The immune system is an elegant and complex set of components that combine to fight disease, infections, and various pathogens. A healthy immune system distinguishes organisms in the body as “self” or “non-self.” An intact immune response identifies pathogens as “non-self” and rapidly destroys them. A depressed immune system, by contrast, will allow invading organisms to flourish.
Furthermore, when the immune system mistakenly recognizes a “self” cell as “non-self” and mounts an immune response, the result is an autoimmune disorder such as rheumatoid arthritis.
In general, the body has two primary defense mechanisms: natural immunity and acquired immunity. Natural immunity is the “first responder” to an attack. The natural immune response relies on various white blood cells and physical barriers to block or immediately attack any foreign invader and attempt to destroy it.
Acquired immunity, on the other hand, involves antibodies that are created in response to specific foreign antigens. This sort of response requires a few days for the body to recognize the invader and manufacture antibodies against it. Once the body has manufactured a particular antibody for a specific invader, the immune system response is faster and more effective the next time that invader appears (Janeway CA et al 1999; Beers MB 2004).
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Showing posts with label Immune system booster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Immune system booster. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Raised Glutathione Levels Help Balance Immune System
Researchers from Germany and the US have found that Glutathione can boost the natural antioxidant system of the body.
The body carries many antioxidant defense systems, but inside cells a small protein called glutathione is crucial. Glutathione is essential for the function of immune cells, which protect us from viral and bacterial infections.
In people with immune deficiency, glutathione levels fall well below the normal levels in blood and immune cells. Restoring glutathione levels to those found in healthy people is likely to help immune deficient patients.
Two studies have recently been published with research backing up the claims that Glutathione helps fight disease, one in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, from Stig Froland in Oslo, Norway, and the other by Leonore and Leonard Herzenberg, a husband and wife team from Stanford, California. The results of their work showed that glutathione levels could indeed be restored in AIDS patients and that this may improve the outlook for these patients.
Herzenberg and colleagues conducted a clinical trial in which 31 HIV-infected patients were given daily doses of Glutathione — and 30 others were given a benign sugar pill. According to the study published in the October 1 issue of the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, those taking Glutathione had increased the amount of glutathione in their bodies to near-normal levels at the end of the two-month trial.
“The importance here is that glutathione is a central component of all cells, and glutathione deficiency is associated with poor prognosis in many, many diseases,” said Herzenberg. “What we’ve proven is that giving people Glutathione replenishes the glutathione stores.”
The authors of the report concluded that “Glutathione offers useful adjunct therapy to increase protection against oxidative stress, improve immune system function and increase detoxification of acetaminophen and other drugs. These findings suggest Glutathione therapy could be valuable in other clinical situations in which there is GSH deficiency.”
“It is important to realize that these results are the culmination of over 10 years of research.” states Frank Staal, an immunologist from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, who worked in this field for many years. “The groups of Droge and Herzenberg were the first to demonstrate that Glutathione is low in AIDS and that this defect contributes to poor immune cell function." ImmuneSupport.com
Click here for more about Glutathione and its benefits to our body.
The body carries many antioxidant defense systems, but inside cells a small protein called glutathione is crucial. Glutathione is essential for the function of immune cells, which protect us from viral and bacterial infections.
In people with immune deficiency, glutathione levels fall well below the normal levels in blood and immune cells. Restoring glutathione levels to those found in healthy people is likely to help immune deficient patients.
Two studies have recently been published with research backing up the claims that Glutathione helps fight disease, one in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, from Stig Froland in Oslo, Norway, and the other by Leonore and Leonard Herzenberg, a husband and wife team from Stanford, California. The results of their work showed that glutathione levels could indeed be restored in AIDS patients and that this may improve the outlook for these patients.
Herzenberg and colleagues conducted a clinical trial in which 31 HIV-infected patients were given daily doses of Glutathione — and 30 others were given a benign sugar pill. According to the study published in the October 1 issue of the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, those taking Glutathione had increased the amount of glutathione in their bodies to near-normal levels at the end of the two-month trial.
“The importance here is that glutathione is a central component of all cells, and glutathione deficiency is associated with poor prognosis in many, many diseases,” said Herzenberg. “What we’ve proven is that giving people Glutathione replenishes the glutathione stores.”
The authors of the report concluded that “Glutathione offers useful adjunct therapy to increase protection against oxidative stress, improve immune system function and increase detoxification of acetaminophen and other drugs. These findings suggest Glutathione therapy could be valuable in other clinical situations in which there is GSH deficiency.”
“It is important to realize that these results are the culmination of over 10 years of research.” states Frank Staal, an immunologist from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, who worked in this field for many years. “The groups of Droge and Herzenberg were the first to demonstrate that Glutathione is low in AIDS and that this defect contributes to poor immune cell function." ImmuneSupport.com
Click here for more about Glutathione and its benefits to our body.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Glutathione - your body's master antioxidant
Glutathione (GSH) is the most powerful, prevalent antioxidant in your body!
GSH is manufactured by your cells and all you need to do is to provide the raw materials for your body to produce glutathione optimally.
Increasing your glutathione level will naturally increase your energy, detoxify your body and strengthen your immune system.
Dr. Robert Keller
Robert Keller MD, MS, FACP, has been named as one of the world’s 2,000 Outstanding Scientists of the 21st Century, and has served on the scientific review panels for the National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Administration.
