The greatest strength that your body possesses? Your immune system.

Your body has an astonishing power, and that power is your immune system. But we usually think of it the way that we think of breathing in oxygen: it's really no big deal until it suddenly isn't working. Yet without this incredible biochemical power, we would decay completely in only a couple of weeks. Think about that for a while!

Consider a body that dies and no longer has this system. If left exposed to the normal elements, how long does it last without that system? Not long at all. Immediately, it is invaded by hordes of bacteria, parasites, and microbes that consume the tissues. It only takes a few days for the face and body to become unrecognizable to those who knew the living person the best. A couple of weeks later, the body is completely gone. All, that's left is bones where once, only a few weeks before, there had been a breathing,thinking soul.

While you are alive, it is your immune system that keeps you that way. Those microbes, bacteria, and parasites that show up at your death don't suddenly receive a memo saying that someone died and it's time for a feast. They are always, always invading our bodies. But our immune systems block them, fight them, catch them, expel them--and this goes on and on until the day we die.

Sometimes an invading microbe or something like that gets past the system because it has been compromised. We know this has happened because we become sick or don't feel well. This is when we rest, "take it easy", and let our biochemical powerhouse track down and kill and expel the invader so that over time we feel healthy again. Or, we might need to use medicine to help out our body.

You will get sick more often when the immune system is weakened. This is generally a side effect of the rest of your body being unhealthy. When you don't eat, drink, or sleep properly, your white blood cell count becomes lower and more germs slip through the "net" of your immune responses. This also happens when your body is unusually cold, when you have nutritional deficiencies, or when your body is busy dealing with another infection.

The immune system is a complex defense mechanism that protects the body from illness and infection through an intricate network of cells. This system is constantly working, day and night, to keep the body healthy and safe. It is important to note that the immune system is just as complex as the brain. It is powerful, diverse, innovative, and specific. Most importantly, its complex cells can distinguish between non-self entities and self.

How do we make ourselves unhealthy? Well, if we don't take care of ourselves, we become unhealthy, and we tax our system--we put demands on it that it cannot handle. We may not get enough physical exercise or enough sleep. We may have poor diets that are out of balance. Perhaps we get lots of refined sugar but little fruits and vegetables. We may smoke. We may drink alcohol in excess. All of these lifestyle factors mean that we are taxing our system heavily, making its functioning that much more difficult to sustain and letting us have a higher risk of illness.

Our body has a defense mechanism more efficient, stronger and more organized than the strongest armies in the world. The best ways to keep your immune healthy, use high quality nutritional supplements, follow a healthy Diet and exercise regularly.

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