Strengthen Your Immune System

Did You Know You Were Under Marshall Law?

Your immune system has your body under military control, constantly policing every nook and cranny. Your immune system has very strict standards. If it does not recognize something in your body as inherently you, it places the troops under "Code Red" to search out and destroy invaders such as splinters, dirt, dead cells, bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells.

Your Defenses In Detail.

Your skin acts a physical barrier keeping invaders at bay. Skin has secretions killing many "bugs" when you are alive – that is why cadavers turn ugly colors. Mucous secreted by membranes trap foreign invaders, best known as the nose booger. Juices of your digestive system dissolve germs. Urine cleans your urinary tract, and is in general very sterile until it makes its way outside the body. Fevers "burn up" derelict trespassers. Swelling helps wash areas of injury or infection facilitating the arrival immune cells that devour and destroy intruders. You also have an internal defense industry constantly producing weapons: bone marrow, spleen, thymus, tonsils, adenoids, appendix and lymph nodes.

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Can Nutrition Strengthen Your Immune System?

Absolutely. If you don’t have any sugar, how well will your cake turn out? Your body will make what it needs, but it must use the raw materials you give it. If you abuse your body by giving it improper nutrients, it will do the best it can, but after time it will eventually begin to break down and function improperly, or less than 100%.

Exercise – Move It or Lose It!

Not only does exercise promote joint health, but it also stimulates blood flow. Increased blood flow facilitates the exchange of nutrients and wastes at a cellular level. Exercise also stimulates your nervous system and gives you a sense of well being.

Emotions affect your health and your nervous system.

A depressed person has a depressed nervous system. The posture of depressed individuals is slumping, which defies the first rule in taking care of your spine and nervous system: Always try to maintain your spinal curves. Consequently, a happy person is generally a healthier one. Your brain is happy. Your nervous system is happy.

1982 - Harvard psychologists, found that simple watching movies about love increases the level of immunoglobulin-A, a defense against colds and other viral diseases.

Can Chiropractic Help Your Immune System?

Doctors of chiropractic look for damaged joints of the spine causing nerve pressure, or the vertebral subluxation. If the nervous system has pressure, it interferes with nervous system function and consequently the body is unable to function at 100%. "Over a hundred years of chiropractic and osteopathic observations have demonstrated to many patients that spinal care improves immune function. The exact mechanism of how the spine and the nervous system affect the immune system is one of the hottest areas of scientific inquiry. This field is caused psychoneuroimmunology (psycho=brain, nuero=nerve, immuno=immune system)"^{1 2,3,4,5} What we do know is that all emotional stress, physical stress, and chemical stress is perceived by your body through your nervous system, your brain and your spinal cord. We also that during fetal development early nervous system tissue gives rise to early endocrine tissue much of which functions to produce hormones and affects areas of the immune system. Nerves communicate two ways (1) Mechanical stimulation - I touch you and you feel it and (2) Chemicals 2stimulation – hormones, foods we eat, etc.

No matter what disease or condition you suffer from, you can benefit from proper spinal health. The body is an amazing self-healing organism. It is never too late to start preventative measures.