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Building Resistance

Our bodies are created to interact with bacteria and viruses every day. When the microbe was discovered, we realized just how many of them existed around and inside us. Not all of these are deadly or even make us sick – some work in tandem with our body to help increase resistance to viruses and …

How Does Stress Affect Your Immune System?

Until you start studying physiology, it can be difficult to see how organ systems interact with each other. In the western mindset, we tend to separate things as if nothing is interconnected. Have a headache or fever? Take Tylenol or Motrin. Have an ulcer or GERD? Take antacids. Anxiety? Take a Xanax. This non-holistic view …

Immune-Boosting Punch

Can you feel it? The days are getting shorter, the temperatures are cooling off and the air just feels different… fall is coming! Along with the changing leaves, hot chocolate and sweater weather comes… cold and flu season. So what can you do to get ready? There are a number of herbal allies that can …