Confronting pain, strain, crud and bugs. Naturally.
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 [...]
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 [...]
The LA Times and Chicago Tribune both ran a feature on food nutrition today that provides the latest consumer information–very well packaged and explained–on the concept of immune balance. This story pertains specifically to inflammation and how an over-reactive immune system can turn a simple inflammatory episode into a chronic health condition. The piece talks [...]
Dr. Ed Wallace, who contributes to this blog from time to time, has written in the past about the basics of homeopathy. In a nutshell, it’s an approach to treatment of health conditions which relies upon introducing a minute amount of a pathogen or foreign substance into the body to “train” the immune system to [...]
And it’s not because I’m a jetsetter with a Learjet 85, a starlet 4th trophy wife and a condo next to Tom Cruise. (I’m not. I have a 2003 Saab, not a plane but the car that GM is unloading, and I do have a trophy wife, but she’s my first and only and is [...]
The video below gives some good, common-sense advice on “germ-proofing” your kids. And even more amazing, it’s produced and narrated by microbiology scientists and it’s still interesting and engaging. It’s part of a pretty sizable collection of video instruction at the site called Microbe World, operated by the American Society for Microbiology.
I like its basic approach: [...]
Here we go again. New research showing how immune balance takes root and impacts lifelong health. We’ve got a lot of material on this blog about how exposure to dust, germs, allergens, etc. early in childhood can help “train” one’s immune system to respond proportionally and appropriately to pathogens that enter the body throughout the remainder [...]
I just returned from a two-day tour of dairy farms in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Besides observing more than 500 cows on 5 farms use new, state-of-the-art robotic milking systems, I also was able to reflect on a few thoughts about life on the farm and immune health.
I’ve been an allergy sufferer since childhood. Mine is classic hay fever and everything that feeds [...]
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