Confronting pain, strain, crud and bugs. Naturally.
I’ve worked in the business side of the nutrition and supplement field for several years, so I try to keep track of what’s happening in the supplement product world as best I can. (I also work with bank portfolio management software and dairy cow nutritional feed ingredients, so sometimes I’m a bit limited in time [...]
A couple nights ago, I woke up at 2:00 a.m. with my eyes sealed shut. Sealed shut with gunk. I can’t remember when that had happened to me, if ever. It had come several days after returning from a trip to Florida, on a bus, with high school marching band students. (see earlier post). So [...]
As I write this, I am 2 days back from a trip to Florida with my kids’ high school marching and jazz bands. We took three buses with 119 students and some 15 adult chaperons. We drove 27 hours each way, from Des Moines
A good time was had by all…
to Orlando, with stops at every [...]
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.” [...]
I’ve been doing some writing for an electronic newsletter distributed by Embria Health Sciences, which also supports this blog. The topic for the holiday season newsletter is none other than…summer allergies. Kinda hard getting my hay fever and balmy weather groove on this time of year. But the ingenious thing about it is, talking about [...]
The next-gen iPhone. The new Droid. The technology continues to bedazzle. We all know how the cell phone has evolved. First it was a clunky box you installed in the trunk of your car, wired to a hand set holstered in your center console. You could only use the phone to make and receive phone [...]
You’d think by now a settled knowledge base on Vitamin C would prevail in the nutrition world. But it seems we still don’t fully understand what C does and does not do with regard to immune health, prevention and symptom management. Not only is the science still evolving, the folklore and wives tales of Vitamin [...]
Beta glucans are highly refined carbohydrates known as polysaccharides found in the cell walls of yeast and in fungi (mushrooms) and certain plants. A good amount of science shows beta glucan, when ingested in the body, may function as an “immunostimulant,” activating “macrophages,” which are a specific kind of white blood cell. And we all [...]
As fall and winter draw nearer, we continue to see a lot of concern and uncertainty being aired far and wide about the possible coming storm of potentially more virulent H1N1.
Naturally, one thing on people’s minds: Shaking hands. And how to protect yourself if you do have to shake someone’s hand. One solution: adopt the [...]
We recently received a comment to the post on the coming fall/winter season and how preventive methods such as chiropractic could have an impact on immune health. The commenter touted the benefits of echinacea and zinc in helping prevent colds and flu. I was skeptical to a degree. I’ve taken megadoses of zinc when I [...]
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