Defining the Immune System
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Direct Immune System: White Blood Cells Production; marrow, spleen, thymus Distribution: Lymph and blood Coordination: bacteria, dendritic and endothelial cells. Indirect Immune System: Intestines, pancreas, liver & bile flow |
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The immune system has more functions than just fighting colds and infections:
It performs many functions involving other organs:
The immune systems is generally thought of as something that fights infections or cancer, but even then boosting it is often ignored for just trying to take things that directly kill candida, parasites, bacteria and viruses.
Downplaying the immune system is partly due to the complexity that leaves people overwhelmed, that I would like to explain better with a simple outline.
Seeing how many organs are involved in the immune system helps to understand why I like to start with basic nutritional deficiencies for every cell of very organ for every function and symptom.
The Direct Immune System that Supports White Blood Cells
White Blood Cells are the core of what is known as the immune system that do the final work and come in wide variety.
Organs producing white blood cells are the bone marrow, spleen, and thymus.
The lymph system is watery vessels for circulation of waste, toxins and pathogens out with volume larger than blood. The lymph system has nodes where white blood cells attack pathogens.
There are other specialized tissues as part of the lymph system concentrated around the gut: From the mouth down: tonsils, adenoids, Peyers patches, and appendix. Most of immune activity is in the gut which is technically an external environment with more DNA diversity in bacteria and yeast than in our entire bodies.
Communication for Coordination: Bacteria, Dendritic Cells, Endothelium
The police officers of the immune system white blood cells need good citizens to call 911 when the home invasion starts at a specific location.
Our own cells that signal white blood cells where to go are dendritic and endothelial.
Good bacteria or probiotics also signal the white blood cell police when pathogens or toxins show-up. This is fascinating and we can imagine the problem if pathogenic bacteria or fungus have taken over the neighborhood and are like gangs that won’t let you call the police or punish you if you do. Pathogens may even scramble communication or lie so that the police go after innocent people—this is what I suspect is a cause of autoimmunity, but more research needs to be done.
Pathogens have an agenda to keep the immune systems weak so that they can survive. It’s not always clear how they do this but sometimes they seem to have an intelligence that they should not be able to have.
The Indirect Immune System as Functions of Protection and Clean Up.
These organs don’t utilize white blood cells to perform functions but work toward the same purposes of fighting infection, toxicity, and cell recycling.
Intestinal Barrier
Barriers of the skin, gut lining, sinuses, and mucosal secretions are protective.
Our largest surface area is actually the intestines with their contoured villi that are many times the size of the skin.
When the gut lining is porous we have leaky gut and toxins like LPS leak through in the blood to put a huge burden on the immune system—like LPS that is produced by bacteria. A healthy gut lining is renewed by the good bacteria Akermansia that performs recycling similar to what white blood cells do elsewhere.
Pancreas
One major role of the pancreas is to secrete digestive enzymes.
The enzyme protease for digesting protein foods is also released to dissolve other things like fibrin that is use to repair damaged tissues short term but can accumulate in the blood and create obstruction contributing to high blood pressure.
Proteases can also break through the protein coating on cancer cells and tumors that protect them from white blood cells. This is the first step to cancer treatment in some German protocols and enable less chemo to be used. The Gonzales protocol treated cancer by rebuilding the pancreas with pancreas meat.
The sugar digesting enzyme amylase found in the pancreas is also used in candida fighting supplements to digest bioflims that are used by pathogens as shields against the immune system. Biofilms are held together by the polysaccharide sugars joined with iron, calcium, and heavy metals.
Liver and Bile
The liver secretes bile through ducts and the gallbladder to excrete toxins and digest fats.
Bile also helps kill pathogens in the upper intestine. Dr Chris Shade believes that sibo is a condition of bile flow insufficiency.
Nutrient Deficiencies
Once you see how many organs are involved in the functions of immunity, you can appreciate why I always focus first on deficiencies of nutrients--minerals, vitamins, proteins, fats, sun, etc-- for every cell of every organ for every function for every symptom.
The connection to each symptom is not always direct or obvious but when the body has all the nutrients it can start to heal itself.
