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These are the best herbs for Immunity.
In my work I use a microscope that is powerful enough to see the insides of white blood cells and whether they are broken and dull or whole and shimmering with 'cytoplasmic streaming' (the cells are still alive when we view them). From trying innumerable different kinds of products and programs over the years and looking at the evidence before and after I can categorically state that these are the best, I reliably see people with poor immune systems get their health and their energy back when I use these herbs better than anything. . If you have any kind of immune related health problems I definitely recommend you find a good herbalist to support you in your path back to health and to help you get the right herbs at the right dosages.
I also usually recommend people take at least 1 gram of extra vitamin C if they have immune problems. We are one of a tiny handful of creatures in nature that do not make our own vitamin C.
One of the compelling arguments for the growth of immune related illness in our society is the huge amount of sugar we eat in modern life. Studies have shown that consuming 100 grams of sugar can cause up to a 50% reduction in the ability of white blood cells to destroy foreign particles for over 5 hours! Protein rich foods include meat, chicken, fish, eggs, soy products, dairy products, nuts and seeds. The importance of adequate protein intake to proper immune function has been extensively studied. The body needs much higher amounts of protein than normal when the immune system is activated. Everyone needs to eat plenty of vegetables, especially if they are not well. Vegetables are the best providers of the range of nutrients, especially minerals and vitamins that are essential for good immunity. We cannot replace the value of vegetables with pills. Water is the single most important substance for our health. Many people in the modern world are chronically dehydrated without realising it. White blood cells need to be in a ‘fluid’ not sticky or sludgy environment to work at their best.
The fact is that us, the Homo sapiens species, have developed astonishingly good immune systems. We had to, we have spread out into more parts of the world, deal with a wider range of substances, and expose ourselves to more stress of every type imaginable than any other creatures on the planet. Our immune systems do an incredible job of protecting us from chemical insults, infections and all the other weird developments that have come directly from the moving into cities and away from the land. The hardest, and most important, question you have to ask when someone gets sick and doesn’t just naturally get better by themselves is… why. For people with immune related health conditions the single biggest reason is that they are not resting or relaxing enough. If you have a chronic immune related health problem you must give yourself permission to rest when you are tired and to do the things that you know relax you, such as reading a book, taking a bath, hanging out with friends, going for walks etc. Or perhaps the best of all, just doing nothing (harder than it sounds!)
People who have chronic immune health problems are almost always exhausted. So, should they exercise? The short answer is no. Not until they are feeling noticeably better. Exercise should increase your energy and your health, and generally it does. But if someone has an immune health problem their system is being told to slow down and rest so that the body can fix itself. We do have the capacity to over-ride that influence, but we do it at our peril. I have met many people who, in the process of maintaining an active and busy lifestyle, have become sick with the kind of infection that most people would fully get over in a week at the most. They have come to see me anywhere from months to years after they first got the infection. There are usually a series of other problems that have come along in the meanwhile but when we go into the history of where it all began I get to hear these words a lot “I have never really been right ever since I got that flu”, (or bug, or whatever it was) As tempting as it might be to blame the viruses etc, the fact is that we all get exposed to ridiculously large numbers of micro-organisms all the time. It is not the bugs that come on stronger at some times than others; it is how healthy we are that determines how we deal with them. Exercise is good for you for many reasons; one of the best ones is that it makes us feel a lot better within ourselves mentally. Usually, it gives us a lift, and that can have an ever so slightly addictive quality to it. If you do exercise you will know exactly what I mean and there is truly nothing wrong with that, if you are well but If you get sick, and you don’t slow down and rest, you will probably get sicker. When I have a patient who has any kind of immune based health problem I always give them very clear instructions to stop all forms of strenuous exercise completely. Until they feel better, which if we get our health program right, happens in a very agreeably short time frame. |
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