

Brushing my teeth this morning, I heard this NPR story on colds. The story’s reporter was posing the question: why do some people catch everything that’s going around and other people can go the whole year unscathed? Especially when these people may live in the same home. The story interviewed medical experts who collectively postulated [...]

A report card from college

My freshman daughter is in the thick of the battle in the pre-architecture program at college. Throughout the fall and winter, she’s been working like a dog to create design projects for her portfolio that will get her accepted into the program for her sophomore year. That means many week nights at the design center [...]

Community, isolation and immune health

I’m hanging out in the kitchen, doing my work while my wife prepares the tax files. We’re stuck at home because snow and blizzard conditions outside have stranded us here. I know I’m not alone, though, as 2/3 of the country got walloped yesterday and today.  I scooped snow yesterday, had to snow-blow a lot [...]