Saturday, November 16, 2013

Top 10 Herbs That Boost Your Immune System

Posted: 15 Nov 2013 12:34 PM PST
 
Carly Fraser | livelovefruit.com
Image: preventdisease.com
These 10 immune supportive plants will ensure that all those nasty colds and flus going around don’t end up in YOUR body! Help purify the blood of toxins and impurities and provide yourself with a new & improved immune system!

Chaga Mushroom
These mushrooms contain immune system supportive secondary metabolites (melanin, betulinic acid, phenolic compounds and lanostane-type triterpenoids) which contain high levels of antioxidants. Records from as early as the 16th century have shown that the chaga mushroom has helped those suffering from ulcers, cancer, tuberculosis and gastritis! The immune system is also balanced by certain polysaccharides found within this mushroom, helping to combat inflammation and to fight against infections and germs.

Astragalus
This herb helps to protect and support the immune system by preventing colds and upper respiratory tract infections, reducing blood pressure, treating diabetes and protecting the liver. Astragalus supplements have been found to improve immune function in individuals recovering from chemotherapy or radiation (who have compromised immune systems), and helps these individuals recover faster and live longer. Astragalus is an antioxidant, so it helps with individuals suffering from heart disease, chronic inflammation, high cholesterol levels and cancer.

Maitake Mushroom
This incredible mushroom has been shown to limit as well as reverse tumour cell growth, and boost the functioning of our immune system. These mushrooms contain a polysaccharide called beta glucan which stimulates the immune system and activates proteins and cells which target and attack cancer. These include macrophages, T-cells, natural killer cells, and interleukin-1 and -2. Researchers have also shown that maitake can regulate blood pressure, glucose, insulin as well as serum and liver lipids (cholesterol, triglycerides and phospholipids), and can help individuals wishing to lose weight.

Pau D’Arco
This bark-like substance which can be made into teas is an anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and anti-fungal. It stimulates the immune system and is well-known as a “natural antibiotic.” This bark contains naphtoquinones which inhibit free radicals and inflammatory leukotrienes as well as suppress tumour formation and reduce tumour viability. It fights against infections, colds, flus, respiratory problems, gastrointestinal issues, inflammatory conditions like arthritis and gout and acts as a mild diuretic.

Echinacea
Most people are aware of the amazing effects of echinacea and the immune system. Studies have suggested that this flower stimulates our white blood cells and spleen cells whose primary function is to fight off infections in the body. It may also stimulate the release of interferons which are some of the body’s most potent infection-fighting soldiers. Interferons interrupt the genetic code of germs which prevents them from replicating and reproducing. Echinacea also stimulates the body to produce more macrophages which phagocytose (eat) bacterial cells, keeping our body infection-free!

Ginger
This amazing root is a wonderful anti-viral and anti-bacterial! It has been found to inhibit viruses from attaching to and infecting different cells of the body via stimulation and secretion of anti-viral proteins called interferon-beta. Ginger also inhibits mucous formation and clears up congestion. Ginger and garlic combined make a particularly potent combo which offer antibacterial benefits against drug-resistant bacteria!

Goldenseal
This herb has been used for decades to help combat urinary tract infections, diarrhea, eye infections, canker sores and vaginitis. Goldenseal contains a compound called berberine which kills many different bacteria types and stimulates the production of white blood cells, making them more effective at fighting infections and strengthening the immune system. It is considered a natural antibiotic and can also help with individuals suffering from digestive issues.

Korean Red Ginseng
This “king of herbs” is one of the most well-known oriental medicinal herbs. It has been used as an herbal remedy for a variety of disorders (e.g., cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, insulin resistance, and hypertension) due to it’s incredible immune supportive effects. Red ginseng has been reported to enhance the human body’s resistance to illness or microbial attacks by maintaining a homeostasis of the immune system. Ginseng stimulates the production of a variety of immune system cells such as macrophages, natural killer cells, dendritic cells, T cells, and B cells, all of which help our body fight off disease and illness at a much faster rate.

Schizandra Berry
This potent adaptogenic herb has cortisone-like effects on the immune system, which makes it a powerful “natural antibiotic.” It is also a wonderful source of antioxidants which assist in improving mental clarity and increases your body’s level of the detoxifying antioxidant called glutathione. It not only helps power the immune system, but it combats issues related to stress such as adrenal fatigue, dizziness, headaches, heart palpitations, insomnia and profuse sweating.

