About this time last year I put up a post about Thanksgiving and how feelings of appreciation and gratitude can make a measurable, positive difference in immune function. This was supported by some research from UC Davis, Univ. of Utah and Kent State.
Being that this is an entirely new year with many new developments in the health, sociological, political and economic fronts, I’ve decided to…..repeat the same theme. Heck, Miles Standish, the leader of the Pilgrims, lived to be 72... Read Full Story
I’ve been doing some writing for an electronic newsletter distributed by Embria Health Sciences, which also supports this blog. The topic for the holiday season newsletter is none other than…summer allergies. Kinda hard getting my hay fever and balmy weather groove on this time of year. But the ingenious thing about it is, talking about seasonal allergies during winter holidays really drives home the concept of something big. Really big.
What is it?
It’s this: The notion tha... Read Full Story
One of my most memorable vacations was an Alaskan cruise a few years ago. Everything was fantastic (except for the stealthily-created $600 bar tab cheerfully handed to me at home port). My wife and I would gladly do
The new Oasis of the Seas — with more than 2000 virus-haven restrooms.
another cruise in a heartbeat, but, next time, we’ll probably need to take some extra precautions so as to not ruin the cruise by being holed up sick in our cabin all week.
A new CDC study p... Read Full Story
Your 21st Century immune system
The next-gen iPhone. The new Droid. The technology continues to bedazzle. We all know how the cell phone has evolved. First it was a clunky box you installed in the trunk of your car, wired to a hand set holstered in your center console. You could only use the phone to make and receive phone calls. Period. Now, many people use their mobile phones more than they use their laptop or desktop (do they still make those??) computers. And making phone calls may rank t... Read Full Story
You’d think by now a settled knowledge base on Vitamin C would prevail in the nutrition world. But it seems we still don’t fully understand what C does and does not do with regard to immune health, prevention and symptom management. Not only is the science still evolving, the folklore and wives tales of Vitamin C, plus myriad personal experiences in taking C during or “before” an illness, all blend together to make for a confusing story. I won’t try to set any... Read Full Story
I read some interesting stuff in a new post from a fellow member of the Wellsphere online health community. Her name is Cindy and she is beginning a series of 15 treatments using NAET: Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques.
As she wrote in her Wellsphere post after a visit to her integrative medicine clinic: “I ran into Dr. Olsen on my way out and asked him about his work on allergies. He confessed how skeptical he was about the method, which is called NAET (short for Namb... Read Full Story
The band was sick…literally
Is my immune system balanced? No one can say for sure. All I know is this: I’ve made it through the fall pretty much unscathed. I did feel the need to sleep in an extra 90 minutes one day, but that’s been the extent of anything close to what one might pandemically call the crummy, cruddy experience. And, I’ve gone without shots this season. Which doesn’t mean anything as far as anyone else is concerned. If you feel the need ... Read Full Story
This week Chicago Tribune nutrition writer Julie Deardorf posted a piece on nutrition and immune health. She laid out a lot of good information, especially regarding so-called immune “boosting” pills/products such as the “Airborne” over-the-counter cold/flu remedy that had to cough up nearly $30 million in settlement money for labeling their packaging and advertising with unsubstantiated claims. The column talks about basic functions of immune response and cell signa... Read Full Story
I remember back in the day when the movie The Exorcist came out. It was a watershed event for the movie industry. No film had ever scared the bejeepers out of audiences like that movie. “On the day after Christmas,” began a 1974 Newsweek cover story, “a film called ‘The Exorcist’ opened in 22 cities across America. Since then, all hell has broken loose.” Just reading about it creeped me out. I avoided going to it until several years later, when it was at a... Read Full Story
I recently joined WEGO Health, an online health community that appears to have lot of activity. It doesn’t have the bulk numbers that other places like WebMD has (who does??), but it is growing and is generating a lot of original discussion. My friending activity has produced several dozen cohorts in just a few weeks.
Recently, I asked the forum about flu shots? Who is getting a flu shot? Why or why not? Some of the answers were very interesting and very genuine:
Janeen: “I alre... Read Full Story
