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Is playing in the dirt good for kids’ immune systems?
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 5, 2024 Source:Is playing in the dirt good for kids’ immune systems?
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Small study that suggests good looks portends a better functioning immune system ignores cultural determination of attractiveness, normal immune system variability, and cannot demonstrate causality among its other limitations. + it’s as judgmental as hell.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 17, 2022 Source:Attractive people have better immune systems: Study Reference:More than just a pretty face? The relationship between immune function and perceived facial attractiveness Author comment: That said, Mengelkoch added, there may be hope for those who are considered – or consider themselves – less appealing when it comes to…
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We are not seeing ‘waning immunity’ in fully vaccinated people to date. Some require the 3rd dose specific medical or medication reasons. The intricacies of our immune system are astounding and fascinating. #vaccineswork
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for September 14, 2021 Source:What We Actually Know About Waning Immunity
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Study proposes a biological mechanism to explain how high fructose exposure can exacerbate immune inflammatory response.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 25, 2021 Source:Diets high in fructose could damage the immune system, U.K. study finds Reference:Fructose reprogrammes glutamine-dependent oxidative metabolism to support LPS-induced inflammation
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Male sex identified as a risk factor for death and ICU admission due to Covid-19 infection. There are identified differences within components of the immune system that show women have more robust responses.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 11, 2020 Source:Men with COVID-19 three times more likely to need intensive care: study Reference:Male sex identified by global COVID-19 meta-analysis as a risk factor for death and ITU admission
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The snake-oil-peddling President. And in real science news, a new study sheds light on immune response to SARS-CoV-2.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 19, 2020 Source:The snake oil salesman cometh Reference:Targets of T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in humans with COVID-19 disease and unexposed individuals
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No evidence that “immune-boosting” concoctions, supplements, or procedures augment protection from SARS-CoV2. Our immune system can be trained (vaccines and exposure) but not boosted. Keep the quacks at bay and save your money.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 10, 2020 Reference: Boost Your Immune System?The immune system is not a muscle, not a rocket, not a pump, not a balloon, nor anything else that can be inflated, expanded, or launched into the stratosphere simply by adding more power. How to boost your immune system
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Fast food diet in mice produces immune response akin to a defense against infection
Health Headlines Commentary for January , 2018 Source: Our bodies may be treating fast food like an invading bacterial infection — and it could be killing us Reference: Western Diet Triggers NLRP3-Dependent Innate Immune Reprogramming
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Fasting's effects on immune modulators may help in cancer treatment but results need further assessment and research
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 6, 2014 Source: Fasting for three days renews entire immune system, protects cancer patients, ‘remarkable’ new study finds Reference: Prolonged Fasting Reduces IGF-1/PKA to Promote Hematopoietic-Stem-Cell-Based Regeneration and Reverse Immunosuppression.