Cat’s Claw
Cat’s claw has been used for hundreds of years to treat multiple health issues. The extracts of this herb contain powerful antioxidants which scavenge free radicals and help prevent inflammation, improve immune function, support DNA repair and promote normal cell division. When rats were fed an 8-week diet supplemented with cat’s claw, research found that white blood cell count dramatically increased, suggesting that this herb helps to improve the body’s ability to fight off infectious bacteria and viruses. Likewise, adult men who supplemented with cat’s claw for six months also experienced this increase in white blood cell count, and thus enhanced immune function.

Originally posted at livelovefruit.com

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Sunday, November 3, 2013

YOU are an AMAZING Mircle ! See the specifics


AMAZING HUMAN FACTS

o   Among the top ten causes of death in the US are toxic reactions to correctly prescribed drugs, which make more than two million Americans seriously ill every year, and kill 106,000 more.  Incorrectly prescribed drugs account for another 90,000 deaths each year!
 

o   A person can live without food for about 40 days, but only about 7 days without water, 6-8 minutes without air, and literally an instant without Life Force.

o   Stomach lining cells produce mucus, pepsin, HCl to a pH of 2.0 (100,000X the acidity of your bloodstream)

o   More than half the bones in the human body are in the hands and feet.

o   The highest recorded "sneeze speed" is 165 km (102 miles) per hour.

o   The heart beats about 3 billion times in the average person's lifetime.

o   A newborn baby has 350 bones, but a fully-grown adult has only 206.

o   Blood is a liquid organ.

o   Everyone is colorblind at birth.

o   Our lungs inhale over two million liters of air every day, without even thinking.  The surface area of the lungs is approximately the same size as a tennis court.

o   Food will get to your stomach even if you're standing on your head.

o   Skin is the largest body organ.

o   Your brain operates on the same amount of power as a 10 watt light bulb about 200 kilocalories per day,.. So the cartoon image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn't too far off the mark.

o   Every 7 years your body completely replaces itself. 25,000,000 of your cells died while you read this sentence. It's okay though, your body made more than 300 billion new ones today. The cells that make up your body are dying and being replaced all the time. This happens so often that about every 7 years you have a completely new body of cells. While this is true for most cells, such as the cells lining the stomach, some of the most important cells in your body (those of your bones, your brain, and your heart) don't regenerate much at all, so treat them with care.
 
o   Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 250 miles per hour The speed of nerve impulses varies enormously but the fastest travel at about 250 mph. That's as fast as a Formula 1 racing car! However this demand for speed uses a lot of energy and is found only in neurons that need to transfer information urgently. For example, if you burn your fingers it is important that your brain gets the message to withdraw your hand very quickly.

o   There are more cells in your body than stars in the galaxy Your entire body is made up of around 75 trillion cells. Each one of your cells is like a small city with thousands of different types of complex molecules interacting with each other to keep you alive and conscious. When you compare this to the 400 billion stars in our galaxy, you can understand just how magical your existence really is. So the next time you are feeling down or insignificant, simply remember, you are made of 75,000,000,000,000 cells, and that's far from “insignificant”!

o   There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in an adult human body If you took all of the blood vessels out of an average child, and laid them out in one line, the line would be over 60,000 miles long. An adult's vessels would be closer to 100,000 miles long! That means an adult's blood vessels could go around the circumference of the world more than 4 times!

o   The cells in your body react to your thoughts Ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu once said: “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions”. Your mind is a powerful machine and controls every function of the body. But the good news is you have the power to control your mind. Experiencing positive thoughts leads to more positive thoughts and an even broader view of everything around us. For example, positive thoughts can strengthen your immune system while negative thoughts can bring it down.

o   You are made of stardust  As Carl Sagan used to say, we are made of “star stuff”. It sounds like a line from a poem, but there is some concrete science behind this statement: almost every element on Earth was formed at the heart of a star. The carbon, nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our bodies, as well as atoms of all other heavy elements, were created in previous generations of stars over 4.5 billion years ago. So next time you're out gazing at stars twinkling in the night sky, remember, we are all made of star dust, we are all one!

o   The average adult is made up of 100 trillion cells.

o   There are more bacteria in your body than the number of cells in your body.  There are an estimated 75 to 100 trillion cells in the human body.

o   Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells.

o   Capillaries are so small that red blood cells can only travel through them in single file.

