What is Immune System? How we can boost our Immunity

Despite being surrounded by harmful microorganisms, toxins, and the threat of our own cells turning into tumour cells, humans manage to survive; largely thanks to our immune system. So now one question is arrived in the mind that What is Immune System? So, the Immune System is a defence mechanism which is made up of different biological structure and processes to fight against pathogens and keep away from disease. The immune keeps record of every germ which come in contact so that if they come again, immune system recognises that germ and destroy before it can harm us.

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The Immune System is made up of organs, tissues, cells, and molecules that all work together to generate an immune response that protects us from microorganisms, removes toxins, and destroys tumour cells - hopefully not all at once! The immune response can identify a threat, mount an attack, eliminate a pathogen, and develop mechanisms to remember the offender in case you encounter it again - all within 10 days.

so, now we will discuss on all the following topics given below

1.    Types of Immune System

2.    Antigens and Antibodies

3.    Immunity boosters

·      Immunity booster drink

·      Immunity booster food

·      Immunity booster fruits

·      Immunity booster vegetables

·      Immunity booster vitamins

·      Immunity booster yoga

·      Immunity booster plants

·      Immunity booster home remedies

4. Sign of weak Immune System

 

Types of Immune System

                                                                                                                                 

Your system is just like the military – with two main branches, the innate immune reaction and therefore the adaptive immune reaction. The innate immune system or innate immune response is having cells which are non-specific, mean that although they differentiate an invader from an individual's cell, they don’t distinguish one invader from another invader. The innate response is additionally feverishly fast- working within minutes to hours. The trade-off for that speed is that there’s no memory associated with innate responses. In other words, the innate response will respond to the same pathogen in the exact same way no matter how many times it sees the pathogen. The innate immune response includes things that you may not even think of as being part of the immune system. Things like chemical barriers, like lysozymesin the tears and a low pH in the stomach, as well as physical barriers like the epitheliumin the skin and gut, and the cilia that line the airways to keep invaders out.

 In contrast, the adaptive immune reaction is very specific for every invader. The cells of the adaptive immune reaction have receptors that differentiate one pathogen from another by their unique parts – called antigens. These receptors can differentiate between friendly bacteria and potentially deadly ones. The trade-off is that the adaptive response relies on cells being primed or activated, in order that they can fully differentiate into the proper quite fighter to kill that pathogen, and that can take a few weeks. But the great advantage of the adaptive immune response is immunologic memory. The cells that are activated within the adaptive immune reaction undergo clonal expansion which suggests that they massively proliferate. And each time the adaptive cells see that very same pathogen, they massively proliferate again, leading to a stronger and faster response whenever that pathogen comes around. Once the pathogen is destroyed, most of the colonially expanded cells die off, that’s called clonal deletion. But a number of the colonially expanded cells survive as memory cells and they’re able to expa nd another time if that pathogen ever resurfaces.

 

Antigens and Antibodies

To understand immune system in more depth you must understand what are Antigens and Antibody. We will just discuss that what is Antigens and Antibodies in short, in detail we will create a new separate article.

Antigens: - The Antigens are the harmful substance that cause your immune system or immune response to produce Antibodies against it.

Bacteria, virus, chemicals are some examples of Antigens.

Antibodies: - Antibodies is a protective protein which is produced by the immune system in response to the harmful substance or a foreign substance called an Antigen. Antibody recognize Antigens and remove them from our body.

 

Immunity boosters

As we come to know that immune System place an important role to fight against the any Disease. So, know we must know about what is immunity? So, it is an ability of multicellular organism to defend against the harmful microorganisms from entering into the cell. So, to increase the power of your immunity, immunity boosters are used. There are many types of immunity boosters by which we can improve or increase our immunity power, we will discuss some of the important one.

1.    Immunity booster drinks

·      Turmeric tea

·      Herbal tea

·      Green juice

·      Spiced tea

·      Hot lemonade

·      Tomato rasam

·      Strawberry and kiwi mixture

·      Beet, carrot, ginger and apple mixture

 

2.    Immunity booster foods

·      Mushrooms

·      Oyester

·      Yogurt

·      Beans

·      Egg

·      Oats

·      Soybeans

 

3.    Immunity booster fruits

·      Oranges

·      Guava

·      Watermelon

·      Pomegranate

·      Blueberry

·      Lemons

·      Strawberry

·      Mangoes

·      Apple

·      Papaya

·      Kiwi

 

4.    Immunity booster vegetables

·      Spinach

·      Garlic

·      Broccoli

·      Sweet patato

·      Tomato

·      Ginger

·      Bitter Gourd

 

5.    Immunity booster vitamins

·      Vitamins C

·      Vitamins B6

·      Vitamins E

 

6.    Immunity booster yoga

·      Sitting and breathing (Sukhasana and Pranayama)

·      Half lord of the fish (Ardha Matsyenasana)

·      Supported Fish Pose (Matsyasana Variation) ...

·      Forward Fold (Uttanasana) ...

·      Legs Up the Wall (Viparita Karani)

 

7.    Immunity booster plants

·      Tulsi

·      Garlic

·      Licorice

·      Turmeric

·      Giloy

·      Pumpkin seeds

·      Sunflower seeds

·      Cinnamom

 

8.    Immunity booster home remedies

Following are the ways to boost your immune system at home

·      Eat a proper diet fruits and vegetable.

·      Daily Exercise (Yoga).

·      Maintain Weight

·      Drink sufficient Water

·      Take adequate sleep

·      Do not Smoke

·      Keep Stress under control

·      Try to avoid going outside unnecessarily.  

Sign of Weak Immune System

Recurrent infection or allergies

If you feel that you are sick more often than others, complain of a cold, cough, sore throat or skin rashes, then it is very possible that it is due to your immune system. Candid test positive, diarrhea, gingivitis, mouth sores, etc. are also symptoms of poor immunity.

 

Some people get sick just as the weather changes. This may be due to lower body temperature. The normal oral blood heat is 36.3 degrees for a robust system. It Should not be below 33 degrees Because cold viruses survive on that degree. Exercising daily can increase your blood heat and immunity. Also, hot spices like garlic, ginger, cinnamon cloves, etc. are also very useful.

 

If you have no fever

When the body should come with fever, it does not come, it means that your immunity is weak. With fever, the body fights against diseases and most of us eat fever medicine so that the fever does not work in a positive way for us. If you have not had fever for many years after infection, then it is also a symptom of weak immunity.

 

Vitamin D deficiency

Vitamin D enhances immunity and is lacking in most people. If there is a lack of vitamin D in your blood report, then you should make every effort to correct its level. Apart from this, persistent fatigue, sluggishness or wounds that do not heal for a long time, sleeplessness, depression and dark circles are also a sign of weak immunity.