While few of us want to think about COVID again, this research suggests it may be stealing more from us than just energy and daily function. The Long COVID tendency may be due to it stealing from our immune defenses, creating openings for other new infections to break in or past latent infections to wake…
God created an immune defense which, compared to how often we face microbial threats, only occasionally needs backup. Despite practically non-stop assault, our immune system handles most issues without needing anything more than the basic supplies we have discussed in past articles. However, threats to our immune defenses intermittently arise which require some extra assistance,…
Science is never settled, especially with COVID and the immune system. Stanford researchers uncovered some of the mechanisms by which mRNA vaccines contribute to myocarditis (heart inflammation). With social media chatter and news channel headlines highlighting how many young COVID vaccine recipients have fallen dead or suffer some heart injury, those with their eyes open…
In medicine, whether we’re researchers or clinicians, discoverers or the people applying discoveries, we all prefer clear mechanisms to mere correlations and connections, especially with novel issues like the COVID spike protein. As this article notes, mast cell activity (a part of the immune system) has been correlated with a wide variety of immune processes…
News headlines are intentionally designed to get attention, and the fact that the Centers for Disease Control just quietly, yet openly, acknowledged the existence of chronic Lyme and other chronic conditions should get your attention. My first reaction upon seeing the Facebook headline was to doubt the article’s truth- at least until I saw the…
As mold toxicity becomes more and more recognized as a legitimate medical malady, more and more providers are trying to treat it- with some success. We are thankful for this recognition and the fact that more sufferers are being freed from their prison of an invisible diagnosis, but I have some words of wisdom for…
Stepping into the inter-workings of our body systems is like stepping into a modern factory assembling a large and complex machine. The interplay between something like a simple bacterium in our colon and an on-site immune cell can end up triggering autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis in our joints. What goes on in one system…
While no one denies that our bodies operate on a circadian rhythm of day and night cycles, you should know about the potential effects of daylight on our immune system. In today’s article, researchers report findings in zebrafish immune cells that could impact how we handle infections in our own bodies and maybe someday in…
As the SARS CoV2 virus behind COVID 19 continues to mutate and sweep over us a wave at a time, research into the role of mast cells in this and other viral diseases continues to find connections. With those connections, we can begin to offer some support for our immune defenses. In a review from…
As research into the etiology (origin & cause) of mental illness continues and the rate of such illness continues to rise, studies like this one are linking various factors together to explain the growing epidemic. As with many health conditions, more than one trigger is needed to get the symptom train moving. Prior research had…