The Body's Drama: Emotions, Allergies, and the Wild Ride of Responses
#Allergies #Emotions #ImmuneSystem #CognitiveTherapy #Histamine #Biopsychosocial #HealthJourney #EmotionalBalance #AllergyAwareness #Asthma #FoodAllergies #Wellness #MentalHealth #ChronicIllness #SelfCare #HealthEducation
https://www.europesays.com/1943530/ Report shows alarming measles resurgence in Europe and US #Antibodies #autism #blindness #brain #children #deafness #disability #europe #healthcare #hospital #hygiene #ImmuneSystem #InfectiousDiseases #Measles #medicine #Meningitis #MMR #Mumps #pathogen #Pneumonia #polio #PublicHealth #research #Respiratory #Rubella #Vaccine #virus
BIG HEMP continues to hype CBD extracts from fertilizer-ladden mechanized crops that carry heavy metals and toxins, as hemp is one heck of a bioaccumulator.
The clean and effective ancestral cannabic medicine is made from artisanal organic flower, and darn simple to prepare at home for many health conditions.
In the post linked I explain all the scientifically proven properties of cannabis tea made from dry "recreative" flower.
It produces little to no high, since its THCa and CBDa based (acidic raw versions of THC and CBD).
#medicalcannabis #healthcare #cannabismedicinal #cannabis
#cbd #thc #cbda #thca #weed
#marihuana #marijuana #health #cannabisscience #science
#ImmuneSystem #autoimmune #selfcare #neurodivergent #depression #chronicillness #chronicpain #pain #ptsd
#regenerativemedicine #solarpunk #naturephotography
#JorgeAlbanPhotos #ThickTrunkTuesday #slowart
How tiny algae shaped the #evolution of giant clams https://phys.org/news/2025-01-tiny-algae-evolution-giant-clams.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-07423-8
"T. maxima have evolved more genes for sensors to distinguish friendly #algae from harmful #bacteria, #viruses... it has tuned down some of its immune genes in a way that likely helps the #animals tolerate #microbes... As a result of the weakened #ImmuneSystem, its genome contains a large number of #TransposableElements left behind by viruses. These aspects highlight the tradeoffs of #symbiosis"
Our last #commonancestor lived 4.2 billion years ago—perhaps hundreds of millions of years earlier than thought
#Genomes of diverse #microbes point to early #evolution of a rudimentary #immunesystem
The last ancestor shared by all living organisms was a microbe that lived 4.2 billion years ago, had a fairly large #genome encoding some 2600 proteins, enjoyed a diet of hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide, and harbored a rudimentary immune system for fighting off viral invaders.
https://www.science.org/content/article/our-last-common-ancestor-lived-4-2-billion-years-ago-perhaps-hundreds-millions-years
Another quote:
“Therapies have been developed to reverse T cell exhaustion as treatments for cancer,” Hanson said. “Our findings raise the question of whether such anti-exhaustion drugs might also be helpful in ME/CFS.”
Strong evidence for the phenomenon of T cell exhaustion in ME/CFS has also been reported in long COVID, Hanson added.
Cornell Chronicle:
"Immune T cells become exhausted in chronic fatigue syndrome patients"
"A systematic exploration revealed that key CD8+ T cells displayed one of the most pronounced signatures of dysregulation, with signs of constant stimulation that lead to an exhausted state, a condition that is well-studied in cancer."
Great article about the Covid pandemic that touches on all the things we aren’t supposed to talk about (like the real death toll and the long tail of chronic illness)
There was so much worth quoting - but I chose this stark figure out of Wales since I’m a clinically vulnerable patient who spends alot of time in the hospital.
In Wales - 70% of all people who require hospital treatment for Covid caught Covid IN hospital. 70%.
Once upon a time - hospital acquired infections were considered a massive failure of infection control. The goal was to keep them as close to zero as possible.
But as we rushed “back to normal” and worked to vanish the memory of COVID from our collective brains - we stopped protecting patients.
Hospitals stopped requiring masks. They didn’t clean the air. They discouraged staff from testing and allowed them to work while sick. They stopped testing patients.
The result? Patients being infected with hospital acquired Covid. Which has a 10% fatality rate.
These people didn’t choose to be patients. They didn’t want to be in the hospital. They couldn’t “just stay home”. They were sick and in need of care.
