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Did you know that your immune system can manufacture and release Melatonin? This demonstrates the importance of Melatonin, like Vitamin D, to our immune system. Here’s what you need to know.
There are a few key factors that help your lymphatic system function properly, including water and Nucleotides. But today we are going to speak about a specific strain of Probiotics that are also beneficial – Bifidobacterium animalis subspecies lactis.
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What is the Lymphatic System?
Your lymphatic system kills viruses. It allows you to wipe out most viruses and other infections, bacterial infections included. It functions as a sort of circulatory system for your immune system. It really has two major functions – balancing the fluids in your body and your blood and fighting viruses. This system circulates around your body and delivers a group of different cells known as lymphocytes, which are really important immune system cells to any tissue where there is an infections. These cells are known as lymphocytes because they are mostly found in your lymph – the fluid drained from and around your organs and tissues (not blood). Lymph nodes are where a lot of the destruction of viruses and bacteria takes place.
lymphocytes consist of three main cells that have the ability to adapt to conditions relating to an infection, which is why it is called the adaptive immune system.
Factors that slow down your immune system in general, include:
Factors that support a healthy immune system in general, include:
How your Lymphatic System Protects You
Lymph ducts allow the lymphatic system to protect your organs from infections. These are located near your heart, your lungs and your kidneys. These allow your immune system to travel efficiently to any site in your body where there’s an infection. Your lymph is made out of fluid, so water is of utmost importance. There are additional nutrients you can include into your lifestyle that can also help support a healthy lymphatic system.
You body naturally makes Nucleotides and you normally don’t need extra. But they become what we call conditionally essential, in other words it is necessary to take them at certain times instead of every day like a multivitamin. Nucleotides are found naturally in fish, poultry, legumes, sprouts and breast milk. They are considered nutritional “building blocks”, providing energy to support and maintain various body functions, including offering excellent immune support. They help support body tissues and generate proper energy production in the Kreb cycle (ATP or Adenosine Triphosphate), while maintaining your body’s overall immune function.†
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DHEA is the most abundant circulating hormone in your body and it plays very specific roles in maintaining a healthy immune system. Here’s what you need to know from Amanda Williams, MPH.
Vitamin D literally unites your immune system, helping it work in a more balanced way and making it very important during cough and cold season and in the protection of your lungs.
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On today’s episode, we are going to be talking about Nucleotides. This is a blend of very important immune-supporting nutrients that I find myself speaking to our customers about on a consistent basis. Right now during this pandemic, we all want to make sure we are taking the appropriate steps and measures to enhance our immune defenses. Nucleotides are a really beneficial way to do that.
What are nucleotides?
Nucleotides are your basic building blocks of your DNA and RNA. Most people know of the double helix of our genes. Your DNA – deoxyribonucleic acid – contains nucleotides that function as the primary genetic information center inside of your cells. They are also responsible for different aspects of the way that the body functions, including metabolism and the transportation of critical chemical signals within the immune system. In order to support our immune defenses, nucleotides work by enhancing the rate at which healthy immune cells and healthy gut cells repair themselves. This is an extremely important factor because if we do not have enough of these nucleotides, it is just like the motherboard of a computer not being able to function.
Simply, nucleotides are responsible for the signal sent to the immune system to fend off pathogens, including bacteria and viruses. Pathogens can certainly be destructive in the human body. What we know, is that nucleotides play a functional role in helping our cells with repair and recovery.†
The Science Behind Nucleotides
Being the main building block of nucleic acids and having to have all of these components together in order for cells to be able to function is an important job. In order to stay healthy, it is critical for the body itself to be able to respond in a very fast mechanism in order to deal with whatever foreign pathogen is trying to invade the body. If you do not have a good amount of nucleotides, you may have a situation where you have more severe symptoms and prolonged illness. Now, there are many other factors to this as your innate and adaptive immune systems rely on a whole series of vitamins and minerals, as well. This is why, when you look at different factors of a virus including how infectious it is and how symptomatic people can become, you must question whether you have enough nucleotides, zinc, selenium, vitamin C, vitamin D and magnesium in the body. You can find more information about those essential micronutrients by clicking here.
Dietary Nucleotides
High concentrations of nucleotides can be found in breast milk which is why you are starting to see them in different baby formulas, along with probiotics and DHA. The food world is starting to catch on to nucleotides and starting to include them as added nutrients to baby formulas. This is beneficial to help to enhance the immune system of a growing child and optimize beneficial intestinal bacteria.
Nucleotides are considered an immuno-modulator, modulating the expression of different inflammatory reactions in the body, especially in the intestines. It’s important to note that 70-80% of our immune defenses are located in the intestines. This is why when you are taking a nucleotide supplement, it is helping to enhance overall gut health, supporting microvilli and reinvigorating the lining of the intestines. But nucleotides are not only beneficial for immune health. When you look at clinical research, you will see that supplementation of nucleotides have been shown to be effective for overall health.
One study published in the Nutrition Journal – a double blind, placebo-controlled trial – examined a group of participants who had IBS to determine if dietary supplementation of nucleotides would be beneficial. The results showed that dietary nucleotide supplementation improved many of the symptoms of IBS, compared to baseline. This included abdominal pain, urgency of having to use the restroom, bloating and gas. Researchers say this makes it evident that nucleotides can play a beneficial role for gut health.
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A separate study published in the journal Strength and Conditioning Research examined the physiological effects of nucleotide supplementation on resistance exercise stress in men and women. After exercise and when the body is under extreme stress, you can actually weaken your immune system. It is just a small window but it is it a window in which you are more prone to the potential infection of a bacteria or virus. In this double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, a group of athletes were told to workout as normal but researchers wanted to examine markers for inflammation, stress markers like cortisol, muscle cell damage shown by levels of creatine, and white blood cells. They found that the group that was given nucleotides did much better for all of these markers versus participants of the study taking a placebo.
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