Confronting pain, strain, crud and bugs. Naturally.
The hygiene hypothesis–or as I like to call it, the hygiene paradox–has received some additional scientific support with the release of a Danish study of 411 children whose mothers have asthma. The pardox is this: We want to keep babies and young kids–whose immune systems are weak and still forming–free of germs and viruses, so [...]
Here’s my periodic update on some Twitter activity on immune health that I find interesting enough to summarize here.: @napernurse (Dawn McKinney) tweeted about some good medical advice that connects lack of sleep with immune dysregulation and inflammation in the body. Inflammation is the root of all things evil, right? @fyiliving passed along to me [...]
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 these health [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I live just a few miles from Van Meter, Iowa. That’s the birthplace and boyhood home (and museum site) of one of the greatest baseball players in history, fireballing pitcher Bob Feller, The Heater from Van Meter, who died at age 92 Wednesday night. Joe DiMaggio called his curve ball “not human.” Ted Williams, the [...]
Don’t forget that acronym: EDC. It stands for “endocrine disrupting compound.” A new University of Michigan study suggests that exposure to an EDC substance called triclosan, found in antibacterial soaps and other products like diaper bags and toothpaste, may be linked to higher instances of allergies among young people age 18 and under. The endocrine [...]
The Old Spice guy in a towel is my favorite TV ad and the fav of about 50 million others, too. Smelling like a man (and turning tickets into diamonds) is now top of mind for many U.S. males…and females. A little info digging on my part came up with some interesting theories–even a little [...]
The radio story is called Anatomy of an Allergy Attack. It gives a nice overview of how seasonal allergy reactions work. The story nicely describes the immune system’s role in an allergy episode: “He (a doctor interviewed in the story) says that an allergic response is sort of a false alarm. Like an army launching [...]
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 [...]
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