Adaptogens
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Any autoimmune disease is constantly destroying host’s organs, mainly stimulating inflammatory responses, which are leading to wide-spread inflammation throughout the body.
As immune system is comprehensively linked to the nervous system, any (especially prolonged) stress weakens the body’s defenses. Consequently any infection may invade the body and spread with little or no effective opposition.
This also may explain why exacerbations and remissions happen to most people with autoimmune disorders. After all, immune systems of all of them are in some way disordered.
Thus only those able to handle stress well and manage to withstand any negativities are owners of a robust immune system.
How adaptogens could help
The term adaptogen is used to refer to a natural herb product that is proposed to increase the body’s resistance to stress, trauma, anxiety and fatigue.
Adaptogens are completely safe and effective – they have been tested by various research institutes, including academies and sports agencies – and contain no drugs or preservatives.
Although term adaptogen is quite new (it was introduced in 1940-ties), it’s description still is changing. Presently adaptogen has been presented as an agent that allows the body to counter adverse physical, chemical, or biological stressors by raising nonspecific resistance toward such stress, thus allowing the body to adapt to stressful circumstances.
Some important aspects that positively distinguish adaptogens:
- adaptogens are nontoxic
- adaptogens stimulate a nonspecific response in the body – an increase in the power of resistance against all kinds of stressors: physical, chemical, or biological
- adaptogens have a normalizing influence on body physiology, irrespective of the direction of change from physiological norms caused by the stressor
Adaptogenic herbs are unique in their ability to balance endocrine hormones and the immune system, and they help the body to maintain
optimal homeostasis.
Adaptogens are proposed to have a normalizing effect on the body and to be capable of either toning down the activity of hyperfunctioning systems or strengthening the activity of hypofunctioning systems
Herbal auxiliary
Adaptogenic herbs play a significant role while easing and managing autoimmune disorders. As adaptogenic herbs help the body adapt to any stress, whether illness or intense fatigue, or relationship problems or coping with illness. Herbs with an adaptogenic action also stimulate the body’s natural defense mechanisms, helping to support and boost the immune system.
Examples of adaptogenic among herbs curing autoimmune disorders (including multiple sclerosis) are Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticoses), licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra), gotu cola (Hydrocotyle asiatica), borage (Borago officinalis), and sarsaparilla (Smilax officinalis).
Miraculous remedies
Explaining the effects of the adaptogens is difficult, since they will influence each individual differently. If you are mentally exhausted or physically fatigued the adaptogens will help you feel more energetic, vitalized, and full of zest for life – but yet, they are not normal stimulants.
Adaptogens are non-toxic and are not habit forming, while they exert a normalizing influence on the body, possessing a wide range of therapeutic benefits, causing no disturbance to the normal functioning.
All adaptogenic herbs help to improve adrenal and immune function
Should you however be stressed-out, or emotionally tired, not coping with life – adaptogens will help you to relax and make life easier to cope with, yet they are not tranquillizers and will not have a drug-like effect on the body
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my doctor told me to never take anything to boost my ammune system because that is what attacks the nerves. any reply?
It might be good if you speak with a licensed naturopath and genetic counselor. Conventional physicians lack qualifications to render an opinion about this.
Adaptogens stimulate or suppress the thymus, spleen, liver, bone marrow, lymph system, or intestines. These are the organs of the immune system and they respond very slowly to medication over a span of months. One of these organs is overactive or under-active with autoimmune disease and cancer. Conventional medical tests are notoriously unreliable to evaluate these organs and diseases.
The thymus begins to shrink when we are about 25 to 30 year old, and stress accelerates thymus shrinkage. The thymus becomes non-functional sometime between 50 and 100 years of age. We develop cancer and autoimmune diseases when the thymus becomes under-active or stops working. People survive a maximum of about 5 years after the thymus becomes diseased and has to be removed.
You can use natural thymus supplements for a month or so to see if this helps (ask your local health food store). These provide two thymus hormones. If thymus supplements help, then the thymus is probably involved. Autoimmune disease may be associated with overactive or under-active thymus. Long-term ginseng use, alcohol, caffeine, and sleep deprivation may shrink the thymus. The thymus can be stimulated by an odd assortment of things like ginger ale, yeast and ginkgo biloba.
The next most important organ is bone marrow. Stem cells become less active as we age, and this can cause the immune system to make mistakes. Reduced bone marrow activity can also contribute to dementia. Ginkgo biloba and alfalfa sprouts are bone marrow stimulants. Gingo and alfalfa can do bad things to people with autoimmune disease like lupus, but may be beneficial for autoimmune disease like Celiac. Bone marrow can be suppressed by things like daily consumption of tonic water (quinine) and absinthe.
Intestines are affected by food and beverage. The only way to isolate food and beverage issues is with a food diary.
I’m sure your physician thinks they have your best interests in mind, but autoimmune flare is almost always mistaken for an infection because the first symptom of an autoimmune disease is a fever and upset stomach. The antibiotics that are almost always prescribed for a fever will cause autoimmune flare.
A bad reaction to any antibiotic probably indicates autoimmune disease. Physicians call this an allergy so they can avoid malpractice. Allergies are a reaction to protein and antibiotics have no protein. There is no such thing as an antibiotic allergy.
Several autoimmune diseases have been proven to be caused by a combination of genetics and environmental stresses. Autoimmune diseases go through periods of flare and remission. Flare is caused by environmental stress, and this is the active disease phase. Remission can be induced temporarily by a combination of steroids, stress avoidance, and some adaptogens. Celiac Disease was the first autoimmune disease linked to genes, and the stress for Celiac Disease is grains like wheat, barley, rye, and oats.
Environmental stresses include infections, excessive exercise (like Iron Man), injury, sleep deprivation, alcohol, certain kinds of foods, stimulants, and chemicals like antibiotics, pesticides, herbicides, and vehicle fuel.
Genetic testing is becoming more common.
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