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The Economic Impact Of The Common-Cold And 3 Types of Sick People You Should Avoid

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

The Economic Impact Of The Common-Cold And 3 Types of Sick People You Should Avoid
the soldier type of sick person to avoid by Jacob Andrews Caldwell Tanner and CollegeHumor


The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!:
Around the colder months of the year, we all get a set of mixed-blessings.

Lots of fun new Winter sports, several new if inconvenient paintjobs on the landscape by Mother Nature that make everything a quiet wonder to observe.

And the inevitable disruptions in our body’s internal-balance that make us get sick in all kinds of glorious post-new-years-eve-vomit-jamboree ways.

Well CollegeHumor and U.Michigan have each gone their own unique ways to show us the different shades of awful this productivity-sapping season can go…

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Honor Code Fail: The Houseplant In Your Echinacea And The Laxative In Your Mood-Booster

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Stupid Health Tricks, Vitamins/Supplements

Honor Code Fail: The Houseplant In Your Echinacea And The Laxative In Your Mood-Booster
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We’ve blogged about contamination here and here before, but this development seems even more audacious than before.

And Look, we all know (at least here on HT) that selecting & taking supplements is a bit of a Bro-Science. -Or if we’re Really honest, it’s Amateur Human-Guniea-Pig Biochemistry Gambling.

Well, thanks to what we’re learning from NY AG, Eric Schneiderman, and Canada’s University of Guelph, the truth is a lot worse than that…

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Cold & Flu Season Special: F***ing Magnets! [miracle] Immune Boosters, How Do They Work?!

Filed Under: Stupid Health Tricks

Cold & Flu Season Special: <strike>F***ing Magnets!</strike> [miracle] Immune Boosters, How Do They Work?!
Insane Clown Posse Miracles F***ing Magnets, How do they work


Awhile back, I had some odd thing going on.

It made me feel entirely too much like Keith Moon. Mad; mad as a hatter; mad as an Afghani outhouse rat.

I had tight muscles around the neck and jaw, was feeling flu-like and absolutely positive the major arteries in my neck had all been circulating pure, uncut, lab-grade hydraulic concrete.

So, thought I: it’s probably Lockjaw, Scarlet…

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Echinacea Is Cat’s Butt At Restoring Prairies, Not So At Fixing Colds. -Unless …

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Vitamins/Supplements

Echinacea Is Cat’s Butt At Restoring Prairies, Not So At Fixing Colds. -Unless …
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According to this study by Turner & Pals, Echinacea is not effective against the common cold.

-Bummer.

If you believe that study.

There may be light at the end of the tunnel, though.

This post by UVA Med + Turner himself reveals something interesting about Echinacea versus other herbal supplements; especially tricky ones like Kava…

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