Five Things That Promote Immune Deficiency

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The immune system is one of nature’s best defense system. If you nourish it right it can become your best friend, but nourish it wrong and it can become your worst enemy. Your immune system is a very complex system containing many smaller systems. Somehow, nature found a way to make these smaller systems work in cooperation so you can experience life as a human being. The main smaller systems that make up the immune system are: macrophages, natural killer (NK) cells, T-cells, T-helper cells, cytokines, interleukins, interferons, B-cells and white blood cells. When these systems are working together, your immune system is strong and healthy. When they don’t work well together you experience immune deficiency.

Five things that promote immune deficiency:

1. Stress: Researchers have found a link between stress and the immune system. When people are stressed, their immune system secretes an abnormal level of interleukin-6 (IL-6). This can suppress their immune system and make them vulnerable to diseases. Stress also causes high cortisol levels and low DHEA levels which can promote immune deficiency.
2. Sugar: Studies have shown that sugar, especially refined sugar, suppresses the immune system. Sugar usually affects macrophages and NK cells, but may also affect other cells.
3. Fats: Trans fatty acids found in fried food has been known to suppress the immune system.
4. Toxins: Pesticides, herbicides, mercury, lead and certain heavy metals are great for suppressing the immune system.
5. Malnutrition: The immune system depends heavily on certain nutrients to function properly. Because our society is saturated with junk food and fast food, many people are eating foods that are robbed of nutrients.

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