Infections are NOT caused by echinacea or elderberry deficiency. BUILD your immune system with micro-nutrients.
Our immune system is a highly complex network of tissues and cells whose job description is to correctly identify, label, attack and destroy physical threats to our well-being. Antibodies, neutrophils, phagocytes, T cells, B cells and Natural Killer cells are just a few of the vital cells that do the bulk of the work when we come in contact with an infectious agent. How well they fend off a pathogen depends on how well nourished these cells are.
Only nutrients can nourish. The essential vitamins and minerals that are used to construct the immune systemâ??s vital components are best referred to as immune-builders. Vitamins A, B-6, C, D, as well as the minerals zinc and selenium are examples of immune-builders because without them, we donâ??t just have a poorly-functioning immune systemâ??weâ??d have an incompletely constructed one.
Hereâ??s how some of these nutrients help strengthen our immune systems:
