Cells make up your
organs. When cells die, your organs fail and health deteriorates, and you age
and die.
To maintain and
sustain life, some of your cells replicate themselves continually, such as
epithelial cells in your intestine, while others do not divide, such as your
heart cells and neurons in your brain.
How Body Cells May
Become Damaged
Your body is composed
of negatively and positively charged molecules, which must be balanced in order
to enable your cells to function normally. A free radical is formed when there
is imbalance in these molecules. A free radical also damages other
molecules, causing them to produce more free radicals—and thus creating a chain
reaction of damages that become the scourges of aging and the sources of
disease and disorders, in particular, autoimmune diseases.
The Damages by Free
Radicals
There are several
types of free radicals, and oxygen free radicals are most damaging, especially
to your DNA and cell membranes.
Your cells require
oxygen for survival. Unfortunately, what gives life also takes away life. In
the process of oxidation, harmful oxygen free radicals are produced. Oxygen
free radicals and other free radicals in your body cause damages to your cells.
Brain damage
The neurons in your
brain may become damaged by free radicals. The damage may be irreparable
because the neurons, unlike other cells, cannot replicate themselves.
Cellular damage
The cumulative damage
to your DNA by free radicals is a major contributing factor to many autoimmune
diseases, including human cancers.
Heart damage
When your LDL or “bad
cholesterol” is attacked by free radicals, they become more attached to the
walls of your arteries, and thus forming plagues to block the free flow of
blood to your heart.
The only way to fight free radicals is by boosting your body’s own immunity.
Boosting Immunity
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)
Protecting the Immune
System
In addition to taking
supplements to boost your immunity, you need to use diet, such as a natural
thyroid diet, to protect your immune system.
Eat fresh, organic
fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts daily.
Eat natural foods.
Cooking, food processing, and freezing destroy some of the health-promoting
nutrients, such as enzymes, in your foods. Therefore, it is important to eat
raw occasionally.
Eat phytonutrients,
which are plant nutrients. These powerful nutrients include carotenoids,
flavonoids, and phytosterols, among others.
Stephen Lau
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