"Look under the microscope...see?"

Wall Street Journal article this morning: How staying home from work when you're sick, even a little sick, can save everyone else from getting sick. Viruses are smart enough to know that if you're still decent enough to walk around and cough on people, you'll spread the germs faster. However, modern business implores us to tough it out, saying that if you're not half dead, get out of bed and come to work, thereby infecting everyone. However, the article also said that coming in to work while still barely registering viral infection may help the immune systems of those around you by alerting their bodies to prepare for defense -- like a free vaccine. But it won't help if you're already boiling with fever and sneezing everywhere. So the article offered some tips: In the bathroom, after washing hands with soap and hot water, use soapy hands to dispense paper towels, etc, then take a towel and use that to open the door. Personally, I like to do everyone a favor by soaping up and then wiping down the doorknob. Cleaning crews come in twice a day anyway, but do you know how many times those doorknobs are touched? Eesh. Same with mechaninal equipment like printers and copiers. I know, you're thinking "Why bother? We want people to get sick and die; there'd be less of them to bother me!" True, but nature takes care of her own by automatically weeding out most of the stupid ones.

I keep a bag of black seed and honey lozenges on my desk. Boosts the immune system and tastes lemony. I also have this organic hand soap with lemon and eucalyptus oils; I squirt it on without water so it creates a film, then wash it off later. Naturally antibacterial, but not so much that it raises bacterial resistance. Must find real oil of oregano, not the spice, the oil. Both ingesible and topical kinds. It's apparently one of the top most powerfully effective antiviral, antibacterial, antimicrobial oils on the planet, better than tee tree or antibiotics. They have them at www.lifesvigor.com in capsules along with capusles of hyaluronic acid, which is the body's most powerful hydrator and can make you live longer and healthier with less wrinkles. No, really.

Gods, I am such a health geek.

"Look under the microscope...see?"

Wall Street Journal article this morning: How staying home from work when you're sick, even a little sick, can save everyone else from getting sick. Viruses are smart enough to know that if you're still decent enough to walk around and cough on people, you'll spread the germs faster. However, modern business implores us to tough it out, saying that if you're not half dead, get out of bed and come to work, thereby infecting everyone. However, the article also said that coming in to work while still barely registering viral infection may help the immune systems of those around you by alerting their bodies to prepare for defense -- like a free vaccine. But it won't help if you're already boiling with fever and sneezing everywhere. So the article offered some tips: In the bathroom, after washing hands with soap and hot water, use soapy hands to dispense paper towels, etc, then take a towel and use that to open the door. Personally, I like to do everyone a favor by soaping up and then wiping down the doorknob. Cleaning crews come in twice a day anyway, but do you know how many times those doorknobs are touched? Eesh. Same with mechaninal equipment like printers and copiers. I know, you're thinking "Why bother? We want people to get sick and die; there'd be less of them to bother me!" True, but nature takes care of her own by automatically weeding out most of the stupid ones.

I keep a bag of black seed and honey lozenges on my desk. Boosts the immune system and tastes lemony. I also have this organic hand soap with lemon and eucalyptus oils; I squirt it on without water so it creates a film, then wash it off later. Naturally antibacterial, but not so much that it raises bacterial resistance. Must find real oil of oregano, not the spice, the oil. Both ingesible and topical kinds. It's apparently one of the top most powerfully effective antiviral, antibacterial, antimicrobial oils on the planet, better than tee tree or antibiotics. They have them at www.lifesvigor.com in capsules along with capusles of hyaluronic acid, which is the body's most powerful hydrator and can make you live longer and healthier with less wrinkles. No, really.

Gods, I am such a health geek.

I need certification, really

I feel so privileged and pleased with myself. Three people at work today asked me for advice on how to relieve their symptoms (sinus, itching, migraine, dry skin) and two people online so far have asked about specific vitamins and supplements. I'm stunned that not only am I retaining all of this wordy information, but my interest in the field has taken on a life of its own--I haven't felt so compelled to follow a profession since I was five and decided to be a writer. I'm looking for places online that will allow me to at least become a certified holistic practitioner or a counselor, so I can officially dole out cosmetic, nutritional, and esthetic advice and sound smart about it. I do need to keep in touch with Nancy, since she is a professional Esthetician and holistic dermatologist, a massage therapist, a healing touch therapist, cosmetologist, facialist, and has her own skin care line.
But beyond that, it's also nutritional facts I'm fascinated by -- what vitamins work for what problems; which herbs, roots, seeds and fruits are helpful to humans as alternatives to prescription meds for physical and mental ailments; why do chemicals in the brain and body react the way they do to certain stimuli. Biochemistry is incredibly fascinating. It's not that I'm overly health conscious or OCD at all; c'mon, I'm addicted to sugar, I'm a raging omnivore, I don't eat enough vegetables, and I hate the taste of most so-called "health foods". I think I just want to learn everything I can and hopefully pass some of it on to people who want to know. But if my extensive yapping about all this bothers anyone, I can stop. Heh. Although, let's face it, I think y'all are really glad I'm so into this: Saves ya trips to the doctor's office just to ask advice.

