Posts Tagged ‘inflammation’

This overlooked hormone might be the real reason you still struggle with out-of-control blood sugar. But most doctors (even alternative doctors) ignore it completely.

By Dr. Janet Zand

Quick question: What’s the most overlooked blood-sugar hormone in your body?

If you guessed insulin, you’re wrong.  If you guessed cortisol or leptin, you’re wrong again.

In fact, the #1 overlooked blood sugar hormone in your body is called glucagon. And this critical hormone may be the real reason you still struggle …

 

Danica Collins – Managing Editor, Underground Health Reporter ™

Your immune system is the first line of defense against illness and chronic disease. Keeping your immune system fully charged is a forever trending health topic, and the most recent immunity buzz focuses on the role positive emotions have on immune health. Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley recommend supplementing not only with immune-boosting vitamin C and zinc, but also with positive emotions. Their research shows that …

You want an immune system that works like an offensive line on a football team, ready to tackle viruses, bacteria, and cancer. When you get a cold, break a bone, or suffer any other sickness or harm, your immune system recognizes that you’re unwell and dispatches a team of inflammatory cells to tackle what’s wrong.

Training your immune cells to attack is remarkably simple. The whole team of cells and proteins only need to learn what is “you” …

If you have children, at some time or another you’ve probably urged them to eat their broccoli, “Children, eat your trees!”

Then, there’s former President George Bush, Sr., who complained, “I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.”

In spite of former President Bush’s aversion to broccoli, it …

At times, we try to solve one problem, but unwittingly create other more serious problems with our solution.

In the 60s, comedian Pat Paulsen was a regular on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. In one of his comedy routines, he invented a transistor radio that didn’t require batteries–because he powered it with a lawnmower engine. True, the gas motor did provide the needed energy to run the radio, but with comedic blunder, no one could hear the radio over …