Confronting pain, strain, crud and bugs. Naturally.
With a wife, two daughters and me comprising our household, I am in the minority on nearly everything. From shopping to watching TV to movie choices. So it’s no surprise that the rest of my family saw “Twilight: Eclipse” on its opening day. I did not. Nor did I see the 2nd Twilight film. I [...]
I written here before about how cunning and nasty bacteria are. We all know about how they can morph into something new that resist antibiotics. But that ain’t nothing. New research from the University of Pennsylvania has mapped out a sort of game plan that bacteria use inside the mucous membranes of the nose. This [...]
I’m no teetotaler. (Where did that word “teetotaler” come from anyway? My brief research showed it originated in the British temperance movement in the 1830s.) I do like to prudently imbibe from time to time. With summer now here, the imbibing opportunities seem to grow exponentially: Friday after-work get-togethers, the summer holidays, baseball games at [...]
My twin daughters graduated from high school last night. Yea! Now, my wife and I will be cutting a couple of checks in two months when they head off to college. They are going to state schools, so we won’t be paying Ivy League-level tuition. Plus, bless their hearts, they have earned some very nice [...]
First Lady Michelle Obama announced in January she would be launching a national advocacy effort to fight childhood obesity, a critical health issue in the United States that has been well documented. The initiative is called Let’s Move. Today, the Let’s Move organization, known more formally as The Childhood Obesity Task Force, released a list [...]
Many have heard or read about an oft-repeated prescription drug story involving elderly (or maybe not so elderly) people: patients who are taking many prescriptions prescribed independently by multiple doctors. Then someone finds out about the potpourri of pills, throws out all of the meds, many of which might have been working against each other, [...]
A guy in the office down the hall from me has been coming to work every day with a cough that sounds like near-death. He’s been this way now for 3 weeks. I’m no diagnostician, but if anyone were a candidate for having walking pneumonia, he’s it. At the same time a client and a [...]
I’ve written a fair amount on this blog about stress and its impact on immune health. There’s a lot of science out there documenting how prolonged stress or chronic stress can impair immune function, even to the point of inducing serious health conditions and disease. “Chronic or long-term stress can suppress immunity by decreasing immune [...]
The 2010 version of the Statistical Abstract of the United States is just been released. This is a monster volume of research on “the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.” It’s housed under the U.S. Census Bureau. What does this have to do with immune balance? Well, for one thing it might [...]
I was doing some immune health snooping for another project when I came upon this Harvard Medical School online pub about the immune system. The title, “How to Boost Your Immune System,” is a bit misleading. Boosting may not be the right term. Early on in the piece, the authors write: “The idea of boosting [...]
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