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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Your Best Defense System!

In every split of a second, there’s a war… Well, I’m not talking about those guns, goons, terrorism or bombing. Because aside from these world wars caused by man, there’s also an inner-war that needs global concern and understanding. This is war against cancer cells inside your bodies. But like every state and country, your body has also its natural set of enemies.

Every single cell in your body has its own built-in defense system called “glutathione”. The good thing here is that, each cell produces it! Your immune system is highly dependent on your cells producing glutathione to aid in the prevention of all illness and diseases.

Glutathione is the cell’s protection against free radical damages and DNA changes. A cell’s defense system weakens as the level of glutathione lowers. It is then that free radicals damage the cell that’s why they mutate and start to multiply out of control. This leads to a “tumor” or “growth”. When you have low glutathione levels, the mutated cells can turn to cancer because the immune system can no longer do its job. But having a high glutathione level means having a strong immune system that can recognize an “injured” and “mutated” cells, thus, neutralizing them.

It is important to know that a mutated cell that has become a cancer cell nourished itself by feeding on the glutathione of the healthy cells. So as the cancer cells become stronger, the healthy cells become stronger, the healthy cells become weaker. Therefore, when one’s cancer cells are introduced to chemotherapy which is a means of boosting the immune system, it is the normal cells that have been originally drained of glutathione by the cancer cells that take the beating, This is the reason why one feels so sick after he underwent a chemotherapy.

Meanwhile, the once normal cell A that has been weakened by cell B, is also expose to the poison and radiation of chemotherapy. Even if you manage to somehow recover from the first cancer, your immune system is severely damage by the radiation or chemotherapy, that it can’t do its job. The cell A has become so susceptible to free radical damage, that within 1 to 4 years, it will also fail and become a secondary cancer with even more strength than the primary.

Obviously, the key here is to increase the glutathione levels in your body. With this, the immune system will be strengthened and can destroy the mutated cell. But glutathione, which naturally builds up the immune system, has to come from within the cells themselves, and manufactured by the cells.

Here’s another fact: Antioxidant vitamins C and E should not be taken during chemotherapy treatment. It’s true that they are also immune system boosters too. But cancer cells are already stronger than the normal cells so these antioxidants in pill form only adds to their defense system against treatment by chemotherapy.

The discovery of glutathione’s importance in optimizing your immune system led to the discovery and development of Immunocal.

Glutathione is made up of three protein building blocks called amino acids. These are the glutamic acid, cysteine acid and glycine acid. The cysteine amino acid, particularly, contains a sulfur group that is responsible for the chemical properties of the whole glutathione protein.

Glutathione acts as an antioxidant, an immune system booster and detoxifier. That’s why even cells in the healthiest of bodies need to replenish their glutathione levels and supply.

As an antioxidant, glutathione participates directly in the destruction of reactive oxygen compounds called free radicals. These compounds can’t be avoided because they are by-products of a cell’s normal function. But then, exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun or other sources promotes their emergence. Antioxidants depend on glutathione to function properly that’s why it is called the “Master Antioxidant”.

As an immune booster, glutathione helps build your immune system’s resistance. Lymphocytes are cells of your immune system. Glutathione is essential for lymphocytes to increase in number, produce antibodies and function efficiently.

Glutathione is also a supplemental detoxifier which helps to counter the effects of toxins we inhale and ingest. Glutathione helps in making the toxic compounds soluble by physically binding soluble by physically binding to them. The body can then eliminate these harmful toxins in the bile and urine.

You can’t ingest glutathione to feed it to your cells. So the fact that glutathione must be manufactured within your cells. The question now is, how can you raise glutathione levels in your body?

You can help this natural process to occur by giving your body the glutathione building blocks it needs. Cysteine amino acid is the limiting factor in your daily intake of building block.

Cysteine will be poorly absorbed by the body and very little of it will actually make the trip from our mouths to our cells if it travels alone as an amino acid through our digestive system. Cysteine molecules can only survive the process if they bind to each other or travel in pairs. As they form a bond between sulfur molecules, “cysteine” amino acids are then called “cysteine.” This sulfur bond is resistant to the digestive process, but they can be easily broken if submitted to heat or mechanical stress.

Now that you are aware of the daily wars happening inside your body and you already knew that you have a natural defense system against diseases and illness, go and help these natural armies to fight against the inner monster called cancer.

By EasyArticles.com

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