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Stephen Lau
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Enhance Immune System
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Stephen Lau
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Stephen Lau
What is the immune system?
The immune system is your body’s most specialized defense mechanism to protect you from any foreign invaders, such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses. Because it protects you from diseases and infections, and keeps you in optimum health, the immune system requires an intricate network of optimum functioning of many different cells and organs in your body. To boost immune system, you must keep your cells and organs healthy. Cells make up your body organs. When cells die, your organs fail, disease sets in and health deteriorates, and you age and die.
As you age, your immune system also becomes weaker, as evidenced by the high incidence of influenza and pneumonia after age 25, not to mention among the elderly.
What is autoimmunity?
The immune system is created to protect you from diseases and infections. Unfortunately, sometimes the immune system may go awry and attack the body itself, instead of protecting it. These misdirected immune responses are referred to as autoimmunity. In other words, the immune system attacks itself in the form of autoimmune disease, which can affect many parts of the body, including the nerves, muscles, endocrine system (controlling the body’s hormones and other chemicals), and the digestive system. Essentially, autoimmunity can affect almost any organ or part of the body system. The exact type of autoimmune disease one may have as one continues to age depends on which body tissues that are being targeted by the immune system. For example, if the joints are attacked, severe joint pain, stiffness, and loss of joint function may occur.
There are more than 80 types of autoimmune disease, including the more common ones, such as multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, and myasthenia gravis, among others.
Many of these diseases associated with autoimmunity are often chronic, requiring lifelong care and monitoring, and they tend to develop as aging continues. Therefore, it is important to enhance immune system against autoimmunity at any age.
What are the autoimmunity symptoms?
Autoimmunity symptoms may vary according to the types of autoimmune disease. In addition, many autoimmune diseases do not show a clear pattern of disease symptoms. Furthermore, autoimmunity symptoms may also come and go. For these reasons, it is sometimes difficult to diagnose the type of autoimmune disease. Diagnosis, however, can usually be made by using medical history (the genetic factor), physical examination (obvious signs of physical and muscular weaknesses), and medical tests (blood sample for autoimmunity antibodies).
Who are at risk for autoimmunity?
As with any disease, there are risk factors associated with autoimmunity, as well as triggers of the development of an autoimmune disease.
The risk factors for autoimmunity
Women are more susceptible to autoimmunity than men are. Autoimmune disease strikes women more than it strikes men, particularly women of working age and during their child-bearing years.
The genes of parents who have developed an autoimmune disease may increase the risk factor for autoimmunity.
Viruses, due to a weakened or compromised immune system, may also contribute to the development of an autoimmune disease.
The autoimmunity triggers
The No.1 autoimmunity trigger is stress. Emotional stress, mental stress, and physical stress may trigger autoimmunity, in particular when the immune system is weak.
Other autoimmunity triggers may include behavior and wayward lifestyle, such as alcohol addiction and nicotine consumption.
How to enhance immune system?
Scientists have discovered that the healthy functioning of the immune system is dependent on your own behavior. In other words, the efficiency of your immune system depends on how well you live. More specifically, foods, herbs, and lifestyle factors all play a pivotal part in the health of your immune system. Therefore, only YOU can enhance immune system because only YOU are responsible for your own health.
We are living in a culture that relies on external means for healing, such as the use of pills, potions, and surgeries. What is missing in the Western medical system is the philosophy that the body is capable of protecting itself against any illness, as well as healing itself of the illness, and that the role of the physician is to promote the self-healing process of the patient to re-establish health and wellness. Without this missing link, the immune system becomes compromised and vulnerable.
The criteria for a strong immune system
A strong immune system must have the following:
The immune system is your body’s most specialized defense mechanism to protect you from any foreign invaders, such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses. Because it protects you from diseases and infections, and keeps you in optimum health, the immune system requires an intricate network of optimum functioning of many different cells and organs in your body. To boost immune system, you must keep your cells and organs healthy. Cells make up your body organs. When cells die, your organs fail, disease sets in and health deteriorates, and you age and die.
As you age, your immune system also becomes weaker, as evidenced by the high incidence of influenza and pneumonia after age 25, not to mention among the elderly.
What is autoimmunity?
The immune system is created to protect you from diseases and infections. Unfortunately, sometimes the immune system may go awry and attack the body itself, instead of protecting it. These misdirected immune responses are referred to as autoimmunity. In other words, the immune system attacks itself in the form of autoimmune disease, which can affect many parts of the body, including the nerves, muscles, endocrine system (controlling the body’s hormones and other chemicals), and the digestive system. Essentially, autoimmunity can affect almost any organ or part of the body system. The exact type of autoimmune disease one may have as one continues to age depends on which body tissues that are being targeted by the immune system. For example, if the joints are attacked, severe joint pain, stiffness, and loss of joint function may occur.
There are more than 80 types of autoimmune disease, including the more common ones, such as multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, and myasthenia gravis, among others.
