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Why our immune systems are so flexible

The human immune system possesses immense individual-to-individual diversity, and also has specialised compartmentalisation[1]. (Which means many variations in response, local tissue activity, recovery and outcome on every challenge). Immunity is intrinsically variable, because it is controlled by the most polymorphic (occurring in several different forms) genes and is shaped by highly sensitive, modifiable environmental sensors that can push immunity into myriad functional configurations[2]. The...

Ageing Immune Health Diets

Anti-aging Diets – do they work?

A proposed test to measure inflammation, from which an ‘inflammatory age’ may be determined has recently become available. The test involves the drawing of a blood sample and then assessing the levels of various markers of inflammation using artificial intelligence. This is then used to determine whether someone is at risk of developing age-related disorders such as cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disease. The clock measures ‘biological age’, which takes health into consideration and can be...

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Agnotology - Are you Confused?

Agnotology (the study of deliberate spreading of confusion) Throughout the pandemic, it has been saddening how science has been hijacked. Arguments around herd immunity exemplify this: proponents claimed that acquiring immunity by infection was fine for most people and also that communities were well on their way to achieving herd immunity[1]. The messages supporting this approach downplayed the dangers for those with high risks of exposure or severe illness. Herd immunity reduces the risk of contracting...

Ageing Cardiovascular Health Diets

Aging? – How are you Managing Health

By 2030, the number of people aged 60 and older will grow by more than 50 percent, from 900 million in 2015 to 1.4 billion[1]. That is just over 8 years away at the time of writing this piece! Further, noncommunicable diseases, those more closely linked to social circumstances, lifestyle and behaviour, such as cardiovascular diseases (e.g. heart attacks and stroke), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (e.g.chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma) and diabetes, will account for 71 percent...

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A Zen moment for Immunity

A koan (a Zen Buddhist derived a paradoxical anecdote or riddle without a solution) for pandemic times: ‘If a microbe silently and inconsequentially copies itself in a tissue, and the body doesn’t notice, did it actually infect?’ Note, the role of the koan is not to lead us to enlightenment, but on the contrary to make us lose our way and drive us to despair. Perhaps you have experienced some of these emotions since March 2020? As many have learned regarding infectious agents, the variation...

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Is Natural Immunity Inviolable?

The obvious answer is NO, otherwise no one would suffer immune related illness and death. The ability of your immune system to respond, repel and return to homeostasis after insult has many influencing factors. Yet our long history of survival as a species indicates that our immune response is adaptive and sustaining, subject to its challenges being manageable. This incredible plasticity involves ‘immunological trade-offs’ and shapes disease outcomes at individual and population scales. These ‘trade-offs’...

Immune Health Food Diets

NCDs And Their Relationship to Our Environment

As circumstances have demanded, the attention of our health-related recommendations over the last few months has been on the role of lifestyle and environmental impacts on immunity and the ability to resist or respond to viral infections, especially Sars-Cov-2. The focus, prior to Covid-19 was on non-communicable diseases and the related slower, but equally damaging effects on human health and wellbeing. Whilst infectious risks have obviously been highlighted, at present, one of the most significant...

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Immunosenescence and how to manage it

Feeling old? Consider the redwoods in the USA. Reaching heights of more than 350 feet, the world’s tallest trees have been on this planet since the days of the dinosaurs. A single specimen can live more than 2,000 years. That’s old enough to make it through from the Roman Empire to the British Empire and an assortment of presidents and prime ministers! Yet the mycelial population that connects all trees and arguably is the formative source of all life, is even older. These trees are biologically...

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COVID-19 linked to autoimmunity

The understanding of what goes wrong in autoimmune disease, and why, is advancing on numerous fronts[1]. One key question that remains, is what makes some people more likely to experience autoimmunity than others? Gender appears to play a significant part, with autoimmune disease around three times more common in women than in men, with two primary reasons being hormones and chromosomal variations[2]. Genetic variants that increase the risk of autoimmunity are also being identified and researchers...

Food Minerals Vitamins

Lest we forget – iron deficiency is common and a health risk!

Faced as we are with an infectious and mutating agent of illness, the allied focus on nutritional needs has been to identify foods and nutritional concentrates that confer an immunological advantage[1]. Covid-19 does not treat us equally. Undernourished people have weaker immune systems and may be at greater risk of severe illness due to the virus. Because iron deficiency degrades non-specific immunity, your body’s first line of defence against pathogens, you are more vulnerable to infection and...

Why our immune systems are so flexible

Anti-aging Diets – do they work?

Agnotology - Are you Confused?

Aging? – How are you Managing Health

A Zen moment for Immunity

Is Natural Immunity Inviolable?

NCDs And Their Relationship to Our Environment

Immunosenescence and how to manage it

COVID-19 linked to autoimmunity

Lest we forget – iron deficiency is common and a health risk!

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