Sepsis is a life-threatening condition initiated by the body’s response to an infection. It occurs when the immune response becomes dysregulated and triggers systemic inflammation, which can lead to organ damage, failure, and death....
Allergic rhinitis (AR), also known as hay fever, is a group of symptoms affecting the eyes and nose that are associated with an allergic response to particles such as dust, pollen, and animal dander....
Tuberculosis is one of the world’s most pervasive and deadly communicable disease with more than 10 million new cases and about 1.5 million deaths every year. Approximately one-third of the world’s population has latent...
Celiac disease, also called celiac sprue or gluten-sensitive enteropathy, is an autoimmune disease in which eating gluten (found in wheat, rye, and barley) causes inflammation and damage to the small intestine. This damage can...
Current public health messaging tells us to avoid the sun due to skin cancer fears, but this advice ignores the fact that humans have a long cultural history of appreciation of the sun and...
In February 2019, a study was published in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice titled “Does high-dose vitamin D supplementation impact insulin resistance and risk of development of diabetes in patients with pre-diabetes? A double-blind...
Chronic, low-level inflammation has been linked to a number of chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease and diabetes. The higher the inflammation levels, the higher the risk of developing chronic disease. Sometimes an individual will...
March is MS Awareness Month, and we have been profiling how vitamin D can be used to address multiple sclerosis (MS). In the past, we asked you, our readers, to help us document what...
When I was 10, I had a friend who was a terrific playmate and fellow canyon explorer. We’ll call him Tom. He had a suspicious streak in him. He told me he thought that...
The “Barker Hypothesis,” also known as the “The Fetal Origins Hypothesis,” theorizes that certain adult-onset diseases originate from nutritional deficiencies during the perinatal period (during pregnancy or in early infancy). These damages are irreversible...