Many of these diseases associated with autoimmunity are often chronic, requiring lifelong care and monitoring, and they tend to develop as aging continues. Therefore, it is important to enhance immune system against autoimmunity at any age.
What are the autoimmunity symptoms?
Autoimmunity symptoms may vary according to the types of autoimmune disease. In addition, many autoimmune diseases do not show a clear pattern of disease symptoms. Furthermore, autoimmunity symptoms may also come and go. For these reasons, it is sometimes difficult to diagnose the type of autoimmune disease. Diagnosis, however, can usually be made by using medical history (the genetic factor), physical examination (obvious signs of physical and muscular weaknesses), and medical tests (blood sample for autoimmunity antibodies).
Who are at risk for autoimmunity?
As with any disease, there are risk factors associated with autoimmunity, as well as triggers of the development of an autoimmune disease.
The risk factors for autoimmunity
Women are more susceptible to autoimmunity than men are. Autoimmune disease strikes women more than it strikes men, particularly women of working age and during their child-bearing years.
The genes of parents who have developed an autoimmune disease may increase the risk factor for autoimmunity.
Viruses, due to a weakened or compromised immune system, may also contribute to the development of an autoimmune disease.
The autoimmunity triggers
The No.1 autoimmunity trigger is stress. Emotional stress, mental stress, and physical stress may trigger autoimmunity, in particular when the immune system is weak.
Other autoimmunity triggers may include behavior and wayward lifestyle, such as alcohol addiction and nicotine consumption.
How to enhance immune system?
Scientists have discovered that the healthy functioning of the immune system is dependent on your own behavior. In other words, the efficiency of your immune system depends on how well you live. More specifically, foods, herbs, and lifestyle factors all play a pivotal part in the health of your immune system. Therefore, only YOU can enhance immune system because only YOU are responsible for your own health.
We are living in a culture that relies on external means for healing, such as the use of pills, potions, and surgeries. What is missing in the Western medical system is the philosophy that the body is capable of protecting itself against any illness, as well as healing itself of the illness, and that the role of the physician is to promote the self-healing process of the patient to re-establish health and wellness. Without this missing link, the immune system becomes compromised and vulnerable.
The criteria for a strong immune system
A strong immune system must have the following:
| • | Effective communication between the immune cells (they fight against foreign invaders) |
| • | Increased production of immune cells |
| • | Reduced production of free radicals (damaging oxidation produced in the natural process of growth and rejuvenation of human cells) |
| • | Optimum environment for blood and tissues where immune cells work |
The immune system diet
In addition to taking immune system vitamins to boost immune system, you need to use diet, such as a natural thyroid diet, to protect your immune system.
Eat fresh, organic fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts daily.
Eat natural foods. Cooking, food processing, and freezing destroy some of the health-promoting nutrients in your foods.
Eat phytonutrients, which are plant nutrients. They include carotenoids, flavonoids, and phytosterols, among others.
In addition to taking immune system vitamins to boost immune system, you need to use diet, such as a natural thyroid diet, to protect your immune system.
Eat fresh, organic fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts daily.
Eat natural foods. Cooking, food processing, and freezing destroy some of the health-promoting nutrients in your foods.
Eat phytonutrients, which are plant nutrients. They include carotenoids, flavonoids, and phytosterols, among others.
| • | Carotenoids Dark green, yellow, red, and orange vegetables and fruits are rich in carotenoids. They are potent antioxidants against free radicals, and they include the following: bilberries, blueberries, broccoli, carrots, citrus fruits, ginkgo biloba, grapes, green tea, onions, peppers, and tangerines. |
| • | Pytosterols Phytosterols are plant fats (just like animal fats). Plant fats inhibit the secretion of inflammatory cytokines (pain-causing agents), and are therefore effective in controlling rheumatoid arthritis, one of the most debilitating and difficult-to-treat diseases today. Foods rich in phytosterols include the following: almonds, cashews, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, barley, peas, and soybeans. |
| • | Vitamin A to prevent thymus shrinkage (5,000 IU daily dosage) |
| • | Vitamin B6 to maintain hormone levels and to prevent thymus shrinkage (50 mg daily dosage) |
| • | Vitamin C to regulate T-cell (white blood thymus cells) function (at least 1,000 mg daily dosage or up to bowel tolerance) |
| • | Vitamin E to increase infection resistance (400 0800 IU daily dosage) |
| • | Selenium to increase T-cell activity and antibody production for detoxification (100 mcg daily dosage) |
| • | Zinc to boost your thymus for maturing T-cells to fight invaders (15 mg daily dosage) |
| • | Coenzyme Q10 to increase energy production for cells’ activities |
| • | L-glutathione to regenerate immune cells in the immune system (200 mg daily dosage) |
| • | Magnesium to increase enzymatic reactions (100 mg daily dosage) |
| • | DHEA to control cortisol, the stress hormone (5 mg daily dosage) |
The immune system herbs
Your body is a self-cleaning mechanism, which uses your liver, kidneys, urine, feces, breath, and sweat to detoxify your body of toxins. Herbs can provide you with safe, natural, time-tested methods to improve the natural functions of your body to support and boost the immune system.
