How to Build Your Immune System: Foods and Healthy Habits

How does alcohol and cigarette smoking affect your immune system? Learn to rebuild your immunity after antibiotics through strengthening foods, protease enzymes, and supplements like cordyceps capsules.

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How to Eliminate Toxins & Free Radicals from Diet

Toxins and free radicals can build up in your body, causing cellular damage and illness. Diet and exposure to environmental toxins can damage the mitochondria in your cells — vital microorganisms that help convert food to energy.

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Diet & Thin Corneas

The dome-shaped cornea covers your eye. The space between the cornea and your iris contains fluid called aqueous humor that nourishes the surrounding tissues. If you have thin corneas, you may have an increased risk for corneal damage or misdiagnosis of eye conditions.

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What Are the Benefits of Cordyceps Capsules?

Cordyceps is a medicinal fungus, or mushroom, (See Ref 1) with a long history of use in Traditional Chinese Medicine. People take it for a variety of purposes, including to promote healthy blood sugar levels, reduce fatigue and for anti-aging.

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Which Foods Prevent Free Radicals in Your Body?

Free radicals are dangerous molecules that can accumulate in your body and cause serious health problems, like cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute, free radicals are formed with incomplete electron shells, which makes them more chemically reactive and damaging to your health.

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Can You Increase White Blood Cell Count?

If you have leukopenia, your levels of infection-fighting white blood cells, or leukocytes, are too low. Because neutrophils are the most common white blood cell, neutropenia also is used to describe low white cell counts.

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Disorders of the Thymus Gland

The thymus gland is a small gland in your upper chest that has importance for your health far out of proportion to its size. It starts functioning during fetal life, manufacturing millions of immune cells called T cells.

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How Caffeine Affects the Immune System

Many people rely on caffeine to get them up in the morning and sustain them throughout the day. However, high caffeine intake can increase the impact that physical and mental stress has on your body.

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How to Build Up Your Immune System After Battling a Virus

Your immune system is a vital part of your overall well being. If it is weak, then you are more susceptible to getting sick and developing serious illnesses. If you were recently sick with a virus, then it is all the more important to get it revved back up to avoid the next virus that comes to town.

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Allergy to Paint

Allergies are a common condition that effects nearly everyone at some point in their lives. An allergic response is the result of the immune system's overreaction to an unknown particle or substance. Paint allergies can result from the inhalation of strong vapors or contact with the skin.

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Does Exercise Weaken Immune System?

Exercise is like a medication. In the correct dose, it can be beneficial, but in excess, it can be harmful. Different athletes have different tolerances for stress. A grueling workout for one person might be a routine workout for another.

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