Rebounding for Immune Systems
One form of exercise that I really love is jumping on the trampoline and mini trampoline. Throughout the day I jump many times while I’m listening to podcasts and music on my iPod or watch TV if I’m inside.
The part of the body that is the garbage can that houses all the harmful toxins, dead cells, cancer cells and foreign substances is called the lymphatic system.
To protect the body from cancer cells, fungi, viruses or bacteria the system works together with white blood cells in the lymph nodes to combat these things from infecting the body.
Your immune organs are linked by lymphatic vessels, which include your bone marrow, tonsils, thymus, lymph nodes and your spleen. This network is very busy and produces and circulates blood cells and antibodies to be able to fight infection, filter bacteria, and eliminate parasites and debris out of your bodies system.
The activation of lymph is the most effective in combating modern-day illnesses because they are immune related.
The lymphatic system has no pump like the heart. Any type of movement or exercise will stimulate the movement of lymph fluid inside the vessels, but the most effective way is rebounding or jumping on the trampoline due to the forces involved when bouncing.
When you are rebounding or jumping on a trampoline you get the effects called G-forces, which cause a vertical up and down movement. This movement causes the lymph valves to open and close creating a flow of lymph. By bouncing you get an increase of flow of up to 15 times which will boost your immune system and creates the perfect pump for your lymphatic system.
Natural Immune System Boosters
With all the stresses to our bodies in these modern times, our immune systems are often the first casualty. Luckily, there are all sorts of natural things that can be done to boost the immune system.
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Nutrition experts say much of what our bodies to fight off infection need can be found in foods. It is true that a poor diet is a top factor in making us susceptible to illness. The top five foods that give your body the best immunity are beef, sweet potatoes, mushrooms, tea and yogurt.
While an all-around healthy diet is crucial, these particular foods help us best flex our immunity muscles. Adequately feeding our immune system boosts its fighting power. Immune boosters work in many ways. They increase the number of white cells in the immune system army, train them to fight better, and help them form an overall better battle plan.
Natural Immune System Boosters
1. Vitamin C: Vitamin C tops the list of immune boosters for many reasons. It is available naturally in many fruits and vegetables. Also, you can buy a vitamin-C-fortified version of just about anything. Vitamin C increases the production of infection-fighting white blood cells and antibodies and increases levels of interferon, the antibody that coats cell surfaces, preventing the entry of viruses.
Vitamin C reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease by raising levels of HDL (good) cholesterol while lowering blood pressure and interfering with the process by which fat is converted to plaque in the arteries. As an added perk, persons whose diets are higher in vitamin C have lower rates of colon, prostate, and breast cancer.
2. Vitamin E: Vitamin E stimulates the production of natural killer cells, those that seek out and destroy germs and cancer cells. Vitamin E enhances the production of B-cells, the immune cells that produce antibodies that destroy bacteria. Vitamin E supplementation may also reverse some of the decline in immune response commonly seen in aging. Vitamin E has been implicated in lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease.
3. Carotenoids: Beta carotene increases the number of infection-fighting cells, natural killer cells, and helper T-cells, as well as being a powerful antioxidant that mops up excess free radicals that accelerate aging.
4. Bioflavonoid: A group of phytonutrients called bioflavonoid aids the immune system by protecting the cells of the body against environmental pollutants. Bioflavonoid protects the cell membranes against the pollutants trying to attach to them. A diet that contains a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, at least six servings per day, will help you get the bioflavonoid needed to help your immune system work in top form.
5. Zinc: This valuable mineral increases the production of white blood cells that fight infection and helps them fight more aggressively. It also increases killer cells that fight against cancer and helps white cells release more antibodies. Zinc supplements have been shown to slow the growth of cancer.
6. Garlic: This flavorful member of the onion family is a powerful immune booster that stimulates the multiplication of infection-fighting white cells, boosts natural killer cell activity, and increases the efficiency of antibody production. Garlic may protect against cancer, though the evidence is controversial.
