The digestive system determines the type of immune response.
There are three basic immune responses. Here, I am simplifying.
The mucosal immune response (MI), the cell-mediated response (TH1), and the humoral immune response. (TH2).
Look at your digestive tract as a tube from your head to your rectum.
More than 80% of the immune system is found in the lining of the digestive tract, from the nose to the rectum, when you are eating. It is the first line of defense for anything that comes from outside the body and tries to enter its systems. This includes bacteria, viruses, fungi, environmental contaminants, or undigested food.
Mucosal immunity (MI)
Imagine your mucosa as a silk stocking encrusted with white blood cells and immunoglobulins. These defenders will tag, attack, and eliminate any perceived pathogens, such as toxins, bacteria, fungi, viruses, or undigested food proteins that enter your system and try to pass through the lining into your blood. If the candida has made holes in the lining, (leaky gut) it will look more like a fishing net, allowing undigested proteins, perceived as pathogens, to pass through the lining of the gut into the blood.
Humoral immunity (TH2)
If this mucosal immunity does not stop the perceived pathogen, a humoral immune response (TH2) is activated. This TH2 will mark the invader as an antigen, create an anti-body inflammatory response, and deposit the invader in the lymphatic system. There, the CD4 helper cells decide what kind of response will continue. [ TH2 response will also suppress the TH1 response. ] The body only has a limited amount of energy to expend and will prioritize. Getting any perceived toxin / pathogen into the blood before it can damage a tissue cell is the priority. Undigested food is perceived as a toxin.
Cell-mediated immunity (TH2)
The cell-mediated immunity response destroys infections within cells or destroys the infected cell as well as the pathogen, such as Candida, herpes, Epstein Barr, HIV, cancer, etc.
The TH1 response is the most effective way to treat chronic infections.
The challenge
Three times a day, or every time they eat, most people are suppressing their TH1 response by pouring undigested dietary protein into the blood through leaky gut. This is why after discontinuing prescription antifungals, antivirals, and antibacterials, usually before the hidden pathogens that are now inactive are completely eradicated, infections return, often with increased resistance to therapy. The proper immune response cannot complete the job and pathogens reappear.
“The stomach is the mother of all body systems” – Dr. Bernard Jensen, DC.
“Stomach”, which means “digestion”, is the first line of defense and offense as prevention. A well-nourished body is able to handle all attacks with the right immune responses.
THE MUCOUS COATING
The mucous membrane lines the ducts and cavities that communicate with the air and the outside environment, and consists of a superficial layer of epithelium, a basement membrane, and an underlying layer of connective tissue (lamina propria). It extends from the nose to the rectum and lines the hollow organs and cavities of the body. It is like a cobweb where when a place is stimulated, the entire membrane reacts. For example, a food offensive to the stomach, such as pasteurized milk, will cause a runny nose. An unpleasant odor can lead to indigestion or vomiting.
Mucous membranes are often colonized by beneficial bacteria, eg. Eg Lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidis, which discourage pathogen colonization. When these protectants are removed by immunosuppressive medications such as antibiotics and certain foods (eg, white sugar and foods made with it) stress, chlorine, food preservatives, chemicals, environmental toxins, etc., pathogens such as Candida albicans can adhere to the membrane and overgrowths occur, which is called candidiasis or yeast infections.
Candida can now micilize in a branch form and eat holes in the mucosa, mutate into a vacuole to travel through the blood and reattach to any weakened mucous membranes, ears, nose, throat, vagina, rectum, and organ linings.
These holes in the intestinal lining create a “leaky gut” syndrome and also allow partially digested food, foreign proteins, and pathogens to enter the blood and elicit a necessary TH2 immune response. If Candida lodges in tissues, then a TH1 response is needed, but may not occur. If you must fight an infection with a TH1 cell-mediated response, the TH2 response will decrease or completely stop the TH1 response, depending on your energy levels.
