Immune System

Immune health, in the context of health optimization, refers to supporting the body's natural defense mechanisms and promoting their optimal function. The immune system is a complex network of cells, tissues, and organs that work together to protect the body from external challenges. Certain dietary supplements can play a role in supporting healthy immune function by providing essential nutrients and other beneficial compounds that contribute to the body's, mind's, and spirit's resilience.

Mechanisms of Action:

• Supporting the optimal function of immune cells.
• Promoting a balanced and adaptive immune response.
• Supporting the body's natural ability to maintain tissue integrity.
• Providing essential nutrients that play a role in immune function.
• Supporting the body's, mind's, and spirit's natural ability to adapt to challenges.

Key Considerations for Immune Health:

• Nutrient Support: Vitamins C, D, and E, as well as minerals like selenium and zinc, play vital roles in immune function.
• Protein: Adequate protein intake is crucial for the production of immune cells and other components of the immune system.
• Essential Fatty Acids: These fats support healthy cell membranes and contribute to a balanced inflammatory response.
• Phytonutrients: Polyphenols, bioflavonoids, and polysaccharides found in various plants, including medicinal mushrooms and astragalus, can support immune function.
• Nucleic Acids: Nucleosides, nucleotides, and RNA may play a role in supporting cell integrity.
• Lifestyle: Adequate sleep, regular exercise, stress optimization, and a complete balanced diet are all essential for maintaining a healthy immune system.

Buy From Immune Collection

The Immune System is Like an Internal Sanitation System

The immune system is like a city sanitation system with garbage collectors who pick up trash, cleaners who scrub tissues, and a plumbing system for removal of sewage. Trash is put into trash cans for garbage trucks, cleaners scrub away dirt with soap and water, and sewage is put into pipes and flushed away; altogether for containment to be delivered away from healthy living tissue to keep the inside of the body sanitary. When sanitation cannot be maintained, the body's immune systems fails to contain trash, dirt, and sewage.

Immune System Structure and Functions

• Skin - durable outer protective layer that divides the territory of the internal body from the external world.
• Bone Marrow - the internal tissue inside bones that makes white blood cells from stem cells.
• Immune Cells - produced in the bone marrow to become white blood cells, including immunoglobulins which are antibodies that identify foreign material.
• Thymus Gland - where immune cells develops the intelligence of pattern recognition of foreign material, toxins, other organisms, and damaged and/or non-functioning parts of the body.
• Lymph System - internal plumbing system outside of the vascular system to move fluids around to assist tissue cleanliness.
• Spleen - located in the gut where immune cells cluster, also filters blood through the lymph system.
• Liver - plays an important role in neutralizing toxins and processing them for removal from the body.
• Interferon - protective fluid made of protein to maintain cellular integrity.