What does it really mean to “boost your immune system?”
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We hear talk about “boosting the immune system” everywhere. But what does it really mean to boost your immunity? Let’s find out!
Immunity is broken into two major types: innate immunity and adaptive immunity.
Innate Immunity: The Brawn
Your innate immune system is the one you’re born with. It’s mobilized at the first sign of trouble, and its initial focus is on quickly squashing potential problems. Innate immunity is built to demonstrate a show of force, and it’s not very specific. It’s kind of like parking a tank in the driveway just to scare people off. It puts on a show and sounds the alert in the hope of avoiding conflict. However, if trouble is inevitable, the innate immune system alerts and works with the adaptive immune system to limit the damage and win the battle.
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Adaptive Immunity: The Brains
Your adaptive immune system is the one you develop in response to exposure to specific threats. Rather than a big, muscle-bound bodyguard, it’s a shrewd spy, always learning, changing, and preparing for the future. Adaptive immunity’s strength is that its actions are targeted and specific, which makes its strikes highly effective. Its weakness is that its highly specialized tactics take more time to enact and it can be temporarily confused when it confronts something completely new.
What, Exactly, are We “Boosting”?
When we talk about “boosting” the immune system, we are mostly speaking of the innate immune system. How quickly your innate immune system can act depends on a variety of factors, including diet, sleep, age, medications, and general health. There’s one more element too: New studies are finding a close link between gut core architecture (the actual anatomy of the gut) and innate immunity.
It may surprise you to find out that the gut is the most important organ in the immune system. Why is that so? Because innate immunity (and much of adaptive immunity) lives there!
Most of the innate immune system is embedded in the gut mucosa and underlying layers of the gut. This amazing cellular architecture runs through the intestines and is crucial to sensing changing conditions, segregating the microbiome, releasing immune molecules and other messengers, and orchestrating innate immunity responses. Building and supporting core gut architecture is like digging and filling the moat around the castle — it helps you prepare the best initial defense possible against invaders.
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to learn more about immune health and
8 actions
you can take to support a healthy immune response today.
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How to live an immune-healthy lifestyle
No one wants to get sick — ever really — but especially now. The good news is your immune system is in your corner. Your immune cells are constantly patrolling your body, looking for threats to your health and dispatching them. They form a large and complex team, working together to protect you. But you’re part of the team, too.
Learn more about
seven things
you can do to help keep your immune system functioning with all hands-on deck:
1. Be Awesome at Hygiene
Handwashing 101: You must do this one thing before you wash your hands.
2. Clean All the Things
Your filthy phone and other things that need frequent cleaning — but probably aren’t on your radar.
3. Pig Out on Plants
Why plant-based foods support immunity (Hint: it’s not just vitamin C!).
4. Move Your Body
The fascinating reasons exercise strengthens your immune system.
5. Rebuild Through Sleep
Why you need a good night’s sleep to stay well — and how much sleep is enough.
6. Cultivate Happiness
How finding joy helps you cope, and how you can do it in twelve minutes a day.
7. Take Your Previlli™
Why a healthy immune system absolutely relies on a healthy gut — and how to take care of yours.
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What are nucleotides and how do they help immunity?
Found in certain foods, breast milk, and all living cells, nucleotides are small, biological molecules that are critical to many physiological processes. They’re considered “semi-essential” because our bodies can produce them, but oftentimes we need more than we can make. That’s why dietary sources of nucleotides can be extremely important.
You may not have heard of these powerful little guys, but they’re frequently added to nutrient-dense foods such as infant formulas. This is because common stressors on our bodies — like growth, recovery, stress, injury, and illness — may increase the need for nucleotides.
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Tissues that have the highest cellular turnover need nucleotides the most — and your
gut lining is the fastest-renewing tissue
in your whole body. Nucleotides give your gut the special nutrition it requires to support this accelerated growth and repair.
(Kind of like how you need to stock three times as much food in the fridge if you have a teenaged boy.)
And since 70-80% of your immune system is located in your gut, cellular turnover there is important for
immune strength
.
Clinical studies have evaluated formulations of nucleotides in many settings and shown they have benefits for a variety of conditions. For instance, research in exercising adults has found that increased intake of nucleotides enhances immune response and lowers exercise-induced stress hormones like cortisol.
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Previlli™
contains a proprietary blend of nucleotides, called Immunell™, to support immune health and to build and protect core gut architecture. Immunell™ has been clinically shown to help:
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Improve immune response
by supporting the natural internal defenses, including reducing some inflammatory markers.*
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Support cellular regeneration
and protect immune and gut health.*
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Reinforce the gut barrier
by providing critical building blocks for important structural features of
core gut architecture
. This in turn supports immune function, since many important immune molecules are embedded in the gut.
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Optimize gut surface area
by supporting
microvilli
health. Microvilli are the tiny fingers in the surface of the small intestine that dramatically increase its surface area. This allows for greater nutrient absorption and helps the body move food and waste through the gut efficiently.
Nucleotides occur in many kinds of foods, but the foods with the highest concentrations are not ones most people commonly consume, like kidney, liver, tongue, and tripe. Taking
Previlli™
can help you get the
nucleotides you need
but probably aren’t getting in your diet.
(Plus, it’s
100%
vegetarian!)
Immunell™ is a trademark of Nexira, Inc.
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Lay off the Booze
As tempting as it is to drink more when you’re shut in, recent research suggests that’s not a great idea.
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Early Bloomers
Last fall, researchers got a surprise when they discovered that the human immune system develops much sooner
in utero
than anyone had realized.
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Gut-Lung Axis
You’ve probably heard of the gut-brain axis — and maybe even the gut-skin axis — but did you know there’s a gut-lung axis?
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Innate Immunity and Gut Health
A just-published study looked closer at the relationship between the gut and innate immunity.
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* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
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