Author: HealthNutNews.com

Research from the fall of 2017 out of the University of British Columbia and BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute found that “the amount of close and comforting contact between infants and their caregivers can affect children at the molecular level”1 and that effect is detectable four years later. Children who had been more distressed as infants (like preemies) or who had received less physical contact, “had a molecular profile in their cells that was underdeveloped for their age.” In other words, they were biologically immature. And researchers believe that this slower epigenetic aging might indicate an inability to thrive....

Danielle McNair of Georgia is warning parents after her 5-year-old son, Mason contracted Rocky Mountain fever from a tick bite. On May 10th, Mason McNair was staying with his grandparents in LaGrange, Georgia, when they noticed a tick inside of Mason’s belly button. Although the tick was immediately removed, Danielle says it got infected and red. Mason also had fatigue, diarrhea, and a fever. RELATED STORY: Deadly brain swelling tick virus found in Minnesota and Wisconsin McNair him to the doctor, who prescribed an antibiotic but when 10 days later, Mason’s symptoms had gotten worse, fatigue, diarrhea, fever, headaches, and pain in...