Understanding the Immune System and it’s Basic Function can be complicated.
Yet many clients place understanding the Immune System and its basic function on the top of their health goals. This makes sense, as our collective Immune System health has been threatened on a global scale.
This article is designed to provide basic insights into the immune system, its importance, and how it works!
Creating balanced health in your body involves an intricate balance of various bodily functions and systems. When these systems function optimally, we find ourselves in good health. However, when any system is compromised, our health can deteriorate. Each system will either affect another, or pick up the slack.
Your Immune System is no different.
The Immune System, along with your Integumentary System, is a primary defense mechanism against disease-causing microorganisms. Without it, your body would be open to constant attacks from bacteria, viruses, parasites, and more. It’s akin to a fortress that guards your body against harmful invaders.
The Immune System is woven intricately into our bodies, and it’s continuously at work. Besides fighting off harmful invaders, it:
- recognizes and neutralizes harmful substances
- fights disease-causing changes in the body
- helps in the healing process.
It’s your body’s personal army, always ready to protect and defend.
A healthy Immune System can recognize and differentiate between your body’s cells and foreign cells. This recognition allows your Immune System to destroy the foreign cells while leaving your body’s cells alone. In essence, the immune system helps maintain the body’s overall health by warding off infections and diseases.
Additionally, the immune system is involved in the healing process. When you get a wound, for instance, your immune system goes to work to protect the area, reduce inflammation, and promote healing. It’s a sophisticated system that works round the clock to keep you healthy.
Understanding the Immune System: the Basics
The basic workings of the Immune System is a network of cells, tissues, organs, and the substances they make. It’s not located in one particular place. Instead, it’s systematically integrated into our bodies. Understanding your Immune System means knowing it works tirelessly, often without your awareness, to fend off harmful pathogens and maintain your health.
The immune system’s primary job is to defend your body against invaders and to heal tissues. These invaders can be bacteria, viruses, parasites, or mold/fungi like candida, all of which can cause illnesses. Even cells that have changed, such as cancer cells, are identified and eliminated by the Immune System.
Uderstanding the Immune System is not just about knowing its definition. It’s also about understanding its complexity, its mechanisms, and its immense importance in maintaining our health. And to appreciate its complexity, we must delve into its components.
Understanding the Immune System in Bioresonance Testing
Each part of the Immune System has a unique function. These components include white blood cells, antibodies, the complement system, the lymphatic system, the spleen, the thymus, and bone marrow. The complement system contains a large number of distinct plasma proteins, that react with each other. These reactions occur through the body as a protective mechanism that acts specifically on pathogens (1).
Our Digestive System houses approximately 70% of our Immune System. It contains enzymes specific to the gut, that were first called zymogens that relate to immune response (1).
On a Full Scan bioenergetic test, you may see other systems and points of stress that relate to the Immune System. Some are obvious, such as the Immune System itself. Others are not so obvious, but are connected, such as:
- The Blood System.
- The Nervous System
- The Digestive System
- The Lymph System
- The Respiratory System
- Cellular Metabolism
- The Integumentary System
- The Locomotor System
Organ points that may also be signs of bioenergetic Immune System Stress include:
- The Spleen
- The Thymus
- Lungs
- Throat and Tonsils
- Skin
This connection, along with the gut-brain axis, is a great example of the interconnectedness of our systems!
White blood cells are the immune system’s primary soldiers. There are many different types.
- Eosinophils
- Neutrophils
- Basophils
- B Lymphocytes
- T Lymphocytes
- NK or Natural Killer Cells
If this sounds like a lot to learn in one blog post, you’re correct! It is!
Each cell, along with specific proteins in the body, have a particular job keeping your body healthy and free from invading pathogens.
White blood cells like the ones above are produced in your bone marrow, and integrate as part of the Lymph System. On a bioenergetic test, you may see stress in your Locomotor System. These cells patrol your body, fighting off invaders. When they find a threat, they multiply and send signals to other cells to do the same.
Those specific proteins we mentioned? Those are antibodies.
Antibodies are proteins made by your white blood cells to help fight off invaders. They recognize and neutralize harmful substances as they travel through the blood. These multiply when the body recognizes a threat, as in a new pathogen, or even a vaccine.
The complement system, on the other hand, enhances the ability of antibodies and phagocytic cells to clear microbes and damaged cells from an organism. It also promotes inflammation, which is that redness and swelling that brings beneficial cells to an area of injury,.
The Lymph System is a network of tissues and organs that help rid the body of toxins, waste, and other unwanted materials. The Lymph System contains lymph nodes that run throughout the body. Immune cells like B cells (or B lymphocytes) reside in the lymph nodes. These are part of the adaptive immune system. Sometimes the Lymph System is stressed by viruses that can become chronic in some people, like Epstein-Barr Virus.
The spleen, thymus, and bone marrow are organs where immune cells are produced and mature.
