Does your immune system need fixing?

Many of today’s health problems can be resolved by fixing the immune system.

How can you tell if your immune system needs fixing?

Do you have allergies? Allergies are an early warning sign. Allergies are simply the immune system attacking benign foreign matter that it identifies as dangerous to the body.

One of the roles of the immune system is to protect the body from harmful invaders such as viruses, bacteria, parasites, and other organisms. Its mechanism involves identifying harmful invaders and then either destroying them or expelling them from the body. Allergies are the immune system’s efforts to expel substances that are not harmful to the body, but the immune system acts as if they are. The response is coughing, sinus problems, and watering eyes.

If you have allergies or sinus problems, recognize them for what they are—a warning sign that your immune system is overactive. If you don’t fix your immune system when the first signs appear, more serious problems will begin to appear. What are they? Read on.

Do you have one or more autoimmune disorders? Rheumatoid arthritis? Type 2 diabetes? COPD? Fibromyalgia? Multiple Sclerosis?  Over 80 autoimmune disorders have been defined. Autoimmune disorders are the immune system attacking healthy parts of the body, causing tissue damage and inflammation. Eliminating autoimmune disorders would reduce the nation’s health care expenses by a huge amount. Fixing malfunctioning immune systems would dramatically reduce the incidence of autoimmune disorders.

Are you subject to frequent colds or bacterial infections? When you get them, are you slow to get over them? These are signs of an underactive immune system.

You know what else is a sign? Cancer. A properly working immune system will destroy cancer cells before they become a health problem. We all have cancer cells within our bodies. I’ve seen estimates of as many as 90,000 cells at any one time. But an effective immune system eliminates them before they become a problem to our health.

Our nation is suffering from an epidemic of faulty immune systems. Look at the evidence: Allergies are common. Autoimmune disorders are common and becoming more so. And cancer is also common. All were rare 60 years ago.

Sixty years ago, I was 14 years old. I remember only one case of cancer in my parents’ families, both of which were very large. I can’t remember any among my friends or the friends of my parents. I had one friend who had allergies. No one else. I remember thinking of him as fragile. Some of my parents’ friends had arthritis or diabetes, but it was more like one person in thirty among the senior population. Arthritis and diabetes were a problem only with “older” people.  “Autoimmune disorder” was not yet a recognized condition.

What is the cause of this epidemic of faulty immune systems? The immune system is faulty not because it is missing a drug. Would you believe that a nutritional deficiency is the cause? The missing nutrients are those that develop in fruits and vegetables when they are allowed to ripen on the vine, the nutrients that make them taste sweet—polysaccharides. Harvesting fruits and vegetables while they are still green is common, a practice driven primarily to accommodate shipping the produce to distant markets. Produce harvested green are missing these important polysaccharides.

About a dozen polysaccharides play critical roles in the immune system. When they are not available in sufficient quantities, the immune system begins to falter. It may be overactive or it may be underactive. Both conditions can be corrected by providing the body with the missing polysaccharides.

How can you provide your body the nutrients it needs? Eating more fruits and vegetables isn’t the solution. The nutrients you need are no longer in the fruits and vegetables from your grocery store, no matter how many you eat.  The simple answer is to take supplements that provide a broad range of polysaccharides.

I highly recommend VitAloe and Immune 360 from RBC Life. My wife, Dottie, and I take both of them and recommend them to all our friends. The scientists who discovered the importance of polysaccharides in the 1980’s worked for the founder of RBC Life. They were studying the properties of aloe vera when they isolated polysaccharides from the plant and identified them as the key ingredients of aloe vera that give the plant its healing properties.   

Dottie and I have been taking polysaccharide supplements for 13 years. We have no more allergies. We rarely get sick and when we do, we recover quickly. We have no chronic disorder. Dottie takes only Synthroid and T3 for a hypothyroid condition.  I take no drugs, neither prescription nor over-the-counter.

We invite you to join us on our journey to better health.