Optimal Defense

Know Both What Strengthens and Weakens Your Immune System According to a report presented to the U.S. Senate, infectious diseases are the leading cause of death among Americans. Each year, over 13 million people die from them, and they could have been prevented. Western medicine is fixated on having a pill to treat every ill, instead of educating people on how to provide the human body with nutrients needed to heal it and keep it strong.Our immune system is constantly being bombarded by infectious diseases every day. Being overly stressed and eating poorly weakens the immune system. Americans in general are way over-stressed and consuming the vast majority of processed food, all of it which is unhealthy.Stress reduces the immune system’s ability to fight off antigens. The stress hormone corticosteroid can suppress the effectiveness of the immune system. Stress is linked to headaches, infectious illness, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, asthma and stomach ulcers.Stress can do