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An early responder system like the innate immune system discussed last week prevents countless enemy attacks from getting beyond the edges of our tissues. When the innate system is not enough or the battle continues a little longer, the adaptive arm of the immune system ramps up its ...
The news cycle of the 2020’s apparently will continue to mention more medical studies in the nightly news for a while longer. With COVID’s ups and downs depending on the variant du jour, we can expect to read more study reports on social media and hear more news casters describing ho...
Not only were you born with an immune system comprised of a myriad of cell types working together to defend your body, this system was endowed with a communication network so complex that we are still learning how it works. One might think of the immune system as either on-duty or of...
The news cycle of the 2020’s apparently will continue to mention more medical studies in the nightly news for a while longer. With COVID’s ups and downs depending on the variant du jour, we can expect to read more study reports on social media and hear more news casters describing ho...
Any good defense system requires some type of early response to meet an invader when it first breeches the borders. In past weeks, an overview of the innate and adaptive immune system provided a thirty-thousand-foot view of our immune defense while a survey of the communications syst...
The current news spin often mentions something called evidence based medicine, treating it as somewhat of an idol to follow in the medical world. One might ask why anyone would do anything but follow “evidence” in caring for their health or in caring for a patient’s health. Accusin...
You were born with an immune system. We call it a system because of its myriad interdependent and multi-layered defenses. It is much greater than a single night watchman walking the store every hour waiting for break-in. Instead, we have numerous cell types spread across every body...
We can look back to SARS CoV1 and MERS (Middle Eastern Respiratory Virus) and study their long term effects on infected individuals. Many acutely infected patients dealt with long term effects. We should not be surprised at COVID 19 leaving long hauler symptoms. For those in functional medicine, we ...
Science is the art of applying what we know to what we don’t know so that we can understand better what we don’t already know. With Long COVID syndrome, we look to past viral epidemics and compare their aftereffects to Long COVID for clues to understanding our present day challenge. The Russian Flu’...
Science longs to predict and COVID 19 offers a great opportunity. In this situation, researchers are working to predict which infected individuals will go on to develop Long COVID. From this study, it appears that women, Caucasians, and those with a normal Body Mass Index (BMI) have a higher rate. A...
Researchers were already asking questions about Long Hauler Covid back in December of 2020. They hypothesized that either ongoing viral infection after an inadequate immune response or a dysfunctional immune response were responsible for this chronic post viral malady affecting millions. Research co...
On one hand, I appreciate the recognition that besides several million Americans having passed through acute COVID, we are now facing a few million Post COVID sufferers seeking answers. On the other hand, this article offers mental health support to help them cope with their illness but offers no re...
