Immune System Health

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The immune system is a wonderful network of activities designed over millions of years to protect us from viruses, bacteria, parasites, molds, dust, pollen, and malignant cells. It is the responsibility of the immune system to detect the intrusion, or invasion, of these entities and to mount a defense in order to eliminate them. A healthy immune system is capable of resisting most intruders, and a very healthy system may be able to resist invasions that many other people’s system cannot.

The body’s immune system can be affected by many things, and it’s responsible for many things as well. When the immune system is weakened either from particular diseases, poor health, or poor nutrition and eating habits, many health problems can occur. There are a variety of diseases, conditions and syndromes with names these days, which can all be traced back to some sort of problem with the immune system. Some of these conditions are said to be caused by the immune system overreacting, but there may be more to it than just that.

The human body does not act sporadically or randomly. There is always a purpose with what it does, and usually the primary purpose is to try and keep the body alive - at all costs. So when the immune system starts doing things that seem like it’s overreacting, it may actually be acting to other stimulus or problems deeper within, and all we’re seeing are some of the results of what it’s trying to do.

This can work, if you’re supplying your body with proper nutrition in some way. This is why juice fasts can help people lose weight. If you simply try to starve yourself though, and drink just water or tea but take no nutrition of any kind, your body will stubbornly hold on to every ounce of weight it can. Why? Because it thinks you’re in starvation mode, so it’s trying to keep you alive until the famine passes.

Another example is similar, but it happens with lack of water. Your body will conserve water - even at the expense of you getting kidney stones and kidney infections - if you’re not drinking as much as it needs every day. The body assumes that since you’re not getting enough, you must not have a readily available source of it, thus it needs to conserve as much as it can to keep you alive.

Yet another example focuses on the bodies immune system itself. There are many skin conditions which millions of people have. These are chronic conditions which often cause problems all throughout a person’s life. Conditions such as psoriasis and eczema for instance, all look as if the body’s immune system is simply overreacting to some kind of trigger. So the body starts producing skin cells at much faster rates than normal.

Herbal and natural remedy specialists however, have found that by treating the entire body as if there’s an illness or disease deep inside, and cleansing the internal organs and waste disposal systems, help the body’s immune system to get back into balance, and this in turn stops the skin related problems.

Reference: Top 100 Immunity Boosters