The body is only as strong as its weakest links.
It performs many functions involving other organs:
- Fights invaders: infectious pathogens and toxins.
- Upgrades and eliminates weak cells and waste, including fat cells and cancer cells. This can be related to detoxification and weight loss.
The immune systems is generally thought of as something that fights infections or cancer, but even then boosting it is often ignored for just trying to take things that directly kill candida, parasites, bacteria and viruses.
Downplaying the immune system is partly due to the complexity that leaves people overwhelmed, that I would like to explain better with a simple outline.
Seeing how many organs are involved in the immune system helps to understand why I like to start with basic nutritional deficiencies for every cell of very organ for every function and symptom.
The Direct Immune System that Supports White Blood Cells
White Blood Cells are the core of what is known as the immune system that do the final work and come in wide variety.
Organs producing white blood cells are the bone marrow, spleen, and thymus.
The lymph system is watery vessels for circulation of waste, toxins and pathogens out with volume larger than blood. The lymph system has nodes where white blood cells attack pathogens.
There are other specialized tissues as part of the lymph system concentrated around the gut: From the mouth down: tonsils, adenoids, Peyers patches, and appendix. Most of immune activity is in the gut which is technically an external environment with more DNA diversity in bacteria and yeast than in our entire bodies.
Communication for Coordination: Bacteria, Dendritic Cells, Endothelium
The police officers of the immune system white blood cells need good citizens to call 911 when the home invasion starts at a specific location.
Our own cells that signal white blood cells where to go are dendritic and endothelial.
Good bacteria or probiotics also signal the white blood cell police when pathogens or toxins show-up. This is fascinating and we can imagine the problem if pathogenic bacteria or fungus have taken over the neighborhood and are like gangs that won’t let you call the police or punish you if you do. Pathogens may even scramble communication or lie so that the police go after innocent people—this is what I suspect is a cause of autoimmunity, but more research needs to be done.
Pathogens have an agenda to keep the immune systems weak so that they can survive. It’s not always clear how they do this but sometimes they seem to have an intelligence that they should not be able to have.
The Indirect Immune System as Functions of Protection and Clean Up.
These organs don’t utilize white blood cells to perform functions but work toward the same purposes of fighting infection, toxicity, and cell recycling.
Intestinal Barrier
Barriers of the skin, gut lining, sinuses, and mucosal secretions are protective.
Our largest surface area is actually the intestines with their contoured villi that are many times the size of the skin.
When the gut lining is porous we have leaky gut and toxins like LPS leak through in the blood to put a huge burden on the immune system—like LPS that is produced by bacteria. A healthy gut lining is renewed by the good bacteria Akermansia that performs recycling similar to what white blood cells do elsewhere.
Pancreas
One major role of the pancreas is to secrete digestive enzymes.
The enzyme protease for digesting protein foods is also released to dissolve other things like fibrin that is use to repair damaged tissues short term but can accumulate in the blood and create obstruction contributing to high blood pressure.
Proteases can also break through the protein coating on cancer cells and tumors that protect them from white blood cells. This is the first step to cancer treatment in some German protocols and enable less chemo to be used. The Gonzales protocol treated cancer by rebuilding the pancreas with pancreas meat.
The sugar digesting enzyme amylase found in the pancreas is also used in candida fighting supplements to digest bioflims that are used by pathogens as shields against the immune system. Biofilms are held together by the polysaccharide sugars joined with iron, calcium, and heavy metals.
Liver and Bile
The liver secretes bile through ducts and the gallbladder to excrete toxins and digest fats.
Bile also helps kill pathogens in the upper intestine. Dr Chris Shade believes that sibo is a condition of bile flow insufficiency.
Nutrient Deficiencies
Once you see how many organs are involved in the functions of immunity, you can appreciate why I always focus first on deficiencies of nutrients--minerals, vitamins, proteins, fats, sun, etc-- for every cell of every organ for every function for every symptom.
The connection to each symptom is not always direct or obvious but when the body has all the nutrients it can start to heal itself.
The body is only as strong as its weakest links.
Eat to energize, detoxify & immunize.
Move to circulate, align, & relax.
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