No one should have to choose between care and Covid.
Yet for so many people - that’s the choice they’re currently facing.
Disabled and high risk individuals have sacrificed so much over the last five years. Many of us are still shielding. Isolated from a world that refuses to even acknowledge we are still IN a pandemic.
It’s dreadfully unfair that we should have to give up so much only to be infected in the one place we’re unable to avoid. The place we should have an expectation of safety
Nate’s article looks at the reasons why we aren’t doing more to combat Covid (hint - capitalism) and reminds us of the importance of remembering we live in a society.
“You do you” doesn’t work. We’re all in this together whether we realize it or not. Whether we like it or not. Whether we’re disabled or not.
When we finally admit this to ourselves and start working together - we may actually be able to beat COVID once and for all.
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/five-years-on-a-covid-retrospective
Your diet can change your immune system — here’s how
Claims about food and immunity are everywhere. Now scientists are exploring exactly how nutrition acts on the immune system to boost health and treat disease
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03334-0
pdf: file:///mnt/Vancouver/downloads/d41586-024-03334-0.pdf
The Immune Mind by Monty Lyman 2024
You've heard that a healthy body means a healthy mind - but why? What exactly is going on in our immune system? Delving into the discovery of new anatomy in the brain, Dr Monty Lyman reveals the extraordinary implications for our physical and mental health.
Researchers at #CharitéBerlin, German Rheumatology Research Center and @MDC_Berlin have identified the immune cells that cause severe #kidney #inflammation in patients with #lupus. The study, published in the journal #nature, could pave the way for future antibody therapies.
#CauliflowerMushroom - #SparassisCrispa.
One of my fave #edible & #medicinal #WildMushrooms. It's found in many places around the world, including forests on #VancouverIsland.
We #forage for these wild #mushrooms & use it in making some soups & stir fry dishes.
It's used often in #traditional #Chinese #medicine #TCM because it contains active #pharmacological ingredients. In order to study its medicinal value better, the genomic sequence of S. crispa was published in Oct 2018.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6207663
Dry weight of the #basidiocarp was found to contain up to 43.6% #BetaGlucan, which was approved for the treatment of #cancer in #Japan & recommended for #COVID19 patients to overcome #inflammation.
Experiments suggest that S. crispa contains chemicals that may stimulate the #ImmuneSystem & has many #biological properties including: #AntiTumor, #antiviral activity (reverse transcriptase inhibitory activity), #neuroprotection, #cardioprotection, #AntiInflammation, #hyperlipidemia, #AntiDiabetic medication, #antimicrobial compounds, & methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus #MRSA.
New drug shows promise in clearing HIV from brain
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240725193914.htm
* experimental drug orig. developed to treat cancer may help clear HIV f. infected cells in brain
* drug may clear virus f. hidden areas that have been a major challenge in HIV treatment
CSF1R inhibition depletes brain macrophages and reduces brain virus burden in SIV-infected macaques
https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awae153/7714669
The host of one of my online co-writing groups is sick with COVID. One of the people in the group said, “You’ll come through better and stronger than ever before. It’ll do your immune system good.”
Jesus crispy Christ. It will NOT make anyone’s immune system better any more than AIDS does.
I hope he’ll be ok, but holy shit. I can’t understand people who think getting a life threatening/disabling disease is good for you. Fuck.
B.C. launches lawsuit against makers of 'Forever Chemicals'
12 companies "did not warn the Canadian public of the dangers posed by their #PFAS -containing products or take any steps to modify or remove their products to avoid these harms — instead, they concealed and affirmatively contradicted known dangers in public statements and marketing campaigns designed to enrich themselves at the public's expense"
#obesity #immunesystem #cancer
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-class-action-lawsuit-forever-chemicals-1.7243226
#KeirStarmer suggests #trans #women use #costly #hospital ‘#siderooms’ instead of #women’s #wards
#Siderooms are often preserved for individuals who need to be #isolated either because of an #infection or #susceptibility to #infection, possibly because of a #compromised #immunesystem or after #major #surgery.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Labour #Tories #TERFS #NHS #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia #TERFIsland
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/18/keir-starmer-trans-hospital-wards/
![I've got 99 problems and my immune system caused all of them
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