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    On Guard: Build Resilience - Boost Immunity - Beat Infection
    On Guard: Build Resilience - Boost Immunity - Beat Infection
    On Guard: Build Resilience - Boost Immunity - Beat Infection
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    On Guard: Build Resilience - Boost Immunity - Beat Infection

    By Gaynor J Greber

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    HOW IMMUNE ARE YOU?


    Are you prone to frequent coughs and colds?

    Do you take a long time to recover from infection?

    Are you often tired and lacking in energy?

    Do you have digestive problems?


    DISCOVER HOW TO

    PROTECT YOURSELF FROM INFECTION:


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlphorn Press
    Release dateMar 26, 2021
    ISBN9783952528044
    On Guard: Build Resilience - Boost Immunity - Beat Infection

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      On Guard - Gaynor J Greber

      INTRODUCTION

      This book has been written with the lay person in mind. It does not attempt to impart complex medical knowledge using scientific language that may confuse readers, though certain terminology must be used in order to picture the scene.

      It is intended as an easy to follow guide, which focuses on basic facts concerning immunity and valuable advice on how to enhance immune function by natural means.

      It emphasises the need for a personal call to action, discusses the benefit of a healthy diet and lifestyle on immune function and offers drug-free options to help avoid or fight infection.

      Regardless of the infective dangers of the world we live in – bugs literally everywhere: teeming on surfaces, inhabiting our bodies, food, water and air – one thing is certain, and should not be forgotten: our bodies do have an amazing protective defence system.

      Our immune system provides us with the tools (white blood cells) to fight infection. A perfectly designed, complex, biological system with inbuilt warning signals, and multiple biochemical pathways that get activated at the first sign of danger.

      We need to nourish this wonderful protective body system: not bypass it by reaching for a drug every time we feel unwell.

      There are trillions of harmful micro-organisms in the environment, looking for the chance to inhabit your body – to snuggle inside a warm host with a plentiful supply of nourishment: a chance to flourish, thrive and multiply. There will always be the danger of new mutant strains developing in our ever-changing environment, some relatively benign and easy to recover from, and others that you certainly do not want to meet – more deadly. Not all microbes are bad though.

      We carry around a huge community of micro-organisms within our bodies and cannot live without them. Our gut environment is teeming with bacteria, both beneficial and non-beneficial species, plus many viruses that can reside in the gut for years without causing symptoms.

      It is the balance within the total microbiome (the sum of all the microbes on and in the human body) that counts, and this is kept in check by strong immune defences, and a healthy diet. Friendly bacteria residing in our gut help support immune function by protecting us against invading pathogens. They should represent a majority in your gut. Eat a poor diet and your beneficial friends will start to fade away, allowing the bad bugs to take over. This is bad news for the immune system; it could be in a constant state of ‘overdrive’ as it struggles to reduce infection.

      Why? you might ask – if nature has provided us with this wonderful protective system, do we need to bother about further immune support? The answer is simple: the immune system can become damaged by faulty diet and unhealthy lifestyles; it can become damaged by the thousands of toxic chemicals floating round in our world.

      Surviving and maintaining good health in an ever-increasing fast paced environment, dodging bugs and toxins, taxes reserves. The immune system can struggle under these conditions and fail to function optimally if care is not taken to live wisely and healthily. Every little effort counts.

      Some people are more prone than others to picking up infection. Each person is biochemically unique. Immune function varies in every human being. There are many factors involved in the fight to keep fit: stress, environment, diet, lifestyle, genetic make-up – and at a deeper level – biochemical individuality; liver function, nutritional status, and detoxification capability.

      People today are often in a general poor state of health; many overweight and unfit, with pot bellies and rolls of excess fat. These individuals may struggle to fight infection more than healthy individuals, when exposed to bugs. Recent studies have shown that people who are overweight are more likely to become seriously ill or have poor recovery rates.

      Some people may, by nature, have an unhealthy mentality, ‘Why bother with all this nonsense over diet and living a healthy lifestyle, let’s just have fun, eat junk food and take a pill when all goes wrong’.

      Sadly, for these individuals, the risk of picking up infections becomes higher.

      How effectively you fight infection will depend on your general state of wellness and the efficiency of your immune system. The latter is ultimately dependent on the quality of your diet for nourishment, as you will read about later in this book.

      It is not germs that determine the risk for disease; it is the power of your own body, the efficiency of your immune cells in resisting infection that limits the risk.

      Viruses have been around since the beginning of time and have evolved with the human body, some remaining dormant, others invading resident gut bacteria or disrupting our own cellular DNA. Whether a body succumbs to infection is down to individual resilience.

      Viruses interact with the host body, and in this way, are constantly evolving. New viruses are frequently being discovered – it is quite natural for them to inhabit the world and human bodies; this is how they survive, and they will keep mutating and spreading when conditions become favourable.

      Now, more than ever, we need to get our body defences fortified: get our immune system functioning optimally.

      Inappropriate use of antibiotics taken for minor infections will often suppress the ability of your immune army of white blood cells to control serious infection in the future. Antibiotics do not differentiate between good and bad bacteria: they will wipe out not only unhealthy bugs but a good percentage of friendly bugs.

      Simple infections must be allowed to run their course. Boosting the body with active medicinal foods and potent herbal and nutritional remedies can offer the best immune support.

      Individuals need to take responsibility for their own health.

      Should serious infection develop, the person is then in a better state of resistance.

      Some medics have started to question the wisdom of harsh drug treatments, unnecessary profitable surgical procedures, and overuse of diagnostic scans, that are thought to promote unhealthy cell changes.

      They are beginning to understand that good health comes from within. Nutritional medicine is not taught in medical school, the focus is on the management of disease, not health.

      Nutrients can be used as healing agents in the same manner as drugs, but without the side effects. Nutritional or Functional Medicine uses laboratory testing for assessing biochemical imbalance and dysfunction of body systems, applies corrective methods, using elements naturally present in the human body: a holistic natural approach to healing.

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