Your immune system protects you against colds, flu, and infections, but that’s just a drop in the bucket!  Here are all the other things your immune system does for you that you might not know about, and how to make sure yours is working like it should.

I’ve stopped watching movies because you get more “entertainment” watching and reading mainstream media news.  Talk about sensationalism and drama—some of these journalists ought to win Academy Awards instead of a Pulitzer Prize.  And the thing is, they will only report what their sponsors will allow them to report…so many times a truly imperative issue is swept under the rug because it would ruffle the wrong feathers.

At a recent local women’s business association meeting, two ladies came up to me and said, “Be honest.  What’s the hype about probiotics?  Are they really necessary and do they make a difference?”  I told them I was happy to honestly tell them what they needed to know about probiotics, and here is what I said:

A study published in The Lancet dealt a hefty blow to one of the popular go-to medications for pain relief.

Acetaminophen (also known by the band name Tylenol®).

Apparently the study, which included information from 74 trials published between 1980 and 2015 involving over 58,000 osteoarthritis patients, found that acetaminophen was only slightly better than a placebo.

Plus it was stated to play no role in treating osteoarthritis, regardless of dose, because osteoarthritis is an inflammatory condition and acetaminophen is not an anti-inflammatory.

Just the icing on the cake

The fact that acetaminophen is only a smidgen more effective than a sugar pill for inflammatory pain is just the icing on the cake.  Here’s more:

Most people are very well aware that chronic, ongoing stress is not a good thing.  But unfortunately, it turns out that it’s even more harmful than we originally thought.  Here’s what I mean:

The spring allergy season is upon us, and each year seems to be outdoing the prior one in terms of severity. 

Milder winters have created very healthy root systems in trees…so these root systems are pumped and ready to release pollen earlier.