Immune System

Top Natural Immune Boosters
Some 85% of your immune response is dictated by the bacteria in your gut, and even small changes in your diet can make a big difference to how well your body reacts to threats to your health. Just how big a difference is indicated by work by researchers at the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago. They are researching immunotherapy – a promising new approach to the treatment of certain cancers, including melanoma. Immunotherapy encourages the body’s own immune system to attack cancer cells. They found that immunotherapy requires the... Read more...
Antibiotic Crisis Top 10 Natural Immune Boosters
We’ve just had yet another warning – this time unexpectedly from the IMF (International Monetary Fund) – that the rise of ‘super-strains’ of deadly bacteria, which resist all known antibiotics, is threatening our medical system, our economies and our families. The Sunday Times on 15th May highlighted the fact that a simple scraped knee or urinary tract infection (UTI) could lead to complications ending in death, because the antibiotics failed to deal with the progressive breakdowns involved. Antibiotic drugs are in crisis due to overuse Because antibiotics have been so overused,... Read more...
Nutritional Boost for Your Own Immune Cells
BOOST YOUR BODY’S OWN IMMUNE CELLS WITH NUTRITION Researchers into immunotherapy recently revealed that they had taken human immune T-cells and genetically engineered them to identify and attack cancer tumour cells. Some people were in complete remission after 18 months. T-cells are a class of white blood cells that belong to your acquired or adaptive immune system, and they search out and destroy ‘invaders’. These genetically modified T-cells are a potential breakthrough, but it is some considerable time away for general application – and when it comes, it will no... Read more...
How Beta-Glucans Prime the Immune System
Learning lessons from the Victorians – their immune systems were better at fighting infections In a recent series of articles published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Dr Paul Clayton revealed fascinating facts about the health and life expectancy of the mid-Victorians. They lived just as long as we do today, and were stronger and healthier, so they lived disease-free for longer. And part of the reason was that their immune systems were better at fighting infection. Of course, that seems counterintuitive. Isn’t our life expectancy now... Read more...
The Looming Antibiotic Crisis
Dr Paul Clayton’s Health Newsletter May 2014 The WHO recently warned that “a post-antibiotic era in which common infections and minor injuries can kill … is a very real possibility for the 21st century.” The word is in common use, but what exactly is an “antibiotic” and why might they be in “crisis”? An antibiotic is a substance used to kill bacteria. Since the prefix anti- means fighting, opposing, or killing, and bios is the Greek word for “life,” antibiotic literally means life-killing. But doctors prescribe them primarily to kill the bacteria responsible for infections in the... Read more...
Strengthen Your Immune System Naturally
Strengthening your immune system through natural means has become a real priority, particularly in view of the fact that we are running out of effective antibiotics. The threat is very real. “Drug-resistant superbugs represent one of the gravest threats in the history of medicine”. - The Lancet “The effectiveness of lifesaving antibiotics is at risk. Many medical advances that physicians and patients take for granted—including cancer treatment, surgery, transplantation, and neonatal care—are endangered by increasing antibiotic resistance.” - Journal of the American Medical Association We are running out of effective... Read more...
How to Boost Your Immune System
Maintaining a healthy immune system is a priority, as the dangers of a weakened immune system are very real. More people die each year from systemic bacterial infections than from breast, colorectal and pancreatic cancer combined – and the antibiotics we have routinely used to treat infections are rapidly becoming ineffective. Your immune system protects against invasion by the bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi that live on and around us. It is also one of the body’s defences against cancer. A weakened immune system, therefore, leaves your body vulnerable to... Read more...
Immuno-Primers – Powerful Activators for the Immune System
‘Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please!’ (From Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell, 1970). Joni was more right than she, or we, knew. The spots on our apples – and indeed, the traces of yeast and moulds that used to be on almost all our foods – are now known to be as important for our health as the apples themselves. These microorganisms contain compounds in their cell walls known as 1-3, 1-6 beta- glucans. We now know that these compounds... Read more...