Your Immune System Works Around The Clock To Keep You

 100%, Unadulterated You!

 

It patrols your every nook and cranny attacking and destroying

useless and dangerous things inside you: bacteria, viruses, splinters­

 dirt, dead cells, even cancer cells.

 

  It seems reasonable to suppose that the body is fighting

  cancer all the time and winning... early cancers are proba­

  bly being detected and combatted in the body on a regular

  basis. If you take this process and step it up in intensity,

  you have the miracle' of spontaneous remission.

  Do You Have Defenses?

You have many weapons to protect you: your skin and mucous membranes create a physical barrier to invasion; your digestive juices dissolve germs; urine cleans your urinary tract; and skin secretions kill many germs when you're alive-that's why cadavers turn ugly colors. Fevers `bum off' microorganisms; swelling helps wash the system; special cells attack and devour intruders: macro­phages, T-cells, killer cells, lymphocytes, antibodies and others, each with its own specialized manner of taking care of bad guys. You also have an internal defense industry that produces your armaments: your bone marrow, spleen, thymus, tonsils, adenoids, appendix and lymph nodes give you lots of high quality weapon systems.

  What Are Immune Diseases?

But what's powerful for good can be potent for bad. An unhealthy immune system can overreact as in allergic or hypersensitivity reactions; can under react as in immune deficiency disorders; or can attack the very body it was meant to serve as in autoimmune disorders.

 

Do Vaccinations Cause Immune Disease?


The most widespread damage to the immune system is believed by many to be caused by childhood vaccination which has been linked to allergies, leukemia and other autoimmune conditions. That may be why so many once-rare diseases-allergies, lupus, cancer, arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome and others-are now so common.

 

Can Nutrition & Exercise Help?


Nutrition can have a profound effect on your immune health. Dr. Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Prize: The potency of vitamin C and other vitamins is explained by the new understanding that tbey function principally by strengthening the natural protective mechanisms of the body, especially the immune system.

 

Do Emotions Affect Your Health?

A depressed person has a depressed immune system, a happy person a healthier one. Bernie S. Siegel, M.D. has noted that unexpressed feelings depress immune response. In fact, in 1982, two Harvard psychologists, David McClelland and Carol Kirshnit, found that simply watching movies about love increases the level of immunoglobulin-A, a defense against colds and other viral diseases! Another approach is-get a pet!

To boost your immune system, get a pet Whatever the animal-dog, cat, fish or bird-turning your attention outward will help. Just watching a tank of tropical fish or stroking a cat is therapeutic.

 

Can Chiropractic Help Your Immune System?

Doctors of chiropractic analyze your spine to locate vertebral subluxations, a serious condition that causes spinal distortions and interferes with your nervous system function. Over a hundred years of chiropractic and osteopathic observations have demonstrated to many patients that spinal care improves immune function. 5-8 The exact mechanism of how the spine and the nervous system affect the immune system is one of the hottest areas of scientific inquiry. This new field is called psychoneuroimmunology (PNI). Keeping your spine healthy under chiropractic care is one of the best ways of keeping your immune system functioning at its optimum level so you may remain healthy and whole.


One Final Note


According to Leo Buscaglia, insurance companies have found that if a wife kisses her husband good-bye in the morning he has fewer auto accidents and lives five years longer.

 

Postscript


No matter what disease or condition you have, you can benefit from a healthy spine. Spinal health can be as important for your overall healing as proper nutrition. Are you and your family carrying the vertebral subluxation complex in your spines? Only a chiropractic spinal checkup can tell.

Among the many things contributing to your health: the quality of the air, food and water you take in; how you handle emotional stress; your inherited weaknesses and strengths; your use of drugs; exercise; and relaxation-a healthy spine is absolutely essential. In some people it is a major factor and can make the difference between a life of health, strength and vitality or a life of disease, weakness and disability.