Don’t Turn Off Your Immune System Prematurely

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hey I’m back and today we’re going to talk about suppressing the infection cycle is it a good idea or a bad idea let’s say for example you’re healthy you’re relatively young and don’t have pre-existing health problems and you start having a fever muscle ache flu-like symptoms a runny nose a cough should you automatically start taking ibuprofen antibiotics some type of medication to suppress these symptoms or not well let’s take a look at what’s really happening internally specifically with viruses the virus first invades the body and its goal is to get inside the cell so it starts to attach to your cell and then it actually gets into the cell and then it opens up it takes the outer part of it and just opens up and releases its RNA or DNA into your cellular machinery and then once it hijacks gets into your cellular machinery it starts to take over the copy machine so it can mass-produce now when it does that your own body doesn’t have access to that copy machine so as the viral is using machinery it doesn’t allow your own body to use that machinery so then what happens is as the blueprints are copied they’re sent to other machinery of your cell to reproduce the actual cell itself so these are the tiny machines that make proteins then when the virus is replicated it can then be released through the cell and that’s called shedding so in this process if the virus is outside the cell it can’t really do anything to you once this virus gets in the cell it’s hard for your immune system to identify it but ourselves have adapted to countering this measure so there’s certain proteins in there that can detect the virus and those little proteins will go to the surface of the cell and signal other parts of your immune system that hey there’s a virus inside the cell and it does it signaling through certain cytokines so it’s not a kind is really a communication that is sent out to the immune system and there are different cytokines for different things so you have cytokines that are also pro-inflammatory they make inflammation and others that are anti-inflammatory as well so what the cytokine is going to do it’s going to send a signal out to various parts of your immune system and what’s going to be generated from that is a very powerful antiviral cytokine or weapon it’s called interferon so interferon is the chemical that triggers certain symptoms of a virus infection cough fever muscle ache flu-like symptoms so what you have to realize is that when you have these symptoms it’s not always the best thing to try to suppress these because you’re also going to suppress this interferon and interferon comes from this word interfere because its function is that it interferes with the virus reproducing so it’s very very important to allow interferon to do its job to decrease the reproduction of viruses if you’re healthy and you don’t have a lot of pre-existing health problems and you’re not very old the best thing to do is to support the immune system not to suppress it because they found that it’s going to increase the duration of the infection you’re gonna be stuck with the infection a lot longer if you try to suppress this mechanism also there’s even studies that show that taking something to suppress the immune system increases your mortality rate ideally the best thing to do is let your body fight the infection and support the immune system by getting on an eating plan that lowers your carbohydrates that enhances vitamin D zinc and vitamin C these are crucial keeping your stress down because stress will also prolong this infection and as far as the fever goes you want to stay hot take a hot shower wear extra clothes when you’re going to bed to speed up the process because the fever is generated as an antiviral action to suppress the reproduction of viruses anyway I wanted to bring this up because a lot of people have these symptoms and they automatically try to get rid of them they don’t really understand what’s happening if you want more information about how to boost the immune system check out this video