I need certification, really

I feel so privileged and pleased with myself. Three people at work today asked me for advice on how to relieve their symptoms (sinus, itching, migraine, dry skin) and two people online so far have asked about specific vitamins and supplements. I'm stunned that not only am I retaining all of this wordy information, but my interest in the field has taken on a life of its own--I haven't felt so compelled to follow a profession since I was five and decided to be a writer. I'm looking for places online that will allow me to at least become a certified holistic practitioner or a counselor, so I can officially dole out cosmetic, nutritional, and esthetic advice and sound smart about it. I do need to keep in touch with Nancy, since she is a professional Esthetician and holistic dermatologist, a massage therapist, a healing touch therapist, cosmetologist, facialist, and has her own skin care line.
But beyond that, it's also nutritional facts I'm fascinated by -- what vitamins work for what problems; which herbs, roots, seeds and fruits are helpful to humans as alternatives to prescription meds for physical and mental ailments; why do chemicals in the brain and body react the way they do to certain stimuli. Biochemistry is incredibly fascinating. It's not that I'm overly health conscious or OCD at all; c'mon, I'm addicted to sugar, I'm a raging omnivore, I don't eat enough vegetables, and I hate the taste of most so-called "health foods". I think I just want to learn everything I can and hopefully pass some of it on to people who want to know. But if my extensive yapping about all this bothers anyone, I can stop. Heh. Although, let's face it, I think y'all are really glad I'm so into this: Saves ya trips to the doctor's office just to ask advice.

"SEX! Now that I have your attention..."

Go pick up a copy of the January 19 issue of Time magazine. The cover article is "How Your Love Life Keeps You Healthy".
"Studies are showing that arousal and an active sex life may lead to a longer life, better heart health, an improved ability to ward off pain, a more robust immune system and even protection against certain cancers, not to mention lower rates of depression, reports Alice Park in TIME's annual health special. Research is pointing toward oxytocin, which may be the key lubricant for the machinery of sex, reports TIME."

Literally half the dang issue has articles on sex, sexuality, desire, relationships, the psychology of relationships, and a section on BDSM and bondage and sexual acts throughout the ages. There's an idea that if you have sex enough, you'll be happier, healthier, and you'll live longer. I'd discuss some here but honestly I'd need to quote the whole friggin issue.It talks about why nature wants us to have sex as much as possible, as early on as possible--not just to produce healthy long-lived offspring, but to draw us closer together in the hopes that we will stay together to raise healthy, long-lived offspring. Plus, it feels good and it's good for overall health.

It supports my notion that organized religions that supress and ban and hiss at sex produce followers who are (sometimes) repressed and mentally off-balanced because their biological, chemical, evolutionary and natural instincts have been squashed in favor of masturbating to the big daddy in the sky. I honestly don't mean to snap off people's heads or upset anyone (sorry if I do), but I find that whole "sex is a sin" theory utterly preposterous, stupid, ridiculous, and illogical. Yes, yes, I know that sex inside marriage is all good and such and yay for reproduction, but the attitudes toward sex in general...I mean, my god, you can't even say "penis" in a church without causing someone to hyperventilate.

Anyway... the main message is: Sex is good. Keep having it.

"SEX! Now that I have your attention..."

Go pick up a copy of the January 19 issue of Time magazine. The cover article is "How Your Love Life Keeps You Healthy".
"Studies are showing that arousal and an active sex life may lead to a longer life, better heart health, an improved ability to ward off pain, a more robust immune system and even protection against certain cancers, not to mention lower rates of depression, reports Alice Park in TIME's annual health special. Research is pointing toward oxytocin, which may be the key lubricant for the machinery of sex, reports TIME."

Literally half the dang issue has articles on sex, sexuality, desire, relationships, the psychology of relationships, and a section on BDSM and bondage and sexual acts throughout the ages. There's an idea that if you have sex enough, you'll be happier, healthier, and you'll live longer. I'd discuss some here but honestly I'd need to quote the whole friggin issue.It talks about why nature wants us to have sex as much as possible, as early on as possible--not just to produce healthy long-lived offspring, but to draw us closer together in the hopes that we will stay together to raise healthy, long-lived offspring. Plus, it feels good and it's good for overall health.

It supports my notion that organized religions that supress and ban and hiss at sex produce followers who are (sometimes) repressed and mentally off-balanced because their biological, chemical, evolutionary and natural instincts have been squashed in favor of masturbating to the big daddy in the sky. I honestly don't mean to snap off people's heads or upset anyone (sorry if I do), but I find that whole "sex is a sin" theory utterly preposterous, stupid, ridiculous, and illogical. Yes, yes, I know that sex inside marriage is all good and such and yay for reproduction, but the attitudes toward sex in general...I mean, my god, you can't even say "penis" in a church without causing someone to hyperventilate.

Anyway... the main message is: Sex is good. Keep having it.

Ninja Turtle stem cells?

http://stemcells.alphamedpress.org/cgi/content/full/20/6/478
No, they're not speaking a foreign language. It's just science. *grin*
But it sounds really, really cool.

Ninja Turtle stem cells?

http://stemcells.alphamedpress.org/cgi/content/full/20/6/478
No, they're not speaking a foreign language. It's just science. *grin*
But it sounds really, really cool.

Quizzes

( I'm a quiz whore! And how! )

Quizzes

( I'm a quiz whore! And how! )