Confronting pain, strain, crud and bugs. Naturally.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here’s another summary on stress and physical illness at About.com. It’s a good write up, but it ends with that old familiar myth: Megadoses of vitamin C can supercharge your immune system to help ward off stress-related physical ailments. There’s no doubt that viatmin C is an essential nutrient. It’s classified as a vitamin, for goodness sake, and [...]
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