October 2011
September 2011
“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.”
—Judy Garland (via lucifelle)
New Study Shows Alcohol Downgrades Your Immune System →
newscientist.com
Study shows alcohol suppresses immune cells, making heavy drinkers more vulnerable to infection
Too much alcohol dulls more than your wits. It also weakens your immune system and could make you much more vulnerable to viruses, including HIV.
To see how alcohol affects resistance to infection, Gyongyi Szabo of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester and colleagues exposed monocytes – white blood cells involved in the front-line defence against infection – to chemicals that mimic viruses and bacteria. Half of the cells were also soused in the levels of alcohol that a person might have in their blood after quaffing four or five alcoholic drinks daily for a week.
Alcohol blunted the monocytes’ defences. When the over-the-limit cells were exposed to a virus mimic, they produced only a quarter as much of the virus-fighting signalling molecule called type-1 interferon as teetotal monocytes made.
“Interferon is pivotal, the first response to any viral infection,” says Szabo. “There’s no viral elimination without it.”
Quote of the Day for September 30, 2011 - 'There is a certain cloud, impregnated with a thousand lightnings....' ~ Mevlana Rumi | Wikiquote
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“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”
—Tom Robbins (via skeletales)
“Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Perhaps you do carry within you the possibility of creating and forming, as an especially blessed and pure way of living; train yourself for that but take whatever comes, with great trust, and as long as it comes out of your will, out of some need of your innermost self, then take it upon yourself, and don’t hate anything.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke (via daisy-fay)
“This luminosity does not negate reason or any rational sense. It simply exists. I am not ‘right,’ rather I had an internal experience, a state of awareness. A kind of poetic sensibility open to the world, to everything—grand and small.”
—Anna Kamienska, from The Notebook: 1965-72 in Astonishments, trans. Curzon and Drabik (via proustitute)
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“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
—Albert Einstein (via burningcannabis)
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities”
—Dr Seuss (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
“Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.”
—Richard Feynman (The Character of Physical Law (1965))
