Tag: immunity

Omicron Risk for Long COVID Is Lower Than Earlier Variants: Doctor

When Carrie Anna McGinn woke up alone in her hotel room on Christmas morning in 2020, she thought she was experiencing the worst of her COVID symptoms. She struggled against coughing, cognitive dysfunction, pain, and ​postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. She was isolated away from her family but expected to be back to normal in time…


Vaccine-Injured Have Weaker, Overworked Immune Systems

In January 2022, Marco Cavaleri, Head of Vaccines Strategy at the European Medicines Agency raised concerns about frequent COVID-19 booster shots, as these vaccines can potentially overload people’s immune systems and tire them out, eventually weakening their immune responses. One month later, in February 2022, a Swedish total population cohort study was published in The…


Vaccine-Injured and Boosted Have Weaker, Overworked Immune Systems

In January 2022, Marco Cavaleri, Head of Vaccines Strategy at the European Medicines Agency raised concerns about frequent COVID-19 booster shots, as these vaccines can potentially overload people’s immune systems and tire them out, eventually weakening their immune responses. One month later, in February 2022, a Swedish total population cohort study was published in The…


Why Being Outside Is a Natural Way to Control Infections

The healing properties of fresh air have been appreciated since ancient times,1 when Pliny the Elder (A.D. 23–79) recommended that people with tuberculosis breathe in the air of evergreen forests. We now know that air happens to be high in ozone, a known germicidal agent.2 In more recent history, outdoor air was considered part of…


Stress Ages the Immune System: Study

We’ve all heard that too much stress can hurt our health. Stress contributes to ailments such as high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes. Now, a study published on June 13 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), shows that years of accumulated stress can more rapidly age the immune system. This finding could…


Boosting Immunity While Reducing Inflammation

There’s lots of products that promise to boost your immune system, and who wouldn’t want that? Well, there’s millions of people with autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, allergies—millions of people whose immune systems may already be a bit too active. I try to make sufferers of seasonal allergies feel better by explaining that having an overactive immune system…


Early Antibiotics May Lead to Lasting Asthma, Allergies

Early exposure to antibiotics kills healthy bacteria in the digestive tract and can cause permanent asthma and allergies, a new study shows. The study, published in Mucosal Immunology, provides the strongest evidence so far that the long-observed connection between antibiotic exposure in early childhood and later development of asthma and allergies is causal. “The practical implication…


Exercise to Reduce Muscle Loss and Inflammation

Women and men who exercise regularly have larger and stronger hearts, and greater endurance and strength, than those who do not exercise regularly [1]. Their muscles are stronger and more coordinated [2]. We can all expect to become weaker as we age, but you can markedly delay this inevitable loss of muscle strength by having…


Trump Claims ‘Absolute Immunity’ From Jan. 6 Civil Suits

Former President Donald Trump asserted “absolute immunity” to shield him from civil lawsuits over his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. In a July 27 filing (pdf), Trump’s attorneys Jesse Binnall and Molly McCann urged a federal appeals court in Washington to entirely dismiss the former commander-in-chief as a defendant in civil suits linked to…


How the Wim Hof Method of Breathing Brings About Healing

When the Solari Report announced Wim Hof to be the recipient of the 2021 Hero of the Year award in December 2021, we took notice. Calling Wim Hof one of the most likely men to make an enormous difference in natural health care in the coming years, they shared his extremely practical, results-driven, and virtually free techniques….