o   The cornea, the outermost layer of the eye, is the only living tissue in the human body without blood vessels?  It receives nutrients from tears and from the aqueous humor.

o   Each cell in your body has an estimated 6 to 8 feet of DNA.

o   Research has shown that guilt damages your immune system by lowering your immunoglobulin levels.

o   The total length of your circulatory system stretches an amazing 60,000 miles. That is more than twice the distance around the Earth.

o   In one square inch of skin there are four yards of nerve fibers, 600 pain sensors, 1300 nerve cells, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors, 75 pressure sensors, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.

o   Except for your brain cells, 50,000,000 of the cells in your body will have died and been replaced with others, all while you have been reading this sentence.

o   Your heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 40,000,000 times a year.  In one hour the heart works hard enough to produce enough energy to raise almost one ton of weight one yard from the ground.

o   The liver is often called the body's chemical factory.  Scientists have counted over 500 liver functions.

o   The central nervous system is connected to every part of the body by 43 pairs of nerves.  Twelve pairs go to and from the brain, with 31 pairs going from the spinal cord.  There are nearly 45 miles of nerves running through our bodies.

o   Messages travel along the nerves as electrical impulses.  They travel at speeds up to 248 mile per hour.

o   The central nervous system is the master system of all functions within your body and has a reciprocal Neurophysiologic relationship with the Acupressure Meridian and Chakra (Emotional Energy Centers) Systems of energetic function within your being.  Subluxations in your spine, cranium and extremities, interfere with the flow of nerve impulse energy information and acupressure meridian energy within your body.

o   The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose.  Capillaries, on the other hand, are so small that it takes ten of them to equal the thickness of a human hair.

o   Your body has about 5.6 liters (6 quarts) of blood.  This 5.6 liters of blood circulates through the body three times every minute. In one day, the blood travels a total of 19,000 km (12,000 miles) - that's four times the distance across the US from coast to coast.

o   Our eyes can distinguish up to one million color surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.

o   Our hearing is so sensitive it can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds.

o   Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.

o   We give birth to 100 billion red blood cells every day and about two million red blood cells every second.

o   When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.

o   We have over 600 muscles.

o   We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.

o   We are about 70 percent water.

o   We make one liter of saliva a day.

o   Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.

o   We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our bodies.

o   If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

o   During the first month of life, the number of connections or synapses, dramatically increases from 50 trillion to 1 quadrillion.  If an infant's body grew at a comparable rate, his weight would increase from 8.5 pounds at birth to 170 pounds at one month old.

o   The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.

o   Our bodies contain enough water to fill a ten-gallon tank.

o   We have enough carbon to manufacture 900 pencils.

o   Fingernails are one of the human body's strongest components.  They contain keratin, which is also found in rhino horns, which refuses to erode after death.

o   Babies are not fully naked in the womb.  In fact, their entire bodies are usually covered in a thin layer of dark hair by the end of the fifth month of pregnancy, which disappear when the baby is born.

o   People blink once every four seconds.  That's because the eyelashes act as windscreen wipers, keeping dust and grime from getting into the eye itself.

o   Humans are one of the only mammals who are unable to 'turn' their ears in order to hear approaching predators.
 
                   o   An embryo is genderless for the first 6-8 weeks of pregnancy.  Only after
                       that the body decides whether the baby will be a boy or girl through
                      dominant hormones that emerge.

o   Every tongue has its own individual print, which is unique to each person.

o   The big toe is actually one of the most important elements within the body, as it balances the skeleton and enables the owner to move forward when walking without it, we would simply fall over.

o   If the population of China walked by you in single file the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

o   If a person has two-thirds of their liver removed from trauma or surgery, it will grow back to its original size in four weeks time.

o   On average, you breathe 23,000 times a day.  You take about 600 million breaths during your lifetime.

o   The odds of being struck by lightning are about 600,000 to one.

o   It is normal to lose 100 hairs per day from the scalp.

o   We take about 600 million breaths during our lifetime.

o   There is more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of US and Canada combined.

o   There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.

o   The average human body contains enough: Sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to make 2,200 match heads, and enough water to fill a ten gallon tank.

o   If you could save all the times your eyes blink in one lifetime and use them all at once you would see blackness for 1.2 years!

o   The average American sees or hears 560 advertisements a day.

o   A  CDC report reveals painkillers are responsible for 4x as many deaths as heroin and cocaine combined

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