This year has been the first time in my career working in the natural healthy industry where a significant number people have been willing to invest in their health when they didn’t already have an illness for which they were looking for a solution. This year, because of ‘the virus’ many people have become proactive rather than just reactive when they were already in trouble. I welcome this, though I wish people wouldn’t have to be panicked into treating their health as a priority, but instead would have chosen to do it anyway to improve their quality of life, and the length of their lives.
Anyway, before I discuss what you can do to improve your immunity, I am going to mention some things that do not improve immunity
- Your immune system does not become stronger as a result of standing two meters apart from other people*
- Your immune system does not become stronger as a result of wearing a cloth over your face (Actually in certain respects it weakens it. It’s no coincidence that people with respiratory illness are exempt from wearing useless rags over their airways)
- Your immune system does not become stronger as result of obsessive hand washing
- Your immune system does not become stronger by being socially isolated (all studies show it has the exact opposite effect)
- Your immune system does not become stronger by being prevented by our own governments from living life in what most people would regard as a reasonably normal way
- Your immune system does not become stronger by poisoning you bloodstream with a vaccination. Irritating the immune system is not the same thing as strengthening the immune system. There are entire books written on this subject, and its too big a subject to go into here. If you want to starting going down this rabbit hole, this video, which to my amazement has not been banned yet by YouTube (though inevitably it will be), is a damn good start.
* Side note: Even if I did believe in social distancing, which I don’t, as Dr Vernon Coleman, a retired G.P. writes “A cough can spread droplets for 18 feet. A sneeze can travel 24 feet. So if we are going to have social distancing they’ve got the distance wrong. Really, it ought to be 30 feet to be safe. A six feet limit is arbitrary and utterly pointless“.
* Side note II. Again I quote here from Dr Vernon Coleman. “I plucked up the courage to take a look at the BBC website the other day and found the official rules on how and when people are allowed to meet one another. In England six people from multiple households, or up to 30 people from two households can meet together outdoors. They must not get closer than more than three feet three inches. In Scotland up to 15 people from up to five households can meet as long as they all keep six feet six inches apart. In Wales any number of people from two households can meet as long as they are six feet six inches apart. And in Northern Ireland up to 30 people can meet outdoors but must keep three feet three inches apart. The rules are equally confusing for indoor meetings. In England two households can meet together, in Scotland eight people from three households can meet, in Wales two households can form one extended household (whatever that means – it sounds like Welsh wife swapping to me) and in Northern Ireland ten people from four households can meet. There is no advice on what happens to citizens who live on a border between two countries.The one conclusion from all this bollocks is that there is no science to any of this. Idiot civil servants and politicians have clearly just made it all up”.
Sorry about the bad language there, but if we are going to quote someone, we are going to do it accurately.
From http://www.vernoncoleman.com/main.htm – highly recommended web site. It is to my regret that I didn’t note down at the time which specific blogs on the site that these quotes are taken from, as there are quite a lot to trawl through. If anyone spots them, please send the specific links to me directly – mark@thefinchleyclinic.com
So what does make the immune system stronger?
Actually, there are a vast number of immune system boosting and nourishing nutrients and botanicals, so I am going to have to pick out my personal favourites here. These being
1. Vitamin D3 with K2. You need both nutrients in combination for optimal results. The one I personally take is available here. We have ventured into this topic in more depth many previous newsletters. In order to avoid repeating myself, especially in regard to Vitamin D and Coronavirus, please read this article.
2. Antioxidants – starting with the bost ‘basic’ ones – Vitamin C, Selenium and Zinc. Taking some or all of them individually is great, and we have numerous options for doing that, but for those who want to take all their basic antioxidants this is a pain. My favourite all in one solution is Antioxidant Supreme – though to get therapeutic dosages I do recommend fairly high dosages – two capsules two or three times per day. A vast amount of thought has been put into this formulation in terms of what to include, what not to include, and the proportions to make a well balanced product, and we think our supplier has got it right with this one. Take additional Vitamin C if you do get a cold or flu. Scientist Linus Pauling, who won two Nobel prizes twice recommended as much as 18g per day if you have a virus, and 3g per day for general health. Many of his fellow scientific colleagues sneered at him. They popped their cloggs at the usual time whereas he lived to be 94 and worked until two weeks from the day he died of old age, and claimed he never got ill.
