FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE BLOG
Includes over 800 monographs reporting on emerging studies in the medical and scientific literature of practical clinical importance, easily searched for content.
Balancing immunity and inflammation in lung disease
Resources for both preventing serious infection and preventing damage to the lungs by the inflammation that fights infection in COVID-19 are considered.
Treating atherosclerosis as an autoimmune inflammatory disease
Atherosclerosis is a disease characterized by plaque formation in an artery in response to inflammation in the lining (endothelium) of the vessel. It is referred to also as vulnerable plaque because it is subject to rupture followed by the blocking of a smaller downstream artery, the immediate cause of most heart attacks and strokes. A paper recently published in Immunology Letters discusses the treatment of the vascular inflammation of atherosclerosis as an autoimmune inflammatory disorder.
Schizophrenia, brain inflammation and depression
Schizophrenia shares underlying processes of brain inflammation in common with depression that are important for treatment.