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What causes one person to catch a cold or flu and another to avoid it? Why does one person with HIV live without symptoms while another quickly develops full-blown AIDS? What allows someone to be incapacitated by allergies? Why do serious outbreaks of infectious diseases leave some individuals untouched? The answers lie within nature itself - our immune system.

The Immune System Cure provides simple techniques for supercharging your immune system to resist and prevent disease through diet, stress reduction, and nutritional supplements. Discover why the diseases of today have been able to survive the latest drug therapies. Find specific advice on how to boost your immune system to combat:

- Antibiotic-resistant bacteria - Allergies - Tuberculosis - Rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmunne diseases - Fibromyalgia - Hepatitis C - Cancer - Chronic fatigue syndrome - And more

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #61665 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-03
• Released on: 2002-12-03
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

From the Back Cover

Harness the Power of Your Immune System in 30 Days–

What causes one person to catch a cold or flu and another to avoid it? Why does one person with HIV live without symptoms and another develop AIDS and succumb quickly? What allows someone to be incapacitated by allergies? Why do serious outbreaks of infectious diseases leave some individuals untouched? The answer lies with our immune system. Bolster your immune system and allow it to do the job that nature intended: Fight Disease.

The Immune System Cure provides simple techniques for supercharging your immune system through diet, stress management, and nutritional supplements. Adopt the recommended strategies and you will harness your body’s ability to combat and prevent disease.

You will learn about:

• 10 super immune boosting nutrients
• the foods that harm and the foods that heal
• how to avoid the common cold or flu
• how to avoid the side-effects of chemotherapy
• how to protect your children from disease
• the benefits of avoiding antibiotics
• common fats that can kill you
• the top healing fats.

About the Author
Lorna Vanderhaeghe is a health journalist who has been researching and writing on the subject of nutritional medicine for over fifteen years. She is also senior editor for the Encyclopedia of Natural Healing, and winner of the Benjamin Franklin award in 1998. Her expertise in orthomolecular medicine came from working for five years under the direction of Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD. She is also co-author with Udo Erasmus, PhD, of The Right Fat Diet, to be published in 1999.

Customer Reviews

NATURAL IMMUNITY

This excellent book covers all the basics of developing and maintaining a healthy immune system. The first part deals with nutrition and the immune system and reveals some exciting botanical discoveries that could have a beneficial effect in the natural boosting of the immune system, with particular reference to plant sterols and sterolins. It also provides a basic understanding of what the immune system consists of and how it works.

Nutritional supplements are discussed next, with detailed information on the important vitamins, minerals, trace elements and the natural hormone DHEA. Phytonutrients are the most recently discovered helpers in the fight against disease and aging, and these are treated in chapter 4. They include flavonoids, carotenoids, phytosterols, sterols and indoles and are plant-derived substances with potent beneficial effects on the body.

Chapter 5 discusses the 30-day plan to optimize one's immunity. It also defines the enemy, i.e. foods to avoid. These include animal fats, hydrogenated plant fats, refined sugar and other refined foodstuffs that have been stripped of all their nutritious ingredients. The benefits of good fats like olive oil, fish oils and flaxseed oil are explained, plus other immune boosting plant substances, yogurt and green tea.

The power of the mind in disease and health is discussed in chapter 6, which includes information on the exciting new field of psycho-neuro-immunology, the use of affirmations, healthy breathing, visualization and simple relaxation techniques.

The following chapters are devoted to specific disease states like cancer, autoimmune illnesses, allergies, HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis and chronic fatigue syndrome. In every case, information is provided on how to deal with these via detoxification, nutrition, exercise, visualization and stress relief.

The book concludes with lists of product manufacturers, resources, references and a thorough index. I highly recommend this work to people who wish to harness our natural allies in boosting their immune systems and fighting disease. Further information on the nutrients and phytochemicals discussed in this book can be found in Life Extension Magazine and James F. Balch's very detailed Prescription For Nutritional Healing.