immune system
Growing Strong Naturally: What’s New in Children’s Health Products
Holistic tools, new ingredients and natural health products to help improve children’s health. “Mom, I don’t feel good!” Autumn is here in the U.S., and with the return to school comes the return for many to getting sick. Colds, flu viruses and stomach bugs get swapped with surprising frequency in most elementary, middle and high ...
Defense and Immunity
Immune support has shifted to a year-round concern. While immune health is typically associated with the cold and flu seasons, it can also refer to autoimmune conditions as it’s part of the body’s checks and balances system for health. According to Dr. Serena Goldstein, a naturopathic doctor based in Delray Beach, FL, it can help ...
Helping Patients Through the Allergy Season
For both patients and practitioners, finding effective allergy treatment that doesn’t cause side effects can seem like trying to solve an unsolvable mystery. Whether you have patients who deal with allergies intensely during a short season, or patients who suffer for months on end, you’ll want to give them options that don’t leave them feeling ...
The Importance of Year-round Immune Health
Experts offer health and lifestyle advice for the immune system. Immune health remains a popular category for both holistic medicine practitioners and dietary supplement manufacturers. According to Grand View Research, the global immune health supplements market size was valued at $26.6 billion in 2023 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate ...
Lupus Flare-ups Linked to Bacterial Growth in Gut
Recurrent bouts of systemic lupus erythematosus, marked by the body’s immune system attack of its own tissues, closely tracked with measurable upticks in growth in the gut of a certain species of bacteria. New research from NYU Grossman School of Medicine shows that bacterial blooms of the gut bacterium Ruminococcus blautia gnavus occurred at the ...
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Introduction Maintaining our immune health is crucial for the prevention of illness. While people are familiar with ‘boosting the immune system’ by taking vitamins to fend off cold & flu, it is equally important to defend the body against harmful toxins, chemicals, and other pollutants that can cause an immune response. Every day we are ...
Obesity Linked to Macular Degeneration
A Canadian study published in the journal Science elucidates a new molecular mechanism that may cause age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The research at Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosement, in Montreal, shows how life stressors such as obesity reprogram immune system cells and make them destructive to the eye as it ages. “We wanted to know why some people with ...
Snacking on Almonds Boosts Gut Health, Study Finds
Eating a handful of almonds a day significantly increases the production of butyrate, a short-chain fatty acid that promotes gut health. A team of researchers from King’s College London (U.K.) investigated the impact of whole and ground almonds on the composition of gut microbes. The study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The ...
IADSA Highlights Major Discrepancies in Global Vitamin C Guidance
Daily vitamin C recommendations vary significantly worldwide even though the data underlying them are broadly the same, according to a new “Mind the Gap” resource from the International Alliance of Dietary/Food Supplement Associations (IADSA). Research shows that there is an almost threefold difference between the lowest and the highest recommendations for vitamin C issued by ...
I Think It Was Something I Ate!
Bad reactions to foods are common. And they can beset anyone at any age, masquerading as other issues. Here’s how to help identify food-borne issues. That meal or snack may have been quite pleasant going down. But a little while later, the ugly side may rear up: the uncomfortable post-prandial effects may be distressing, irritating, ...
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