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Support the Immune System With Natural Supplements
Article by Darrell Miller
Cat’s Immune Systems
Cat’s immune systems are both the surveillance and the defense systems that protect your pet from any type of foreign invasion including fungi, viral, and bacterial infections. It also helps to protect against pollens, toxins, and microbes.
If this immune system becomes weakened, every body system and function of your cat is placed at risk. There are several natural treatments for the immune system that can fight off most any type of outside invasion and they will include vitamins as well as several herbs and herb supplements.
There are two parts of your cat’s immune systems; the innate portion and the adaptive portion. They work separately of each other but they also work very closely together when it is necessary. The can be considered the outside and the inside defense systems, but the real battle that your cat fights starts with the outside, or their skin and hair coats.
Any type of living organism has an innate immune system and your cat is no different, as their skin is the first part of this system.
It is considered both non-specific as well as non-adaptive in that it is designed to keep everything out and it does not change even after repeated attacks.
The skin of your cat produces and than secretes antibacterial substances that will counter attack and hinder the growth of bacteria, viruses, or fungi. But it does not stop with the skin, as it also includes stomach acid produced as a defense, as well as mucous in the respiratory system.
The adaptive portion of your cat’s immune systems is the back up to the innate form and reacts much more different and is very sophisticated. It has a memory that keeps tract of any type of invasion and if attacked again, it reacts much quicker than the original attack; it also reacts differently to each type of attack and adapts as needed.
Working together these systems prevent most types of attacks, but just like any system, they can fail or get out of sequence.
Causes of immune problems:
Most cats will suffer from some type of an allergy during their lifetime. Allergies are simply an over reaction by your pets system to some type of an allergen. When these allergens attack your cats system, it reacts rapidly and releases histamine as a defense. If it reacts to the wrong type of infection or an attack, it is called autoimmunity; if it over reacts, it is called hypersensitivity.
However, if there is a complete breakdown of the system, it is than called immune deficiency. Other than some extreme reaction to a drug or some type of a genetic deficiency in your cat, most of all immune deficiencies are caused by either poor nutrition or by the restriction of protein or calories in your cat.
Natural Treatments:
There are several herbs that have been used for thousands of years that can help protect your cat’s immune system from ever becoming compromised; or help to improve those that have. There are also several vitamins that are newer but are producing the same results.
Shiitake or Maitake Mushrooms:
These mushrooms have been used for hundreds of years and have recently been backed by modern research that has proven that they have extremely powerful properties in immune enhancement in cats. The compounds contained in these mushrooms not only stimulate immune functions, but also help to inhibit the growth of tumors.
These compounds contain polysaccharides which stimulate white blood cells, as well as high molecular sugar polymers. This is critical as the higher the sugar polymers are the stronger the polysaccharides can react in building the immune system. As a result, they have powerful antioxidant and anti-microbial qualities. They can be used as a supplement separately or be components of immune supplements for your cat.
Cats Claw:
This very powerful herb has both immune boosting and anti-inflammatory properties. The alkaloids in this herb help with the critical function of producing white blood cells and research has shown that it has stronger qualities than most fruits, vegetables or other medical plants when it comes to the immune system. The most common form of this herb is as an extract.
Astragalus:
This is another century old herb that contains several antioxidants which protect your cat from cell damage by either free radical damage or from by products of cellular energy. It is especially important in protecting your cat’s immune system in fighting colds and upper respiratory infections. It also is a very powerful stringent in preventing diabetes and overall protection of the liver.
It also acts as a diuretic in that it helps eliminate fluid from your cat’s body that can become toxic if not drained properly. It has also been shown to help extend the life expectancy of cats. It is found in supplement forms or as additives in an immune system supplement.
Milk Thistle:
This herb is a very powerful and contains a flavonoid called silymarin and is often used as a tonic in building the immune system back once it has been compromised. However, it also helps the immune system as a powerful antioxidant in its ability to help with the preservation of glutathione, which is stored in your cat’s liver.
