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Many products on store shelves claim to boost or support immunity. But the concept of boosting immunity actually makes little sense scientifically. In fact, boosting the number of cells in your body — immune cells or others — is not necessarily a good thing. For example, athletes who engage in "blood doping" — pumping blood into their systems to boost their number of blood cells and enhance their performance — run the risk of strokes.

Attempting to boost the cells of your immune system is especially complicated because there are so many different kinds of cells in the immune system that respond to so many different microbes in so many ways. Which cells should you boost, and to what number? So far, scientists do not know the answer. What is known is that the body is continually generating immune cells. Certainly, it produces many more lymphocytes than it can possibly use. The extra cells remove themselves through a natural process of cell death called apoptosis — some before they see any action, some after the battle is won. No one knows how many cells or what the best mix of cells the immune system needs to function at its optimum level. 

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/how-to-boost-your-immune-system

Immune System and Age

As we age, our immune response capability becomes reduced, which in turn contributes to more infections and more cancer. As life expectancy in developed countries has increased, so too has the incidence of age-related conditions.

While some people age healthily, the conclusion of many studies is that, compared with younger people, the elderly are more likely to contract infectious diseases and, even more importantly, more likely to die from them. Respiratory infections, influenza, and particularly pneumonia are a leading cause of death in people over 65 worldwide. No one knows for sure why this happens, but some scientists observe that this increased risk correlates with a decrease in T cells, possibly from the thymus atrophying with age and producing fewer T cells to fight off infection. Whether this decrease in thymus function explains the drop in T cells or whether other changes play a role is not fully understood. Others are interested in whether the bone marrow becomes less efficient at producing the stem cells that give rise to the cells of the immune system.

A reduction in immune response to infections has been demonstrated by older people's response to vaccines. For example, studies of influenza vaccines have shown that for people over age 65, the vaccine is much less effective compared to healthy children (over age 2). But despite the reduction in efficacy, vaccinations for influenza and S. pneumoniae have significantly lowered the rates of sickness and death in older people when compared with no vaccination.

There appears to be a connection between nutrition and immunity in the elderly. A form of malnutrition that is surprisingly common even in affluent countries is known as "micronutrient malnutrition." Micronutrient malnutrition, in which a person is deficient in some essential vitamins and trace minerals that are obtained from or supplemented by diet, can be common in the elderly. Older people tend to eat less and often have less variety in their diets. One important question is whether dietary supplements may help older people maintain a healthier immune system. Older people should discuss this question with a physician who is well versed in geriatric nutrition, because while some dietary supplementation may be beneficial for older people, even small changes can have serious repercussions in this age group.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/how-to-boost-your-immune-system

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Healthy ways to strengthen your immune system

Your first line of defense is to . Following general good-health guidelines is the single best step you can take toward naturally keeping your immune system strong and healthy. Every part of your body, including your immune system, functions better when protected from environmental assaults and bolstered by healthy-living strategies such as these:

• Don't smoke.

• Eat a diet high in fruits and vegetables.

• Exercise regularly.

• Maintain a healthy weight.

• If you drink alcohol, drink only in moderation.

• Get adequate sleep.

• Take steps to avoid infection, such as washing your hands frequently and cooking meats thoroughly.

• Try to minimize stress.

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We started this company because nothing matters more than the challenges that face us all today. global ecological issues, health care issues, human conflicts, and inequality of all kinds.  Kind of a long list and it all begins with our own body temple.

We wish to achieve a sustainable balance amongst the self, the ecology, the mind, and the expression, so we continually transform into a greater self, so we become a help to others. The first mission for us is to "help as many people as possible (to) avoid becoming a hospital patient in the first place".

"there is now abundant evidence that getting just four things right— not smoking maintaining a healthy weight, being active and eating could reduce the risk of all chronic diseases by 80 percent That's right 80 percent! (There are four things on the list, but by eating well and being physically active you will set yourself up for a healthy weight— so you really need to focus only on three things with the final one being not smoking) It's a realization that could, and in my opinion should, remake the way we play the same of life, by inspiring us to make better lifestyle choices If you do it right, you can write new story for your future right down to the genetic level -to a preventive medicine specialist like me, this is of profound importance, because apathy and fatalism are among the biggest enemies of health and healing.

 Becoming a doctor was a natural choice for me. My father is a doctor, and I knew I wanted to do something t}vt mattered, that felt challenging and rewarding- During my training, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the kind of doctor I really wanted to be, and I couldn't help but notice that roughly eight out of ten hospitalized patients had serious illnesses, all of which could have been prevented by exercising, eating well, or not smoking. It seemed tragic to me that these people were suffering and shattering their Jives— when a more healthful lifestyle could essentially have immunized them against such misery. ft was then that the path to my life's work became clear: I started investigating how a doctor an expert in using lifestyle as medicine and how best to leverage nutrition, in particular, to help people avoid getting sick in the first place. The rest, as they say, is history. I have been an internist and a preventive medicine specialist ever since. I rely on both aspects of my training to take care of existing and to try to help as many people as possible avoid becoming my (or any other doctor's) patients in the first place!"

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Does being cold give you a weak immune system?

