Want to skip the flu and colds this year? You can, if you boost your specific immunity! Specific immunity provides protection from a particular threat by activating lymphocytes and antibodies. In specific immunity, immune responses are tailor-made to maximally...
Elizabeth Jane Hall
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Natural RX for Sinus Infections
Sinusitis is inflammation of the sinuses. Germs such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi can cause an infection in the sinuses. Other conditions such as allergic rhinitis (swelling of the lining of the nose), small growths in the lining of the nose, or a shift in the...
Natural Remedies for the Common Sore Throat
The average child will have between 6 to 10 colds a year, while the average adult will have 2 to 4 colds a year. What can you do to speed recovery? After all, antibiotics are ineffective in combating the cold viruses. Hydrotherapy Contrast Shower Do an alternating hot...
Twelve Lifestyle Tips for Vibrant Skin
This blog examines twelve science-backed tips for healthy, vibrant skin.
Plant Foods Improve Your Heart’s Health
Higher consumption of fruit and vegetables was significantly associated with a lower risk of death from all causes, particularly from cardiovascular diseases. The average risk of death from all causes was reduced by 5% for each additional daily serving of fruit and...
Health Benefits of Red Foods
Could eating more red foods prolong your longevity? They could if you regularly consume plant foods of these brilliant colors. Red fruits such as strawberries, raspberries, cherries, and pomegranates contain the cancer-fighting phytochemical known as ellagic acid....
Seven Delicious Ways to Boost Your Antioxidant Level
Who will win your battle? Free Radical Havoc Players or Antioxidant Quencher Players? Free radicals are essential to health. We need them for energy production in the mitochondria and and to help kill germs in the lysosomes. However, excessive amounts of free...
Self-Control Increases Your Happiness
“Self-control is the capacity to alter and regulate predominant response tendencies resulting in the inhibition of undesirable behaviors while promoting desirable ones to support the pursuit of long-term goals.”((Tracy T. L. Cheung. Why are people with high...
Could Your Gut Impact Your Blood Pressure?
Evidence is mounting that the microorganisms residing in your gut could help determine whether or not you develop hypertension.((Adnan S. Alterations in the gut microbiota can elicit hypertension in rats. Physiological Genomics>, 2016; physiolgenomics.00081.2016...
Could This Fruit Help Your Cold Symptoms?
A few studies show that consuming kiwifruit has a beneficial effect on the immune system and helps to reduce the incidence and severity of symptoms of upper respiratory tract infections and potentially be more beneficial than supplementation with vitamin C...