Some of the most immune system herbs include: black walnut, cascara sagrada, cayenne, dandelion, echinacea, fennel seed, Indian rhubarb root, licorice root, milk thistle, psyllium husk, red clover, slipper elm inner bark, and yarrow.
Use some of these hebs to boost immune system, and they are obtainable at:
Your body is a self-cleaning mechanism, which uses your liver, kidneys, urine, feces, breath, and sweat to detoxify your body of toxins. Herbs can provide you with safe, natural, time-tested methods to improve the natural functions of your body to support and boost the immune system.
Some of the most immune system herbs include: black walnut, cascara sagrada, cayenne, dandelion, echinacea, fennel seed, Indian rhubarb root, licorice root, milk thistle, psyllium husk, red clover, slipper elm inner bark, and yarrow.
Use some of these hebs to boost immune system, and they are obtainable at:
Exercise:
From the point of view of a healthy immune system, moderate exercise is the most ideal immune system booster. Strenuous exercise not only depresses certain immune cell counts (temporarily), but also reduces immunity. In other words, too much and too vigorous exercise may weaken the immune response to disease-causing agents. Therefore, it is important to strike a balance in order to enhance immune system. The effect of exercise on the immune system depends more on the degree of exertion (the intensity) than on the length of time spent exercising. For example, the changes in the white blood cells in the blood remain relatively the same whether the vigorous exercise is performed within 30 seconds or 60 minutes.
On the whole, moderate exercise can increase the number of immune cells, as well as make them more aggressive in destroying foreign invaders. In addition, exercise alters the blood levels of certain stress hormones by pumping more oxygen into the blood.
From the point of view of a healthy immune system, moderate exercise is the most ideal immune system booster. Strenuous exercise not only depresses certain immune cell counts (temporarily), but also reduces immunity. In other words, too much and too vigorous exercise may weaken the immune response to disease-causing agents. Therefore, it is important to strike a balance in order to enhance immune system. The effect of exercise on the immune system depends more on the degree of exertion (the intensity) than on the length of time spent exercising. For example, the changes in the white blood cells in the blood remain relatively the same whether the vigorous exercise is performed within 30 seconds or 60 minutes.
On the whole, moderate exercise can increase the number of immune cells, as well as make them more aggressive in destroying foreign invaders. In addition, exercise alters the blood levels of certain stress hormones by pumping more oxygen into the blood.
Relaxation:
Stress is not only one of the most contributing factors to but also a major trigger of an autoimmune disease in a compromised and weakened immune system. Therefore, relaxation is an important immune system booster because it de-stresses you. But living a life of relaxation is not easy. Relaxation has to do with having a holistic, practical, and honest approach to life, involving the physical body, the mind, and the soul. Relaxation is not about taking a holiday, going fishing, watching a movie, or reading a book; relaxation is about living -- how to live your life without stress. Relaxation is an integral part of life, without which there is no stress relief. Relaxation is about learning how to deal with life natural flow, and how to go along with it -- that is, going around life problems, instead of avoiding them or confronting them head on. Relaxation is about spontaneity of living.
Learn one of the best relaxation techniques: living by way of Zen. Visit my blog: Cope With Stress.
Go to my web page: Stress Management for strategies to overcome the demon inside you that may trigger an autoimmune disease.
Learn how to use meditation healing to cope with everyday stress to relax both the body and the mind.
Conquering Stress helps you get back your life by overcoming stress, depression, and anxiety, without the use of drugs and medications. These ailments and disorders are commonly associated with aging.
Stephen Lau
Copyright© by Stephen Lau
Stress is not only one of the most contributing factors to but also a major trigger of an autoimmune disease in a compromised and weakened immune system. Therefore, relaxation is an important immune system booster because it de-stresses you. But living a life of relaxation is not easy. Relaxation has to do with having a holistic, practical, and honest approach to life, involving the physical body, the mind, and the soul. Relaxation is not about taking a holiday, going fishing, watching a movie, or reading a book; relaxation is about living -- how to live your life without stress. Relaxation is an integral part of life, without which there is no stress relief. Relaxation is about learning how to deal with life natural flow, and how to go along with it -- that is, going around life problems, instead of avoiding them or confronting them head on. Relaxation is about spontaneity of living.
Learn one of the best relaxation techniques: living by way of Zen. Visit my blog: Cope With Stress.
Go to my web page: Stress Management for strategies to overcome the demon inside you that may trigger an autoimmune disease.
Learn how to use meditation healing to cope with everyday stress to relax both the body and the mind.
Conquering Stress helps you get back your life by overcoming stress, depression, and anxiety, without the use of drugs and medications. These ailments and disorders are commonly associated with aging.
Stephen Lau
Copyright© by Stephen Lau
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