Confronting pain, strain, crud and bugs. Naturally.
So my twin daughters are winding up their senior year in high school. We just went to the last vocal jazz performance of their high school career. The same thing will be happening in all the other music ensembles they are in for the next 2 months. The last this, the last that. In a little [...]
Thought I’d post a brief roundup of some worthwhile immune health stories and updates I’ve come across recently:
The Nashville Tennessean has a great column published this past week on immune system balance and the “dirt” exposure school of thought on immune system development. Good perspective and anecdotes.
The Omaha World-Herald ran a story last Thursday on [...]
One of my most memorable vacations was an Alaskan cruise a few years ago. Everything was fantastic (except for the stealthily-created $600 bar tab cheerfully handed to me at home port). My wife and I would gladly do
The new Oasis of the Seas — with more than 2000 virus-haven restrooms.
another cruise in a heartbeat, but, [...]
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 [...]
This week Chicago Tribune nutrition writer Julie Deardorf posted a piece on nutrition and immune health. She laid out a lot of good information, especially regarding so-called immune “boosting” pills/products such as the “Airborne” over-the-counter cold/flu remedy that had to cough up nearly $30 million in settlement money for labeling their packaging and advertising with [...]
For the first time scientists have caught on film–in real time–immune cells attacking and gobbing up bacteria. This is pretty cool stuff. Click the photo to go to a video, complete with narration, showing the whole process. (You’ll have to endure a 30-second ad before it starts). The immune cells are in green, the bacteria–e.coli [...]
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 to [...]
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 [...]
Kissing Oscar Wilde’s tombstone, Paris
We’re hearing it all over the airwaves, the Web world, the blogosphere and any other space not yet occupied by some media news stream. This fall will be the beginning of a more virulent, morphed seasonal crud strain that will spread far and wide. Many information sites will offer up news [...]
The experts are warning that the 2009 fall/winter season could be a miserable one from a public health standpoint. The stuff that we experienced last winter and spring may be returning, and more nasty than before.
One way to prepare is to do everything possible to get your immune system in balance, so that your killer cells [...]
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