Missing sleep raises cortisol levels, and high cortisol levels interfere with sleep, producing yet another of the vicious cycles that wreck our health. Russ ...
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_66164.html Preeclampsia is another disorder linked to Chlamydophila pneumoniae. Russ Aral M, Guven MA,...
This article is another example of how the interpretation of scientific data is affected by prevailing social theories. It claims that being wealthy and/or...
The infection-cortisol theory predicts that the peeople with the largest infectious burden are likely to have the highest cortisol levels, the worst cases of...
Our infectious burden begins to accumulate while we are still children. Perhaps the same germs that will later cause vascular dementia cause low childhood IQs....
Another example of prejudice (prejudgment) affecting the interpretation of evidence. Healthy people are more active than ill ones, and less likely to contract...
Exercise raises cortisol levels while you are doing it, but cortisol levels drop below baseline levels following exercise. This would account for some of the...
Putting kids in day-care centers exposes them to more germs earlier. Breast milk contains infection-fighting chemicals. These factors might account for...
If this is carried out, I predict it will be one of the greatest medical blunders ever. Russ http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_66658.html...
There are a lot of studies coming out now saying that salt restriction increases the RAS system (and angiotensin II increases cortisol levels) as well as...
That's interesting. While working on The Potbelly Syndrome I came across evidence that low sodium diets increased cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. I put...
One that jumps to mind in coffee, which has been shown to have very impressive health benefits. Two points: -Coffee is very high in antioxidants which probably...
"Healthy people love to move, and they do a lot of it. People with insulin resistance can't get enough glucose into their muscle cells. They feel "dysphoric"...
"Snacking How we eat can affect our cortisol levels. Jenkins et al. put men on two metabolically identical diets for two weeks. In the regular diet, the...
Hi Paul, You asked: "Any physiological hypotheses as to why insulin might increase cortisol levels? Seems counterproductive seeing as they have opposite...
Hi Lee, before I read your email this evening, serrapeptase was another item in that vast universe of things I had never heard of. I looked it up on PubMed and...
If fasting reduces cortisol, then that might explain why some diets work for a while before failing. On the other hand, some catabolic substance would be ...
I'm surprised I said it. I'll fix it. Russ ... From: "Paul T." <paultheo2004@...> To: <infection-cortisol@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008...
I have COPD and the doctors at my Giant HMO insist that I try inhalers before they will prescribe antibiotics. The inhalers tend to have salmeterol,...
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