POTENTIAL WITHIN Your Immune System

Empowering immunity against microbe assault

With the world anxiously awaiting protection against pandemic, the scientific community is fastidiously working to prepare immunization against the next microbial attack.  It seems that we’re always on the verge of pandemic; and always on high alert producing a vaccine for the next global attack by microbes; and once we’re successful the next step is in identifying when, not if, the next attack will assault humanity.  Bacteria and viruses are on a continuous evolution that reliably recycles their veracity with greater danger each time they assault mankind.  The fear is never eliminated but we are forced to take a reactive role if we choose conventional treatment.  As much as vaccination appears to be preventive it is a reactive system in its initial stages.

In addition, as much as we can anticipate seasonal flu, we are not able to anticipate the evolution of that viral superstrain that comes around less predictably.  The solution to this immune problem is to step out of complacency.  The solution to our problem is individual proactivity.  This means you must become ACTIVELY involved in managing your health and the health of loved ones close to you.

The tools are now available for powerful disease prevention and immune system correction.  With this we must take responsibility for our health to use vaccination and antibiotics as secondary reactive treatments.  While we wait for the next form of immunization we must empower the immune system to prevent initial infiltration of pathogens.  Boosting immune system accuracy and strength will also maximize immunization from vaccination if this form of protection is chosen. Inadvertently boosting immunity is not the answer for those with autoimmunity.  Boosting accuracy is the answer for all of us.

We have seen the emergence and devastating re-emergence of Spanish Flu, Hong Kong Flu, Asian Flu, SARS and others.  Species-specific viruses are jumping from lower species to humans with greater frequency: Mad Cow Disease, Avian Flu and more recently Swine Flu.  Species jumping for these microbes will become more common as our global human population overflows into proximate animal habitats.  The combination of closer proximity and compromised human immunity due to our man-made stresses and chemicals sets the stage for successful transfer.  These jumping strains are frequently the most devastating since they are new to our immune systems. Without any form of natural immunization against these new strains the body cannot mount a defensive attack fast enough and before we know it the infection spreads like wildfire.

It’s interesting to note that many of the bug strains that have posed as global threats to humanity are often strains that have jumped from species that may have carried them for hundreds of years.  The SARS virus that made its way to North America through Toronto first made it to humans in China in 2002.  After much investigation it was traced back to bats.  From bats it was transferred to animals that were slaughtered and eaten by humans in China.  Eventually it jumped to humans who had no antibody protection against it.  Avian flu (H5N1) is even more feared.  This virus will devastate human populations if it crosses over to humans with greater success than it has in the past and the real question is not “IF” it will but more “WHEN” it will jump with force.  This virus thrives in birds but does not produce significant symptoms.  The problem is that humans and chickens, for example, live in close proximity.  This especially more common in third world countries and fast evolving countries like China and India providing the setting for species jumping.  From these inception sites, the virus could travel fast across populations and across borders.

In addition to the few examples we know of and have been exposed to, there are thousands more idling silently in animals everywhere in our intimate family circles and outside our social circles.  We’ve also seen strains cycle back to attack us with mass devastation over and over again and at times with an apparent latent period of almost one hundred years.  The latent period is often the time the microbe needs to restructure its genetic program so it can penetrate mankind on a surprise assault and evade the unprepared immune system.  Complacency is a dangerous practice.  Preparing the immune system with heightened concentrations of antimicrobial peptides and accurate immune system attack is key to individual survival and prevention of pandemic.

Our body is equipped with the genetic tools to resist these microbes; it’s why some people survive attack and resist the microbes.  What makes one person different from another?  Often times age and general health play a role.  But all of this boils down to immune system condition.  Nutrigenomic strategies within this book are designed to keep these defensive genetic codes primed and active; and to guide them with a new level of accuracy that keeps them aimed at foreign invaders, not healthy host cells.  They prompt the body to produce more of those important antimicrobial peptides that saturate mucosal secretions.  These first contact points are where the attacks can be stopped before they penetrate further into the body.

In addition to how these viruses invade, the method in which these viruses fool the body and create their symptoms is also evolving.  Some strains like the Avian Flu literally over-stimulate the immune cells so they overproduce cytokines in the target tissues.  In the case of Avian Flu these tissues are those of the respiratory tract.  The accelerated cytokine activity results in dangerously intense inflammation that destroys the tissues and their function; in this case the lungs.  Avian Flu did cross over to humans recently but the strain was not successful on this attempt. However, it will, undoubtedly, strike again.  Our nutrigenomic programs help keep these inflammatory hormones and signalling cytokines in check with healthy genetic instruction and on track instead of allowing them to be easily thrown off line by the virus’ genetic instructions.  This support improves the body’s ability to control those inflammatory hormones despite the virus’ attempts to override and take over.  That is, if the virus gets through the first line if innate (first contact) defence.

The Spanish Flu of 1918-1919 is another example of devastation by superbug.  This virus is very similar to the virus we’ve more recently been challenged by on a global level – H1N1. It is said to have killed as many as 50 million people in 1918; almost one and a half times the population of Canada in 2009.  In this year, this H1N1 strain assaults humanity again to be labeled Swine Flu since it made its way to man from pigs.  We will be attacked by more of these resistant and hardy strains more often in the years to come and they’ll begin to come at us from unexpected routes.  These new strains will cause far more havoc than the 2009 H1N1 scare.

.You are responsible for preparing, aiming and guiding your own immunity.  You have an obligation to humanity to do so because failing to do so allows your body to be a conduit for microbial conveyance to others.  Take charge and take responsibility for your part in the global scheme.

Stand by for this latest nutrigenomic breakthrough – POTENTIAL WITHIN Your Immune System!

Researched, developed, clinically applied and reported by Prof Franco Cavaleri BSc NB