Confronting pain, strain, crud and bugs. Naturally.
Just heard a sugar story today on the radio. If I remember correctly, the report said Americans should limit processed sugar intake to the equivalent of no more than 9 teaspoons a day. Right now, we average 28! And sugar is hell on immune function. The radio report centered on a new commentary in Nature, [...]
As if the human immune system and the many health conditions it impacts aren’t complex enough. Try wrapping your brain around this. Some new Yale research paints a wild picture of how the immune system in the gut, controlled by a mix of good and bad bacteria or “microflora,” may actually be transferred from one [...]
This TED Talk presentation given late last year is worth a watch. It’s a 17-minute overview of the immune system, given by Tim Mossman of the University of Rochester. It’s got a lot of complicated charts and images that attempt to describe the infinitely complex immune system If you don’t view the whole thing ,at [...]
My daughter and her design studio friends in college put in a lot of late nights getting projects ready to turn in. In addition to consuming massive coffee, she and her fellow late nighters are drinking a lot of green tea as well. She buys the loose leaf stuff in the fancy store in the [...]
You ever wonder why so many political consultants and managers seem a bit sickly, overweight, pale, etc.? They live in a world of conflict, of attack mode politics, of demonizing. And they live it 24/7. The pros who make it big in this field endure this existence for years. Or how about a manager or [...]
Just came across an interesting article from a site called Organic Authority. The article highlights its selection of “The 8 Most Nutrient-Dense Foods on Earth.” Some of the winners you’d expect: blueberries, spinach, broccoli. Others were bit more exotic: hemp seeds, chia seeds and, the winner, spirulina (algae). If I could add another, it might [...]
One of the concerns the consumer market has about foods, supplements, medications or pharmaceuticals (in other words, anything they put into their bodies) is safety. It seems every other week we’re reading about some new safety breach in a food product or a bottle of over-the-counter medicine. Could be the presence of heavy metals or [...]
Right before my kids came home from college for the holiday break, my wife and I cleaned the house. Now that the kids are back in school, I’ll give it another going over this weekend. You ever notice how you feel just a bit better when you come home to a clean abode? It just [...]
There a lot out there about stress and immune health, and stress and digestive health. But what about all three? Stress. Gut health. Immune health. The all three interact with each other. What’s the real story? Here’s a brief explanation. Stress can alter the bacterial composition of the digestive tract. When that happens, good/bad bacteria [...]
Now that 2012 is under way, how about a simple resolution for lifelong health that you can easily remember: The Five S’s. Or Sx5. The Five S’s refer to five things you can do to maintain optimal immune health. In my book, these measures will also impact many other health areas, including weight, cardio, skin [...]
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