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There’s no denying that vitamin D plays an important role in your immune system. Vitamin D helps regulate your immune response. More specifically, it helps your body determine when it needs to send out its immune defenders… and how much of these defenders it needs to send out. It’s also known to make immune cells, like T-cells and macrophages, more effective. Now, during a serious pandemic like we’re facing, we…
You probably remember the advice that you shouldn’t avoid eating too much salt in your diet because it could lead to blood pressure problems. This is good advice to follow since when you consume too much sodium, your kidneys simply can’t keep up and get rid of it fast enough. When this happens, the sodium levels in your bloodstream go up, pulling in water, resulting in excess fluid that raises…
About 15 years ago, I got a phone call that every child dreads… My dad was on the line and I could hear the worry in his voice. He and my mom had just made it to the emergency room via ambulance and the doctors said that there was every reason to believe she had suffered a stroke. The next days were marked by long hours in the hospital and…
Since COVID-19 has been infecting humans for such a short period of time, there’s still so much we don’t know about it. We don’t even know for sure who “patient zero” was (although, it was probably a 55-year old in China’s Hubei province who got sick in November 2019). Needless to say, scientists worldwide are scrambling to figure out important, life-saving information. And one of the most pressing questions they’ve…
A friend of mine just had his first child, a boy. He was complaining about the lack of sleep that goes with that. I told him about how little sleep I got after my daughter was born two months prematurely (almost 23 years ago!). His response: “Oh, wow, I really shouldn’t feel sorry for myself… you were a warrior to go through all that!” Stay with me here. In a…
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My cousin lives in New York City. He moved there right after college and has never wanted to live anywhere else since. He loves the city, the pace of life there, the people and the cultural opportunities. Yet when I talked to him on the phone yesterday, there was only sadness in his voice. The city he loves so much is shut down, unrecognizable, and several people he knows are…
One of the trickiest parts about the COVID-19 crisis is diagnosis. Right now, there are a lot of barriers to getting a prompt and accurate diagnosis — the shortage of tests, the fact that symptoms (and severity) vary from person to person, the overwhelm the medical community is facing right now. All these factors are causing the virus to spread rapidly. But there may be another diagnosis-related factor contributing to…
With the spread of coronavirus dominating every news outlet across the country, it’s easy to see why so many people are beginning to wonder if that cough that just started, the extra fatigue they’ve been feeling, or those body aches are a sign that they have COVID-19. And, there’s only one sure way to know the answer to that question — getting tested. Yet, let’s face it… The roll-out of…
At this point, it’s common knowledge that people with other health conditions have a greater risk of getting severely ill from COVID-19. But among that overall group, there may be a smaller group that’s even more at risk… people with pre-existing lung conditions. COVID-19 is a respiratory infection, and it can have a dangerous impact on your lower respiratory tract (aka your lungs). It can inflame the lung lining and…