How do we optimize our body’s immune function so that our families have the best fighting chance of fending off microscopic threats?

 

To answer that query, we will have to dig a little.

 

Did you know that that there are no medical cures for viral infections? You read that correctly, no cure for the common cold, the myriad flu viruses or any of the corona strands. Your best defense is an optimally functioning immune system. Period.

 

It is well known that the brain, with the nervous system, influences, controls and/or regulates all bodily functions including that of the immune system. Don’t take my word for it, this subject has been studied and documented extensively. One such study published in Disease Models and Mechanisms 3, 721-731 (2010), “It takes nerves to fight infection: insights on neuro-immune interactions from C. elegans” by Trupti Kawli, Fanglian He and Man-Wah Tan of Stanford University School of Medicine, states, “The nervous and immune systems communicate through multiple neuroanatomical and neurohormonal routes.”  

 

Time to laugh: With great reflexes, come great response ability.

 

It is also known that stress negatively impacts the immune system and its ability to function optimally.  Stress comes in many forms, physical, psychological, emotional, chemical (things we eat, breathe and drink) even electromagnetic (cell phones, computers etc.).

 

Although we are subjected to these stresses daily, there are ways to minimize them so that your body can handle the occasional spikes much easier.

 

Take a personal inventory of your activities.  What are you putting into your body?  What are you putting into your mind? How much are you moving? All these things affect your health.

 

Chiropractic and other Functional health practices reduce stress as well as optimize nerve function.