There are many herbs and other supplements that build your immune system naturally. That primordial line of "biological-soldiers", known as your immune system, that stand ready to viciously destroy anything that comes into your body that is foreign to it. Through stress, poor diet, lack of sleep, and environmental stressess, including oxidation, the immune system can weaken. This weakening of the immune system, over varied periods of time, can lead to cancer cells that the body normally destroys suddenly developing into malignant and non-malignant tumors, or other pathogens replicating until the body is sick with the flu or other pathogenic disorders.

Beta 1,3/1,6-D-Glucans, polysaccharides, that are basically just a complex sugar molecule, found in mushrooms such as reishi, maitake and cordyceps are excellent immune stimulators, making all aspects it work far better and more efficiently-several times better-by modulating and tuning up the immune system. This natural enhancement of the immune system can be a powerful ally for somebody who has cancer, where a weakened immune system has allowed malignant or non-malignant tumor cells to proliferate in the first place, subsequently causing the immune system to significantly weaken or collapse. Bringing the immune system up to par and beyond can not only inhibit the growth of the tumor, but also help prevent it from happening in the first place, and many other immune system foes, such as viruses and bacterial infections.

Zinc and Selenium, two minerals found in food and supplement form, also help keep your immune system working properly; they working synergestically with the immune system components. Research into Vitamin 'C', pioneered by Nobelist Dr. Linus Pauling, helps the body produce interferon, a natural substance the body produces that can kill viruses, bacteria and cancer cells. Garlic, known euphemistically as "the Russian pennicilin", was used by doctors in WWI to treat wounds because of its wonderful antiseptic properties. It has been used to treat many viral and bacterial infection.

COQ10-research pioneered by Dr. Karl Folkers-which is another natural immune booster-increases the supply of energy to the cellular mitochrondria, enabling the body to fight cancers and other infections by maintaining the efficacy of the immune system. The immune system, although primordial in its origins, is very evolved and exceedingly complicated as it stands guard throughout the immune system. Proper rest, diet and nutrional supplementation should help maintain the efficacy of the immune system throughout the life of the human organism-greatly reducing or eliminating flus, colds and cancers-which basically proliferate through a weakened immune system.

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