It's only been two to three decades that research into the workings of your immune system has really taken off.

Prior to that it was not only ignored but also abused by medical procedures and drug therapies that suppress the immune system. Some procedures actually decimating it.

In the fifties, tonsillectomies were standard procedure. The tonsils happen to be the first line of defenses against disease and your only defense against the polio virus.

The medical community is beginning to admit, but not too loudly, that the polio epidemic of the fifties was caused by physician intervention.

Another medical procedure responsible for suppressing the immune system is the appendectomy. Did you know your appendix is part of your immune system? Do you know there are natural ways of reversing a appendicitis attack? 

Did you also know that an appendicitis attack is actually a warning of something even more serious going on in your body?

Removing inflamed tonsils or inflamed appendix is equivalent to tossing out your smoke detector because it's making too much noise. Immunologists tell us the inflamed tonsils are not to be removed under any circumstances.

However this year there will be over a million tonsillectomies performed in America, and in some states, removing the appendix is required by law if the lower abdomen is opened.

Fortunately our bodies know more than doctors do and 20% of the time we actually grow back tonsils and appendices after they have been removed.

All surgeries suppress the immune system. The greatest cause of death following a success surgery is a secondary infection. With a depressed immune system secondary infections are deadly. Antibiotics depress the immune system by taking over its job.

Antibodies also deplete the "good" bacteria (probiotics) needed for cleansing toxins from your system.

This purpose here is to let you in on the working of your immune system; it's suppressors, triggers, boosters and modulators. The idea here is not to turn you into an immunologist, but rather to teach you some of the basics.

We have the digestive system; the circulatory system, the nervous system and the respiratory system just to name a few systems. These systems are easily described because they are physically connected.

The immune system, on the other had, consists of unrelated parts and pieces, and much of what connects it together is molecular. The immune system is action and reaction. It has an intelligence of it's own. If a microscopic piece of an organ gets into the blood stream either through disease or by injury, the immune system will respond to it as if it were a foreign body, then having done that, the immune system is now trained to attach the original organ.

The suppressor T-cells have to stop this attach or we have the beginning of an autoimmune response, which is the immune system attacking the person's own body.

When you are referring to the immune system's physical parts, you also call it the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system consists of two parts, the primary and secondary organs.

The Primary Organs are: the thymus gland (located beneath the breast bone and functioning at its peak during adolescence) and the bone marrow producing specialized lymphocytes – T-cells and B-cells and dispatching them through the lymph vessels to the secondary organs.

The Secondary Organs are: the lymph modes, spleen, tonsils, Peyer's patches in the small intestines, liver, and appendix to name a few.

These are the locations where the molecular parts of the immune system gather in readiness to do battle with the germs, viruses, and allergens (those things causing allergic responses)

There is so much more to explain here about the immune system but it would take many more pages to explain all it's functions and its gigantic job for protecting you against all illnesses and diseases.

Your diet, daily exercise, stress management, additional nutrients are all play a huge role in how healthy or unhealthy a body you have.

If you tend to abuse your body by not attending positively to all those things mentioned above, your immune system would also be abused too. So why would you want to break down your defense system?

Once you abuse both your body and your immune system severely; this is when you could set yourself up with the possibility of contacting such diseases as cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure or a host of other illnesses and diseases - Is it worth this kind of nonsense? – I sure don't think so.

To your good health,

Sonny Julius

Sonnyj@TheSunnySenior.com