Mark Sircus
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 A group of elderly men with low DHEA levels who were given 50 mg of DHEA per day for 20 weeks experienced a significant activation of immune function. Postmenopausal women have also shown increased immune functioning in just three weeks when given DHEA in double-blind research.
DHEA appears to protect every part of the body against the ravages of aging.
Published studies link low levels of DHEA to aging and diseased states. Specifically, a deficiency of DHEA has been found to correlate with:
Chronic inflammation Immune dysfunction
?Depression
?Rheumatoid arthritis
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Here's what I know about aloe vera's health benefits:
Aloe vera boosts immune function and destroys cancer tumors
Scientific research shows strong immunomodulatory and antitumour properties for aloe vera polysaccharides. That means the gel helps boosts immune system function while destroying cancer tumors. One study published in International Immunopharmacology (1995) showed that aloe vera polysaccharides exhibited potent macrophage-activating activities including producing increased volumes of nitric oxide (which has antitumor potential). |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Zinc is essential to good health and is involved in many enzyme and body functions. Immune function; wound healing; the nervous system; maintenance of vision, taste, and smell; and skin health are dependent on adequate levels of zinc. Zinc competes with copper for absorption, therefore adding a small amount of copper is also suggested to avoid any problems.
Borage seed oil is high in gamma linolenic acid (GLA), which is important in maintaining pain-free breasts. GLA decreases abnormal sensitivity of breast tissue to normal hormone levels. |
| Additional studies suggest that immune function is due to carotenoids rather than vitamin A.72
Beta-Carotene
50,000-150,000 IU daily
Vitamin E. Recent research demonstrates that free radicals may conrribure to the inflammation and excessive growth of endometrial tissue seen in endometriosis, and in these circumstances, antioxidants such as vitamin E and N-acetyl cysteine can act to inhibit this abnormal proliferation.73-74
Vitamin E also helps to correct abnormal progesterone/estradiol ratios in patients with mammary dysplasia (increased growth of cells). |
| Eliminating refined sugar and simple sugars (corn syrup, honey, fructose, maple syrup, white grape juice concentrate, and others) will help to assure optimal immune function. Eliminating saturated fats such as red meat, butter, cheese, and ice cream, even in the short run, will enable the body to utilize essential fatty acids such as the fats from olive oil, canola oil, and ocean fish. These essential fatty acids are important in the promotion of the anti-inflammatory prostaglandins PgEl and PgE3; reducing inflammation is a primary goal in healing a sexually transmitted infection. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Among the best strategies now being embraced by in-the-know men are:
Fish oils (omega-3 fatty acids) for enhanced brain function, immune function, metabolism and cardiovascular health.
Hemp protein and quinoa for complete proteins from plants (which avoid the chemical contamination found in most animal fats).
Superfruit antioxidants for protection of the brain, heart, skin, eyes and cellular DNA (these superfruits include acai, blueberries, raspberries, noni, mangosteen, goji and so on). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Consuming quality herbal supplements on a regular basis to enhance immune function, counter chronic stress, detoxify the body's primary organs and protect the body from disease. Great sources include www.DragonHerbs.com | www.PlanetaryHerbs.com | www.GHCHealth.com and, of course, Amazon Herbs.
Consuming superfoods on a regular basis, including goji berries, raw cacao, raw nuts, blueberries, raspberries, macadamia nuts and many others. Great sources include www.TransitionNutrition.com | www.GoodCauseWellness.com | www.NavitasNaturals.com | www.RuthsHempFoods.com | www.Nutrex-Hawaii. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Thus, the administering of vaccines suppresses normal immune function, leaving the child more vulnerable to other infectious diseases that might come along and have no vaccine available, such as some future mutation of Bird Flu. Today's vaccination programs, in essence, are priming these children to be killed by future infectious pandemics (for which vaccines are absolutely useless due to rapid viral mutation).
4) Doctors utterly dismiss all reports of side effects from vaccines, pretending they do not exist. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This boosts brain function, immune function and even the circulation of lymph fluids throughout your body.
Laughter is powerful medicine. It is perhaps the best medicine of all for countering the effects of chronic stress (which is devastating to the immune system). Laughter literally alters your body's physical response to stress, including emotional stress and environmental stress. With enough laughter and the right nutrition, you can enhance your body's response to virtually any health challenge. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One study showed that microwaving vegetables destroys up to 97% of the nutritional content (vitamins and other plant-based nutrients that prevent disease, boost immune function and enhance health).
