Immunity: examining nutraceuticals that can boost or modulate the body's defenses.

Nutraceuticals World | July 1, 2002| | Copyright

Immunity is all about balance. One minor disruption in that balance can propel an individual toward sickness, or in the most severe cases, death. According to Activate Your Immune System by Leonid Ber and Karolyn Gazella, the immune system holds the key to optimum health as it determines if one will get the flu, how long allergy symptoms will last, and even if one will succumb to the ravages of cancer or AIDS. In large part the immune system will dictate how one lives and how one will die.

On a daily basis humans are bombarded with several pathogens, most of which ...

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