What are they?
Your body has an amazing ability to protect itself against disease and to heal when illness strikes. However, when that capability is impaired your body has little defence...Your immune system is a network of white blood cells and natural chemicals that protect your body from foreign ‘invasion'. To reach and maintain good health your immunity needs to be strong and your immune system working efficiently to fight off modern day toxins and foreign bodies. To do this you need to provide your body with consistent and optimum levels of balanced nutrients. As an individual you require your own level of these nutrients to achieve health.
The prime cause of a defective immune system and systemic weakness is nutritional imbalance, leaving your body without the ability to fight infection.
Natural science lists the following as main causative factors:
These factors (or ‘stressors') are at the root of ALL ill health. They reduce your homeostasis (your physiological and psychological stability) and lead to hormonal imbalances, food intolerances and other allergies, reduced immune protection, decreased energy levels and of course resulting illness. Left untreated this state becomes chronic.
These basic facts have long been recognised by both the natural and conventional medical professions. However, as each of us has a different set of issues diagnosis and targeted treatment are difficult