The Immune System Is A Remarkable Protection Mechanism.

The immune system works around the clock enabling you to survive in an ecosystem that is swarming with millions of bacteria, viruses, fungi, microbes, parasites and harmful chemicals.

The most treacherous invaders are those that attack from within your own body. According to Dr Michael A Weiner of Maximum Immunity (Gateway Books 1986)

It is probable that cancer cells are produced spontaneously in everyone’s body, but in most people the immune system is able to identify and eliminate these cells before they grow out of control.
The immune system works around the clock supported by the;

•Spleen (filters the blood, destroys bacteria and worn out red blood cells)

•Lymph nodes (isolate infections and store immune cells)

•Adenoids, tonsils and appendix (assist lymph nodes)

•Bone marrow (produce stem cells from which all immune cells originate)

•Liver (produces lymph and kupffer cells that disarm bacteria, yeast and toxins)

•Skin and mucous membranes (immune systems first line of defense)

•Intestine (allows completely digested food to pass into the blood stream)

•Thymus gland (produces T cells and differentiates between friend and foe)

Your thymus is located beneath the breastbone next to the heart. Its role in immunity is to produce T cells which interact with B cells to attack invading microbes. B cells are derived from your bone marrow, and together with T cells, are incredibly skillful at recognizing a potential enemy.

They produce antibodies and call upon other cells to do the same. The body produces millions of different kinds of antibodies and each works against a different kind of invader.

Should a foreign body penetrate your skin or mucous membranes (as would commonly happen in a serious injury) and bypass the antimicrobial substances in your blood, the T cells can call upon another group of white blood cells to destroy the bacteria or malignancy.

The T cells also produce a group of hormone like substances which are considered to be the natural drugs of the immune system, and the cancer fighting substance called interferon, is an example.

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