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Balanced Immune Health

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Flair & Balance

Here’s a collection of stories that connect to the “balance” factor. Some older, some new. Hopefully, all credible and worth the read.

  1. Allergies: Clearing the Air
    This NBC Nightly News story gets at the heart of immune balance: helping immune systems “learn” how to react to pathogens and allergans in a way the keeps miserable symptoms at bay.
  2. Give Stress More Respect
    Tara Parker-Pope’s Well Blog at the New York Times serves up a good piece on how stress morphs into sickness and health problems. Immune balance can offset physical manifestations of stress.
  3. Immune Systems Increasingly On Attack
    This Washington Post piece gives a good overview of how Western populations have altered their immune systmes over the decades to a point where chronic conditions are becoming commonplace. Kind of alarming. 
  4. Why Men Die Sooner
    This is WebMD’s (through CBS) review of a new book about men’s higher mortality rate compared to women. Why?  Pent up stress and the out-of-kilter immune response it causes could be one reason. Very interesting.
  5. America’s Most Stressful Cities
    Forbes ranks Chicago as numero uno.