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Someone on Twitter not too long ago said, “Twitter is made up of 60% social media experts, 30% spammers and 10% real conversations.” Or something close to that. I couldn’t have said it better myself. Thing is, if you’re targeted in who you seek out to follow and engage with on Twitter, that 10% is [...]
Killer cells, helper cells, lymph0cites, macrophages all abound in a new post on immune science. A blog affiliated withThe Scientist magazine has just posted its choice of the top seven immunology papers published so far this year. Many of the factors involved in immune balance that we’ve discussed in this blog come into play in this [...]
Newsweek and other media are writing about about gut bacteria (which I’ve blogged about here several times) and how the distribution and composition of specific bacteria in our digestive system may play a significant role in weight gain and obesity. The news is a result of a couple of studies independently published in recent issues [...]
The people at Embria Health Science just shared with me this month some findings from a laboratory study at the University of Ghent (Belgium) on EpiCor and how it may work in the gut. The project examined EpiCor samples that were applied to a human digestive system “simulator.” This is a process is used as [...]
Here are some factoids about allergies I’ve picked up that were very interesting to me. It’s amazing what you can learn. One out of 20 people who are allergic to pollen has oral allergy syndrome, which means the immune system mistakes the compounds in certain foods for pollen proteins, says Sublett. Some foods — such [...]
I received a comment on this blog recently from a person who is, apparently, suffering from a rare genetic disease and wanted to see if she could qualify for free supplies of Ensure ImmunBalance (Ensure’s spelling, not mine). Of course, I told her I’m not affiliated with Ensure or its parent, Abbott Labs, and I [...]
The frontiers of human health–including immune system research–continue to widen and deepen and generally blow up a lot of so-called orthodoxy about how the body works–especially at the cellular level. An announcement from Stanford University late last week about a student project competition demonstrated how cell biology and genetic research continue to change conventional approaches [...]
Another article on beneficial bacteria in the gut–and in other areas of the body–is published this week in the New York Times. The angle on this piece,written by an evolutionary biologist, is fascinating. It discusses the idea that beneficial bacteria which aid our immune system response have their own unique genetic map–or genome–that can evolve and [...]
When I read stuff about the immune system and immune balance, I always see various names of cells that are all connected in some way to the body’s immune response. The Web site howstuffworks.com is a very good site at explaining, well, how stuff works. Its section on the Immune System has a chapter on [...]
How many times am I and others hearing the advice: “Eliminate gluten from your diet.” Or: “Get rid of all dairy Don’t ever make me give this up. products. You can get your protein and calcium from other foods.” Many “eliminators” claim that any given person’s health will improve. I can see where some might [...]
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