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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Autism Wars

Wanna choose sides in the latest autism war? One side says the mother’s lack of Vitamin D during pregnancy causes autism, while the other side says it’s the glutamate that’s in the many immunization shots babies and young children receive. Let’s take a look-see. Autism comes from brain ...Wanna choose sides in the latest autism war? One side says the mother’s lack of Vitamin D during pregnancy causes autism, while the other side says it’s the glutamate that’s in the many immunization shots babies and young children receive. Let’s take a look-see.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Dorito Dangers

Doritos Well, looky here! I read that the CEO of Frito/Lay describes Doritos as a ‘healthful snack.’ Well, I had to check that out. Who knows? Maybe I could start eating Doritos. So off to the web! Holey Moley! It takes a special kind of dictionary to describe Doritos as healthful. Let’s a quick look at just some of the ingredients, in the order listed on the label, and you’ll see what I mean.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

In Praise of Cholesterol

Can we all get over our fixation on cholesterol? I mean, now that it’s clear that cholesterol isn’t what’s causing heart disease? But, but, but, if cholesterol is building up in my arteries, doesn’t that mean cholesterol’s the problem? Actually, no. Your cholesterol is simply trying to patch ...Can we all get over our fixation on cholesterol? I mean, now that it’s clear that cholesterol isn’t what’s causing heart disease? But, but, but, if cholesterol is building up in my arteries, doesn’t that mean cholesterol’s the problem?

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

The Problem With Sheep

You want dumb as a brick? You want too dense to get out of their own way? Get yourself some sheep. Quarry rocks have higher IQs than sheep. In any cavalcade of dumb things, sheep always lead the parade. Animal lovers argue about animal intelligence. Pigs, they say, are really intelligent. ...You want dumb as a brick? You want too dense to get out of their own way? Get yourself some sheep. Quarry rocks have higher IQs than sheep. In any cavalcade of dumb things, sheep always lead the parade.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Meeting Your Protein Needs

Good health requires protein. It’s protein that repairs the cells in our body, builds and maintains our muscles and bones, gives us energy and rides herd over a lot of what goes on inside us. And it’s protein that keeps our endocrine system chugging along. Diets with inadequate protein lead down a dreary path to incapacity.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

How To Save A Tea Party

My three-year-old niece Rachel came to live with us the on the same day we moved from New York to our new home in Connecticut. Nobody really planned it that way; it just happened. Ten-year-old Chrissie already had the willys about the move, and eight-year-old Charles didn’t lag far behind in the negative vibe department. Adding a three-year-old to the household took them to the heights of misgiving.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

The Nutrition Powerhouse We Laugh At

Super foods, by definition, have more nutrition per ounce than your average health food. Most health foods strut around, proud as a peacock of their power and glory, but when a super food shows up, they fold up their tails and take a back seat. Now, I’m talking a real super food. Some people get all giddy and call anything with a trace of nutrition a super food. Not a chance. Even many of the foods known for their nutritional power, blueberries, for instance, can’t really be called super foods. Good, yes. Super, well no.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***The Potency of Parsley

Parsley is the Rodney Dangerfield of herbs; it gets no respect. Probably not even from Rodney Dangerfield. We’re talking NO respect. Once upon a time, most restaurants used parsley as a perky, colorful accompaniment on your plate, whatever you ordered. Most eaters ignored it, though, pretty much ending the parsley era. We need to reconsider our attitude here. Parsley is a nutritional powerhouse. And, better yet, a little dab’ll do ya. In fact, it would be hard to munch through a dollar’s worth in a week. So let’s talk about parsley. The Practicality of Parsleyr

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Concussions Can Change Your Life

We’re way too casual about concussions. In fact, when I suffered a concussion in a car accident a few years back, the doctor didn’t tell me. And when I asked, she told me it wasn’t important. And she was wrong. Concussions are huge. You see, most concussions damage the pituitary gland, sometimes temporarily, sometimes not. If you don’t take care of business in treating your concussion, you move toward permanent. If you get repeated concussions, you almost surely end up with permanent pituitary damage.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

The Bread Problem

People used to call bread “the staff of life.” But those days seem to be gone forever. Bread is now a problem of life. Let me count the ways. • Celiac disease: Caused by an intolerance to gluten–part and parcel of grains–celiac disease gets diagnosed a lot as irritable bowel syndrome, sometimes as colitis. Which can mean a digestive system that demands a whole lot of attention and action. Or it can mean a brain that doesn’t quite function. Symptoms vary, but those are the top two.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

