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What role does Vitamin A play in immune support?
- Necessary for maintaining the cells of the skin and the mucous mebranes that act as the first lines of defense against infection.
- Necessary for proper white blood cell fucntion, and it enahnces many of your immune system's activites, incluing thymus function, tumor fighting activity, and antibody response.
- Especially important for fighting off viruses.
- Reverses immune suppression resulting from such condttions as high levels of stress hormones (glucocorticoids), sever burns, or surgery.
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What function do Carotenes play in immune support?
- They protect the thymus gland because of their antioxidant effects.
- Found in green leafy vegetables, carrots, and other colorful vegetables.
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What function do B vitamins play in immune support?
- Especially B1, B6, and B12 are required for making diesease-fighting antibodies.
- B vitamins are essential to normal cell division, therefore, low levles of B vitamins prevent the body from manufacturing new white blood cells.
- The lymphoid tissues such as the thymus and spleen shrink if they don't get enough B vitamins.
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What role does Vitamin C play in immune support?
- Turns on white blood cells to attack intruders and also boost interferon levels, antibody levels and response, and secretions of homrones from the thymus.
- Acts directly against viruses.
- When you have an infection or are under stress, your need for vitamin C icnreases.
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What role does Vitamin E play in immune support?
- Encourages the proliferation of white blood cells and imporeves antibody formation.
- (Too much vitamin E can suppress immune response in healthy individuals)
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What role does zinc play in immune support?
- Can act against certain vruses, such as those that cause the common cold.
- When zinc levels are low, the nuber of T cells plummets, thymus hormone levels fall, enzyme production and activity declines, and certain white cell functions shut down.
- Crucial for proper absorption of nutrients by the intestinal tract.
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What role does Selenium play in immune support?
- Involved in important antioxidant mechanisms that protect the thyms gland.
- People who are low in selenium have reduced levels of cellualar humoral immunity and lower antibody levels.
- Enhances the ability of white blood cells to produce interleukin-2, a chemical that stimulates white blood cells to proliferrate and attack foreign cells.
- Supplementation may be necessary for most people.
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