Osteoporosis is a common bone disease especially among women from menopause onwards. Every second woman after menopause will start her. It is a serious disease that is manifested in fractures of the skeletal bones when the most dangerous fracture is actually the femoral neck. 25% of the women who will be affected by this crisis…
What is GABA? Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is an amino acid that the body produces naturally. However when scientists discuss it, they rarely refer to as an amino acid. When the term amino acid is used in the medical community they are usually discussing “Alpha Amino Acids”, and GABA does not fall into that classification, and…
Malfunction or disorders of the immune system can be caused by severe malnutrition especially protein starvation, through drugs and infections, overreactive response from the immune system or is a born condition. Therefore malfunction or disorders of the immune system can come under the four categories of:
autoimmune disorders (the body's own immune system attacks its own…
When we think of immune system response, we tend to focus on the internal working of the immune system namely how our body produces antibodies and mobilise other immune cells like the natural killer cells to destroy the invaders.
However, we must remember that our first line of defense is our innate immunity that is our skin, nose,…
These organs of the immune system produce, develop and disseminate the lymphocytes, one of five types of white blood cells, which will recognise and fight infection and diseases.
The blood and lymphatic vessels are an important part of the lymphoid organs because they carry the lymphocytes to and from different parts of the body.
Lymphoid…
The immune cells that make up our immune system consists of several different types of white blood cells or leukocytes that work together to keep us healthy. They circulate through the body between the organs and nodes via the lymphatic system. Most however are stored in the lymphoid organs until needed. There are two types of…
Essential fats are so called because they are essential for our survival and they cannot be manufactured by your body.
They are consumed from our diet.
These essential fats are part of the poly-unsaturated fats.
Generally, most of our calories intake and energy comes from fat.
Food taste good because of the fat…
Our Skin and mucus membrane are our first line of defense, forming a barrier between our inner tissues and the outside environment.
Common skin allergy reaction are eczema, hives or psoriasis.
Those that affect the mucus membrane would include :
asthma -
inflammation of the mucus membrane inside the lungs
hay fever and sinusitis…
Boost Your Immune System
Healthy functioning of the immune system is of paramount importance to everyone since it controls our ability to fend off illness and disease.
As you are aware this world is filled with pathogens, microbes, toxic pollutants and stress.
Therefore what we need is a vigorous and vigilant immune system. …
(What can weaken your immune system)
Our genes play a part in determining how strong or weak our immune system is. Under the right or wrong set of circumstances, we can and will get sick.
We compound our vulnerabilities by not taking care of our defense system.
So, what can weaken our immune system?
The…