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Matti Narkia

A Single Dose of Vitamin D Enhances Immunity to Mycobacteria -- Martineau et al. 176 (2... - 0 views

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Single one Dose Vitamin-D Enhances boosts Immunity immune system Mycobacteria tb tuberculosis bacterial infection infections medicine medline nutrition nutritional study science research peer-reviewed dietary supplements supplement imported deli vitamin_D

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    Martineau AR, Wilkinson RJ, Wilkinson KA, Newton SM, Kampmann B, Hall BM, Packe GE, Davidson RN, Eldridge SM, Maunsell ZJ, Rainbow SJ, Berry JL, Griffiths CJ. A single dose of vitamin D enhances immunity to mycobacteria. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2007
Matti Narkia

One dose of vitamin D boosts TB immunity - New Zealand's source for health news on Stuf... - 0 views

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One dose single boosts TB immunity tuberculosis immune system medicine nutrition medical news nutritional dietary supplementation supplement supplements infection infections bacterial vitamin D vitamin_D

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    In healthy people who have been exposed to tuberculosis, a single oral dose of vitamin D enhances their immunity against this bacterial infection.
Matti Narkia

The Heart Scan Blog: Unique vitamin D observations - 0 views

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    It seems not a single day passes that I don't learn something new about this unique hormone (mis)named "vitamin D." \nFrom its humble beginnings recognized only as the factor responsible for bone maturation (with deficiency leading to childhood rickets), vitamin D now commands a recognized role in almost every conceivable aspect of health and disease. \n
Graham Perrin

To Pluck a Rooted Sorrow | Print Article | Newsweek.com - 0 views

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  • science of forgetting
  • Long-term memories
  • altered and then it is stored again
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  • aren't fixed in a permanent form once they're filed away in the brain
  • ramps up the memory-processing machinery
  • supercritical or meaningful or scary
  • stress hormones alert the amygdala, the brain's emotional control center
  • The original memory? No longer there.
  • superhappy sticky stuff is fun
  • cognitive behavioral therapy
  • isn't wildly successful
  • drops to one third
  • improve by only about 50 percent
  • but every time they were recalled?
  • what if memories were consolidated not just once,
  • original memory could be changed and "reconsolidated"?
  • Researchers first proposed reconsolidation in the late 1960s
  • our remembrance of a single experience lands like confetti in the brain
  • dry facts
  • appear to lodge in the hippocampus
  • emotional trauma of that same event
  • seem to be housed in the amygdala
  • both parts emerge together
  • People cherish their memories, even their bad memories
  • they want to recall them with less pain
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 26 Apr 09
       
      Agreed.
  • removing memory gets into dangerous territory
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