MaxGXL™ provides the proper nutrients needed to promote the body's own ability to manufacture and absorb glutathione. MaxGXL™ also aids in liver support. by destroying environmental toxins, thus helping the liver to function as the main production site and storehouse for glutathione. The graph below shows the increase in glutathione levels experienced by 4 groups of patients. Group 1 (normal health patients) were tested after 6 months of use, while Groups 2, 3 and 4 (HIV, Hepatitis C, and Chronic Viral Illness respectively) were tested after only 3 months of the MaxGXL regimen.
Click here for more about Glutathione and its benefits to our body.
GSH is manufactured by your cells and all you need to do is to provide the raw materials for your body to produce glutathione optimally.
Increasing your glutathione level will naturally increase your energy, detoxify your body and strengthen your immune system.
Dr. Robert Keller
Robert Keller MD, MS, FACP, has been named as one of the world’s 2,000 Outstanding Scientists of the 21st Century, and has served on the scientific review panels for the National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Administration.
MaxGXL™ provides the proper nutrients needed to promote the body's own ability to manufacture and absorb glutathione. MaxGXL™ also aids in liver support. by destroying environmental toxins, thus helping the liver to function as the main production site and storehouse for glutathione. The graph below shows the increase in glutathione levels experienced by 4 groups of patients. Group 1 (normal health patients) were tested after 6 months of use, while Groups 2, 3 and 4 (HIV, Hepatitis C, and Chronic Viral Illness respectively) were tested after only 3 months of the MaxGXL regimen.
Click here for more about Glutathione and its benefits to our body.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
The 3 Distinct Benefits of Naturally Produced Glutathione
Glutathione: The Master Antioxidant
Antioxidants participate directly in the destruction of reactive oxygen compounds called free radicals. These by-products of a cell’s normal function can’t be avoided, but exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun or other sources promotes their emergence.
Free radicals have been linked to muscle fatigue during exercise and aging.
For this reason, the body is equipped with a variety of antioxidants. Vitamins C and E are natural antioxidants but do not occur naturally in the body.
These and other antioxidants actually depend on natural glutathione to function properly.
This is why Glutathione is called “The Master Antioxidant”.
Glutathione : Food for the Immune system
Glutathione helps build your Immune system resistance and improve your chances of staying healthy.
Lymphocytes are cells of your Immune system. Glutathione is essential for lymphocytes to increase in number, produce antibodies, and function efficiently.
Glutathione: A Cellular Level Detoxifier
Our food and water sources are becoming increasingly contaminated with chemicals, as is the air that we breathe.
Supplemental Detoxifier such as Glutathione help to counter the effects of the toxins we inhale and ingest.
By physically binding to toxic compounds in cells, Glutathione helps make them soluble - and harmless. The body can then eliminate these disarmed toxins in the bile and urine.
Click here for more about Glutathione and its benefits to our body.
Antioxidants participate directly in the destruction of reactive oxygen compounds called free radicals. These by-products of a cell’s normal function can’t be avoided, but exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun or other sources promotes their emergence.
Free radicals have been linked to muscle fatigue during exercise and aging.
For this reason, the body is equipped with a variety of antioxidants. Vitamins C and E are natural antioxidants but do not occur naturally in the body.
These and other antioxidants actually depend on natural glutathione to function properly.
This is why Glutathione is called “The Master Antioxidant”.
Glutathione : Food for the Immune system
Glutathione helps build your Immune system resistance and improve your chances of staying healthy.
Lymphocytes are cells of your Immune system. Glutathione is essential for lymphocytes to increase in number, produce antibodies, and function efficiently.
Glutathione: A Cellular Level Detoxifier
Our food and water sources are becoming increasingly contaminated with chemicals, as is the air that we breathe.
Supplemental Detoxifier such as Glutathione help to counter the effects of the toxins we inhale and ingest.
By physically binding to toxic compounds in cells, Glutathione helps make them soluble - and harmless. The body can then eliminate these disarmed toxins in the bile and urine.
Click here for more about Glutathione and its benefits to our body.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Glutathione and Breast Cancer
Glutathione is protein that is produced naturally in the body.
It is an immune system booster, anti-oxidant and a natural detoxifier.
According to several studies supplementary Glutathione from whey proteins promotes health in your body, even during chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
Whey protein has the highest biological value rating of any protein. When the biological value is high, that means protein is absorbed, used and retained better in the body.
Studies indicate that supplementary Glutathione reduces the levels of the bodies home made Glutathione in tumors, thereby stopping the tumors ability to grow while at the same time increasing levels of Glutathione in the rest of the body.
The higher our liver Glutathione levels rise, the more effectively our body is detoxified.
Detoxifying your body effectively is seen as an effective way to be proactive about your health.
Click here for more about Glutathione and its benefits to our body.
It is an immune system booster, anti-oxidant and a natural detoxifier.
According to several studies supplementary Glutathione from whey proteins promotes health in your body, even during chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
Whey protein has the highest biological value rating of any protein. When the biological value is high, that means protein is absorbed, used and retained better in the body.
Studies indicate that supplementary Glutathione reduces the levels of the bodies home made Glutathione in tumors, thereby stopping the tumors ability to grow while at the same time increasing levels of Glutathione in the rest of the body.
The higher our liver Glutathione levels rise, the more effectively our body is detoxified.
Detoxifying your body effectively is seen as an effective way to be proactive about your health.
Click here for more about Glutathione and its benefits to our body.
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