Immune System Discoveries: Immunologists find key to Strong but NOT Over Active Immune

Immunology is the study of the immune system, which, as we know, fights infectious diseases by killing “pathogens” such as bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi.

But Immunologists are now studying the immune for chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease and auto immune diseases e.g. Graves disease, ALS, Multiple Sclerosis, Crohns and Rheumatoid Arthritis.

• And they are going to have a lot of NEW ANSWERS in the next 10 years!

Immunologists now say that the immune also fights many other micro-organisms such as – allergens, cancer cells as well as grafted tissue, because it:

• De-activates toxins from pollution

• De-activates toxins from taking pharmaceuticals & drugs

• De-activates cancer cells

• Protects against aging

And also, that a proper immune response needs BALANCE, to keep the immune system from creating havoc by attacking normal tissues -- and to stop it from causing harmful chronic, low-level inflammation.

"Over the Top" Unwanted Immune Response

We all know that our immune system can be TOO WEAK:

• This means that there are either too few immune cells, or that the cells themselves are incompetent.

But our immune system can also be “OVER THE TOP” say immunologists:

• This means that the immune system responds to normal metabolic functions as if they were attacks on the body.

• The two most common unwanted immune responses are allergies and an auto immune disease such as:

• Diseases that have an auto immune component are:

Lupus, Myasthenia gravis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, MS, Polymyositis, Scleroderma, Lou Gehrigs disease, ALS, Grave’s Disease, Meniere's and Crohns disease.

Is Aging & Disease an Unwanted Immune Response?

When there is an emergency, e.g. an infection, the immune system rallies to the cause.

The resulting immune response is experienced as “hot” as “fever” and as “inflammation.” When this happens, we know that our immune is doing its job.

• However, when this inflammation is not shut off, it becomes CHRONIC and it can continue at a LOW LEVEL, causing ACHES and PAINS and chronic problems.

• Chronic, or low level inflammation is now believed to be at the basis of aging, and of chronic diseases, and especially the diseases of aging such as coronary heart disease and cancer -- say immunologists.

• We already knew that normal aging is associated with a weakened response to antigens, or immune “threats.”

• But now, immunologists are also studying the role of inflammation in aging and disease, and they are going to be providing us with a lot of new answers in the next 10 years.

How Best to Get a Strong Immune System?

What’s the key to a strong -- but not “over the top” -- immune?

• A good diet

• Plenty of sleep

• Exercise

• Stress management

• Raising your glutathione, GSH levels

Back to Nature Discovery of FOOD for the Immune

In a “back to nature” discovery, scientists found that the healthy growth and activity of immune cells depends on the availability of GSH, or glutathione.

Immunologists at McGill University found that:

• Experimental depletion of glutathione severely diminishes the ability of these cells to fight pathogens, and leaves the door wide open to disease.

• Glutathione “modulates” the immune – STRENGTHENING weak immune cells, but bringing OVERACTIVE immune cells back into line.

• In numerous studies the level of intra cellular glutathione in the immune cells (lymphocytes) corresponds DIRECTLY to the effectiveness of the immune response.

• In short, immunologists have identified glutathione to be a “food” for the immune system against cancer, heart disease and auto immune diseases

Why use FOOD, but not take a PILL?

If you take glutathione pills, these will not be effective. Glutathione is a protein that will simply get digested and not get to strengthen your immune cells .

Dr. Bounous, and a team of researchers found that the best way to improve glutathione levels is with NUTRITIONAL pre-cursors.

When they fed their research animals a cystein-rich protein, it:

• heightened the activity of immune cells

• it functioned as an antioxidant to protect the cells

• research animals lived 30% to 50% longer

• research on healthy athletes improved GSH by 30%

On the basis of 20 years of research, a nutraceutical food was developed as a supplement by Dr. Bounous.

What is a nutraceutical? It is a food that has been proven to do what it says it does, such as raise your glutathione.