Confronting pain, strain, crud and bugs. Naturally.
As I sort through a lot of social media traffic on immune health, it’s always amazing what I find. The remedies, cures, solutions, etc.accompanied by wild claims and no trace of legitimate science behind them (let alone safe, quality, cGMP manufacturing) continues to astonish. It’s amazing that the supplement industry is able to continue to [...]
The New York Times Wellblog this week wrote at length about a study examining the body of evidence on zinc and its impact on the common cold. “Scientists still haven’t discovered a cure for the common cold, but researchers now say zinc may be the next best thing,” wrote the author, Tara Parker Pope. Apparently, [...]
We hear so much about antioxidants these days. They are important for the body in so many ways. Antioxidants, found in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and quality vitamin and mineral supplements, may reduce cancer risk (although the science is still not settled or conclusive yet), may reduce risk for cardiovascular disease. Antioxidant nutrients such as [...]
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 [...]
In the right hand column of this blog you’ll see a convenient sign-up window for receiving a brief monthly email newsletter. It’s called Life in the Balance, sponsored by EpiCor-maker Embria Health Sciences. We sent a short survey form to the email subscribers last month, asking them to answer 8 questions. We also offered the [...]
I received a comment on this blog recently from a person who is, apparently, suffering from a rare genetic disease and wanted to see if she could qualify for free supplies of Ensure ImmunBalance (Ensure’s spelling, not mine). Of course, I told her I’m not affiliated with Ensure or its parent, Abbott Labs, and I [...]
Several years ago I worked with a researcher at a supplement ingredient company who may have been one of the absolute smartest guys I’v known. He was a Univ. of Florida Ph.D. food nutritionist. When we were sitting in acompany conferernce room and looking at the Biochemical Pathways chart, which looks like the schematic for [...]
OK, you’ve survived Black Friday. And along the way, you ‘ve probaby got yourself exposed to a lot of pathgens in the malls. You and your teen-aged daughter probably went to see “New Moon” and sat in theater seats occupied by countless others in the prior week, with no germocidal spray applied to those seats [...]
And this is a big one: Ensure, a leading mass consumer nutrition brand. It has launched a new version of its nutritional beverage, and called this new extension Ensure Immune Balance. The ingredient combo that makes for immune balance? Vitamin C, E and selenium. According to Elaine Moore, medical technologist and medical author, “In the body selenium [...]
Well I’ve been out snowblowing the driveway at 5:30 in the morning more times during this Iowa winter than Governor Blagojevich has been to his hair stylist. It’s been snowy and dang cold here (my apologies to the state tourism bureaucrats). So how’s the “germ environment” in our house? Well, one of my daughters is home [...]
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