Skip to main content

Home/ Health Now/ Group items tagged arsenic

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Dr. John Bureau DC

Swine Flu: Influenza A (H1N1) Susceptibility Linked To Common Levels Of Arsenic Exposure - 0 views

  • ScienceDaily (May 21, 2009) — The ability to mount an immune response to influenza A (H1N1) infection is significantly compromised by a low level of arsenic exposure that commonly occurs through drinking contaminated well water, scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and Dartmouth Medical School have found. See also: Health & Medicine Immune System Swine Flu Influenza Earth & Climate Hazardous Waste Water Environmental Issues Reference Flu vaccine Pandemic Heat shock protein Avian flu Joshua Hamilton, the MBL's Chief Academic and Scientific Officer and a senior scientist in the MBL's Bay Paul Center; graduate student Courtney Kozul of Dartmouth Medical School, where the work was conducted; and their colleagues report their findings in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
  •  
    for more articles see blog drjohndc.tumblr.com
  •  
    ScienceDaily (May 21, 2009) - The ability to mount an immune response to influenza A (H1N1) infection is significantly compromised by a low level of arsenic exposure that commonly occurs through drinking contaminated well water, scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and Dartmouth Medical School have found. Joshua Hamilton, the MBL's Chief Academic and Scientific Officer and a senior scientist in the MBL's Bay Paul Center; graduate student Courtney Kozul of Dartmouth Medical School, where the work was conducted; and their colleagues report their findings in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
Matti Narkia

The antibiotic vitamin: deficiency in vitamin D may predispose people to infection | Sc... - 0 views

  •  
    In the July 2005 FASEB Journal, Adrian F. Gombart of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his colleagues reported that vitamin D boosts production in white blood cells of one of the antimicrobial compounds that defends the body against germs.\n\nImmediately, Cannell says, the proverbial lightbulb went on in his head: Maybe the high doses of vitamin D that he had been prescribing to virtually all the men on his ward had boosted their natural arsenal of the antimicrobial, called cathelicidin, and protected them from flu. Cannell had been administering the vitamin D because his patients, like many other people in the industrial world, had shown a deficiency:
1 - 7 of 7
Showing 20 items per page