In other words, eating raw broccoli provides you with natural anti-cancer medicine that's extremely effective at halting the growth of cancer tumors. But microwaving that broccoli destroys the anti-cancer nutrients, rendering the food "dead" and nutritionally depleted. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Avoid salty, sugary foods because they dehydrate you and suppress immune function. Stick to bland foods that provide nutrition, not entertainment. They key here is to store your food before the emergency hits and make sure you have enough water to rehydrate dried foods.
A source I recommend is www.BePrepared.com but avoid their pre-made food recipes. Stick with their freeze-dried fruits, vegetables and meats in #10 cans. And remember, none of it is organic. (That's too bad. I still cannot locate an organic freeze dried storable food manufacturer that doesn' use hidden MSG. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 The vitamin C in green tea prevents scurvy, and tea's polyphenols boost the body's immune function so that it can better fight infectious disease.
By the 1630s, each Dutch vessel returning to Europe from China routinely carried several large pottery jars of tea. Accordingly, there are records of people drinking tea in Amsterdam, London, and Paris as early as 1635. A Dutch physician, Cornelius Bontekoe, even advised everyone to drink eight to ten cups of tea daily, adding that he saw no reason not to drink as many as a hundred cups daily. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Chemotherapy destroys immune function and causes permanent damage to the heart, brain and liver...
#7: The World Health Organization says that 70% of all cancers are easily preventable through dietary and lifestyle changes. This latest research shows that sunlight and low-cost calcium supplements can slash cancer risk by 77% in women. Why won't conventional medicine embrace this low-cost, safe and highly effective method for preventing cancer?
#8: The cancer industry routinely attacks anti-cancer herbs, superfoods and supplements. Why is the cancer industry opposed to anti-cancer nutrition? |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Vitamin E: 400 IU daily
Multiple vitamin/mineral: follow label directions Green tea capsules: 1 capsule daily Botanical Formula II: alternate 1 month on,
1 month off Vegetarian diet
Smoking may also alter immune function and affects the levels and distribution of ascorbic acid. Ascorbic acid in the cells of the cervix and the vagina and plasma levels of ascorbic acid are reduced in smokers.82
Oral Contraceptives
Earlier studies suggested that oral contraceptive (OC) use increased the risk of cervical neoplasia, both invasive and precancerous cervical dysplasias. |
Mark Sircus
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| Zinc supplementation is associated with decreased oxidative stress and improved immune function, which may be among the possible mechanisms for its cancer preventive activity.
Zinc is essential for health. It is needed for the enzymes that regulate cell division, growth, wound healing, and proper functioning of the immune system. Zinc is an essential co-factor in a variety of cellular processes including DNA synthesis, behavioral responses, reproduction, bone formation, growth and wound healing. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Zinc: Best taken prior to surgery, zinc reduces wound healing time, rapidly reduces wound size, and bolsters immune function to help ward off infection. Topical zinc, such as calamine lotion, also inhibits bacteria growth on the surface of skin, helping to prevent infection. As zinc deficiency is common in the United States, most doctors recommend 30 mg/day, taken orally for four to six weeks, to bring your levels up to par before surgery. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 I also gave some thought to the fact that nearly every study on immune function had looked within blood. That left out a whole range of other possibilities. One of the first studies I ever did showed that patients with fatiguing illness—produced by CFS or MS—also had cognitive problems. As a neurologist, I immediately came up with the idea that some patients with fatigue might actually experience their symptoms due to a brain problem. It occurred to me that the place to look for immune abnormalities might be the fluid that bathes the brain—spinal fluid—rather than blood. |
| What happens at night might also be well worth studying and nocturnal alterations in immune function might produce chronic fatigue and pain by disturbing sleep.
The immune system is known to regulate sleep via a balance between sleep-producing and sleep-disturbing cytokines. Perhaps some patients had a disease of cytokine regulation in which the normal balance of the different kinds of cytokines was tilted in favor of sleep-disturbing cytokines, resulting in night after night of poor sleep. |
| However, research done to try to replicate these early reports, including our own, found relatively little difference in the immune function of patients and of healthy people.
