THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
The human immune system is a complicated built-in mechanism that affects the whole body system in many different ways. This system, equipped with antibodies, is capable of self-protection and self-recuperation from any disease or disorder. However, this miraculous system may become compromised and even dysfunctional such that its immune defenses may indiscriminately attack the body’s cells, both the unhealthy as well as the healthy ones. This malfunctioning of the immune system is known as autoimmunity.
AUTOIMMUNITY
Nobody is immune from autoimmunity, which is present in everyone to some extent. Even worse, autoimmunity can affect almost any organ or body system. Furthermore, it can be easily triggered by many environmental, physical, as well as emotional factors, such that it can cause a broad spectrum of human illnesses, known as autoimmune diseases. There are more than 100 types of autoimmune diseases, including multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, and myasthenia gravis, among many others. According to modern medicine, there is no cure for autoimmune diseases. Currently, modern medical science is still unable to identify the causes of autoimmunity. As a matter of fact, the concept of autoimmunity as the cause of human illness is relatively new, and it was accepted into the mainstream medicine only about half a century ago.
There are different ways to protect and boost the immune system:
(1) Protecting the Thymus
As you age, your immune system becomes weaker, as evidenced by the high incidence of influenza and pneumonia after age 25, especially among the elderly. Therefore, it is important to boost your immune system, which is closely related to your thymus (the commander-in-chief of fighters in your immune system against foreign invaders), with the 10 most important nutritional supplements:
- 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)
In addition to taking supplements to boost your immune system, you need to use diet, such as a natural thyroid diet, to protect your thyroid.
(2) Eating a Natural Diet
Eat fresh, organic fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts daily; eat natural foods — instead of their processed counterparts.
Remember, cooking, food processing, and even freezing destroy some of the health-promoting nutrients in foods.
Eat phytonutrients, which are plant nutrients. They include carotenoids, flavonoids, and phytosterols, among others.
Carotenoids:
Carotenoids are potent antioxidants against free radicals and cataracts. Foods rich in carotenoids are dark green, yellow, red, and orange vegetables and fruits, including the following:
- Bilberries
- Blueberries
- Broccoli
- Carrots
- Citrus fruits
- Ginkgo biloba
- Grapes
- Green tea
- Onions
- Peppers
- Tangerines
Flavonoids:
Flavonoids, which are organic compounds or plant nutrients found naturally in plants, are beneficial to the human body. They help protect blood vessels from rupture or leakage, and protect cells from oxygen damage. Foods rich in flavonoids include:
- Apples
- Apricots
- Black beans
- Blueberries
- Cabbage
- Parsley
- Pears
- Pinto beans
- Strawberries
- Tomatoes
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 autoimmune diseases today.
Foods rich in phytosterols include the following:
- Almonds
- Cashews
- Sesame seeds
- sunflower seeds
- Barley
- Peas
- Soybeans
However, your body may have difficulty in absorbing plant fats, and therefore take a supplement of sterinol daily. Sterinol is beneficial in the control of autoimmune disease: it modulates the immune response to autoimmunity and controls the disease by preventing the damage caused by the inflammation. Unlike conventional drugs that aim at the entire immune response and the inflammatory process, sterinol only targets the abnormality and corrects the immune dysfunction.
(3) Removing Toxins
You body toxins impair and weaken your immune system. The common sources of toxins are:
- Pesticides and herbicides from agricultural products
- Industrial wastes
- Exhaust fumes from factories and automobile
- Polluted waters
- Irradiation from use of cellular phones and towers, microwave ovens, power plants, radio satellite transmissions
- Food contamination
- Chemicals in food processing
- Toxic pharmaceuticals
- Toxic emotions and thoughts
Your body may have ingested these toxins through absorption, consumption, inhalation, and radiation, creating health hazards to your immune system.
Heavy metals, such as aluminum, cadmium, lead, and mercury, can cause damages to your immune system. Minerals, which make up approximately four percent of your total body weight, are essential for your immune system and energy production. However, heavy metals can also damage your DNA, adversely change neurons in your brain, elevate your cholesterol level and blood pressure, and deplete your bones of calcium.
The toxin symptoms in your body may manifest physically, mentally, and spiritually in the form of:
- Bad breath
- Chronic constipation
- Chronic fatigue
- Frequent gas and bloating
- Hemorrhoids
- Irritability
- Mental and spiritual lethargy
- Overweight
Internal cleansing
Internal cleansing is detoxification, which involves dislodging your body toxins and waste products from within and between cells and joints, and transporting these wastes from your body for removal.
Different ways of detoxification
(i) Fasting to detox
Fasting is internal cleansing and rejuvenation – one of the most efficient ways to detoxify your body of toxins. Fasting is to recovery, as sleep is to recuperation. Fasting is voluntary abstinence from food and drink, except water, for an extended period. Fasting is the best way to detoxify your body.
