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Hi-Ho, Silver – Powerful Immune Support

A new study published in JAMA is sure to have an unintended result – dramatically boosting the sales of colloidal silver around the country as a powerful immune support mineral. The study was actually about the use of silver-coated tubes in hospital patients, and it showed a 36 percent reduction of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), with a 48% reduction over the first 10 days (the common length of tube use for many).

Read More:  bacteria, Colloidal Silver, infection, silver

Zinc Deficiency Sets the Stage for Toxic Shock and Organ Damage

Zinc is required for healthy immune function. A new study shows that a small lack of zinc handicaps the ability to respond to a septic infection, resulting in significant inflammation, organ damage, and increased mortality. Over 750,000 Americans suffer serious and often fatal sepsis-related problems every year that could drastically be reduced by taking zinc.

Read More:  infection, mortality, sepsis, Strengthener Plus, Zinc

Fighting an Infection Worsens Alzheimer’s

Scientists now show that an acute inflammatory challenge, such as fighting an infection, can significantly worsen the cognitive status in an Alzheimer’s patient. The underlying message of this study is a major wake up call for all middle-aged Americans.

Read More:  Acetyl-L-Carnitine, Alzheimer's, cognitive decline, Immune Plus, infection, PhosphatidylSerine PS, Super Immune Booster™, Vitamin C

Childhood Germ Exposure Improves Future Health

We are entering one of those phases in scientific history when old beliefs and paradigms crumble. The evidence of a cataclysmic shift is everywhere. One case in point is a new study showing that exposure to infectious germs as a child conditions the immune system to be more fit, resulting in less later life inflammation (much lower CRP) and therefore a significantly less risk for cardiovascular disease (not to mention a host of other inflammation-driven aging-related health issues). Of course, such a finding drives the germ-paranoid public health system wacky – as the fading paradigm of Western medicine is based on stamping out germs at all costs.

Read More:  children, Daily Protein Plus™, furture health, germs, infection, Super Immune Booster™, Vitamin C

How Stress Can Turn Germs Hostile

It has long been known that stress has a direct immuno-suppressive effect. New research is demonstrating another angle on this issue; stress can turn on gene switches in bacteria that turns them from harmless to hostile.

Read More:  adrenaline, Digestive Helper, E. coli, GI Soother, infection, Quercetin

Germ Gangs Block Weight Loss – The Leptin Diet Weight Loss Challenge #5

The metabolic flu weakens your host defenses. This enables germ gangs to take up unwanted residence. Your immune system can’t get rid of them and struggles to keep them in their existing neighborhoods. Some of these germ gangs live within your digestive tract, lungs, or sinuses. Some even live in your white adipose tissue. The net result is increased tissue damage, higher levels of inflammation, higher levels of toxic exposure, food sensitivities, greater risk for immune system malfunction, and significantly more trouble engaging weight loss or sustaining a weight loss program.

Read More:  adnovirus-36, Candida albicans, germ gangs, H. pylori, infection, metabolic flu, obesity, weight loss

The Stunning Immune Power of Lactoferrin

Lactoferrin is one of the most powerful immune support nutrients known. It is not only vital to your defense against any type of infection; it also helps keep your immune system from overheating with too much inflammation. Lactoferrin is a vital component of breast milk and largely responsible for defending the human race against infection in our most vulnerable members. Bovine lactoferrin is quite similar to human lactoferrin and readily available in colostrum, whey protein, and in a purified form from whey protein. Hundreds of studies show lactoferrin is a potent antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral and parasite killing compound. New information is now showing that lactoferrin is a manager of immune cells, helping to optimize and coordinate their attack on enemies while preventing inappropriate immune system excess. This is a drastic difference from Stone Age medicine that seeks to apply some sort of toxin to a germ to kill it. This is an immune compound with a brain, an active regulator of healthy immunity.

Read More:  autoimmune, dendritic cells, immunity, infection, inflammation, lactoferrin