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Boost Your Immune System – 8 Ways to Strengthen Immune System

Charles Silverman N.D. asked:




Sixty five years ago medical scientists promised us that infections caused by bacteria and others would be a thing of the past due to the new discovery of patented pharmaceutical drugs. This very brave statement was made and almost automatically more than half of the herbs recommended in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia were taken off to be replaced with these chemical drugs. I wish I could tell you that the promised was kept and that now we live in an infection free world, but this is not so. We are all familiar with the enormous amounts and resistance of bacteria. Antibiotics have not live up to their promised; to the contrary they have become a problem in itself, by over use and side effects that cause liver, kidney, nervous and immune system damage.

Modern conventional medicine battles diseases directly by means of drugs, surgery, radiation and other therapies, but true health can be attained only by maintaining a healthy properly functioning immune system and using home remedies can definitely help to strengthen the ability to fight diseases.

It is the immune system that fights off disease-causing microorganisms and it engineers the healing process. The immune system is the key to fighting every kind of insult to the body, from that little shaving scratch to the gigantic amount of viruses the constantly try to invade our bodies. Even the aging process may be related to a deteriorated immune system.

Weakening of the immune system makes us vulnerable to every type of illness that affects humans. Some common signs of impaired immune functions include fatigue, lassitude, repeated infections, inflammation, allergic reactions, slow wound healing, chronic diarrhea and infections related to overgrowth of benign organisms already present in the body, such as oral thrush, vaginal yeast infections and other fungal infections. It is calculated that a normal adult gets an average of two colds per year. People suffering from colds more than the average are likely to have some sort of immune deficiency. Dark circles could be directly related to an immune system malfunction.

Explaining what the immune system is the hard part. The immune system it is not an organ but an interaction between many organs, structures and substances with the task of recognizing or differencing from things that belong and those that don’t belong to the body, and then neutralizing or destroying the ones that are foreign.

The immune system is like no other bodily system, the patrolling and protecting tasks of the immune system are share by white cells, bone marrow, the lymphatic vessels and organs, specialized cells found and various body tissues, and specialized substances, called serum factors, that are present in the blood. Ideally, all of these components work together to protects the body against diseases.

To boost and protect your immune system I recommend a list of herbs, vitamins, supplements and special home remedies recipes that have shown remarkable results throughout the years.

Home Remedies to strengthen the immune system.

Home Remedy #1: Astragalus boosts the immune system and generates anticancer cells in the body. It is also a powerful antioxidant and protects the liver from toxins. This makes this plant ideal for people suffering from dark circles due to liver problems and depressed immune system. IMPORTANT: Do not take this herb if fever is present.

Home Remedy #2: Baybarry has antibiotic effects for sore throat, coughs, clods and flu.

Home Remedy #3: Garlic is effective against at least 30 types of bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi. It has anti-inflammatory and astringent properties.

Home Remedy #4: Echinacea boosts the immune system and enhances lymphatic function.

Home Remedy #5: Goldenseal strengthens the immune system, cleanses and detoxifies the body. It has anti bacteria properties.

Home Remedy #6: In a small town called Chirchik, Russia, a flu epidemic swept the town. When many adults and children did not get sick scientists wanted to know why they were immune to the disease. It turns out that all of them used the berries from an herb called Shizandra.

Home Remedy #7: Include in the diet chlorella, garlic and pearl barley. These foods contain germanium, a trace element beneficial for the immune system. Also giant red kelp contains iodine, calcium, iron, carotene, protein, riboflavin and vitamin C, which are necessary for the immune system’s functional integrity.

Home Remedy #8: Vitamin C may be the single most important nutrient for the immune system. It is essential for the formation of adrenal hormones and the production of lymphocytes. It also has direct effect on bacteria and viruses. Vitamin C should be taken with bioflavonoids, natural plant substances that enhance absorption and reinforce the action of this vitamin.

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The Monster at Our Door by Mike Davis

Richard Stooker asked:




With the declaration of swine flu as a pandemic and (by the United States) a national emergency, we are once again besieged by influenza alarmists. This book, published in 2005, was one of the earliest to cash in on the fear of bird flu (H%N1).

It’s worth reading for the historical and medical background. He goes into a lot of detail regarding past influenza pandemics and outbreaks. Then he goes into a lot of social history background of the developing world, urbanization and how the modern agricultural industry is changing the world.

It’s obvious he’s got an anti-capitalist ax to grind, and so you must make some allowances for his bias, which does influence what he writes. For example, early on he compares the bird flu influenza H5N1 virus to the infection in Michael Crichton’s THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN, saying that it becomes progressively more pathological as time goes by.

He needs to re-read the ending of that book – the infection in that book actually evolves from vicious killer of people into harmlessness. As in many of Crichton’s novels, the real threat to people is NOT the outer space virus (or dinosaurs), but our belief that we can control the uncontrollable.

Crichton actually anticipates evolutionary biology in that book. And the spokesperson of that discipline, Paul Ewald, argued in 2005 that a bird flu pandemic would not kill millions of people such as happened in 1918. According to him, the 1918 virus evolved into the efficient killer of people it was because of World War I.

Davis addresses this by arguing that the densely populated slums of the big cities of the developing world may duplicate the conditions that caused the 1918 virus to evolve into a mega-killer.

Davis uses this issue to criticize the trend of modern agriculture. Here his bias is obvious.

That many people in the developed world are leaving the country for the big cities slums is undoubtedly true – as happened in the developed world in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

He assumes this is happening because of big agribusiness and corrupt politicians is deliberately driving them out. That, if they had their way, they’d prefer to stay on their little rice farms raising free-grazing chickens for eggs and cockfighting. He doesn’t seem to consider that many people want to have a chance at a better life for themselves or, if they can’t get out of those slums, for their children to have a better life than that offered by rural isolation.

He attacks many political attacks on public health infrastructure, and some of his arguments undoubtedly have some merit. However, to attack the Reagan administration for focusing on the “middle class” problems of cancer and heart disease is to be deliberately ignorant of how devastating those conditions are to the poor.

The H5N1 avian flu virus is still out there – it could still became a disease threatening everybody alive.

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