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How To Fix The Immune System

In its broadest sense, the immune system comprises all barriers to invaders and all systems designed to attack and destroy any invaders that get past the first line of defense.

The Skin

The skin and fur protect our pet’s delicate insides from the outside.

Essential oils (essential fatty acids, EFAs), especially the anti-inflammatory Omega 3 fats, as well as the nutrients from raw food, help to maintain the integrity of the skin.

When the skin is cut, blood rushes out, flushing out most of the potential invaders, then forms a clot to fill the gap, sealing out any further bugs. White blood cells arrive quickly to destroy anything that shouldn’t be there and the healing process soon creates new skin cells under the protective scab.

Lymph Nodes

The orifices of the bodies of dogs, cats and ourselves are the mouth, nose, ears, anus, urethra and vulva/vagina.

These are all well protected with local lymph nodes, the sentry boxes of the immune system, guarding all potential entrances. The majority of bugs enter through the mouth and nose, so there is a huge concentration of lymphatic tissue (mostly the tonsils) to guard this area.

Function Of Blood

The blood is the body’s main transport system carrying nutrients to the cells, waste products from the cells, red blood cells (oxygen to the cells, carbon dioxide from the cells), platelets (for clotting), white blood cells (immune system) and hormones.

There are many different types of white blood cells (WBCs), each with a specific main function. The exact details of how it all works are very complicated, so I won’t get into that here, but I will explain how to maintain a healthy immune system and why it sometimes is overwhelmed.

The Immune System Response

When an invader gets past the first line of defense and enters the body, the immune system recognizes it as foreign and launches a white blood cell attack on it in various ways.

For example, polymorphonucleocytes (PMNs) engulf (‘eat’) the baddies, mast cells produce histamine which brings lots of fluid to the area to dilute the toxin (the solution to pollution is dilution!), natural killer cells (NK cells) inject the foreign cells (often cancer cells) with porphyrin (an enzyme which makes holes in its membrane to kill it).

Digestive Leucocytosis

After years of eating processed foods, the body’s digestive ability gradually becomes exhausted and inefficient. As a result, incompletely digested food particles get into the blood where they are immediately recognized as foreign and attacked by the white blood cells.

The digestive process is then completed by these white blood cells in the blood! This is clearly not how the body was designed, but it is a survival strategy.

The body has to get nutrients somehow. So the white blood cell count in the blood increases, especially after eating microwaved food. Microwaved food is so damaged, the body doesn’t even recognize it as food (tip: if you have a microwave, either give it to someone you don’t like or throw it away).

Toxins In The Body

So what happens now when an invader invades? The white blood cells are all busy desperately trying to digest food in the blood so have no resources to deal with the invader.

This means that bugs get in and have a field day, wreaking havoc wherever they go. The body pushes some of the toxins (undigested ‘food’ particles) out through the mucous membranes (called vicarious elimination), mainly via the lungs and large bowels, creating symptoms like a runny nose, cough (from mucous and toxins in the lungs), diarrhoea (from toxins leaving through the bowels), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), colitis.

Toxins are also excreted via the skin causing irritation (eczema, psoriasis, dermatitis). Taking drugs to suppress these symptoms is never going to deal with the actual problem.

Strengthen Your Immune Function

The simplest way is to stop putting toxins (processed foods, drinks and drugs) in at the top end (mouth) so the body can get rid of the toxins which have already accumulated in the body and start the process of repair.

For people, Juice Plus or some other digestive enzyme, and for pets, PET Plus, are both great ways of providing the body with the nutrients it needs so it can start to repair itself. Nourish your body with the natural raw ingredients it needs. See ‘What is fat in people and pets? How to get rid of it! for more details.

If you want you and your pets to live a long and healthy life, with few visits to health care professionals, this is the way to do it.

Fat is the storage place for toxins in the body. If the body can’t get rid of a toxin, it has to find somewhere safe to keep it until such time as it can get rid of it. Where better to store a poison than in stable fat cells, which sit there quite happily, going nowhere.

