Boosting your immune system to avoid disease is nothing new… It’s always been the ultra-powerful “keeper” of your health and boosting it has always been your best defense. That’s why for thousands of years, traditional medicine has promoted the use of nutrition in the form of immune-boosting herbs and botanicals. And in modern times, we’ve learned that certain vitamins, nutrients, and foods have a powerful effect on the immune system to not only help shield us from pathogens but cancers too.
Immunotherapy is a treatment that harnesses the power of your own immune system to attack cancer cells. In most forms of immunotherapy, your immune cells are taught to seek and destroy cancer cells specifically. That means immunotherapy is able to kill cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact, unlike chemotherapy and radiation. And by keeping healthy cells healthy, immunotherapy cuts down on side effects like hair loss, nausea, and vomiting. But that’s not all…
Immunotherapy may also increase your chance of a long-term remission because it trains your immune system to recognize and kill cancer cells. That means any time a new cancer cell pops up, your immune system handles it before it has a chance to develop into full-blown cancer.
In the meantime, you should work on boosting the power of your own killer T-cells, your immune system’s first line of defense. In fact, there are a few natural ways you increase the cancer killing effectiveness of these important cells, right now, starting with vitamin D, selenium and cat’s claw. Fortunately, you don’t need much selenium. You do need more than the RDA, which is only 55 micrograms. It appears that up to but no more than 200 mcg a day is a good target. You should get it from food. A few Brazil nuts will give you all you need. Or you could eat plenty of eggs, fish, and mushrooms.
In addition, keep doing everything you can to prevent cancer from developing in the first place — eat cancer-fighting foods, like mushrooms and broccoli, exercise, avoid processed foods and steer clear of alcohol and cigarettes.
