The human immune system, like an excellent army, protects our health all the time. This is a great masterpiece! In any one second, the immune system can coordinate and dispatch countless immune "troops" with different functions to engage in complex tasks. It can not only protect us from foreign invaders at all times, but also prevent the threat of cancer caused by cell mutation in the body. Without the protection of the immune system, even a grain of dust is enough to kill people.
According to medical research, more than 90% of human diseases are related to immune system disorder. The structure of human immune system is complicated, not in a specific position or organ. On the contrary, it is coordinated by multiple organs of the human body. Bone marrow and thymus are the main lymphatic organs of human body, and peripheral lymphatic organs include tonsil, spleen, lymph nodes, collective lymph nodes and cecum. These checkpoints are used to prevent the invasion of toxins and microorganisms. When our throat itches or our eyes itches.
Tears in our eyes show that our immune system is working hard. For a long time, people choose to remove the cecum and tonsil because they have no obvious function, but recent research shows that there are a large number of lymph nodes in the cecum and tonsil, which can help the immune system to operate.
Since the invention of antibiotics, the scientific community has been committed to the invention of drugs, hoping that they can treat diseases, but contrary to expectations, researchers have gradually found that people using chemical drugs will only stimulate a certain part of the immune system, but it cannot replace the function of the immune system, and it will also have harmful side effects on human health and disturb the balance of the immune system. On the contrary, it is the body's own defense mechanism-the immune system, which has incredible power. However, proper nutrition can make the immune system work fully and effectively, and help the human body to better defend against diseases and overcome environmental pollution and toxins. The inseparable and mutually promoting relationship between nutrition and immune system lays a theoretical foundation for the establishment of nutritional immunology.
Generally speaking, the immune system has the following functions:
1. Protection: Protect the human body from viruses, bacteria, pollutants and diseases.
2. Removal: In the war with the enemy, the waste after metabolism and the body left after virus casualties must be removed by immune cells.
Third, repair: human cells have the function of self-repair, and the immune system provides the best assistance for them. Immune cells can kill viruses and bacteria in the body, while their own cells can immediately repair damaged organs and tissues. Although its power is amazing, it may still fail because of continuous intake of unhealthy food. Studies have proved that proper nutrition can enhance the function of the immune system. In other words, the key to the strength of the immune system lies in accurate and balanced nutrition. Unbalanced nutrition will weaken the function of immune cells, and impure nutrition will lead to imbalance of immune cells and lead to chronic diseases. The research focus of nutritional immunology is how to nourish the body through proper nutrition, so as to maintain the best state of the immune system and make our immune system stronger. It was created by Dr. Chen Zhaofei, who borrowed from the use of herbal plants in China and combined with the in-depth study of nutritional immunology. It is a health science in the new century and a health mainstream in the new era.
Soldier factory: Bone marrow red blood cells and white blood cells are like soldiers in the immune system, and bone marrow is responsible for making these cells. Every second, 8 million blood cells die, and the same number of cells are produced here, so bone marrow is like a factory that makes soldiers.
Training ground: Thymus is just like training navy, army and air force to win wars. Thymus is a training factory for training various arms and services. Thymus distributes T cells to fight. In addition, the thymus gland also secretes hormones with immunomodulatory function.
Battlefield: Lymph Node Lymph Node is a small battlefield with billions of white blood cells. When we have to start fighting because of infection, foreign invaders and immune cells gather here, and the lymph nodes will swell, even we can touch them. Lymph node enlargement is a good signal that your body is infected and your immune system is working hard. As the excretory system of the whole army, lymph nodes are responsible for filtering lymph and taking away wastes such as viruses and bacteria. Lymphatic fluid in human body is about four times as much as blood.
Blood filter: Spleen is the storehouse of blood. It undertakes the functions of filtering blood, clearing dead blood cells and devouring viruses and bacteria. It can also activate B cells to produce a large number of antibodies.
Throat Guardian: Tonsils Tonsils are highly alert to intruders who enter the human body through the nose and mouth. Those who have their tonsils removed are more likely to suffer from strep throat and Hodgkin's disease. This proves that tonsils play a very important role in protecting upper respiratory tract.
Immune assistance: cecum cecum can help the mature development of B cells and the production of antibodies (iga). It also acts as a traffic commander, producing molecules to direct white blood cells to various parts of the body. The cecum can also "notify" that white blood cells have intruders into the digestive tract. Cecum can not only help local immunity, but also help control the excessive immune response of antibodies.
Gastrointestinal guardian: the aggregated lymph nodes are like cecum, and the aggregated lymph nodes respond to the invaders in the stomach. They are very important for controlling microbial invaders in human blood.
The immune system nourished by proper nutrition can play its best role and keep us away from diseases, and daily diet is the source of nutrition. Nutritional immunology is a science that studies the close relationship between nutrition and immune system's ability to resist diseases. It goes beyond basic survival nutrition such as vitamins and protein, but studies disease-resistant nutrition such as antioxidants, phytonutrients and polysaccharides. Not only that, this science also studies how to choose the most nutritious plants and how to deal with these plant foods to retain the most nutrition. Many people are entangled in diseases because of the lack of correct nutrition knowledge, so nutrition immunology also attaches great importance to education, emphasizing the realization of a healthy life through timely exercise, moderate rest and correct decompression.
Polysaccharide is a long-chain sugar, which usually exists in some mushrooms. Studies have found that these mushroom polysaccharides can activate immune cells and inhibit tumor growth. Polysaccharides help balance the immune system, which in turn can destroy existing cancer cells and viruses.
