Our Immune System
Our awesome immune system is one of the most miraculous devices! It's a marvellous and complex network of organs, cells, tissues, and chemicals that work harmoniously together to keep us safe.
Normally, we think of our immune system merely as a defence mechanism against external athogens. It surely does that! But all of what it does is far more complex. It keeps the other bodily processes in order and maintains balance without us even feeling it! Our immune system detects when something is going wrong, and determines the appropriate response. It gets rid of abnormal pre-cancerous cells that are growing out of control. It constantly monitors all our functions, organs, and levels of different chemicals and interactions. In most cases, we don’t even notice its intervention as it maintains the healthy balance our bodies need.
Even when we place it under too much stress, we still don’t feel it struggling to regain balance. Sometimes it’s overwhelmed by the lifestyle we choose to live in terms of what we eat and drink, or how much we exercise. And sometimes it's overwhelmed by what is beyond our own control, such as what is in the air we breath or in our surrounding environment.
Our immune system is vigilant and on duty 24/7, ready to respond on every front. Indeed, it may be on high alert and fighting day and night, without us even feeling it!
In most cases, when we do feel it, we intervene with medications such as antibiotics and antivirals. But, even when we don’t feel the constant fight that our immune system is putting up, that does not mean it doesn't need our intervention. In fact, there is another term for the immune system being constantly on alert: "Chronic Inflammation". Scientists have recently come to understand that before non-communicable diseases – such as cancers and cardiovascular diseases – occur, chronic inflammation will have occurred first. In fact, this is almost THE precondition that must exist beforenon-communicable diseases develop. Therefore, not only is it undesirable to have an immune system constantly on high alert, it is actually dangerous!
With the recent outbreak of COVID-19, we have seen just how important it is to have a strong immune system. Moreover, we are seeing how the same virus can have a very different impact on different people, indicating how specific balancing its processes need to be. Our immune system is perfectly equipped to keep us safe, but sometimes it needs extra help with specific tasks. For instance, when our sugar levels rise, our immune system detects the increase and instructs the pancreas to secrete insulin that will grab glucose and guide it into our cells so it then becomes the fuel we depend on to keep us alive. But when the immune system is overwhelmed by more glucose than it can produce insulin for, or more than it can guide into our cells, that’s when our intervention is warranted. And what better way to intervene than by naturally enhancing our immune system’s efficiency in tackling specific health concerns.
This is what ImunaQuest (IQ) is all about!
Our scientists looked at the most common non-communicable diseases, and came up with unique all natural formulations that harness the power of olive leaf extract, and support our immune system in dealing with various specific health conditions, while boosting our overall immunity at the same time. When we think about boosting the immune system, we think of it in terms of overall support. What IQ offers is primarily based on what your body is specifically calling for help with. In fact, only by alleviating the stress your immune system is under when it’s tackling a specific condition, can you free up its load so it can be vigilant without being stressed, and so guard against other threats. So welcome to our page, and to all the different products IQ has to offer.
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