What Is A Toxin?

A toxin, as far as the body is concerned, is anything it can’t use. The beauty of youth is that the body’s mechanisms for dealing with toxins work perfectly, so they are detoxified in the liver and excreted via the bowels, kidneys, breath and sweat.

But as time goes by, these systems are tested to their limit and eventually become less efficient until such point as they fail. So what can the body do to stay alive and not succumb to a slow, intoxicating deterioration and death?

Fat cells are the answer! They are pretty stable storage units. Think of them like long term storage. So the body directs anything toxic to the fat cells, which get bigger and bigger as they accumulate more toxins.

What Can’t The Body Use?

The body finds it tough to use anything that that has been cooked, processed, chemically preserved, artificially created or unnaturally damaged. Anything like this is more difficult for the body to process than natural foods and drinks.

The Good Stuff

The answer lies in nature. Look at nature and do what’s natural, so

  • drink clean, fresh, chemical free water
  • eat clean, fresh, natural, unprocessed food.
  • Go for a walk in the sun
  • Sleep when it’s dark

The Human Digestive Tract

The human digestive tract, starting with the mouth and teeth, is best adapted to natural, raw, ripe fruit, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. It is too long to cope with much animal protein (meat, fish, egg, dairy), so the large bowel gets clogged up with fermenting, degenerating animal products. This produces toxins which have to be either eliminated or stored away.

The Carnivore Digestive Tract

On the other hand, the carnivore’s digestive system is much shorter and perfectly designed to digest other animals in their natural state, in other words, raw meat, bone, offal, guts, fur, toe-nails and all other parts of the body.

Carnivores eat herbivores, mostly. The guts of herbivores are full of chewed, partially digested grass and other vegetable matter. This means that carnivores to get access to pre-digested vegetable matter which is also important for their nutrition.

The Herbivore Digestive Tract

Herbivores have an incredibly long digestive tract, starting with a great set of grinding teeth which pulverize vegetation into a pulp, with a fermentation chamber at the beginning in the case of ruminants like cows, sheep and goats.

Some herbivores such as rabbits, guinea pigs and horses have a fermentation chamber at the end. Horses are designed to eat their faeces at certain times to further break down the plant cell walls (cellulose) releasing more nutrients for absorption.

The Digestive Process, Briefly

Chewing releases the food enzymes contained in the raw food. This starts the digestive process of food breakdown and nutrient absorption into the blood throughout the gut, from the mouth to the colon.

Right at the start, absorption starts to take place in the mouth. This means too that when chemically treated water enters the mouth, many chemicals, notably chlorine, are absorbed right there in a matter of seconds.

So filter the water you and your pets drink and bathe in because absorption through the skin is a reality.

Various enzymes, produced mostly by the pancreas, mix with the gut contents to enhance digestion, releasing nutrients which are absorbed into the blood. These nutrients are carried to the cells to fuel the body’s activities.

Shifting The Toxins And Therefore The Fat

Clean, chemical free water is an essential route for toxins to get out of the body. So a human needs about 2 litres of water daily. This should produce in a human, 6-12 clear wees a day.

Make sure all pets have a plentiful supply of clean, chemical free water at all times. You will need to get a water filter.

To remove the toxins from the fat cells requires enzymes and energy. Raw food is the only supply of enzymes to the body, so whatever you and your pets choose to eat, eat it raw!

An easy way to get a massive supply of raw micronutrients and enzymes is to take digestive enzymes such as Juice Plus as humans and to give PET Plus to our dogs and cats. I have been doing this for 20 years and know it works!

As fat cells are not very active, they have a poor blood supply, so exercise is essential to increase the blood flow which takes nutrients to the cells and removes the toxins that the cells have released, allowing them to shrink a bit every time.

An hour’s brisk walk apparently produces enough fat removing enzymes (lipase) to last 12 hours.

Sleep enough so you don’t need to take stimulants to stay awake! (Caffeine, sugar and salt are the commonest). Contact me if you need some help for yourself or your pet.