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Tag: anxiety

  • Nightshade Sensitivity: The Immune Mechanism, and Interventions

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    Some people experience joint pain as an inflammatory reaction to nightshades like tomatoes and peppers. Understanding the immune pathway behind that reaction — and what separates a reactive response from a tolerant one — points toward some practical places to intervene. The Immune Pathway Behind Nightshade Sensitivity Nightshade proteins are transported across intestinal microfold cells,…

  • Chasing Easter Eggs: Explaining Chemotaxis (and Rosemary as an Immune System Modulator)

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    Teaching Immunology With an Easter Egg Hunt This is a story to explain the concept of chemotaxis. Neutrophils are a type of cell that can actually move around inside your body. They live in your blood vessels. And if you get a cut that lets germs (bacteria) in, the cells in your finger send out…

  • Mediterranean Diet

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    Because of the prevalence of anxiety during pregnancy, a study was conducted at a hospital in Spain to see if the Mediterranean diet could help prevent this condition (Casas et al., 2023).  This study was a randomized controlled trial, where 680 women whose pregnancies were considered to be high risk were randomly assigned to either…

  • Magnesium

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    A 2017 systematic review by Boyle et al.1 aimed to gather results showing whether taking a magnesium supplement could help people dealing with anxiety.   About half of the studies they looked at found that it helped people with either mild anxiety, PMS, or high blood pressure.  The authors concluded that more research should be done,…