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Immune balance and gut health: How ’bout some yogurt and cookies for Santa?

(Editor’s note: As the holiday season moves into full gastronomical swing, some basic tips on gut health and how it can make a difference with your immune balance might be in order. Dr. Stuart Reeves of Embria Health Sciences explains how the world of probiotics and prebiotics works. Stuart has teased us with this. Today he posts Part [...]

Immune balance broadcast: Hear it here.

Wanna experience one of the most beneficial half hours of your life? Listen to Embria Health Science’s Stuart Reeves as he is interviewed about immune balance on a Latrobe, PA radio station.  Stuart hits the big points on immune health and quality of life, from colds and flu to stress and travel  to extreme exercise [...]

Immune balanced brides must look beyond the mistletoe

OK, it’s holiday time, and everyone knows what that means. Overeating, overdrinking, overgifting (maybe undergifting this year), overfamilying and undersleeping.  That combo alone is enough to stress the immune system and put you on the couch for a few days with the winter crud.
But let us not forget this is the season when many marriage proposals will [...]

Research shows consumers are taking immune health into their own hands

The latest research from a leading firm that monitors the natural health products industry has some interesting findings.  Five percent of the general population in the U.S. is managing some some kind of immune health problem, according to survey responses. Fifteen (15) percent of people who say they lack energy in their daily life are working [...]

Losing weight and your immune system: Easy does it

(Editor’s Note: Dieting happens. Especially after the holidays. While taking off excess weight is a good thing, doing it the right way…or the wrong way…can have a lasting impact on immune health. Larry Robinson, Ph.D., Vice President of Scientific Affairs at Embria Health Sciences, manufacturer of immune balance ingredient EpiCor, answers a few questions on how losing weight and immune system health are [...]

Midnight furniture moving and other stress busters for better immune health

There’s a cozy little tree-lined place in cyberhealth world called Iowa Avenue.  It really doesn’t have anything to do with Iowa (the front-page photo looks like it may be a beach in La Jolla). The founder of the site just liked the sound of name.
I’m a member of Iowa Avenue, and I recently threw out a [...]

My experience: a little throat scratch has come and gone

Here’s the latest episode in the chronicle of my personal health experience while taking an immune balancing supplement with the EpiCor fermentate ingredient.
Over the weekend (2 days ago) I started getting that “throaty feeling.”  You know, where your throat starts feeling a bit swollen and a little further down, that scratchy, coughy sensation sets in. In [...]

Vitamin D and immune health

More D. More D. That’s the mantra these days in the health world as more research is strongly suggesting that we’re not getting enough vitamin D.
A while back I attended a nutrition science conference in Virginia where a leading vitamin D researcher from Boston University presented the case that adults need much more than the RDA intake of [...]

Childhood obesity - a must read

Most of us probably know about the obesity epidemic that’s been written about now for several years. The problem is, it ain’t getting any better.
CNN’s health blog, Paging Dr. Gupta, has a update on this from Oct. 24. One in three kids ages 6 to 11 in this country are obese or overweight. This has [...]