Fasting has the following health benefits to boost immune system:
- Fasting accelerates the self-healing process of your body because fasting temporarily stops the continuing work of your digestive system, and therefore instrumental in reserving that energy for your self-healing.
- Fasting benefits your cardiovascular system by softening your blood vessels to help decrease your blood pressure.
- Fasting activates the immune system in your body to protect you from disease.
- Fasting relieves the burden of not only your digestive tract, but also your liver and kidneys, which have to work extra hard to remove additives and toxins accumulated in your body through improper eating. Fasting removes the cause of any chronic disease you may have by removing the toxins, not just the symptoms, as in the case of medication.
- Fasting enhances your body’s metabolism to control and manage your body weight.
- Fasting enhances your taste, hearing, and eyesight. The ancient Greeks utilized fasting to purify their bodies and to sharpen their minds. The American Indians used fasting to induce better vision.
- By conserving the energy otherwise used in digesting food, fasting provides you with more, not less, energy, contrary to the myth that fasting makes your body weak. Remember, eating and digesting food do expend your energy too.
- Fasting may alleviate your body pain and rid your body of drug dependence. Fasting facilitates you, if you are a smoker, to quit smoking during a fast.
- Fasting slows down your aging process by keeping your arteries young (often hardened by cholesterol, fats, inorganic minerals and fibrous tissues).
- Fasting facilitates the removal of accumulated substances that may damage cell functions, thereby slowing down your aging process and extending your lifespan. By removing stresses on your cellular cells, fasting may give your face a more radiant complexion, with fewer wrinkles. Rejuvenation in the skin helps your anti-aging. You would be no older in the body in the year’s end than you were in the beginning. Fasting rejuvenates an aging body.
Eat Stop Eat: Empower yourself with information on how to fast naturally and effectively to boost immune system for detoxification and healthy weight loss.
(ii) Foot patches to detox
The use of foot patches is an easy and unobtrusive way to help body detox on a daily basis.
Two Japanese doctors made the groundbreaking discovery that trees could grow and flourish for years even under the worst weather conditions due to the presence of wood vinegar essence, which enables the absorption of water and nutrients through the process of osmosis.
According to Chinese medicine, the human body has over 360 acupuncture points, with more than 60 acupuncture points found on the sole of the foot alone. Your feet, also known as the “second heart,” contain the reflective zones of your internal organs, where your body toxins accumulate and dissipate. For centuries, Chinese medical study has held the view that due to gravity, toxins tend to go downwards in your body during the day, accumulating from the tips of the toes to the ankles. Therefore, foot patches, when applied to the soles of your feet overnight, not only warm up to open pores of the skin but also stimulate the reflex zones on your soles to draw out and absorb accumulated wastes under osmotic pressure from the blood and lymph systems in your body through the process of osmosis in the form of moisture from your soles.
Foot patches also have substantial health benefits for the heart, the liver, and for a good restful sleep.
(iii) Hydrotherapy to detox
Water is an invaluable nutrient to every living thing on earth. Every cell of your body requires water to carry nutrients and energy to it, as well as to transport toxins and wastes from it.
Use hydrotherapy for body detox. Hydrotherapy involves alternating application of hot and cold water aimed at increasing your blood flow to different tissues of your body. Take a very hot shower immediately followed by a very cold one, and repeat the process two or three times. After the hydrotherapy, snuggle into your bed, staying warm for half an hour or so. You will feel completely refreshed and rejuvenated.
Hydrotherapy provides substantial detoxification benefits to your circulating system:
- The alternating hot and cold water opens up pores in your skin for more effective elimination.
- Blood flow increases circulation to your intestines in the abdomen (an empty stomach yielding the best result), thereby promoting digestion.
- The filtering organs of your chest and abdomen are relaxed through the induced circulation.
- The nerves along your spinal cord also become stimulated and relaxed.
Use hydrotherapy for internal cleansing. For more information, go to: Detox Bath.
(iv) Complete body detox
For a complete body detox, you need to get the mind-body skills to break the vicious toxic cycle. Take control of your life, and take the natural path to superior health with a cleansing process geared towards removing dietary stressors, enhancing your body’s pH balance, and providing holistic nutrition guidelines for healing your body’s compromised organs and systems for complete recovery and rejuvenation. Complete body detox has to be achieved step by step, one step at a time: 12 Steps To A Complete Body Detox
For more information on detoxification, visit my blog: Body Detox.
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I was afflicted with that autoimmune disease more than a decade ago, and I experienced all the symptoms and the frustration from the side effects of the steroid medications I had been taking. For years, I had been on many different prescribed medications: cholinesterase inhibitors, immunosuppressants, corticosteroids, and many other drugs dealing with the different side effects from those medications, such as weight gain, bone loss, and high blood pressure, among others.
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I have written this 123-page e-book in plain language (without any medical jargon) just to share with you my own experience with myasthenia gravis, as well as suggestions on how you may cure myasthenia gravis. My book is a result of years of research on holistic self-healing for autoimmune diseases.
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