One explanation for this result lay in the fact that data from extremely sedentary patients were compared to data from active healthy people; these differences in activity or fitness alone can explain much of the difference between patients and controls. |
| In contrast to some heavily promoted nutraceuticals, this food supplement actually seems to do what it is said to do—that is, improve an aspect of immune function. The company selling this food supplement lists dozens of scientific studies, including ones on people, indicating that the product can improve natural killer (NK) cell activity. This is particularly interesting in CFS because immune activation is one of the mechanisms forwarded by some to explain the sick feeling, fatigue, and soreness characteristic of CFS. |
| But since the viral load gets smaller and smaller, immune function can return to normal and symptoms disappear. What is exciting about medical advances in this field is that research doctors pretty much understand how the antiviral medicines work, and so they can work to develop new and more potent medicines to kill HIV itself.
But AIDS is unusual in medicine because we know its cause— HIV. In contrast, other diseases rarely have a single cause. Take heart disease as an example. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 We've long known that sleep seems to refresh the brain but we now know that sleep, or the lack thereof, affects a host of bodily systems including our metabolism, our hormones, and our immune function. The interplay of these effects can actually promote weight gain. Just as significant for individuals working to control their weight, inadequate sleep can also negatively affect decision-making about food choices and exercise. Consider these facts:
Research has shown that approximately 7 hours of quality sleep are necessary for good health and weight control. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 The diseases result from a weakened immune system, and as is evident in the example of Robert Pyles, exercise can dramatically improve immune function. In recent years, doctors have started recommending exercise for cancer patients, both to help boost the immune response and to fend off stress and depression. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They have a whole line of health products that have been tested and proven over two decades of clinical use to help with things like joint pain, respiratory infections, thyroid function, immune function and much more. See their product line here: http://www.azmira.com/Products.htm
You can also call Azmira at (U.S. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Caution: Beware of an elaborate gimmick by a global, multimillion dollar marketing company that claims: "Medical research has discovered that eight glyconutrient sugars are needed at the cellular level for optimum immune function." The idea is to take expensive supplements that contain these eight sugars, which are supposedly missing in your diet. These special nutrients are supposed to cure the most serious diseases, including cancer, Lupus, Diabetes, and MS. The fact is that there are no "glyconutrients" discovered by science. That term doesn't even exist in the medical literature. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Doctors in this hospital's Department of Oncology reported that tea polyphenols boosted the immune function of cancer patients, particularly in patients undergoing surgery or chemotherapy. These doctors recounted a typical breast cancer case, involving a woman named Wang. After an operation on her right breast, she required chemotherapy. During the course of chemotherapy, her white blood cell counts dropped. (White blood cells play many crucial roles in a healthy immune system. |
| Other research shows that tea, and green tea in particular, bolsters the heart's resistance to cardiovascular diseases, prevents dental cavities, lengthens a teadrinker's life span, detoxifies the body, and boosts the immune function.
Recently scientists working around the world have identified the substances in green tea that provide the majority of its health benefits. These "magic bullets" of health protection are a class of chemicals called polyphenols, which we'll discuss in more detail later. |
| Enhances immune function.
• Aids digestion.
• Prevents dental cavities and gingivitis. against developing cancer. Animal studies have indicated that green tea extract protects against both the initiation and promotion stages of cancer. "The inhibitory activity is believed to be mainly due to the antioxidative properties and possible antiproliferative effects of polyphenolic compounds in green and black tea," said researchers in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. |
| The following chapters will show the many ways in which green tea polyphenols also improve the quality of life, including detoxifying the body, boosting immune function, and keeping the teeth healthy.
CHAPTER 7
Longevi-tea
Have you ever tried to read your fortune in tea leaves? Well, if you brewed green tea, those leaves might spell out a long life. Green tea has been promoted as a way to extend life since at least as long ago as 1211, when Eisai Myo-an, the founder of Zen Buddhism, wrote a book claiming that green tea maintains good health and prolongs life. |
| Fortunately, research shows that supplementing the diet with antioxidants can boost immune function back to its "younger" capacity.10
LINKING GREEN TEA AND IMMUNITY
Green tea drinkers are less likely to be stricken with diseases caused by microorganisms for two reasons. First, green tea polyphenols boost the body's intrinsic defenses against disease (the immune system). Second, polyphenols interact with many microorganisms in such a way as to lessen their disease-causing potential. Yet another reason for tea's disease prevention powers may be strictly hygienic. |
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