The valleys that can inhibit the growth of cancer cells are:
Agaricus blazei contains two kinds of rich polysaccharide compounds, namely β- 1, 3d glucan and β- 1, 6d glucan. The concentration of these compounds in Agaricus blazei Murill is higher than that in other mushrooms. Polysaccharides in Agaricus blazei Murill can improve the production capacity of anti-cancer lymphocytes T cells, helper T cells, interferon and interleukin, and can restore and support the immune system of the body, so that the number of cancer cells produced by the body is greatly reduced. The polysaccharide in Agaricus blazei Murill can effectively fight against Ehrlich ascites tumor, sigmoid colon cancer, ovarian cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer and other tumors.
The University of Tokyo School of Medicine, National Cancer Center Laboratory and Tokyo Medical College use Agaricus blazei to feed animals with cancer and tumors. As a result, the tumors of 90% animals have shrunk. Even more surprising, even though these animals taking Agaricus blazei Murill were injected with powerful cancer-causing cells sarcoma 180, the results showed that 99.4% of the animals did not have tumor growth because cancer cells could not be successfully implanted.
Researchers at UCLA Golden Globe Medical Center found that Agaricus blazei can increase the total number of immune cells in the body. Dr. Mandugeneng found that this mushroom can not only increase the number of natural killer cells, but also make the natural killer cells themselves stronger.
Agaricus blazei Murill is also a powerful antiviral agent, which can prevent the virus from entering the fragile tissues of the body.
The curative effect of Grifola frondosa lies in its polysaccharide composition. After removing some impurities from Grifola frondosa, scientists can extract polysaccharide D fraction with powerful anti-tumor components. Dr. Namba from Kobe Pharmaceutical University in Japan found that maitake can not only effectively treat cancer, but also prevent cancer recurrence.
In an experiment, scientists studied to find out whether the polysaccharide D in Grifola frondosa can prevent normal cells from transforming into malignant tumor cells. They put carcinogens in animal food three times every seven days. Standard group A was given ordinary feed, group B was given 20% Grifola frondosa, and group C was given 1mg/kg polysaccharide D orally. After 60 days, they calculated the incidence of liver tumors. Results In Group C, 9.7% of animals had tumors. The number of tumor cells in group B was 22.2%, while that in group A was 100%. This experiment shows that polysaccharide can reduce the risk of cancer for those who eat carcinogens regularly.
Many studies have shown that polysaccharides extracted from maitake can be used simultaneously with chemotherapy. In one study, the chemotherapy drug mmc was used for experiments, and experts found that the effect of polysaccharide D component alone in inhibiting tumor growth was 45%-80% higher than that of mmc alone. If maitake and mmc are used together, the tumor inhibition effect can be as high as 98%.
Maitake has been proved to be the most effective in inhibiting breast cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer and prostate cancer. Its effect is related to the amount and dosage of polysaccharide extracted from Grifola frondosa and the stage of cancer. Generally speaking, the growth rate of cancer cells decreased from 45.5% to 73.3%.
Ganoderma lucidum has been used to treat and prevent cancer, which can reduce the side effects of chemotherapy, improve the survival rate of patients, reduce the possibility of cancer metastasis, improve the quality of life of patients and prevent cancer recurrence. In ancient times, Ganoderma lucidum was a symbol of longevity. China's classic Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing once described that Ganoderma lucidum can enhance physical strength, improve thinking ability and prevent forgetfulness. Based on these connections, recent research suggests that Ganoderma lucidum is a drug that can be used to treat Alzheimer's disease.
Ganoderma lucidum also has a therapeutic effect on the lungs, especially for patients with asthma and other respiratory problems. A study in China pointed out that after more than 2,000 patients with chronic bronchitis used syrup containing Ganoderma lucidum for two weeks, 60%-90% of them showed health improvement. In 1980s, Japanese medical department approved that lentinan found in spine antlers could be used as anticancer drugs, which was unheard of in western medical field. Lentinus edodes polysaccharide contains a variety of immune components, which can enhance natural killer cells and increase γ interferon. Lancet Medical Journal reported that doctors used lentinan to treat a patient infected with AIDS due to blood transfusion, and repeatedly tested positive. The patient used one milligram of lentinan every day for five months. Four months later, he found that the anti-AIDS antibody turned negative and remained. Two years later, the patient is still alive and well.
Nowadays, doctors in Japan use lentinan with impurities removed as immunotherapy for cancers such as lung cancer, skin cancer, gastric cancer, breast cancer, rectal cancer and cervical cancer. Lentinan can not only inhibit the recurrence of cancer, but also prolong the survival time of cancer patients. In addition, various studies also show that the effect of lentinan combined with chemotherapy is greater than that of simple chemotherapy. However, the dosage of lentinan is the key to the whole course of treatment, and too much or too little may lose its curative effect.
Coriolus versicolor is rich in psk and psp polysaccharides. Psk and psp are effective anticancer substances and polysaccharides, which can balance the immune system. Scientists have made important research on psk and psp in mice and animals. In one study, the growth of tumor in animals with tumor was obviously inhibited after injection of psk. In fact, evidence shows that these animals will produce tumor antibodies after receiving psk treatment, which makes them immune to some tumors in the future. The researchers found that if these animals were injected with psk and psp before injecting tumor cells, they would repel cancer cells and eventually inhibit the growth of tumors.
In human experiments, most of the research is carried out together with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. A study published in The Lancet magazine showed that 262 patients with gastric cancer received psk during standard chemotherapy. As a result, 59%-70% patients did not have cancer again within five years. Two other different experiments show that the survival rate of rectal cancer patients is significantly increased by psk treatment. A sampling experiment showed that the five-year survival rate of patients with primary and secondary cancer increased from 16% to 39%, and from 5% to 16% in tertiary cancer. These polysaccharides have also been proved to be helpful to treat hematological cancer and gastric cancer, and reduce the recurrence rate.
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