Among the rapid changes that swept in with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was a new enthusiasm for exercise. During the first lockdown, my husband, who spent much of his career working on strategies to get the nation exercising, looked on in astonishment at each person striding past our window, kitted out for a walk, and…
Exercise and Acute Respiratory Infections: Might Regular Exercise Help Protect Us?
Australia Has Missed the Past Two Flu Seasons
Australia has officially missed the last two flu seasons as the average of 163,015 cases of influenza a year plummeted to just 598 cases and zero deaths by the end of 2021. Just before the CCP virus arrived in Australia, the country’s National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System tracked 313,033 laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza and 953…
Protect Yourself from Respiratory Infections with Probiotics
According to University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers, doctors frequently misuse antibiotics when treating patients hospitalized with respiratory tract infections. In a study published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, doctors at two Pennsylvania hospitals were found to be using antibiotics to treat patients with viral infections, which are known to not respond to…
Nutritional Yeast to Help Prevent Common Childhood Infections
The amount of beta-glucan fiber in just a dusting of nutritional yeast each day may be enough to change the course of our immune response to various pathogens, according to a study that put this substance to the test in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial for the prevention of common childhood illnesses. The findings reflect…
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