If there is stress in the spleen, it will be listed on the bottom of the first page of your report. Numerous things can cause stress in the spleen, including that Epstein-Barr virus, and blood borne parasites like schistosomes (2). If a remedy like Venus Fly Trap, or the Series Therapy Kit EPST SRR is part of your balancing regimen, then this is a clue that EBV may be stressing your bioenergetic field.
Understanding the Immune System in Relation to Common Illness
Since the dawn of time, pathogens, or microbes that cause imbalance in the human body, have challenged our Immune Systems.
Just as the Immune System is designed to defend your body, pathogens are designed to invade it. Roaming invaders that are part of our environment, like bacteria, viruses, mold/fungi, and parasites, may cause imbalances, if the body is not balanced and the immune system parts of the Immune System are stressed
This is where the magic of bioresonance testing comes in. Our Full Scan, and Balancing Scan will help you identify any resonating environmental toxins including those bacteria, viruses, mold/fungi, parasites, along with chemicals, and heavy metals that also bring your immunity under stress.
Interested in applying bioenergetics to your holistic health practice? We’ll show you how!
Most of us are familiar with common bacteria that cause sinus infections, the common winter colds that come around, food poisoning from salmonella, and escherichia coli that stress the Urogenital System with urinary tract infections. Those who struggle with Lyme might be familiar with the bacteria called borrelia, which is a tricky Immune System evader!
Viruses are even smaller than bacteria and can cause those same winter illnesses such as the flu. If you have had shingles, then this is from the varicella virus, and entered your system as chicken pox. When the Immune System defenses are down, these types of virus become active again.
Fungi can cause skin issues, like rashes and itching, especially in people with a weakened immune system, and mold can cause a very complicated biotoxin illness.
Parasites belong in a class of their own, and cause diseases such as babesiosis, malaria and toxoplasmosis.
If you saw our databank of resonating pathogens, it would seem that there is no end to invaders that pose a constant threat to our health. However, your Immune System is equipped to fight them off, protecting you and maintaining your balanced health.
Understanding the Immune System: innate and adaptive immunity
Innate immunity is your first line of defense. It includes physical barriers like your skin and mucous membranes, which are part of your Immune System, Integumentary System, and Digestive System. You might see Throat and Tonsils show up as a point stressed on your report.
All of these play a role and work to block pathogens from entering your body. If a pathogen manages to get past these barriers, then your innate immune response kicks in. This involves cells that quickly respond to pathogens, such as those neutrophils and natural killer cells.
If your Integumentary System comes up stressed, is there a skin issue you might have? If Throat and Tonsils come up stressed, this may be related to mucous in the mouth or oral cavity. Mucous is a defense mechanism designed to trap invaders.
Our top tip for making sure the body can maintain mucous membranes is hydration!
Adaptive immunity, on the other hand, is more sophisticated. It’s responsible for the immune system’s ability to recognize and remember specific pathogens. This immunity allows your body to mount a stronger attack each time it’s exposed to a particular pathogen.
Understanding the Immune System and Autoimmune Diseases
Sometimes, the immune system can turn against the body it’s supposed to protect, leading to autoimmune diseases. In these conditions, the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells, causing inflammation and damage.
This can happen for many reasons, and CBH Energetics always wants you to seek help from a licensed care practitioner if you suspect you have an autoimmune issue. We do not diagnose or treat autoimmune disorders. We do take a functional approach to the body and use bioresonance testing to identify any energetic connections to the root of a condition.
Health conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, where the immune system attacks the joints, or multiple sclerosis, where it attacks the nervous system, and Type 1 diabetes, where it attacks the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas are all examples of autoimmune conditions.
Just like healthy eating, there is no “one size fits all” when approaching the health of your Immune System.
Factors that come into play include:
- microbial invaders that set up a home in your body
- your diet
- sleep
- emotional and physical stress
- age
- even certain medications=
A poor diet, lack of sleep, and high emotional stress not only impact your Immune System, making you more susceptible to infections, they tax your Nervous System, which plays a role in immunity as well.
Can You Boost Your Immune System?
As you can see, maintaining a strong immune system includes maintaining the vitality of all of your body systems. There are many diet philosophies that may support the body’s Immune System. They include the Mediterranean Diet, and even proponents of the Carnivore diet have said that eating this way has given them a reset of sorts to their Immune System.
General advice does include a varied diet to feed good gut bacteria, and this includes some consumption of fruits and vegetables. Getting enough rest for recovery and repair, taking care of your oral health, and even having satisfying relationships all play a role in a solid Immune System.
Will supplements boost your Immune System?
Think of supplements as partners in your defense strategy! Incorporating some of the basics in our Winter Wellness Guide will go a long way in protecting your body and boosting your Immune System. Remedies that contain elderberry (Micellar Immune Attune) are also potent protectors that all of your family can use.
Our Guide will help you with lifestyle practices along with simple homeopathic and herbal remedies to have on hand whenever you need some Immune System support!.
Still confused about your Full Scan Bioenergetic report? Booking a 30 minute consultation is a great place to start. If you have tested with us recently, you would have received our new System Tracker when you received the results of your bioresonance test.
Need support? Email us here: info@cbhenergetics.com