How Your Body Gets Out Of Whack

Carve this in stone: Your body will balance itself no matter what you think, do or say. This is one of the many things they don’t teach us in school. And I’ve never seen a headline about it on a magazine cover, either. It seems to be somebody’s secret, but we need to let that cat out of the bag right now. This is important stuff. For instance, your body insists the calcium in your body be balanced with the magnesium in your body. Well, everybody’s heard about taking calcium to protect your bones, so we piously chug down calcium and wish our bones well. Not so fast, Chester.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Everyday Life With Hypothyroidism

So, there you are, dragging your patooty through one grey day after another, wondering where your brain went, why your body aches and if you’ll ever feel good again. Even doctors who test for thyroid problems typically prescribe the ineffective medicine Synthroid or its generic equivalent. It helps almost nobody. On the other hand, it can cause allergic reactions, making patients feel even worse. Doctors, state medical boards and, notoriously, the FDA need to work this out by letting the sunlight of truth into their considerations. I recommend, however, that you don’t hold your breath.r

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

The Danger In Baby Shampoo

The labels on baby shampoos sure sound good. Gentle. Non-irritating. Everything a good mother could want. And some have pictures of smiling, happy babies to seal the deal. Most of those labels don’t tell the truth. They can’t, because if moms knew the truth, they wouldn’t buy the shampoo. Why not? Most baby shampoos–most shampoos for any age–contain sodium lauryl sulfate or its equally ugly cousins sodium laureth sulfate or ammonium lauryl sulfate.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Busybodies Can Literally Make You Sick

Some years ago, self-appointed busybodies screamed and yelled and hollered about McDonalds using beef fat to cook their fries. Deciding ahead of time that McDonalds was evil incarnate, they accused McDonalds of purposely risking our very lives with saturated fat. And so it was in 1990 that McDonalds switched to trans-fats. The busybodies who suggested that action took a bow. Well, now, there’s an oops! Trans-fats, liquid vegetable oils shot through with hydrogen to make them solid at room temperature–and to extend shelf life–are an unmitigated disaster.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Holy Basil: The Rest of the Story

Holey Moley, Chester, be careful out there! As you know, stress is the big kahuna of problems nowadays. And maybe stress-R-you. But just because somebody says something’s good for stress doesn’t mean you should take it. You need to know the rest of the story. An example: Holy Basil, a herb ballyhooed as a stress reliever. Well, maybe yes, maybe no. Let’s talk about this.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

The TSH Gotcha

We have before us multiple scenarios, all of which start and end in the same place. (This is going to be a tad long, so grab a cup of coffee to see you through to the end.) The adventure starts when you drag into the doctor’s office complaining about weight gain, extreme fatigue, thinning ...We have before us multiple scenarios, all of which start and end in the same place. (This is going to be a tad long, so grab a cup of coffee to see you through to the end.)

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***Mold Allergies And The Immune System

Mold allergies are as common as dirt. Perhaps because the mold spores that cause the allergy are in dirt–from sea to shining sea and around the world, and dirt is out to play dirty tricks on you. Of course, any body of water, such as a lake, produces clouds of mold spores to play havoc with your health. Breathing problems, anyone? How about digestive uproar? And, as if they didn’t already have enough problems, people with thyroid problems are particularly susceptible to entering the badlands of a mold allergy.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

How Insecurity Can Kill Sales

What’s up with the lamebrains who speak in the potty-mouth dialect without even a hint of a thought about how others will receive their message? If you’re in sales in any way, this one’s for you. Step this through with me: Unless we’re speaking to ourselves (which is another topic for another day), when we speak or write, at least one other person gets involved by listening or reading. And I would guess our purpose of speaking or writing would be to communicate with that other person or persons.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Poison Soy

I study health issues for many hours a day. While I focus on endocrine health (thyroid, etc.), I have to cover the health waterfront because the body insists on living as an integrated whole. A balanced, integrated whole. If one part of the body suffers, they all suffer as the body balances things out. Likewise, if you offer enough support to one part of the body, say the thyroid, and it starts to move toward health, you can count on the body to average it down so it balances. And if you mix it up with something that drags the body down? Yup. Everything else heads south, too.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

If You Wanna Get Pregnant, Don't Eat Canned Food

What in the world, you might ask, does eating canned food have to do with getting pregnant? Well, it’s a risk. As is drinking anything that comes in a can.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***Mrs. Obama's Salad Bar Caper

