22nd OCTOBER 2009
GNLD’s approach to boosting your Immune system and minimising your risk of contracting H1N1 ‘swine flu” virus
Your immune system: your first line of defense against everything!
Challenges to our immune systems are everywhere in the world around us. It’s been that way since the beginning and will be that way for ever. It is, so to speak, the price we pay for the fabulous biological diversity that is Nature.
The latest “monster under the bed” is “swine” flu…more appropriately known as the H1N1 virus. It’s grabbing headline all around the world and has leading health authorities on high alert.
So what’s a person to do? How do we protect ourselves?
Here’s what you can do today:
Focus on maximizing your immune system and protecting your health every day with these three basic steps;
- Eat a healthy diet rich in colorful fruits and vegetables, whole grains and fresh fish.
- Practice good personal hygiene.
- Wash your hand regularly.
- Try to capture any coughs or sneezes in a tissue or handkerchief and ask others to do the same.
- As much as possible stay some distance from people who are known to have, or thought to have the H1N1 flu.
- Supplement your diet to assure an abundance of immune boosting nutrients each and every day.
- Our ProVitality products; Tre-en-en Grain Concentrates, Carotenoid Complex & Omega-III Salmon Oil Plus…for whole food nutrition.
- Formula IV or Formula IV Plus…for vitamin and mineral support.
- Vitamin-C and Zinc…for added immune strength
Immune preparedness is the key.
The nutrient groups and products mentioned here are essentially the same basic recommendations we make for anyone in pursuit of optimal health, vitality and long life. That’s because optimal health and optimal immune capacity are closely inter-related; so much so that it essentially impossible to separate them.
Like all things to do with health, it is best that we take action every day to protect and strengthen ourselves and our immune systems against all forms of disease. It is much harder and much less effective to wait until you have a problem and try to boost your immune system after the fact.
In the face of these ever increasing challenges to our immune systems and our health we should all be aware that when all is said and done it is our immune systems that will get us though should we be exposed.
Taking action to give your immune system what it needs and strengthen your first line of defense is a wise and prudent practice.
Looking to the future, here are some things to keep in mind.
- Your immune system is much like many other aspects of our health and vitality. It has a maximum potential and what portion or percentage of that potential we achieve is something we can have great influence over. Sadly, just as most people never attain their maximum potential for physical strength, speed or endurance, the same is true for their immune capacity. Most people move about in their day-to-day routines with an immune system that can be dramatically underpowered, putting them at greater exposure and risk than they need to be.
- It is well known that nutrition forms the foundation of your health. If your nutrition is poor in all probability your health will be poor, if not today certainly at some time in the future. The same is true for the strength of your immune system and its ability to protect you. Nutrition plays a very direct role. An obvious way to see the importance of good nutrition to immune capacity is to understand that a deficiency in any essential nutrient always results in some form of compromise in immune capacity. In fact, immune capacity compromise is often one of the first signs of nutrient deficiency.
- Strengthening the foundation of your immune system by making sure your give your body the broad spectrum of essential nutrients is a good plan. Many nutrients play important roles in immune strength. Carotenoids are a perfect example of critical, immune function regulating nutrients. Science first demonstrated their amazing powers more than 2 decades ago when researchers proved that dietary carotenoid status “modulates” immunity. There data showed that when carotenoids are low in the diet immune capacity is also low. Conversely, when carotenoids are abundant in the diet immune capacity is high. The seminal study proving this effect using whole food derived carotenoids came when researchers from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) proved in human clinical trials that GNLD Carotenoid Complex had the ability to boost immune capacity as much as 37% in just 20 days.
- It’s all about our cells! Actually, it’s always all about our cells. The fact is that healthy, vigorous and energetically efficient cells are at much less risk of being invaded and infected than weak, inefficient, sluggish cells. It makes sense if you think about it.
Additionally, our immune system is based on cells; our immune “warriors”, like the lymphocytes and macrophages, are themselves cells. Like all cells how well they function is directly related to their ability to take in nutrients, eliminate waste and do their jobs; all of which relates directly to their membranes. Feeding your cells supports membrane function and thus your immune system too.
By practicing these simple but important day to day steps, you can reduce your risk of contracting H1N1, and should you be unlucky enough to get it, speed your recovery.
