Autoimmunity and Autoimmune Diseases

Your body is equipped with immunity to fight against viruses, bacteria, and parasites—in short, disease. However, this immunity, known as the immune system, may become compromised such that, instead of attacking the unwelcome foreign invaders to the body, it begins to attack your body's own cells and tissues. That is to say, when you develop autoimmunity, your immune system may mistakenly attack your body's own cells instead of protecting them.

Autoimmunity is present in everyone to some extent. The bad news is that autoimmunity can be triggered by many environmental, physical, as well as emotional factors, such that it can cause a broad spectrum of human illnesses, known as autoimmune diseases, which, according to modern medicine, has no cure.

There are more than 100 types of autoimmune diseases, including multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, and myasthenia gravis, among many others.

This concept of autoimmunity as the cause of human illness is relatively new, and it was accepted into the mainstream medicine only about half a century ago. At present, the medical community is still very much at a loss as to how autoimmunity develops in an individual, although there is increasing evidence linking environmental agents to autoimmune diseases. These include infectious agents, such as viruses, pharmaceutical and chemical agents, heavy metals, dietary factors, as well as a number of biological agents, including genetic disposition. However, medical scientists are still unable to pinpoint the exact cause of autoimmune diseases. As a result, many experimental drugs have been developed to treat autoimmunity. Unfortunately,  many of these experimental drugs may be toxic to the body with long-term adverse side effects on the health of the patient.

As you age, your immune system becomes weaker, as evidenced by the high incidence of influenza and pneumonia after age 25, not to mention among the elderly. Therefore, it is important to boost your immunity, which is closely related to your thymus (the commander-in-chief of fighters in your immune system against foreign invaders), with the 10 most important nutritional supplements:

• Vitamin A to prevent thymus shrinkage (5,000 IU daily dosage)

• Vitamin B₆ to maintain hormone levels and to prevent thymus shrinkage (50 mg daily dosage)

• Vitamin C to regulate T-cell (white blood thymus cells) function (at least 1,000 mg daily dosage or up to bowel tolerance)

• Vitamin E to increase infection resistance (400 0800 IU daily dosage)

• Selenium to increase T-cell activity and antibody production for detoxification (100 mcg daily dosage)

• Zinc to boost your thymus for maturing T-cells to fight invaders (15 mg daily dosage)

• Coenzyme CO₁₀ to increase energy production for cells’ activities

• L-glutathione to regenerate immune cells in the immune system (200 mg daily dosage)

• Magnesium to increase enzymatic reactions (100 mg daily dosage)

• DHEA to control cortisol, the stress hormone (5 mg daily dosage) 

Other than diet and nutritional supplements to boost immunity, you must also use internal cleansing to detoxify the whole body as a means to remove all accumulated toxins that may damage body cells and tissues, especially tho immune system.

Stephen Lau

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