Michelle Obama is taking a star turn about putting salad bars into schools. One look at the cast of characters supporting this idea makes it obvious the salad bar hype isn’t about health or children or anything else one can praise. This misbegotten idea is about control Let’s look at this. • The abysmal nutritional value of today’s school lunches is mandated by the federal government. If nutrition is the goal here, the first step should be getting rid of the heavy burden of regulations that make good nutrition impossible. But, no.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

A Happy Health Food

I’m not much on the idea of eating bugs and twigs. And a lot of so-called healthy diets sound pretty twiggy to me. Seems like efforts to make the right health moves should lead to a reward, as in delicious. So today I’m writing about butter. Not just any butter, but KerryGold Irish Butter. It makes my taste buds happy! Better yet, it does great things for my health, too! I know, I know, we’re told saturated fats are evil. Truth is, our bodies need for us to eat saturated fats. Big time. But not your everyday, I-got-it-at-the-grocery-store saturated fat.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Synthetic Estrogen

Synthetic estrogens create a huge toxic threat to our health. These estrogens form an advancing army that surrounds us. And we risk our health–even our lives–if we don’t learn what they are and how to avoid them. Bogus estrogens have cut the average testosterone level in half in the last forty years. They cause prostate and breast cancer. They provoke premature puberty in our children.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Thyroid Treatment Problems

Thyroid treatment fell apart in the 1960s. That’s when thyroid blood tests and Synthroid first appeared. Doctors hailed the blood tests as a means of making thyroid treatment scientific. Blood tests eliminated the need to deal with symptoms, which, as any thyroid patient can tell you, are many. The problems with this approach went unmentioned. First, the TSH test has little science behind it and came into use based on a vote by endocrinologists. While docors swear by it, results are unreliable. As are the results of the various T3 and T4 tests.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

How Much Exercise is Good Exercise?

Exercise can kill you. Well, so can lots of other things, but people tout exercise as all good, all the time. Before couch potatoes get excited here, life as an inanimate object doesn’t get excellent results either. Well, then, obviously, some middle ground exists. However, since slugs receive unending, universal criticism while people who live at the gym reap admiration, I’ll talk about the exercise buffs. Exercise stresses the body. It builds free radicals, those natural enemies that rust out our various and sundry parts.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Rejected By A Doctor

My doctor no longer practices medicine, so I had to find another. Like most long-time thyroid patients, I’ve been through the proverbial mill. I knew for sure I didn’t want to be bullied into taking Synthroid, which most doctors prefer–even though it doesn’t work. I found a listing for doctors who prescribe Armour thyroid, the medicine that does work, found a doctor near me and made an appointment. I signed in and handed my information–my list of supplements and one medication (Armour thyroid), a very brief medical history and my two current concerns–to the receptionist.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Natural Killers

I’m talking killers, and I’m talking about you. You have natural killers in you. And these natural killers are a good thing. A very good thing. Which is why I’m going to talk about how to keep your natural killers in top shape, ready for action. First, let’s talk about the company your killers hang out with. Natural killer cells are part of the endocrine system–thyroid, adrenals, etc–a bunch of glands that pretty much determine how good we feel. And these guys are a tight group.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

What Causes Thyroid Problems?

50% of the U.S. population has thyroid problems, most of which go undiagnosed. I don’t have worldwide statistics, but I can’t imagine they differ by much, if at all. And the numbers keep heading up! Yikes! And the thyroid never suffers alone. When one endocrine gland, such as the thyroid, goes down, the rest–adrenals, pancreas, gonads, etc.–all jump in to help out. If the problem goes on long enough, they all go south. So let’s look at just a few of the unexpected causes of thyroid malfunction.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Defining Christianity Down

A fellow-attendee at a Bible study I attend, a self-professed mature Christian, said her sister had always been a Christian. While the sister had been a Buddhist and a few other religions from time to time and currently lives a life high in hedonism and low in integrity, she “has always been a Christian.” Well, what kind of nonsense is that? Christians live their lives by the power of the Holy Spirit, who’s not the least inclined to tolerate such things, let alone endorse them. Where did we go off the tracks to reach this dismal idea? Let me suggest three things:

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***The Misery of Nerve Pain

Jane asks: "Will you please write about neuropathic pain and ways to alleviate it?" Neuropathic pain, a form of neuropathy, comes from nerve damage that causes pain, tingling, and burning–alternately or all at the same time. Some liken it to electrical shocks. It's estimated that more than twenty million Americans suffer from neuropathy. That's a whole bunch of pain! Treatment varies by the cause, so doing some detective work on your own improves the outcome. Maybe even determines whether the damage is permanent or temporary. Causes of neuropathy

