Ann Haren Nutrition

21/10/2025

Birds on the beach.

17/10/2025

😂

18/10/2024

When boats sleep.

14/10/2024

Stars are out . Big time.

12/05/2023

😂

20/02/2023

17/11/2022

I could be living on a tropical island; All depends on how I frame the picture.

30/09/2022

I don’t actually have any close friends in Florida. But this struck me as extra funny because any one I do know there is over 80.

Yep, there’s gonna be a whole lot of babies being born next June!

And how many of those who are boys are gonna be named Ian?? 😂😂😂

27/08/2021

Why we could have an anti-viral against SARS COVID 2,especially for children.

Children have less severe disease than adults in general when infected with SARS COVID 2.
Children have stronger innate immunity, specifically in the ciliary epithelia of their respiratory systems.
Apparently, their advantage over adults gets much lower after day 5 of SARS- COVID 2 infection.
Why?
Two papers I read today try to answer that question and propose a possible method to prevent SARs COVID 2 from evading innate immune responses.

I’ve listed links below. They’re a little torturous to read so I’ll try to summarize, because I think this is really important.

1. Under normal circumstances our innate immune response to infection is primed when a virus enters our respiratory system (via nose, mouth)
2. A compound call MDA5 stimulates a gene that produces interferon. The interferon initiates an innate immune reaction that kills the virus before it infects the rest of the body.
3. SARS COVID 2 interferes with the production of MDA5 and thereby reduces the production of interferon.
4. The mechanism by which SARS COVID 2 interferes with MDA5 has been identified. The virus has a protein called Papain like protein (PPl) which directly inhibits MDA5 and so prevents production of interferon.
5. Although children are usually stronger during an initial attack by the virus, they’re systems can also get over run by the virus shutting down their interferon production. This seems to take about 5 days.
6. There’s an anti-viral drug in here someplace. (inhibit the PPL protein?) Any one from Merck out there?

References (for those of you who enjoy torture and would like to help me figure out if I’ve oversimplified this)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-021-00884-1.pdf
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-01037-9.pdf

01/04/2021

Parkinsons Disease and Gut Health.

I've been following recent research in Parkinson's disease and each new review of studies just strengthens my appreciation for how our gut health affects our overall health. The protein identified as the culprit in PD, alpha-synuclein, is believed to migrate from the gut to the brain, possibly as a result of break down of the gut mucosa due to inflammation. The gut bacteria associated with the initial inflammation and mucosal breakdown is Akkermansia. We can keep our gut microbiome healthy and resist disease by following a gut healthy diet and addressing any microbial imbalances or overgrowth. (1)



(1)https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7771407/pdf/mSystems.00797-20.pdf


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