This blog provides information and resources for healthier living, wellness and a number of health topics including specific medical conditions. It is also a resource for conditions commonly considered to be environmental illnesses including CFS, FM, PTSD, obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, MCS, heart disease, and a number of other conditions that are potentiated by contaminants in the air, soil and water including autism, sick building syndrome and sickness behavior just to name a few. This blog will try to focus on less scientific and more real-world news and application.



Showing posts with label endotoxin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label endotoxin. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

And I Bet You Thought Your House Was Clean!

"Anyone who has yearned for a clean house can attest to the seemingly supernatural properties of dust. No sooner have you banished it from the bookshelf than it peeks out from under the bed, shape-shifting from powdery and puffy to sticky and stringy. But the menace of dust can extend beyond the realm of housekeeping and damage health in serious ways."


Read more: Tiny Specks May Add Up to Heaps of Trouble - MSN Health & Fitness - Health Topics:

Monday, September 7, 2009

Hydrogen Sulfide, Cigarette Smoke, Endotoxin and Particulate Matter -- The Toxic Effects They Have In Common!

Hydrogen Sulfide, Cigarette Smoke, Endotoxin and Particulate Matter -- The Toxic Effects They Have In Common!: "Different chemicals have different modes of toxicity which can possibly reduces or be additive or potentiate the effects of the others and alter other metabolic processes such as insulin release and activities of Nrf2 cell signaling. Take four example the four toxicants endotoxin, hydrogen sulfide (H2S), cigarette smoke and particulate matter that are all common in the environment and can cause"

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Astragalus, Intestinal Inflammation and Endotoxin

Astragalus, Intestinal Inflammation and Endotoxin: "A new study has reported that Astragalus may prove an effective therapy against intestinal inflammation caused by LPS endotoxin. The study demonstrated that Tnf-a and Il-8 is significantly higher in LPS-induced damage in intestinal epithelial cells. Treatment with Astragalus mongholicus polysaccharide (APS) significantly abrogated LPS-endotoxin expression of Tnf-a and Il-8 and suggested this is"