This is where the wheels find their way. Undigested food is an insult to the wound, several times a day and must be stopped. Any food that comes out of these holes must be fully digested to minimize the TH2 response. And the holes must heal by rebuilding the mucosa.
REBUILDING THE MUCOUSA
The pathogen making the holes must first be stopped. The “Seven Day Yeast Control” program is very effective because it takes care of digestion. The holes are usually from Candida Albicans which micellizes its way through the lining.
Candida has the same mucosal binding sites as the normal friendly inhabitants, L. acidophilus and Bifidis, and by simply increasing the intake of friendly bacteria, Candida will have no binding sites to adhere to. Candida will be kicked out of the neighborhood. L. bifidis and other probiotics actually kill candida by producing hydrogen peroxide.
Oxygen therapies are the most effective Candida eradicators that do not cause harm. The MMS and dioxychloride used with colloidal silver and the “Seven Day Yeast Control” diet are the most effective, quickest and safest ways to meet this challenge.
Next, the membrane must be rebuilt. It consists of proteins like n-acetiglucosamine and mucopolysaccharides that are supplied by fully digested food, reassembled in the liver, and delivered to damaged areas. The liver must be cleaned periodically in this toxic soup environment we live in.
Deglycyrrhizinated Licorice (DGL) provides safe and time-tested nutritional support for the mucous lining of the stomach and intestines. * DGL increases the production of mucin, a compound that coats and protects the digestive tract to provide immediate relief for occasional stomach discomfort. *
Foods with the mucosa rebuilding nutrients are whole leaf aloe vera, raw butter, and buttermilk for butyrate.
Butyrate is produced by bifido probiotics that act on fiber and is essential for producing mucin, the mucous membrane, and for rebuilding the cell walls of the intestine.
Fat-soluble Vit-A, retinol (not beta-carotene) is for cellular structural integrity. Vitamin A also plays a vital regulatory role in the immune system.
Vitamin A deficiency leads to the loss of hair cells in the lung, an important first-line defense against pathogens. Vitamin A promotes mucin secretion and the formation of microvilli through the mucosa, including the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract. Vitamin A regulates T cell production and apoptosis. Vitamin A also plays a vital regulatory role in the immune system. Vitamin A deficiency leads to the loss of hair cells in the lung, an important first-line defense against pathogens. Vitamin A promotes mucin secretion and the formation of microvilli through the mucosa, including the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract. Vitamin A regulates T cell production and apoptosis.
Vit-E for elasticity. Vit-E foods are fresh wheat germ oil, raw or sprouted seeds, nuts, and eggs.
Foods with vitamin A include fish liver oils, egg yolks, raw milk, liver pate, cheddar cheese, and cream. (Beta-carotene requires adequate amounts of Vit-B to convert to retinol and amino acids from fully digested proteins.
If a person’s liver is not high in nitrate nitrogen, supplements such as liquid fat-soluble vitamin A, butyrate, and amino acids can speed healing. If not, cleanse the liver first. Take probiotics that include Bifidis Longum and Bifidis Plantarum to promote a protective TH1 response, as well as L. Acidophilus and Bifidis, which will begin to coat existing lining and new tissue.
In addition to providing a hiding place for Candida Albicans, food that passes over damaged tissue can cause an inflammatory response in the thyroid. Damaged tissue is susceptible to free radical destruction by oxidants. Increasing the antioxidant glutathione levels with foods containing glutamine and selenium will provide immune protection and stimulate TH1 responses.
Foods with selenium: Brewer’s yeast, Brazil nuts, seawater, seaweed, garlic, mushrooms, shellfish, milk, eggs, cereals, and most vegetables.
MAX GXL is the best oral supplement to raise glutathione levels.
Xeneplex suppositories contain 200 mg of caffeine and 200 mg of glutathione for transmucosal absorption.
Stop doing what made you sick and keep doing what made you feel good. Change your lifestyle and enjoy life again.
Take care of yourself 🙂
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