One of the major complaints that people have is that “they are always tired”. “They just do not care anymore, they are just too tired.” [Kindly view a post that is relevant to this subject: Depression, Anhedonia and Run-Away Inflammation.] In the past, scientists thought that there was a blood-brain barrier that “isolated” the brain …
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Tired of Being Tired All the Time?
| Posted by in Chronic Disease | Immune Homeostasis (Immune Balance) | Infections and Inflammatory Responses | Inflammation - (0 Comments)Microbes, Gluten, Celiac Disease, Diabetes, and Inflammation
| Posted by in Chronic Disease | Diabetes | Immune Homeostasis (Immune Balance) | Infections | Inflammation - (0 Comments)We humans exist in sea of microorganisms. According to the American Society for Microbiology, there are 10 fold the number of bacteria living in and on our bodies as cells that make up our bodies. Wherever our bodies are exposed to the outside world, for example our digestive tracts, skin, mouth, vagina, etc. we find …
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Colorectal Cancer, Inflammation, and Immune and Digestive Homeostasis
| Posted by in Cancer | Immune Homeostasis (Immune Balance) | Inflammation - (0 Comments)Immune inflammation is the body’s way of protecting itself from infection and cancerous cells. It is also necessary for repairing damaged tissues and eliminating dangerous compounds produced internally or to which we are exposed to externally. In the 1800’s, Dr. Rudolf Virchow, one of the 19th century’s foremost scientists, observed the presence of inflammatory immune …
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Fibromyalgia, Inflammation, and the Inflammatory Response
| Posted by in Chronic Disease | Fatigue | Immune Homeostasis (Immune Balance) | Inflammation - (0 Comments)Through the years, I have spoken with many individuals, usually, women, who have now been diagnosed with fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a condition in which individuals suffer from chronic pain, and have tenderness in about a dozen different spots in the body, and have “brain fog”. They suffer from unremitting fatigue, bowel problems, difficulty in sleeping …
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Inflammation, Immune Homeostasis, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
| Posted by in Chronic Disease | Fatigue | Immune Homeostasis (Immune Balance) | Inflammation - (0 Comments)For years, physicians told their (overwhelmingly female) patients, that patient complaints of skeletal and muscle pains, sleep disorders, overwhelming fatigue not improved by bed rest, brain “fog”, and lack of stamina, were “all in their mind”. However once pharmaceutical medications were introduced into the market place to help decrease some of these symptoms, health practitioners …
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IBS, Inflammation, and Immune Homeostasis, Immune Balance
| Posted by in Chronic Disease | Immune Homeostasis (Immune Balance) | Inflammation - (0 Comments)A recent guest post on kevinmd.com by Sophie Lee expressed her frustration and anger at physicians who dismiss her reports of pain with her severe bouts of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). She repeatedly hears, “it isn’t really serious” “you will just have to live with it, etc. [ www.ibstales.com ]. I just do not get why conventional “wisdom” …
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Aspirin, Colon Cancer, and Inflammation
| Posted by in Cancer | Immune Homeostasis (Immune Balance) | Inflammation - (0 Comments)Taking an aspirin a day may lower cancer risk. Individuals took a minimum of 75mg a day of aspirin for 6 years. Twenty years later, these individuals had a 24% lower risk of developing colon cancer in the first place, and a 35% lower risk of death from colon cancer as compared to placebo. This …
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Autoinflammatory Diseases and Immune Homeostasis
| Posted by in Aging | Autism | Cancer | Chronic Disease | Immune Homeostasis (Immune Balance) | Inflammation - (0 Comments)Recently, a professional networking site directed me to a short note by Lisa Moreno-Dickinson, President of the stopcaidnow.org. The title of her article was “When Doctors Don’t Know How to Help From Misdiagnosis to No diagnosis … What Can a Parent Do?”. CAID refers to Childhood Auto Inflammatory Diseases. These genetic disorders usually start in …
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