Before you learn how you can defend your immune system from foreign invaders, you must first understand how your immune system works. When you do this you can use several tools, including visualization and meditation techniques to improve your body’s health and ability to fight disease, no matter its origin.

Our immune systems are central to our livelihood. When we care for them properly, they do exactly as we want them to. Even if we fall ill, when we are healthy most of the time, our bodies respond by fighting diseases and bacterial agents much harder.

Since most people probably haven’t taken a biology or anatomy class for some time, let’s stop for a moment to find out how the immune system works.

It is really quite easy, easier than most people think. Continue reading →

Your immune system may be compromised in many ways. Here are some reasons your body may not jump to attack an infection or disease they way you think it should.

It sounds a bit technical, but when you look at your immune system as a complex machine, which it is, you are more likely to take care of and fine tune it. You would put oil in your car if it needed it, wouldn’t you? The same premise applies here. You have to care for your body just as you would any other appliance or other object that belongs to you (that you care about).

If you don’t care for your body and perform maintenance checks (annual physicals) you are more likely to develop illnesses that you might have been able to prevent. Your doctor may find something comes up in your blood tests that you may not have known had you not visited the doctor to begin with. Continue reading →