immune system
Functional Foods for Immune Support
The COVID-19 pandemic heightened consumer interest in immune health, leading to an increased demand for functional foods that support the immune system. A survey indicated that 60 percent of respondents purchased fruits or vegetables, and 44 percent bought supplements in capsule form to proactively support their immune health.1 What once was a seasonal spike in ...
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[Extra! Extra!] Synergistic Nutrients Offer Proven Benefits
While it’s easy to theorize that synergistic combination products may have health benefits, proving those benefits is another matter entirely. A 2019 systemic review in the Journal of Ethnic Foods found that various synergistic foods can be combined to boost the immune system, prevent infections, increase the bioavailability of various nutrients, reduce chronic disease, and ...
Sponsored Content: Boosting Immune Health by Protecting Against Toxins with Glucarate
Introduction Maintaining our immune health is crucial for the prevention of illness. While people are familiar with “boosting the immune system” by taking vitamins to fend off cold & flu, it is equally important to defend the body against harmful toxins, chemicals, and other pollutants that can cause an immune response. Every day we are ...
The Immune System Also Helps a Healthy Body
New research shows the immune system is also busy when one is perfectly healthy. For instance, it helps the body convert fat into energy during fasting, according to researchers from the University of Southern Denmark. The immune system continues to work hard even when not challenged by an incoming pathogen or virus. This is shown ...
Supporting Immunity
The pandemic has caused worldwide concern—and that stress has caused the greatest need ever for effective immune-support products. Without a doubt, the current pandemic has changed how people worldwide view protecting their health. Immunity. Immune system. These terms are at the forefront of public consciousness more than ever before. But there’s something that the pandemic ...
Inflammation Nation
Inflammation is part of the body’s defense mechanism where the immune system identifies and eliminates stimuli that is harmful to the body and then starts the healing process. Generally, there are two types of inflammation: acute, which is short-term inflammation and may last for a few days. Chronic inflammation, on the other hand, is slow, ...
Does Exercise Help or Hurt Your Immune System?
It is well known that exercise has a positive relationship with overall human health, likely as a consequence of our evolutionary history where athletic endurance was a competitive edge over other species.1 As present-day elite athletes strive to push the limits of human physiology, scientists have undertaken research to understand the effects of exercise on ...
Ebola Protein Blocks Early Step in Body’s Counterattack on Virus
According to a paper published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe,1 there is a mechanism unique to the Ebola virus that defeats attempts by interferon to block viral reproduction in infected cells. According to a report on Science Daily, one of the body’s first responses to a viral infection is to make signaling proteins ...
Immune Defense
Innovation and science are behind the continued growth of the immune health category.The body’s defender against infection and illness, the immune system is a network of cells, tissues and organs that work together to protect the body from anything that threatens its ability to function normally. When the immune system is healthy, it does just ...
Mad About Mushrooms
Medicinal mushrooms have been used for thousands of years in traditional medicine.The Ancient Egyptians associated mushrooms with immortality and considered mushrooms a special food for royalty. And in Asia, mushrooms were thought to promote health and longevity.Today, more than 14,000 mushrooms have been identified in the world. Of that number, approximately 3,000 are edible by ...
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