Glutathione naturally dissipates as your cat ages and as a result speeds up the aging process and breaks down the immune system. Milk Thistle helps to prevent both.
Vitamins C, E, and A:
All three of these vitamins are proven antioxidants and immune system boosters. Vitamin C assists in cell damage from toxins and in aiding in white blood cell growth. Vitamin A enhances the infection fighting abilities of these white blood cells.
Vitamin E has several immunity building attributes but its strongest role is in building and then protecting the normal functions of all cellular activity, especially important to your cat’s immune systems.
Summary:
Your cat’s immune system is a very powerful set of systems that work in tandem with each other. However, they can become weak or malfunction and protecting these systems with natural treatment will provide years of protection for your feline companion.
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Keeping Your Immune System Healthy
Article by Steven A Johnson
A healthy immune system means a healthy body. The only way to maintain best health is to keep the immune system carrying out properly. That’s not always an easy thing to do in this environment we live in. The modern diet these days is worn out of many of the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other nutritive issues that are necessary to the body to uphold a healthy immune system. If your immune system is below its finest level, we are much more vulnerable to illness.
Having a weak immune system may make you feel run down and fatigued most of the time, also you catch colds and viruses often, and you’re constantly sick. Have you ever noticed how some people catch everything and others are never sick and always full with energy? Different people have different immune systems. Our immune system is how we fight off infections, germs and cancer. Some people’s immune systems do not work properly, as with immunodeficiency disorders. These people are extremely at risk to infection and cancer.
The immune system consists of white blood cells, amino acids and some specialized organs. The immune system is highly complex and important to our well being. A strong and balanced immune system is required for health maintenance. The immune system is composed of many interdependent cell types that collectively protect the body from bacterial, parasitic, fungal and viral infections, as well as from the growth of tumor cells. Many of these cell types have specialized functions. The cells of the immune system can overcome bacteria, kill parasites or tumor cells, or kill virus infected cells.
The immune system responses can be low by a variety of outside influences including emotional stress, physical stressors such as insufficient sleep or athletic overtraining, environmental and occupational chemical exposure, UV and other types of radiation, common viral or bacterial infections, certain drug therapies, blood transfusions and surgery. Dietary habits also have an impact. Excessive fat, alcohol or refined sugar consumption or not enough of protein, calorie, vitamins, mineral or water intake further decreased immune performance as well.
Some ways to avoiding having a weak immune system is wash your hands, one of the easiest ways to pick u p germs is through touch, avoid crowded areas during cold and flu season, take your vitamins, people who get sick a lot are often missing key vitamins, keep your areas clean such as your house, and also treat all minor cuts, even paper cuts can be a big thing to someone who can’t fight germs.
Because of the absence the immune doesn’t always present itself in obvious ways, damaged immune function and its exact primary cause often avoid discovery. It can appear as a genetic or obtain immunodeficiency, or as a temporary or permanent state of depressed immune function due to other factors. In either case, the level of reduced immune capability to respond to pathogenic organisms, tumors or tissue damage is dependent on the environment of the condition, which components of the immune system are affected and to what extent.
All of the daily stress, infections and disease, our immune systems are compromised, overburdened, and irritated to help keeping all of these way, try ImmuneCea. This formula balances and strengthens the different parts of the immune system with special herb and mushroom extracts.
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The Weak Immune System & Supplements for Immune System Support
Article by Patsy Hamilton
Many diseases and conditions are related to a weak immune system. Serious complications arising from infection with the influenza virus occur most frequently in those who have a weak immune system; the very young and the elderly. It is believed that there are many natural, botanical and herbal products that provide immune system support. Some of these may be familiar, while others are more exotic.
