How to Support Your Amazing Immune System — Food, Supplements and Wellness Lifestyle

 

“Take care of your body … it’s the only place you have to live.” Jim Rohn

Who doesn’t want a strong innate natural immune system to stand guard against all the foreign germs and viruses ever ready to attack and infect?

The good news is that your body’s biology has provided an extraordinary arsenal and complex network called the immune system for protection and healing.

I am not a scientist or doctor, but as a layperson I want to understand how my body works especially as basic elements or cells … the inception points of health or sickness.

The more you learn, the more you start to respect the cellular components of the immune system like microscopic soldiers ready to defend and protect the body from foreign invaders. Don’t they also need proper nutrients and vitamins to function at their best against their constant enemies?

Your immune system is a large network of organs, white blood cells, proteins and chemicals that work together to protect you from microbes, toxins, germs, bacteria, viruses, parasites and Cancer cells as well as heal from infections and injuries.

Do you know there are several types of white blood cells with different functions with programmed missions to eliminate pathogens with their own unique defense systems?

Some Amazing Facts about White Blood Cells … your Immunity Soldiers

The tiny white blood cell can only be seen under a microscope also known as a lymphocyte that lacks hemoglobin, has a cell wall and nucleus, and circulates in the blood to defend the body against inflammation, infection and diseases.

— formed in the soft tissue of bone marrow’s stem cells and account for 1 percent of your blood where it is normal to produce nearly 100 billion white blood cells each day.

— many types of white blood cells with specific missions in your body’s defense system. Some are called granulocytes (neutrophils, eosinophils and basophils), monocytes and lymphocytes (or leukocytes) known as T-Cells, B-Cells and Natural Killer Cells.

— lymphocytes circulate in your blood on a hunt for injury or illness. They notify other white blood cells like a cell army to move to the site to fight the invader by producing proteins to attack and destroy the unknown organism.

— B-Cells produce antibodies to help track a response to infection.

— T-Cells recognize tagged cells and remove infection-causing cells.

— Natural Killer Cells have powerful chemicals to attack any unwanted cells like viral or cancer cells.

— Lymphocytes grow in the thymus gland … T-Cells and B-Cells grow in lymph nodes and spleen.

— these cells can also form immunological memory to continue to respond to particular disease germs — the basis of how vaccinations work.

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Other parts of your body's immune system

Antibodies ... proteins that bind to invaders to destroy them.

Cytokines … proteins serve as different types of chemical messengers that tell your immune cells where to go and what to do with inflammation that are damaging tissue.

Lymph nodes … vital part of your lymphatic system that forms a network similar to the blood vessels but carries a fluid called lymph instead of blood. These are small bean-shaped organs that filter waste products from your tissues and cells while keeping the good components, like nutrients.

Spleen … organ stores white blood B cells, filters your blood, and recycles old and damaged cells to make new ones.

Tonsils and adenoids … located in your throat and nasal passage that trap bacteria or viruses as soon as they enter your body.

Thymus ... small organ helps T-Cells to mature before they travel elsewhere in your body for protection.

Bone marrow … fatty tissue inside your bones is like a factory to make blood cells including white blood cells.

Mucosa … a three-layered membrane that lines cavities and organs throughout your body that secretes mucus to capture germs and then clear them out.

Skin … a protective barrier that stop germs from entering your body

How to Take Care of Your Immune System

What an awe-inspiring, well-equipped, fully-functioning natural defense system to respect and support!

Do you ever think that sometimes words are inadequate to describe such complex interrelationships within our cells, tissues, and organs as self- organized, adaptive regulated systems?

Interesting that a cell is so complex that even with the highest level of technology that no effort to create an artificial cell has ever met with success.

However, as humans we are also unpredictable, emotional and irrational beings responsive to choices and loaded with cognitive biases.

But, in this human interaction, nothing is as important as taking care of your own immune system and protect your personal immunity in a world filled with new challenges and threats of unknown pathogens, outbreaks and airborne viruses.

How take care of your immune system

In general, the immune system is known as a complex network of cells, tissues and organs but personal immunity is often assessed at individual levels, risks, choices and age.

A weak immune system may be too weak to fight off invaders, or it may be overactive with a too strong of a response leading to problems like auto-immune problems or allergic reactions.

As we get older, our immune system starts to become less effective in counteracting pathogens.

The lifestyle steps are fundamentally simple:

— practice good hygiene to prevent infection — wash hands often

— be physically active

— maintain a healthy weight — obesity impairs immune function

— quit nicotine habit and avoid too much alcohol

— take vitamins to boost your immune system

— eat good foods that boost immune system

Examples include yogurt with probiotics, lean protein, antioxidant-rich vegetables, nuts, berries and garlic. See bottom link for more information.

Take Supplements for Immune Health

There is certainly an enhanced interest in how to boost the immune function and reduce risk of infectious diseases and threats. Clinical deficiencies of these nutrients can weaken immunity and increase susceptibility to infections.

Common advice is to consume adequate amounts of several vitamins and minerals including Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, selenium and zinc. See bottom link for more information.

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In Conclusion

A well-functioning immune system is the foundation of good health.

The better we understand our amazing immunity cells, the more we can find answers to stay healthy and avoid diseases through cellular nutrition as a fundamental process for growth, repair and defense.

Everything related to our health begins at the foundation of the human cells. Our role is to respect their integrity and ensure that they receive the nutrients necessary to perform all their major functions and help achieve optimal health and wellness lifestyle.

What is more amazing than our innate immune system to protect and defend us? What words would you use to describe your personal immunity?

Questions and comments are always welcome,

Mary (Annemarie) Berukoff

amarie10@gmail.com

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