Sleep is the most important time for your immune system to do its job. Each night, as you sleep, your immune system orchestrates the housecleaning and repair activities vital to optimal health and physical well being.* Nutrients that assist your immune system to perform its nightly chores and nutrients that help you get to sleep or stay asleep are...

Muscles represent the largest reserve of protein in your body. Having adequate protein in reserves, especially in a time of need, is important for a sustained optimal immune response. Muscle fitness in general, as long as exercise itself is not excessive, tends to condition muscles in such a way as to contribute to a baseline of healthy immune function....

After birth your child's digestive tract begins working for the first time. In the adult digestive tract, there are hundreds of millions of foreign bacteria and yeasts that hopefully form an ecological "rain forest" of friendly non-self organisms working to help digestion and support immunity. The proper evolution of digestion in the first few years of...

Your immune system is automatically down-regulated during pregnancy, so that your immune system does not reject your baby. This means that you should seek to minimize your exposure to sick people and should make everyone in your household practice good hygiene and hand washing.Various nutrients can naturally support efficient immune function to assist you...

We now know that your immune system is intimately involved with the sleep process, handling a great deal of the communication and housecleaning activities that are totally different than the idea of fighting a bug. Your lymph system is a key part of your immune system and its function during sleep is explained above in the section Unclog Lymph System for...

One of the big challenges for infants and small children is to evolve a healthy digestive tract, including a normal balance of power, immune system recognition, and digestive competence. Immune Plus is a powder and easy to mix into liquid. It is excellent support for infants and kids of all ages. There are some quite helpful nutrients to naturally support...

Shark liver oil has been long considered an immune boosting nutrient with significant ability to help healthy aging. A number of studies expand the use of shark liver oil into other arenas, including improving vascular health, supporting immunity during pregnancy, reducing muscle wasting, and more.

It is convenient for modern medicine to separate a patient's problems into neatly divided specialty areas so that problems can be micro-analyzed by various specialists. This is convenient for treating, diagnosing, referring, and drug dispensing. This system generates income for the sickness industry but it often fails to understand the highly integrated...

For optimal immune response, you must have a healthy lymphatic system. Learn to recognize signs of a sluggish lymph system so you can fight back.

Used to help prevent and treat cancer, and boost the immune system, alkylglycerols are now in the realm of anti-aging. With antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, this nutrient can help cells regulate health more efficiently – the opposite of the trend of aging.

Everyday we are exposed to germs or pathogens that we must ward off. There are germs on foods, beverages and air that we consume and surfaces that we touch. Some of them are super bugs threatening society. Reports of each new threat or outbreak seemingly bring increased risk to human life. These threats range from the minor colds to the life threatening...

Colostrum simultaneously protects, reduces and repairs -- it's significant to digestive health.

Effects of dietary alkylglycerols in lactating rats on immune responses in pups.

Intestinal immune-potentiation by a purified alkylglycerols compound.

High glucose disrupts oligosaccharide recognition function via competitive inhibition: A potential mechanism for immune dysregulation in diabetes mellitus.

Biology of longevity: role of the innate immune system.

Gut-Microbiota-Brain Axis and Its Effect on Neuropsychiatric Disorders With Suspected Immune Dysregulation.

Dietary pantothenic acid deficiency and excess depress the growth, intestinal mucosal immune and physical functions by regulating NF-κB, TOR, Nrf2 and MLCK signaling pathways in grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella)