How to Optimize Your Child’s Immune System

Posted by admin in Children Immune on May 12, 2011

Many people have asked me over the years what I recommend to help strengthen and protect children from getting serious infectious diseases. This article will cover several important aspects of strengthening your child’s immune system. The major function of the child’s immune system is to protect their little bodies against common childhood disease such as whooping cough, rubella, tetanus, typhoid, etc. infection, as well as colds and flu, herpes, hepatitis, etc. Reduced efficiency and poor performance of a child’s immune system has many causes, among which are junk-food diets, devitalised, “chemicalised” as well as antibiotic-containing foods, environmental chemicals, medical drug use, passive smoking, stress, domestic issues, and under-nourishment or nutritional deficiencies – a very common cause of a child’s immune deficiency.

Are you concerned about your child’s poor immune status, does he or she continually get sick each fall and winter? Is there recurrent cough, asthma or eczema? Let’s go over some of the following categories in more detail:

o Psychological: provide a stress free and loving home environment for your child
o Improve your child’s digestion & bowel by avoiding drugs like antibiotics as much as possible.
o Improve the diet through reducing junk foods and known toxins, like aspartame.
o Remove potential offending allergy-stimulating foods – like dairy, wheat, etc.
o Stimulate the body’s recovery with sound nutrition and appropriate supplementation. Read the rest of this entry »

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4 Causes of Immune System Breakdown That Lead to Disease

Posted by admin in Disease, Immune System on May 6, 2011

There is a general feeling that we catch disease, like catching a cold. The fact is that disease always lurks nearby and catches us. All of nature moves from creation to destruction as immunity variations occur. When a human immune system is in peak condition disease fails to affect it. Immunity is eternally challenged as conditions change in a persons’ life.

· Loss
· Failure or Success
· Injury
· Change

Loss is a common cause of immune system failure. The loss a loved one, the family dog or a precious material object can cause mental distress. The loss could be a job or security. Even more serious is the loss of mobility or a mental crisis. The loss list goes on and on eventually overcoming life.

Failure is only the flip side of success and either can lead to the sinking of immunity. Life could be compared to a balance beam where input or deletion from either end of the beam can disturb homeostasis. Failure is well explained by Thomas Edison and his discovery of the incandescent light. Edison failed 1,000 times in his invention of the light bulb. Each failure opened another path. The other side is the seeming successful who destroy themselves through avarice, greed, or materialism.

The survival instinct is strong in humans. Injury that cripples physically or by disease processes bombard the immune system. When we meet adversity our fellow human is devoted to saving us. The instinct of compassion inherent in humanity creates huge health care facilities that save and prolong life.

We are a fetus, baby or child growing from young to old. Change is a constant companion that challenges the immune system. Changes in temperature, barometric pressure, location, circumstance, or situation can have a strong effect on a person as the immune system attempts to adjust.

We have more control over the immune system than we might realize. What we leave to fate is possible to alter. The mind is a powerful tool when facing the perils of lost immunity. If one can learn a calmness of mind, self-control of damaging inputs and level-headedness in the face of breakdown the results can be more positive.

My biggest FEAR in life is becoming dependent.

The idea of depending on my boss, a medical doctor, expensive insurance or the government for my health care does not feel right.

Are there Solutions?

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