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Killer Milk

Milk and cookies make a great snack, right? Well, maybe not so much. Besides the fact the cookies almost certainly have high fructose corn syrup in them, everyday milk is a killer. Literally. I mean, you don’t keel over right away, but take it from me, you’re asking for trouble. Here’s the deal: Factory farms give hormones to their cows to force greater milk production. This changes the composition of the milk, reducing its nutritional value. The hormones also give the cows mastitis. Not a problem! Just shoot ‘em up with antibiotics. That’s the ticket.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

The Endocrine System is King of the Hill

Problems of the endocrine system are everywhere, often unacknowledged and untreated by most doctors. People talk freely about the thyroid, and they should; it’s estimated 40% of us have thyroid problems. Adrenal fatigue is in style–and uglier than massive shoulder pads ever were–so we’re ...Problems of the endocrine system are everywhere, often unacknowledged and untreated by most doctors. People talk freely about the thyroid, and they should; it’s estimated 40% of us have thyroid problems.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

I Feel a Sigh Coming On

We moved a lot, so I went to ten schools in twelve years. I was always the new kid. Take it from me, most teachers are a whole lot less than delighted when the new kid turns out to be a loud, energetic tomboy who doesn’t pay attention, but still scores the highest test grades. As if that weren’t enough, I exhibited a symptom of my whacked-out adrenals (a problem yet to be discovered) that few people know about: I sighed a lot. Totally involuntary. I didn’t even realize I was doing it.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Thyroid Tests and Vaccines

The latest thing in medicine is the ‘fact’ that all medicine is based on solid, scientific evidence. Excuse me? At least 70% of all medical practice has no scientific basis, relying instead on tradition, rumor and best guess. Meanwhile, doctors, according to the latest statistics available, kill 1200 patients a month with the medicines they prescribe. Obviously, their evidence doesn’t come with a ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ requirement.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Thyroid Problems

Back in the olden days–say 1960–doctors diagnosed thyroid problems by asking about symptoms, then working to alleviate them. Simple system, that. And it worked for the 20% of the population with flaky thyroid glands. Ah, but then blood tests, purportedly able to diagnose thyroid ...Back in the olden days–say 1960–doctors diagnosed thyroid problems by asking about symptoms, then working to alleviate them. Simple system, that. And it worked for the 20% of the population with flaky thyroid glands.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Phthalate: The Hidden Poison

Have you been reading about phthalate? (Phthal as in thal, rhymes with Hal.) Yikes! Talk about your basic poison! This stuff is murder! Phthalate is a “softener” added to plastics, cosmetics and everything else they can lay their hands on. It goes without saying that it knocks the endocrine ...Have you been reading about phthalate? (Phthal as in thal, rhymes with Hal.) Yikes! Talk about your basic poison! This stuff is murder! Phthalate is a “softener” added to plastics, cosmetics and everything else they can lay their hands on.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***Hypoglycemia: First The Truck Hits You, Then You Pass Out

Most of us know that our bodies create insulin to handle the sugary treats we eat. And most of us know we get diabetes if our insulin can’t get the job done. What few of us know is what happens when insulin does its job too well. It’s hypoglycemia, low blood sugar, and it’s the pits. I’ve been there and done that, and there’s nothing I can say to recommend it.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

What Causes Digestive Dismay?

Perhaps you’re familiar with setting modern indoor speed records to get to the bathroom. And maybe you know about foods racing through your system, stopping only long enough to liquify before demanding “Out! Out!” I could go on, but if you spend time thinking about your digestive activities, you don’t need details. Since the digestive and endocrine systems are closely related–they’re even talking about declaring the digestive system to be part of the endocrine system–digestion is a huge problem.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

The Case of the Sun Screen Killer

Some years back, about thirty or so, the medicos labeled the sun an enemy agent. We all needed to slather on sun screen all day, every day, or risk dying of melanoma in slightly more than a trice. If, like me, you’ve lost a loved one to melanoma, you reacted quickly and positively, making sun screen a regular part of your daily routine. And melanoma rates skyrocketed.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***The Problem With Medicine

Senator Patrick Lehman and Representative Henry Waxman rush about, day after day, year after year, to do Big Pharma’s bidding. Let’s talk about where this takes us. Big Pharma, the major pharmaceutical companies, is about money. They advertise their wares as wonders created especially to improve your health. In reality, not so much.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

One Size Never Fits All--Especially in Medicine

I’m one of five siblings, and we’ve all had heart surgery. Like most people with heart problems, none of us ever had any of the so-called risk factors. No high cholesterol. No high triglycerides. No high blood pressure. Nothing. My ‘turn’ arrived on Christmas Eve, 2005. Of course, nobody worked on Christmas Day, so my stent had to wait a day. You couldn’t say anybody showed a sense of urgency. Knowing what I know now, I wish I had seen that as a big-time clue and taken a pass on surgery. But, with a family history replete with death by heart attack, I didn’t.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Could it Be Lyme Disease?

