Confronting pain, strain, crud and bugs. Naturally.
A nifty interview on the Late Show! A certain Secretary of State talks with a certain late night talk show host about immune health. The guest does make good points about staying healthy while living a global, stressful life. The host makes good points about living in a big city, where stress and exposure can [...]
This blog has posted a lot of content over the past 3 years about stress and how it can knock your immune function out of balance. Exercise, healthy eating, sleep and supplementation with EpiCor are some basic ways to support your immune health while under stress, and reduce your chances for stress related illnesses. Today, [...]
I’ve written here many times about stress and how research shows it can knock immune function out of balance. Over the long term, chronic stress and immune imbalance can lead to a variety of disease and illnesses. A new study this summer from Ohio State, Cornell and The University of Akron show that such stress/health [...]
My first work day back from vacation is almost over. I have a headache. My workload today and tomorrow is full of testing and web conference calls, complete with hair pulling, teeth gnashing and gazing at the computer screen for hours on end. A far cry from hiking and driving through the Rocky Mountains, sipping [...]
I’m going to provide a number of links today to several trade articles that recently appeared in an online nutrition industry portal called NutraIngredients.com. I receive their e-news alerts and this week they had a number of stories all dealing with inflammation. Inflammation, in its most efficient, optimal state, is the irritation that accompanies the [...]
Need any more proof that stress can mess up immune function and throw it out of balance? A new Ohio State study being talked about showed that rats induced with a standardized stressor showed that beneficial bacteria in their intestinal tract diminished significantly. Two types of bacteria changed in composition proportion by 25% each. But [...]
A naturopathic physician writes in his blog about his experience taking EpiCor. Seems like his experience kind of parallels mine. Check it out for yourself. I’m trying to find more about who he is and where he practices. On the same immune balance note: Here’s a video that explains, in a simplified but informative way, [...]
A great post today in the health section of the Huffington Post by Dr. Leo Galland, M.D. It talks about many aspects of gut health, leading with a “savory” description of parasitic populations within the human gut and all the problems that may cause. Further into the piece comes a section that helps spell out [...]
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 [...]
For most people, I think, the notion of immune system performance falls into three “buckets” of thought: Immune-related problems like cold or flu are something you can’t avoid. You just have to give it time to get over a cold or flu. A week to 10 days. Maybe take some over-the-counter remedy to help with [...]
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