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The Tiny Brain Cells that Connect Our Mental and Physical Health

By Donna Jackson Nakazawa — 2020

A new understanding of long-overlooked cells called microglia is challenging the assumption that body and brain function are completely independent.

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Microglia: A New Target in the Brain for Depression, Alzheimer’s, and More?

As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2020
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We’re Just Scratching the Surface of the Modern Environment’s Effect on Brain Health

Donna Jackson Nakazawa on Microglial Cells and Nature's "Neat Evolutionary Trick".

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2020
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Childhood Trauma Leads to Lifelong Chronic Illness—so Why Isn’t the Medical Community Helping Patients?

When physicians help patients come to the profound revelation that childhood adversity plays a role in the chronic illnesses they face now, they help them to heal physically and emotionally at last.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2016
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The Autoimmune Spectrum: Does It Exist, and Are You on It?

Autoimmunity—which affects three quarters more women than it does men—encompasses a range of conditions and diseases that involve the immune system mistakenly attacking the body’s own organs, tissues, and cells.

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A Breakthrough in the Mystery of Why Women Get So Many Autoimmune Diseases

Evolution might have played a trick on women’s immune systems.

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Olga Khazan
2019
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7 Ways Childhood Adversity Changes a Child’s Brain

If you’ve ever wondered why you’ve been struggling a little too hard for a little too long with chronic emotional and physical health conditions that just won’t abate, or feeling as if you’ve been swimming against some invisible current that never ceases, a new field of scientific research...

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2016
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How ‘Brain Hacking’ Could Help Fight Alzheimer’s, Depression and More

Millions suffer from conditions without known causes. Some contend with constant pain, many live with unrelenting mental anguish. None of them know why.

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Susannah Cahalan
2020
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What Is Inflammation? Everything You Need to Know and How to Reduce It

You may not be able to see it happening, but inflammation is the body’s interior defense mechanism toward anything going wrong, like illness or injury—it occurs with anything from a bruised elbow to an aggravated gut barrier. The catch? Inflammation can be both good and bad.

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Mara Santilli
2021
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5 Early Warning Signs You Could Have an Autoimmune Disease

As many as 20 million people in the United States have some sort of autoimmune condition–and millions of them don’t know it.

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Robin Berzin
2020
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8 Things Terry Wahls, MD, Swears By For Reversing Autoimmune Disease

If you're interested in an integrative approach to combat a chronic condition, you might want to give these eight tips a try.

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Jason Wachob
2020
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