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I came across this article awhile back: What Does And Doesn’t Affect Immune System.
Scientists know that a number of factors can affect the body’s immune system: poor diet, certain steroids, chronic stress. Now researchers at Michigan State University have discovered that an appetite-controlling hormone also affects the immune system, while natural [...]
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Now that I’ve re-devoted my free time to reading, I’m burning through books at a pretty good clip. This past week, I read Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease. It was an interesting book, discussing the advantages that various diseases conferred on people throughout the ages and [...]
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Via Art De Vany’s blog - Network Medicine — From Obesity to the “Diseasome”
This is an interesting article describing disease networks. First, it looks at the obesity network within communities.
The authors observed that when two persons perceived each other as friends, if one friend became obese during a given time interval, the other friend’s [...]
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Joe made a great comment yesterday in the post The Cure for What Ails Ya that I wanted to highlight so that it doesn’t just get lost in comments. Here is most of his comment:
I haven’t been sick in over 6 years. That includes years or hard drinking and lack of sleep. True, there [...]
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