Balanced Immune Health

Women? What’s up with your immune systems?

Craig Maltby, Editor — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:10:36 +0000

So what can us men do to keep up with women? Women already get more college degrees than men. They generally eat healthier. They are becoming heads of state and CEO’s at a faster clip than ever.

And now we learn that women’s immune systems may help them live longer, on average, than men.

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Balanced Immune Health is transitioning. Here are the details.

Craig Maltby, Editor — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:37:47 +0000

I’d like to thank you and all who have been readers of Balanced Immune Health. I have exciting news to share. In order to make it easier for you to find useful, fun and interesting information on immune health and on EpiCor, we will be transitioning Balanced Immune Health.com to a new blog called “More [...]

Bring on the allergens…

Craig Maltby, Editor — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:34:59 +0000

I used to take Claritin and Zyrtec by the gallo, five years ago. Now, I don’t touch the stuff during allergy season–err—seasons. Well, let me amend that. I might feel compelled to take one OTC pill during the rare instance when my natural histamine/anti-histamine equations could use some extra input. So far, that’s amounted to [...]

Kids need healthy fats to grow healthy and develop immunity

Craig Maltby, Editor — Mon, 13 May 2013 20:09:59 +0000

Yes, we live in a world where obesity is highly problematic and on the rise. The U.S. is a perennial leader among developed countries in obesity rates, the most recent ratio being nearly 35%. Childhood obesity is also another category leader for the U.S.

Recently in Great Britain, also among the fattest countries on earth, [...]

The pacifier to the rescue

Craig Maltby, Editor — Mon, 06 May 2013 22:37:07 +0000

All hail the pacifier. It may save our collective global health. Parents licking their babies’ pacifiers–rather than washing them off with water–may help strengthen the infants’ immune health. The microbes in mom or dad’s saliva might help train the kiddies’ immune cells’ memories at a very early age, thereby cutting down on immune triggered childhood [...]

Fermentation rocks the immune system

Craig Maltby, Editor — Wed, 01 May 2013 21:43:29 +0000

There’s a cool store in Des Moines’ historic district downtown (The East Village). It’s called Allspice. Besides spices, it sells huge variety of vinegars and oils. The vinegars are somewhat amazing: dark chocolate, red apple, cinnamon pear, champagne, honey ginger are among the flavors they offer. And you can sample them till your heart’s content, [...]

Immune is music to your ears

Craig Maltby, Editor — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:52:45 +0000

What is it about music? Why does the organization of tone, pitch, rhythm, instrumentation and sometimes, lyrics, into what we call music have such wide appeal? Why does it motivate young people to pursue college majors that will likely pay squat?

Why does it drive people toward mad romance? Why does it sear such a [...]

More farm/immune research is taking shape…not with animals but with humans

Craig Maltby, Editor — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:26:52 +0000

The “hygiene hypothesis” movement is coming to Cheesehead Country. Or Badger Country. Or whatever the preferred term it. A new study is launching in Wisconsin that will compare city-raised babies with farm-raised babies, to compare the health experiences and the immune system activity between the two groups of babies. Researchers will be particularly interested allergies, [...]

A tale of two pollens

Craig Maltby, Editor — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:57:03 +0000

The trees are budding now, the flowers are coming up and grass is growing. Here comes the pollen.

When looking at seasonal allergies, what triggers them and how to cope, two views generally take shape. One is focused on the immune response. It focuses on the fact that immune cells may be unduly sensitized [...]

All this bad news: how are the stress/immune levels holding up?

Craig Maltby, Editor — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:53:33 +0000

Wow. With Newtown and now Boston in the news, let alone the intermittent stories that come and go, there is a lot of bad news making headlines. And to intensify it even more, the broadcast and cable networks devote their brand of breathless 24/7 coverage to these stories. My attitude is, for every evil soul [...]