A dismayed grandmother said her precious grandson was diagnosed and treated as autistic–when, in fact, he has lyme disease. She reports that a recent study said 90% of California kids diagnosed with autism actually had lyme. Then she asked the jackpot question: How come doctors don’t know ...A dismayed grandmother said her precious grandson was diagnosed and treated as autistic–when, in fact, he has lyme disease. She reports that a recent study said 90% of California kids diagnosed with autism actually had lyme. Then she asked the jackpot question: How come doctors don’t know better?

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Vaccinate or Else! The Vendetta Against Health

I read that the Massachusetts Senate passed a bill mandating vaccinations of all sorts. And if the good citizens of Massachusetts decline the honor, they get smacked with a $1000 a day fine. Now, Massachusetts proudly passed socialized medicine statutes a few years back, so the Senators obviously think the fact of being elected to public office gives them the right to tell other people how to live their lives. But politicians, never the sharpest knives in the drawer, often get it wrong. Mandated vaccinations provide only the latest example of governmental overreach.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***Bette’s Excellent Adventure

Mold is my enemy, and it’s everywhere! In fact, it lives in all the soil, in all the world. Well, you ask, if mold lives in the dirt, how can it jump up and attack? Ah, my little chickadee, it has no need to do anything. The gentlest breeze wafts mold spores into the air where they weasel their way into my body. At which point my very annoyed body yells, “How many times do I have to tell you I’m allergic to mold?” Excuses about how I couldn’t help it get me nowhere.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***The Wonder of Parsley

Parsley is the Rodney Dangerfield of herbs; it gets no respect. Probably not even from Rodney Dangerfield. We’re talking NO respect. Once upon a time, most restaurants used parsley as a perky, colorful accompaniment on your plate, whatever you ordered. Most eaters ignored it, though, pretty much ending the parsley era. We need to reconsider our attitude here. Parsley is a nutritional powerhouse. And, better yet, a little dab’ll do ya. In fact, it would be hard to munch through a dollar’s worth in a week.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***The Unknown Glands of the Immune System

Our thymus gland, leader of the immune system’s world, starts out strong, but as the years go by, sayeth the poobahs, it becomes a shadow of its former self, ending as just a few, lonely fat cells with no power, no glory. And that’s when cancer and other bad guys take us down. This is just the way it is, they claim, and nothing can be done. “Just normal aging,” they say. Well, nuts to that!

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***The Reach-Out-And-Touch-Everything Immune System

Did you ever wonder how your body protects itself from disease? More important, did you ever wonder how you could help get the job done? Well, you probably know that your immune system leads the battle against diseases. And you may even know this defense system is the most complicated system in your body. For one thing, the immune system is but one part of the ultra-confusing endocrine system. Half the world has a wonky endocrine system, and most aren’t getting much help from medicine.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***Death by Caffeine?

Perhaps you read about the death of John Jackson, of West Midands, England. The 40-year-old Mr. Jackson, unable to work because of advanced liver cirrhosis, the result of years of heavy drinking, is said to have died from eating mints. How could mints, specifically Hero Instant Energy Mints, kill him? Well, sayeth the poobahs, it was all the caffeine in the mints–82mg per mint.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

***THIS SOUNDS WEIRD, BUT . . .

The immune system is kind of a mystery. We don't hear much about where any of our immune system parts are, what they do, how they do whatever it is they do, etc. Well, maybe you've heard of lymph glands. Perhaps a huge lump showed up on the side of your neck–which, you decide, can only mean cancer. So, off you hie to see the doc, who tells you an allergy caused your tender-to-the-touch lump. You breathe a sigh of relief and get on with life, happy that it wasn't more serious.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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By Bette DowdellRecently published1 topic

Ice Your Muscle Pain Away

Muscle problems tend to accompany endocrine issues, especially adrenal glands that can’t or won’t keep up. Of course, they also tend to accompany life as a jock or a do-it-yourselfer. But with endocrine people, muscles act up without a cause. As the song says, that’s life. Our muscles get inflamed and “knotted up,” worse on some days than others.

Primary topic: Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

Immune System and Immunity Enhancement

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