Confronting pain, strain, crud and bugs. Naturally.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mayo Clinic’s infectious disease online instruction on cold and flu remedies pretty much describes what we’ve been talking about; many of the commercial over-the-counter ”remedies” for colds really don’t add up to much.
Plus, the conventional mindset on supplementation with extra zinc or vitamin C does not have much scientific support behind it. Call it a wives [...]
Some props to the company that helps make this blog possible. Embria Health Sciences, producer of the immune balance ingredient EpiCor, has joined forces with a national rural health project called Nourish America and a women’s legislative forum to provide free EpiCor supplements to senior residents in rural locales. Last week, this coalition gave away 5-month supplies [...]
Well, a new consumer survey appears to mirror other data we’ve seen; there’s a whole lotta stressin’ goin’ on out there, and more than 4 out of 5 people believe stress can give your immune system a whoopin’. These results are from a private research firm in Atlanta, Booth Research, on behalf of a commercial nutrition client. [...]
Robert Bazell’s report on global allergy conditions, and how a Denver researcher is assembling allergen and bacteria data from rural areas around the world, hits the immune balance story right on the bulls’ eye. The story talks about the need for out-of-balance immune systems to “learn” how to react to pathogens.
Watch the report here.
This is my first post about my personal experience in trying to attain immune balance. I have been interested in how this goes because I’m a life-long hay fever sufferer, especially in late August and September when corn and ragweed pollen counts are off the charts around here.
I began in Feb. 08 with a 500 [...]
The Allergy Foundation of America has published a list of the 10 worst places for fall allergies. You can see the list here on the ABC News Website. While we’re at it, here’s a bit of information about allergies and immune balance.
For me, this is the article that really opened my eyes to the concept of immune balance. A March 4, 2008 story in the Washington Post. It discusses how American society has evolved from an agrarian, rural existence to the urban and suburban settings. In the process, babies are not exposed the the low level [...]
Here’s a great story from an Australian magazine that really nails the balanced immune health role in development of allergies. It focuses on kids’ allergies, but the basic concepts of immune balance and allergy symptoms may apply to all.