3. Oxygen Elements Max or the very similar Oxylift – just take it away from vitamin C products by two hours or more for best results (but do not worry about the vitamin C in fruit, we are talking about supplemental quantities only). As well as boosting the immune system, they are also directly antiviral and antimicrobial. At the risk of repeating myself, below are the results of some tests carried out on Oxylift soon after it was launched, which the supplier was kind enough to share with me at the time, against a range of microbes that we would be best off not having in our bodies. As you can see, it shows that it killed all of the microorganisms tested by the 7th day, with no regrowth detected by the 14th day.
4. Samento
This amazing Amazon rainforest herb is both antiviral and immune boosting. I wrote about it in a previous newsletter, and in order to keep this message short, for those who want to know about it’s remarkable benefits in more depth, you can learn about it here. For those who fancy something a bit more gentle available in capsules or a pleasant tea, they can select Cat’s Claw instead, which is a herb from the same family as Samento. It has the same properties (like say an Orange and a Tangerine), thought somewhat less strongly. For sensitive people, this may be the better option than Samento, which doesn’t take any prisoners.
5. Camu Formula (Immunity Formula). This polyherbal formula was originally marketed as Immurejuve prior to the EU in their idiocy, banning brand names for herbal product (not that anyone is taking much notice of the regulations anyway). It goes beautifully with Galangal Formula which is another herbal formulation designed to ward off viruses. Their claim to fame is the unique way in which they were developed. As the formulator explained…
“These formulae have been developed because we were dissatisfied with currently available products. Using our test system (Vega Biokinesiology), we find that single herbs “power score” (a measure of efficacy) 5-20, currently available herbal formulae power score 15-30, and our formulae power score 35-50. We therefore believe that our formulae are up to three times more effective than existing herbal formulae. The herbs used in our formulae have been selected purely empirically, without recourse to the literature. For each formula we screen hundreds of herbs and then having made the initial choice we test for antagonism, synergism, allergenicity and tolerability before we decide on the final selection. In all we conduct around three thousand separate tests for each formula. Clinical experience has quickly confirmed the validity of our system and we now have numerous testimonials and case-histories to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of our range. Perhaps the most worthwhile result yet was a lady who was genuinely suicidal who repeatedly and joyously rang her practitioner to tell her that the CTX8 (now Wild Endive Formula) that she had been prescribed had literally saved her life by lifting her depression so quickly.”
5. Pau D’Arco
Pau d’Arco is a giant rainforest hardwood, the bark of which has been used medicinally by South Americans for more than 2,000 years. The bark contains many actives including 20 phytochemicals called naphthoquinones. These quinine compounds (chiefly Lapachol and Beta-lapachone) are believed to account for the broad spectrum antibiotic and cytotoxic action of Pau d’Arco, but it is likely that all of these actives have important properties that warrant further study. As is the case with many rainforest herbs, Pau d’Arco is poorly understood by many Western herbalists and health professionals, and is the subject of some confusion with relation to its safety. Studies conducted using extremely high doses of isolated naphthoquinones, primarily lapachol, from Pau d’Arco, were found to produce undesirable side effects such as intestinal bleeding – but use of the whole herb is completely safe at recommended doses. Pau d’Arco is popularly used and effective against Candida Albicans and other fungal infections, and as well as having exhibited anti fungal activity against 11 strains of yeast and fungi, it has demonstrated anti parasitic, anti viral (including Epstein-Barr) and anti bacterial properties – making it excellent for general immune support. In recent test tube studies it has demonstrated anti microbial properties against a number of bacteria – including H-Pylori (implicated in the formation of stomach ulcers) and MRSA infections. Pau d’Arco has also exhibited strong antioxidant activity in a number of studies and it is also used to treat IBS – and has long been believed to possess a ‘gut protecting’ effect. A study published in 2005 showed that two of the actives from the bark exhibited selective anti bacterial activity against E-Coli and other pathogenic bacteria, but did not effect the growth of Lactobacillus acidophilus or other pro-biotic bacteria.
Conclusion
Because there are so many immune boosting nutrients, herbs and so on, I’m nowhere near finished what I’d like to say. In fact I feel I’ve barely begun! But as this is a newsletter rather than a book, I’ll leave it there. You don’t have to use all of these products. But you’ve got more than enough information here to keep your immune system strong, so that pathogens will pose a much, much lower risk to your health than they otherwise might.
Best Wishes
Mark G. Lester
Director – The Finchley Clinic Ltd
www.thefinchleyclinic.com