Tag: pregnancy
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Yoga and Immune Balance
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are central to immune tolerance, and it turns out a daily yoga practice is one way to support them. That finding — along with ideas about cytokines and immune balance — is central to my thinking on lifestyle recommendations. Yoga and the Treg/Th17 Balance in Rheumatoid Arthritis Gautam et al. (2023)…
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Mediterranean Diet
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…
