Healthy Life Chatter

The Immune System

You can spend thousands of dollars on sophisticated alarm systems to protect your family against burglars, smoke, and carbon monoxide, but are you really safe?  You may not have considered some unseen security threats.  There are millions of  them – bacteria, viruses, allergens, toxins, and parasites – they’re all around you, and they’d love nothing more than to invade your body and destroy your good health!

Sometimes, invaders are able to get past this first line of defense,  and that requires a more aggressive defense.  In such cases, a vast network of cells, tissues, and organs all begin to work together to recognize and respond to the emergency.   In order for this large-scale response to be effective, the entire immune system must be made aware that the body is under attack.

Your highly complex immune system can actually recognize and remember millions of  different enemies, and it can produce potent biological weapons called antibodies to match up with and wipe out nearly all of them.  One of the body’s most powerful antibodies is immunoglobulin G (lgG), which circulates in the blood, working covertly to seek out bacteria, viruses, molds, yeast, and allergens.  When lgG finds a foreign invader, it “paints” it with a chemical to mark it for destruction by the immune system’s “clean-up squads.”

Here are 10 great tips that can help you to keep your vital immune system functioning smoothly:

1. Don’t smoke.
2. Avoid toxins.
3. Get adequate sleep.
4. Reduce stress.
5. Be optimistic.
6. Exercise regularly.
7. Stay connected.
8. Eat a sensible, healthy diet.
9. Don’t overuse antibiotics, especially for viral infections (such as colds or flu) where they have no effect.  Cutting down on unnecessary antibiotic use will help to prevent the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
10. Drink 4 ounces (120 ml) of GoChi every day!

In a recent randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled human clinical trial, blood test on participants drinking a daily serving of 4 ounces (120 ml) of GoChi showed significant improvements in three key markers of immune health in just 30 days.  Compared to their blood levels at the beginning of the study, the test subjecs experienced the following:

• 27 % increase in lymphocytes.
• 58% increase in interleukin-2 (IL-2).
• 19% increase in immunoglobulin G.