Your immune system takes care of you
Day by day, the body has to defend itself against the attacks of viruses and bacteria.
Within our bodies, we have a highly complex defence system, the immune system, based on the interaction of different organs, cells and different types of proteins helping to protect the body against all kind of pathogens. The immune system has two components. The non-specific immune system ensures that, from their very first contact with the body, pathogens are eliminated. The specific immune system reacts somewhat more slowly, but it therefore acts in a more targeted way. Once the specific immune system has become acquainted with a particuliar pathogen, it builds up a so-called “immunological memory”. It produces antibodies which allow a quick, adapted and efficient detection and elimination of that very specific pathogen in future infections.
We are not always adequately protected against infections. Various factors, such as environmental pollution, an unbalanced diet or a stressful lifestyle, can weaken our body´s active defences. In this situation our body calls for a remedy to stimulate and to power up the body´s natural self-defences without harming it.
