February 25, 2021

Being healthy is your best choice.

Healthy means “not sick.” Sick means feeling bad and/or having symptoms that send you to the doctor or the emergency room. If they can afford it, sick people take medications. Medications don’t usually cure the sickness but (hopefully) allay the symptoms and ward off dying …

Covid 19, IMMUNE SYSTEM, underlying conditions
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by Pat Smith
January 30, 2021

Worried about virus “variants”?

For days now the news has been the arrival of virus “variants”, the first of which popped up in the UK. Now they appear to be in 36 of the US states. And that is just today. So now the worry is whether the vaccine …

CHRONIC CONDITIONS/DISEASES, coronavirus, COVID 19, IMMUNE SYSTEM, Inflammation, NUTRITION, obesity, underlying conditions, viruses
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by Pat Smith
January 30, 2021

Covid-19 and the Immune System

I spent the week between Christmas and New Year’s day with family. There was a lot of isolation and COVID-19 testing for everyone prior to and after this celebration. I ate some stuff that I am not supposed to eat. For example, my great grandchildren …

coronavirus, coronavirus, COVID 19, Covid 19, Diet and weight, Healthy diet, IMMUNE SYSTEM, obesity, underlying conditions, viruses
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by Pat Smith
Let’s just get this over with!
December 10, 2020

Let’s just get this over with!

Early on in this COVID-19 pandemic Montgomery County and the little counties in Arkansas surrounding us had very few diagnosed COVID-19 cases. And just to be on the safe side, we avoided being tested – as if testing was the problem. Certainly we didn’t talk …

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES, coronavirus, coronavirus, Covid 19, COVID 19, IMMUNE SYSTEM, underlying conditions, viruses
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by Pat Smith
September 18, 2020

What to do when you are unhealthy

What to do? Keep it simple! “How do you feel? How much weight has crept up over the years? How much pain do you have? What other symptoms do you have? What reasons do you have for going to the doctor? How many diagnosed conditions …

coronavirus, COVID 19, Covid 19, Health Care, insulin resistance, underlying conditions
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by Pat Smith
September 18, 2020

Health Care versus Sick Care

“Sick care” sends you to your doctor. Most people call this “health care,” argue about whether all people should be entitled, and gnash their teeth about the expense of medical treatment and medications. In my mind everyone should have access to sick care. Health care, …

Health Care, insulin resistance, underlying conditions
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by Pat Smith