🤩Published 2nd June 2022 in Science Immunology🤩⏰ CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS & Organ Functions are something that’has featured in Chinese Medicine🥸I grew up thinking it was superstition 🧙‍♀️ 🤓Turns out, they may have been in to something 💜I am a water rabbit💦 🐇 born in the hour of the dragon 🐉 💜”The immune system is highly time-of-day dependent. Pioneering studies in the 1960s were the first to identify immune responses to be under a circadian control. Only in the last decade, however, have the molecular factors governing circadian immune rhythms been identified. These studies have revealed a highly complex picture of the interconnectivity of rhythmicity within immune cells with that of their environment. Here, we provide a global overview of the circadian immune system, focusing on recent advances in the rapidly expanding field of circadian immunology.”#immunology#science#tcm#circadianrhythm#bodyclock#vaccines#immunisation#rhythms#whoknew#superstition#functionalmedicine#sleep#wake#melatonin#antibodies#staycurious ... See MoreSee Less

A new Science Immunology Review on the circadian immune system highlights the benefits of morning vaccination compared with afternoon/evening vaccination in humans. Learn more: fcld.ly/8xnc3w7 ... See MoreSee Less

For Peeps Going Through a Tough Time #Repost @tinybuddhaofficial with @make_repost・・・"You have to stop thinking you'll be stuck in your situation forever. We feel like our heart will never heal or we'll never get out of this impossible struggle. Don't confuse a season for a lifetime. Even your trials have an expiration date. You will grow, life will change, things will work out." ~Brittney Moses⠀⠀#tinybuddha #quotes #dailyquotes #quotesdaily #quoteoftheday #wisdom #wordsofwisdom #wisdomquotes #dailywisdom #stuck #healing #change #itgetsbetter #hope ... See MoreSee Less

i love her insights and writingsA fairly personal post today. I am now officially "old"! No more "late middle age" or "older woman", just "old". And truly, while there are undoubtedly very real losses (of health, energy - and also of dear contemporaries), I am mostly enormously grateful still to be alive. And still able to work. And still able to support my loved ones at least to some extent.By now, I have lived twice as long now as my mother did. That fact is with me always - the huge losses of decades of living for her and of knowing her as an adult for my sister and me.My sister is the only person alive (I think) who has known me through it all. She is still a total treasure in my life. I also have two wonderful adult children, of whom I am unconditionally proud, and two grandchildren, soon three, who are the shining lights in their grandmother's eyes. I also have a late-life marriage to someone who is a soulmate. For that, too, I need to stay well and get older and oldest, not merely "old". My story will seem enviably rich to some of you. And especially in relation to my very long work life, and the treasures of later life, I am indeed exceptionally fortunate. Like most of us, though, there have been patches that have stretched me beyond my capacities, beyond my courage. Physical illness has been part of that, but also great sorrows of the heart.I could not have written the books that I did had I not experienced those times and challenges - and there will, inevitably, be more to come. Perhaps this "forging" in the realities of life is especially realised in Forgiveness and Other Acts of Love, also in Seeking the Sacred, and some time ago, in my first novel, Running Backwards Over Sand. It's not in my books only, either. It is "written in my body" and across my face. On an older (old) face, so much is written, if we allow that.Today my dear friend, writer Joyce Kornblatt, posted a poem by Ellen Bass. It sums up the absolute preciousness of life and our power to share that consciousness. May that preciousness grow for you, whoever and wherever you are. Peace in all our hearts. Peace in all our hearts.StephanieIF YOU KNEWWhat if you knew you'd be the lastto touch someone?If you were taking tickets, for example,at the theater, tearing them,giving back the ragged stubs,you might take care to touch that palm,brush your fingertipsalong the life line's crease.When a man pulls his wheeled suitcasetoo slowly through the airport, whenthe car in front of me doesn't signal,when the clerk at the pharmacywon't say Thank you, I don't rememberthey're going to die.A friend told me she'd been with her aunt.They'd just had lunch and the waiter,a young gay man with plum black eyes,joked as he served the coffee, kissedher aunt's powdered cheek when they left.Then they walked half a block and her auntdropped dead on the sidewalk.How close does the dragon's spumehave to come? How wide does the crackin heaven have to split?What would people look likeif we could see them as they are,soaked in honey, stung and swollen,reckless, pinned against time? ----Ellen Bass ... See MoreSee Less

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#Repost @tinybuddhaofficial with @make_repost・・・“'Never quit; sounds great, but sometimes, you gotta quit. Be willing to say, 'This isn’t what I thought it was,' or 'this doesn’t appeal to me anymore.' Remember that you can quit 'the thing' without quitting on yourself." ~Michell C. Clark#tinybuddha #quotes #dailyquotes #quotesdaily #quoteoftheday #wisdom #wordsofwisdom #wisdomqutoes #dailywisdom #itsokaytoquit #walkaway #quitting #freshstart #newbeginning #newchapter ... See MoreSee Less