You read and hear about the importance of building the immune system in most health magazines. When I ask at my lectures, "How do you build your immune response?", people answer: exercise, herbs and vitamins. Very few people mention manually activating the lymphatic system. With the current outbreak of Swine Flu and many auto immune diseases like Crohn's disease, Hashimoto's disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Multiple Sclerosis, HI-V and Lupus, it is imperative to know how to manually improve your immune response.

The immune system works because certain cells in your body called lymphocytes, scavenge your body for invaders like viruses, bacteria, even cancer. They are created in your bone marrow and mature in different organs, lymph nodes and other parts of the body. There are many different types of lymphocytes. If they mature in the bone marrow they are called B cells and if they mature in the thymus they are called T cells. There are many other lymphocytes that help our immune response from macrophages to Natural Killer Cells (NK cells). You want a lot of lymphocytes working for you. These specialized cells move around and identify self from non-self. This means if a foreign substance like a virus (non-self) invades your body, lymphocytes jump into action to destroy the invader.

Lymphocytes concentrate in lymphoid organs like the thymus, spleen, appendix, tonsils and the small intestine. They can move around the body but mostly they remain in a mesh of lymphatic capillaries to wait for foreign substances to float by. This is really key because increased lymphatic flow helps move these lymphocytes throughout the body to scavenge non-self invaders. If you are overly acidic your body constricts, especially your lymphatic system, limiting circulation of lymphocytes.
 

When you are internally in balance and your lymphatic system is flowing you are healthier. Take control of your lymphocytes and health by learning how to self-activate your lymphatic system.

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