How to Build a Powerful Immune System — Part Two

How to Bolster Up Your Lungs and Sinuses During the Winter With Strengthening and Prevention Strategies

Every Winter the immune system undergoes additional strain, partly due to diminished access to the healing power of sunlight and warmer weather for getting out for walks, yard work, sports, exercise, etc.

Several common Winter habits contribute to a greater prevalence of health compromise including:

• Lymphatic congestion due to reduced exercise (unless an indoor practice is developed)

• Typically less raw food enzymes due to a preference for warmer food

• The enclosed stale air in the homes being kept warm with home heat systems

• Additional burdens on the immune system from exposure to others

  

  An abundance of holiday celebrations during Winter also increase the potentials, due largely to common dietary compromises and group activities which increase the potential of weakening one's innate immune response powers with sweets, alcohol, food combining conflicts, and a greater chance of being exposed to others with active or sublimated conditions brewing inside of them.

For this reason a few helpful hints may reduce the potentials of coming down with an extended bout of a cold or flu.

Here's an example of how one person cut the onset short each time symptoms began to show themselves.

This is an excerpt from a 2010 podcast interview with William who had been taking a basic foundational group of products for about a year:

So, William, you're on the line, I understand?

Yes, Michael.

Okay. Then go ahead and share.

William: I was thinking about this today. Well, I've been through a foundational herbal and clay program for about a year now, but I've never really done a lot of Immune Power.

So about two weeks ago, I started getting a really deep cold in my chest and getting mucus, and that happens to me about every three years, and it lasts about a month, and it usually puts me down for like, two weeks, because I was born premature with a collapsed lung and I had pneumonia several times as a kid, so I have to really be careful with bronchitis when it gets in my lungs.

So what I did is, as soon as I felt it and had the phlegm, I took 12 Immune Power every hour for two hours. And by my fourth hour, it was gone. I was just going, whoa... this stuff works!

Then the next day I woke up in the morning and I thought, wow, that's kind of sneaking back on me. So I took 12 more, came to work, felt like a million bucks.

Right before I was going home, I thought, you know, I'm kind of feeling it again. So I hurried and took 12 more. And the next day I woke up and it was gone. You know, completely gone, never came back, nothing.

And then about two weeks later, which would be yesterday, started feeling a little bit again. And, you know, everybody's sick everywhere or has colds. And so I took about 10 Immune Power. And within an hour, I felt great.

And then today I came into work, like, wow, you know, this thing's not quite gone yet. So I took 10 more, and I feel like a million bucks.

So, you know, whatever's in it, it works!

It's wonderful. Like I said, I've done all the other herbs, but never really done the Immune Power, because I never needed to because I was healthy. But once it hit me, and I did it — I'm just shocked! So I really appreciate you inventing that, Michael.

Michael: Well, coming from somebody who's had that bronchial history and pneumonia history and a weakness there, I can understand why that would really make a lot of difference to you.

So I appreciate that story. It points out the fact that it really is possible to build the immune system up strong enough to fight off what previously, the system would succumb to.

I'm delighted to hear your confirmation.

Just so you know, this experience is very exemplary of the kind of calls that I get on an ongoing basis, where, if they know about this, and they take it seriously, and they take the larger program to heart and follow it — the Immune Power, the Earth & Sea Greens for alkalinization, the Sacred Clay and the baths, and other basics, like Mineral Manna, Herbal C Rejuv, Digestive Bitters, BloodSugar Balance, or others for more specific purposes, like in the instance of respiratory condition supportive therapies, Lung Support or Herbal Oxygen, then the body has the resources with which to restore, to rebuild, to repair, and to strengthen the immune response capability.

So this is a living example of just how that works, even though there's been an inherent weakness involved. 

So thank you, William.

William: Thank you, Michael. I've learned a lot in the last year. I've been in town a year now, and my life has totally changed, and I'm healthy, and I know more about proper food combining now, and eating healthy food, and knowing the source of things, checking labels, and all.

And I never thought a person could make that much progress in a year! So I owe a lot to your program. So thank you.

Michael: Absolutely, our pleasure.

Bottom line, the body knows how to keep itself healthy. The human immune system is powerful and exceptionally resilient, given proper care of the body with attention to diet, exercise, lifestyle habits, internal attitudes and expectations, etc.

Prevention and a Couple of Living Examples of Extended Lives in Good Health

Prevention just means to live simply and close to the Natural Order of Life.

Consider following the advice of two long-lived individuals:

• Li Ching-Yuen whose early life began as an herbalist, taught martial arts to the Chinese military, and who is suspected to have lived 256 years. He followed an interesting life philosophy: He once said the secret to his long life was: “Keep a quiet heart, sit like a tortoise, walk sprightly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog.”

• and Bernardo LaPallo who followed his Naturopath father's advice on diet and lifestyle, and trained in herbology by Dr. Richard Shultze, and who lived 114 years without a single sick day in his entire life. He walked 2 miles a day, ate an abundance of blueberries and live food salads, and some cooked vegetables, and an occasional fish. He wrote his second book at 113 years old. His secret to near flawless skin at 114 was to coat his body with olive oil every day.

By learning from their example, we will stand a much greater chance of preventing an illness or turning it around with the first symptoms, as William was able to do, even during the later stages of his life — after only one year of paying attention to diet and herbal support protocols.

Both of the above long-lived real-life examples consumed a clean simple diet, a variety of herbs, and practiced a positive approach to mental attitude and emotional response to life circumstances. Exercise and meditation or prayer were central to their daily lives.

Much can be learned from the legacies they left behind. Examples like these have inspired the herbal and clay formulations of Vital Life Essentials, based around one straightforward ideal:

Question science, trust Nature.

Here's a summary of a basic recommended protocol designed to bolster overall health in a manner that may strengthen your immune system, provide you with a much greater chance of surviving the Winter unscathed, and reverse any symptoms that may reveal themselves in short order:

• Immune Power to strengthen immune response powers of the body and improve physical and mental energy/focus

• Earth & Sea Greens to keep the body alkaline and broadly nourished with literally hundreds of nutritional compounds including vitamins, minerals, and an exceptional array of phytonutrients and hormone support solutions

• Sacred Clay for baths, internal, and skin application

• Mineral Manna for detoxification and mineral/electrolyte infusion

• Neo Two-Herbal C Rejuv for immune support, glutathione development and protection, detoxification, and digestion

• Digestive Bitters, for bile production, fat metabolism, liver cleansing, and detoxification

• BloodSugar Balance, for improving sugar utilization at the cellular level, especially after a meal or sweet compromise

• Day Calm & Deep Sleep for easier time getting to sleep, with a longer and deeper, more refreshing rest

• and other System Builders when needed for more specific support, like in the instance of respiratory condition supportive therapies — Lung Support or Herbal Oxygen.

Many blessings of health and success.
Enjoy the many gifts from Nature!

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