Longevity with a Strong Immune System
Longevity with a Strong Immune System
Give your Immune System a Boost
“You are as young as you feel” implies that to feel good, energetic and healthy we need to see to it that we feel good – and once we’ve collided with our sixties, the kids are grown-up and living their own lives, and our so-called ‘golden years’ approach… the ones we’ve waited for and worked for and deserve… even today where the world has so dramatically changed… well, now it’s time to take care of ourselves.
(090805) -- SHENYANG, August 5, 2009 (Xinhua) -- Members of a Xiyanghong Ballet Company practice at Liaoning Art University for Senior Citizens in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, August 5, 2009. The Xiyanghong Ballet Company with a total of 14 female members aging from 50 to 62 without any ballet dancing experience was established at Liaoning Art University for Senior Citizens. (Xinhua/Yang Xinyue) (ly)
Ideally, you started doing so before, like the above ladies in China who started dancing Ballet at the age of 50 to 62… without any ballet dancing experience… unbelievable, amazing, inspiring and… true! However, this is by far not always the case, and if this sounds like YOU, NOW is the time!
You may well have a positive attitude and negate the ageing process alltogether, but the fact is that as we age, the body’s immune system becomes weaker and it needs a boost.
About the Immune System
A healthy Immune System with healthy lymphocytes – essential to the body’s production of anti-bodies -, protects us against the so-called ‘free radicals’, infections and all kinds of health problems.
However, as the body ages, it becomes weaker and loses its natural ability to fight off health problems – especially in a highly charged environment with industrial pollution, smoke, extreme weather conditions, radiation etc.
Besides, as we age our central nervous system loses its sensitivity to the danger signals. It means that it reacts slower if at all. The result is that this ‘automatic response system’ we took for granted all these years whenever the body was attacked… immediately broke into a fever to fight back and kill off the ‘intruders’ allowing us to recover speedily – well, this brilliant infection-fighting terminator system no longer functions as efficiently as it did.
On top of it all we even produce auto antibodies, that attack parts of our body instead of fighting infections – example: fibromyalgia. And there’s more…
Nutritional Supplements for higher Immunity
Fazit: Our Immune System needs Support – not only through…
~ regular exercise;
~ lots of fresh air – and oxygen – in Nature and
~ good natural nutrition
… but also through Nutritional Supplements, especially AntiOxidants, the “Insurance Nutrients’.
Benefits of AntiOxidants
Vitamin E
Found in green vegetables, eggs, liver and some natural herbs.
Benefit: reduction of damage caused by Ozone and other components of Smog.
Vitamin C
Found in citrus fruit and most other fruits and green vegetables, eg. broccoli.
Benefit: important for the body’s physical repair system and crucial for the Immune System.
Vitamin A (betacarotene)
Found in carrots, spinach, sweet potatoes and most leafy green vegetables.
Benefit: protecting the lung against damage from cigarette smoke and smog.
Vitamin B6
Found in bananas, carrots, leafy green vegetables, sweet potatoes.
Benefit: maintains a proper immune function, healthy mucous membranes lining the respiratory tract and provides a natural barrier to pollution and infection.
Selenium
Found in bran, celery, garlic, fish, lentils, peas.
Benefit: it is described by medical doctors as “…probably the most important anti-oxidant material… the critical factor in one of the body’s two major free radical quenching enzymes”.
Stay Young with a Strong Immune System
Anti-Oxidants enhance and strengthen our Immune System Defense System and are therefore critical in our attempt to stay and especially feel younger longer and enjoy a sense of health and wellbeing well into our late … “golden years”.
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Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.
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