2 Natural Ways to Boost Your Immune System

Do you need to boost your immune system? Do you suffer from frequent colds and flu symptoms? Then you need to read this article on 2 natural ways to boost your immune system.

In fact, the information in this article may help you avoid that flu shot or a round of antibiotics.

I’ve written a previous article titled “Immune System Power Foods” which describes in detail 7 power foods that you can use to boost your immune system.

Today I want to provide you with 2 supplements that are amazing in helping your immune system do its job. There are:

• Beta Glucans

• Squalamine

Let’s examine each of them and how they help boost your immune system.

Boost Your Immune System – Beta Glucans

Your body cannot produce beta glucans. This means that the only way for them to enter your system is to consume foods that contain them. Or use a supplement designed to provide this important immune system nutrient.

If you decide that you want use foods to bring beta glucans into your body, then baker’s yeast, shiitake mushrooms, and cereal grains like barley, oats, rye, and wheat are your best sources.

Beta glucans provide several key benefits to your immune system.

First, they stimulate the activity of macrophages. There are versatile immune cells that ingest and destroy invading pathogens. As well as stimulate other immune cells to attack. One way that they do this is to release cytokines.

Cytokines are secreted chemicals that enable the immune cells of your body to communicate with each other.

Second, beta glucans stimulate white blood cells that can then bind to tumors and viruses. Once bonded to these foreign entities they release chemicals that destroy them.

One way that cancer survives in your body is to disrupt the natural communication between your immune cells. Because of this your immune system doesn’t recognize abnormal cells and doesn’t destroy them.

The goal of some current research is to see if beta glucans can help restore the needed communication within your immune system to boost your body’s natural ability to destroy cancer cells and tumors.

Beta glucans have shown significant improvement in upper respiratory infections and the common cold. In one study beta glucans reduced upper respiratory tract infections by 23%. And reduced the number of sick days for the common cold.

The recommended amount of beta glucan would be at least 70 mg per day.

Boost Your Immune System – Squalamine

Most of the work in this area is due to Dr. Michael Zasloff of Georgetown University. He was intrigued by the fact the sharks are immune to all known viruses. The question is why.

Through his research he was able to identify a compound know as squalamine.

Unlike vaccines, which need to be specifically tailored to each and every individual virus, squalamine doesn’t. Instead it works by exploiting a weakness that is shared by every virus. That weakness is its need to feed.

When a virus is able to enter your cell, the first thing it does is feast on positively charged proteins in your cell walls. This allows them to replicate and spread.

When squalamine enters a cell it causes these positively charged proteins to detach themselves from your cell wall. This process doesn’t harm your cells but it effectively denies the virus its needed fuel to survive.

Dr. Zasloff has lab-tested this with viruses such as dengue fever, yellow fever, hepatitus A and D and well as other viruses. The result was that it prevented virus replication and lead to their death.

To date squalamine can effectively defend and eradicate over 194 different viruses.

Squalamine is usually found in shark liver oil. Sometimes it is listed as squalene. The amount recommended varies depending on who you read.

Usually the minimum is 500 mg, twice per day. However, for those who want to significantly raise their white blood cell count, the recommendation is usually 1,000 mg, twice per day.

Both of these natural ingredients, which are designed to boost your immune system, can be found online. My recommendation would be products from LifeExtension.

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Dan Hammer