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8 Foods That Help Boost The Immune System

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Immune System Boost

A healthy immune system is super important for living a happy and healthy life. With the COVID – 19 virus and all the other illnesses going around this is a great time to give your immune system a natural boost.

1. Broccoli

Broccoli is a great immune system booster. It is packed with vitamins A, C and E. We like to lightly steam it and serve it with rice.

2. Citrus Fruits

Citrus fruits are high in vitamin C which has been thought to increase your white blood cells. White blood cells are an important part of your immune system. They are great as a snack or juice.

3. Garlic

The health properties of garlic has been known for centuries. It contains calcium, potassium and over 100 sulfuric compounds which really gives it the anti-bacteria and parasite killing properties garlic is known for.

4. Ginger

We eat a lot of ginger. I love it in a carrot, apple and ginger juice. Ginger is great for helping to reduce inflammation. We add ginger to our juices and love it with sushi.

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5. Green Tea

Green tea has a lot of antioxidant properties and contains polyphenols which help reduce inflammation. You can get green tea extracts (which is also known to help with weight control) or just have a nice cup of tea.

6. Red Bell Peppers

The red bell pepper contains almost twice the vitamin C that citrus fruits do. We use these in stir fry dishes or just cut them up and eat them raw.

7. Spinach

Spinach has a lot of vitamin C, beta carotene and antioxidants. We like to lightly steam it or mix it into a salad with other greens. It is also a main ingredient in our daily green juice.

8. Turmeric

We go through a lot of turmeric. This is a great spice that helps to reduce inflammation and the curcumin may help you fight off a number of viruses, including herpes and the flu.

Combine Everything

It is more important now than ever to keep your immune system functioning well. A healthy immune system can fight almost any disease. The best way to keep yours healthy is to consume a variety of healthy foods, vitamins and keep active.

What do you do to keep you healthy?

 

Some Vaccines Are Contaminated

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Commercial Vaccines Are Contaminated

Professor Garth Nicolson discusses recent studies that show some forms of contamination in vaccines scheduled for children. He also discusses Gulf War Syndrome and how that could be tied to contamination of vaccines in the military.

iHealthTube.com – Are Some Vaccines Contaminated?

We know that many of the commercial vaccines are contaminated as opposed to molecular vaccine development, which does not involve the contamination or the potential for contamination. People have tested them and found things like mycoplasma, for example, in commercial vaccines. Unfortunately, the testing, the examination of various lots of vaccines is not careful enough to get the identify all of the vaccine lots that might be problematic. Therefore, we have some of these that slip through and cause a problem. For example, one study showed that six percent of commercial vaccines in the group that they studied were contaminated with mycoplasma. This is a very dangerous situation.

The problem with people given too many vaccines at once is that that’s very immunosuppressing. For example, after the first Gulf War, personnel that were deployed to Kuwait Theater of Operations were given sometimes as many as 20 or 30 vaccines all in a three day period. That’s extremely immunosuppressing, and if any of those vaccines are contaminated, and we think that some probably were, then they could come down with a disease. Over half of the Gulf War illness cases, after the first Gulf War, we think were caused by contamination with mycoplasma. But this can occur in normal vaccines that are given, for example, to children.

If children are given a lot of vaccines at once, it’s very immunosuppressive. So if there’s any possible contamination, then there’s a possibility that they could come down with a disease from that vaccination schedule. So I’m all for favoring stretching these things out and not giving so many vaccines all at once. But that’s not the trend. The trend is to truncate vaccination schedules and give more and more vaccines at once, and I think that’s absolutely the worst thing that we could do to children.