Almost every mother has said it: "Wear a jacket or you'll catch a cold!" Is she right? So far, researchers who are studying this question think that normal exposure to moderate cold doesn't increase your susceptibility to infection. Most health experts agree that the reason winter is "cold and flu season" is not that people are cold, but that they spend more time indoors, in closer contact with other people who can pass on their germs.

But researchers remain interested in this question in different populations. Some experiments with mice suggest that cold exposure might reduce the ability to cope with infection. But what about humans? Scientists have dunked people in cold water and made others sit nude in subfreezing temperatures. They've studied people who lived in Antarctica and those on expeditions in the Canadian Rockies. The results have been mixed. For example, researchers documented an increase in upper respiratory infections in competitive cross-country skiers who exercise vigorously in the cold, but whether these infections are due to the cold or other factors — such as the intense exercise or the dryness of the air — is not known.

A group of Canadian researchers that has reviewed hundreds of medical studies on the subject and conducted some of its own research concludes that there's no need to worry about moderate cold exposure — it has no detrimental effect on the human immune system. Should you bundle up when it's cold outside? The answer is "yes" if you're uncomfortable, or if you're going to be outdoors for an extended period where such problems as frostbite and hypothermia are a risk. But don't worry about immunity.

From https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/how-to-boost-your-immune-system

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Exercise: Good or bad for immunity?

Regular is one of the pillars of healthy living. It improves cardiovascular health, lowers blood pressure, helps control body weight, and protects against a variety of diseases. But does it help to boost your immune system naturally and keep it healthy? Just like a healthy diet, exercise can contribute to general good health and therefore to a healthy immune system. It may contribute even more directly by promoting good circulation, which allows the cells and substances of the immune system to move through the body freely and do their job efficiently.

Some scientists are trying to take the next step to determine whether exercise directly affects a person's susceptibility to infection. For example, some researchers are looking at whether extreme amounts of intensive exercise can cause athletes to get sick more often or somehow impairs their immune function. To do this sort of research, exercise scientists typically ask athletes to exercise intensively; the scientists test their blood and urine before and after the exercise to detect any changes in immune system components. While some changes have been recorded, immunologists do not yet know what these changes mean in terms of human immune response.

But these subjects are elite athletes undergoing intense physical exertion. What about moderate exercise for average people? Does it help keep the immune system healthy? For now, even though a direct beneficial link hasn't been established, it's reasonable to consider moderate regular exercise to be a beneficial arrow in the quiver of healthy living, a potentially important means for keeping your immune system healthy along with the rest of your body.

One approach that could help researchers get more complete answers about whether lifestyle factors such as exercise help improve immunity takes advantage of the sequencing of the human genome. This opportunity for research based on updated biomedical technology can be employed to give a more complete answer to this and similar questions about the immune system. For example, microarrays or "gene chips" based on the human genome allow scientists to look simultaneously at how thousands of gene sequences are turned on or off in response to specific physiological conditions — for example, blood cells from athletes before and after exercise. Researchers hope to use these tools to analyze patterns in order to better understand how the many pathways involved act at once.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/how-to-boost-your-immune-system

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Vaccines and Herd Immunity

*Flattening The Curve and See You Online at Teams

Flattening The Curve and See You at Teams Online

Please visit immunity.selfology.com for the latest update and what the Superfamily is up to.   More to come this evening and in the days ahead.   Remember to sign up for the email updates.   Thank you for your patience with us all along.  

Keeping in mind, when all these passes, when life comes to normal again, we can either remember using this time to be fearful, or we used this time to strengthen the relationship distance, transform ourselves and others, no matter how many meters of physical or social distance one needs to flatten the curve.  

The Selfology Semi-Private Microsoft Teams Site

Please join us in our new public team site for a greater degree of collaboration within our community in addition to our email updates. 

The Microsoft Teams platform is now being provide for free due to the COVID-19 situation.  It requires a one step sign up and a few simple set-up, that runs on your various platforms, and they also run independently and switchable between your other Microsoft Teams accounts you may be already using with your other projects.   This applies to both the Desktop and Mobile Version of the Teams Apps.  More instructions to come. 

Via Microsoft Teams, we can begin to organized information the way our community likes it, and to ensure timely sharing of critical information to our community.   We are seeking members in the community who are specialists in any field to join us and share your insights freely in this semi-private, and selfology superfamily and community moderated space for some needed mind space during this growing period.  Growing pain it is.   

It will also allow a greater degree of privacy and openness to our dialogue as it is semi-private as we have always been here at Selfology South Granville.  

One of the Channel on this Team site will cover the Selfology Superfamily,  sharing things we are catching up on during this "Rest & Reset Period". 

For example, our Superfamily are all dual-capable which means working remotely using the many IT systems is something we already know instinctively (our internal coaching always aim for 文武雙全, meaning a person good in both "text" and "martial art", or similar to the Book/Street smart or Left/Right Brian analogy).   The Superfamily will use this time to evolve the operation and the many imperfections within our systems.   Above and beyond being your therapist, we are also proud to be a Selfologists.  

There will be extra work on catching up on the Learning during this special time, and please join our public Teams to collaborate with us in fighting the infodemic as well. 

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