Have you hit puberty yet?
If so, I’m afraid your thymus gland is already shrinking. And that’s a pretty big problem, because your thymus is your immune system’s conductor. It helps create new T-cells to fight viruses, disease and infection.
“By age 40, you can’t find the thymus on an x-ray,” says immunologist Dr. William Adler.
Meanwhile, immunity suppressors in your blood steadily rise with age. Now, the T-cells your thymus does produce are blocked from doing their vital work.
By age 60, you are over 2X more likely to die of any cause.
Catch influenza after 75 and you are 3500% more likely to die than a 10-year-old would.
Or are you? Well, that depends…
Because research from Italy has found a way to – not only preserve your thymus – but restore it by up to 80%!
“Zinc causes the hibernating thymus to come alive again,” says Dr. Nicola Fabris from the Italian National Aging Centre.
Your thymus boosts T-cell production with a remarkable substance called interleukin-1.
Fabris gave just 30 milligrams of zinc to a group of 50-80 year-olds. Within 6 months, their interleukin-1 levels had almost doubled.
Do you know what this means?
Even if you are elderly, you can have the immune system of a 40-year-old. Perhaps somebody even younger.
Zinc was tested on subjects up to 106 years old. Just 20 milligrams a day boosted their thymulin activity an average 50% in 2 months. It’s never too late to take back the immune system that’s rightfully yours.
And zinc’s not the only thing you can take…
Most multi-vitamins seem to work, too.
A standard multi-vitamin tablet of 24 vitamins is shown to boost immune response 64%.
“Even older people who consume pretty good diets experience enhanced immunity by taking a multivitamin supplement,” says Dr. John D. Bogden from The University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey.
You’ll want to check the pack though. Make sure it has at least 15mg of zinc.
And here are 4 more vitamins, to get your immune system running at full steam…
Vitamin E: Really, you should be getting 400IUs of this. I still haven’t seen a multi-vitamin which comes close. (Most average around 35IUs.)
“If everyone got vitamin E through the years, immune functioning simply would not decline the way it does now with age,” said Tufts researcher Dr. Moshen Meydani.
He found 400IUs rejuvenates the immune system after only 6 months.
It’s believed vitamin E combats the immune system suppressants that block your T-cells. When Meydani gave 400-800IUs daily to people over 60, their white blood cells jumped 10-50%.
Vitamin C:
Vitamin C is water-soluble. So it attacks free radicals in places other anti-oxidants can’t reach.
Just 500 milligrams of vitamin C boosted glutathione – an anti-oxidant for immune function – 50X in red blood cells. And you can’t really take too much of this.
I know a man who took 18000 milligrams daily!
Vitamin B-6: After age 40, you absorb B-vitamins less efficiently. You need more and more of them as you get older.
So you should take B-6 separately, too.
Expect fast results.
Vitamin B-6 was tested on people with low immunity – 1.9 milligrams for women and 2.88 milligrams for men. Within 3 weeks, their immune function was completely restored.
Selenium: Low selenium is “a central event in the aging process,” according to French researchers.
That’s because nothing is more effective against viruses and disease. Selenium has even been shown to block AIDS!
Lymphocyte response is a measure of immunity. As you get older, this always drops…Then the University of Brussels gave elderly subjects 100 micrograms of selenium daily. After 6 months, their lymphocyte response soared 79% – to a level you’d expect to see in much younger people.
A fun way to get 25% fewer colds
One more thing to eat…
(And don’t worry. This immune-boosting food isn’t boring or gross.)
I’m talking about yoghurt. Are you eating it every day?
Well you should. You see, there’s a substance in your blood called gamma interferon. Your body uses this to fight infection, and yoghurt gives it rocket fuel.
Eating 2 cups of yoghurt each day can boost your gamma interferon 500% within a year. Subjects who ate 1 cup a day had 25% fewer colds on average. Why not try it out for yourself?
You don’t need anything special. These tests used ordinary yoghurt you can get at your local supermarket. Boost your immunity now. It’s easy.