Chronic stress may lead to a weak immune system. Improper diet may lead to a weak immune system. While some things are uncontrollable, such as age or chronic illness, other factors that may lead to a weak immune system are controllable. Proper diet and good nutrition are very important for immune system support. While those who live in impoverished areas may not be able to get proper nutrition, most people who live in the United States have no real reason for poor diet. But, fast paced lifestyles and fast food often lead to inadequate nutrition and inadequate immune system support. It is sometimes necessary to take a daily multi-vitamin. Even the Food and Drug Administration which rarely has anything to say about health supplements advises that everyone can benefit from a daily multi-vitamin. It may also be advantageous to use health supplements that provide immune system support. According to a recent survey in Canada, among people who normally take health supplements, those that provide immune system support are taken most commonly.
Numerous studies have shown that people who are under chronic stress have lower white blood cell counts and a weak immune system overall. Chronic stress is another of those things that should be avoidable. But, depending on the person, it may not be that easy. A high stress job may be rewarding in other ways. Long-term financial problems may not be quickly resolvable. Leaving a “bad” relationship may not be possible. Any of these things can lead to chronic stress, which in turn leads to a weak immune system. People who suffer from chronic stress may benefit from a natural product that provides immune system support.
People who work with the public or have children in school are likely to be exposed to viruses, bacteria and germs in general on a daily basis. Even if one does not have a particularly weak immune system, this constant exposure makes the cold and flu season particularly difficult to get through. Certain health supplements are recommended for use, particularly during this season, to provide immune system support. These supplements may reduce recovery time, when someone catches a bug, and may actually prevent symptoms from appearing at all.
Everyone is exposed to viruses at some point, but while some people develop few or no symptoms others suffer greatly from them and sometimes develop complications. No one knows exactly why this occurs, but doctors and scientists believe that those people with a weak immune system are the ones that get more colds and viral and bacterial infections, have worse symptoms and develop more complications. This belief is what leads people to take health supplements believed to provide immune system support.
Echinacea was a very popular botanical for immune system support and is still recommended by some herbalists. But, studies have shown that echinacea can be toxic to the liver if taken for several months at a time. A better choice is probably Andrographis Paniculata (AP). AP is sometimes referred to as Indian Echinacea, but it is actually a completely different plant and is only similar in that it provides immune system support. AP has been shown in scientific and clinical studies to reduce colds, sick days and hospitalizations from common viruses, but is not believed to have any unwanted side effects. Even when fed large doses, animals showed no liver, kidney or toxicity of any kind. It is not possible to avoid all of the situations that may lead to infection or a weak immune system, but it is possible to practice good health habits, get plenty of rest, regular exercise, take a multi-vitamin and use a health supplement to provide immune system support. To learn more about products that provide immune system support visit www.immune-system-booster-guide.com.
My Immune System
MS, Diabetes, Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis & Celiac Disease.
What does an infection or virus of the immune system have to do with allergies and symptoms from pollen and peanuts?
The immune system is a complicated network of cells and organ systems whose main role is to defend the body from infection, invading microorganisms such as viruses, bacteria, fungus, etc.
Allergic reactions are actually a significant failure in immune management. Obviously, if there were something “wrong” with peanuts or pollen, everyone would react to them. But they don’t. In an allergic reaction the immune system recognizes these “invaders” as abnormal and puts into action a destruction process. This culminates in the release of histamine. Remember it’s the histamine that stimulates the increased release of stomach acid, and overproduction of the neurotransmitters that cause muscle spasm and just make you feel miserable.
BUT, is taking an anti-histamine the only answer? That may cover the symptom, but what is causing the immune system to malfunction in the first place? Wouldn’t it be smarter to look back and address the probable causes to an out of balance immune system and fix it there, thus preventing future occurrences?
What happens in an auto-immune response? This occurs when a persons immune system suddenly identifies some normal part of the body as “foreign” or “abnormal” and puts into action the defense/destruction system. For example, in Rheumatoid arthritis, the cartilage of joints is recognized as abnormal, and the immune system attacks certain joints, causing tremendous inflammation and even destruction of the joint.
AIDS, cancer, and the flu all represent breakdowns and “under functioning” of the immune system, whereas autoimmune diseases are essentially “over functioning” of the immune system. Autoimmune disorders are not contagious, so they cannot be passed from one person to another unlike the flu for example.
