The 7 Benefits of Fever Explained by Dr.Berg

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so today we’re going to talk about these seven benefits to a fever now you might think a fever is something bad like a disease or something but it’s something normal that your immune system creates as a defense mechanism against certain infections so it’s a very good thing that you don’t want to get rid of right away let’s first talk about the benefits of a fever number one it restricts the production of pathogens like bacteria and the reproduction of viruses number two it will decrease the time of infection so if you’re going to take something to shut down that fever right away guess what you’re gonna have the infection longer number three it mobilizes your white blood cell it recruits more soldiers to fight the enemy and before it enhances phagocytosis so what does phagocytosis you have these immune cells that have the ability to eat viruses and bacteria and parasites a fever will enhance the ability of a phagocyte to do its job better number five a fever decreases endotoxins and the toxins come from pathogens when a pathogen invades your body and they die they release endotoxins and create all sorts of negative effects guess what a fever can minimize that effect there were six a fever will increase the growth of T cells T cells stand for the thymus cell there are several of them and you have T cells that are killer T cells which are comparable to your special forces you have other T cells that are like commanders which guide and coordinate the entire war against pathogens and then you have other T cells that regulate or moderate the amount of collateral damage so they will kind of put the fire out get rid of inflammation if it gets out of control well fever will actually increase the growth of T cells number seven a fever decreases the mortality rate let’s say for example you’re in affection and you let the fever run its course versus taking something to turn off that fever guess what there’s some interesting studies that if you let the fever do its job you will have a decrease in death rate what you want to do sometimes is enhance the fever get into bed put the covers on and sweat it out take a hot bath all of that really will help in stimulating some of these immune reactions now what’s interesting is there’s no agreed-upon normal upper limit for someone’s temperature some people would say that 99 degrees Fahrenheit would be a normal temperature or the upper limits or some others would say it’s a hundred point nine degrees Fahrenheit as the upper limit of normal temperature that would be thirty seven point two degrees Celsius to thirty-eight point three degrees Celsius the other question is what temperature should you let your body go to and I know people are concerned that if it goes too high they’re gonna brain damage that actually is a myth you would have to really let your body get above 180 degrees to create brain damage in for a long period of time and that could occur if you actually had a fever and you were in a very hot place but typically if you let the temperature rise between 100 and 104 degrees Fahrenheit or 37. 8 degrees to 40 Celsius just realize it’s a beneficial thing you’re going to reduce the duration of infection you’re going to stimulate enhance the immune defenses and by the way certain immune cells that specialized in killing viruses do it through releasing things like interferon now when interferon is released to kill off the virus you experience the feel like symptoms or muscle aches or even a fever realize those usually are normal let your body go through its process and don’t try to get rid of the symptoms or off the bat because you could weaken the immune system in its fighting capacity now if you haven’t seen my video on how to boost the immune system I put right here check it out