Some of the more common autoimmune diseases are as follows:
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Guillain-Barre Syndrome are believed to be an autoimmune process that destroys components of the myelin sheath that covers the nerves.
Systemic Lupus Erythematosis (Lupus) is believed to be an autoimmune process that produces antibodies that destroy components of the cell nucleus.
Crohns Disease and Ulcerative Colitis is believed to be an immune system response that results in serious malfunction of the colon and parts of the small intestine.
Celiac Disease (gluten sensitivity) is an immune system response that occurs when gluten (a protein found in most grains) comes in contact with the small intestine. The membrane that lines the intestine loses its usual texture and becomes smooth. As a result, the intestine is less able to absorb nutrients.
Insulin-Dependent Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus is an immune-mediated disorder that may stem from a viral infection, resulting in destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas.
Graves Disease and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis are two disorders where the immune system attacks certain cells of the thyroid gland, leading to significant disruption in the normal functioning of the thyroid gland. Graves Disease is a form of hyperthyroidism or over-functioning of the thyroid and Hashimotos Thyroiditis leads to hypothyroidism or under-functioning of the thyroid.
Alopecia Areata is an immune system attack that destroys the follicles of hair shafts and leads to areas of hair loss on the head, face and body.
Rheumatoid Arthritis is an immune system attack on certain joints causing tremendous inflammation and even destruction of the joint.
Scleroderma is an autoimmune response causes diffuse thickening of the skin, and can include internal organs such as the esophagus and lungs. Raynaud’s syndrome (extreme sensitivity to cold in the fingers & toes) is present in virtually everyone with Scleroderma.
Sjogren’s Syndrome which is a variant of Scleroderma results in dry eyes, difficulty swallowing, and dry skin.
As illustrated above, autoimmune diseases can affect the body in many different ways. They can be serious and progressive. They can be difficult to diagnose, and sometimes difficult to treat.
Women are more susceptible to these illnesses than men. Nearly 80% of the 8.5 million people with autoimmune diseases and disorders are women. If autoimmune diseases were listed together, instead of as separate entities, these conditions would be one the top 10 causes of death for women under 65 in the United States.
Things we eat, drink and inhale can unbalance our immune system. High cholesterol levels disturb proper immune function and stress is a major contributor to a poor or inappropriate immune response.
Immune cells are very high maintenance. They must operate at very high metabolic rates, enabling them to respond quickly and even more important – appropriately – to each attack. And like every other high-activity cell, they must reproduce much more frequently (and accurately) to replace those damaged and exhausted warriors. To fulfill this recurrent demand, we must have optimum levels of nutrients in our blood at all times.
To help you out, we’ve put together a Free Immune Resource Guide, you can get with the link in the resource box below.
Case Studies in Immunology: A Clinical Companion (Geha, Case Studies in Immunology: A Clinical Companion) Reviews
Case Studies in Immunology: A Clinical Companion (Geha, Case Studies in Immunology: A Clinical Companion)
Case Studies in Immunology, Fifth Edition cites major topics of immunology as the background to a selection of real clinical cases that serve to reinforce and extend the basic science. This new edition vividly illustrates the importance of an understanding of immunology in diagnosis and therapy. As well as being a valuable review aid, Case Studies in Immunology introduces in a clinical setting the major common disorders of immunity, including hypersensitivity types I-IV and autoimmune disorders such as lupus and multiple sclerosis. It also describes and explains the consequences of some of the most important immune deficiencies. Each case history is preceded by basic scientific facts essential to understanding the immunology behind the disease or disorder. An end-of-case summary, questions, and discussion points finish each case. Case Studies in Immunology can be used as a stand-alone book, or as a clinical companion alongside Janeway's Immunobiology, Seventh Edition (ISBN 0-8153-4123-9) and The Immune System, Third Edition (ISBN 0-8153-4146-8).
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