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No doubt, your apartment building has rules—no pets, no loud music, and no jumping into the pool from the third-floor balcony. Maybe your neighborhood does, too—no solicitation, no high fences, no plastic flamingos. Certainly, we live in a world where government is crucial to establishing order within a society—whether it’s as big as a country or as small as a household. But when it comes to the things that threaten your body, bacteria and virus don’t believe in rules. They believe in anarchy. They believe in rioting through your organs and creating chaos, only to leave your body in a pile of rubble.
The scoundrels need to be stopped. It’s true that your body has an elite way of fighting attackers. In some ways, you need to trust your body to take care of you. But that doesn’t mean you have to sit back and do nothing. In fact, it’s up to you to call your anatomical city council meeting to order and establish some system of immunological government. When it comes down to it, you’ve got the power to establish some repercussions for the virus and bacteria that think they can come over and play in your neighborhood. These are the ways to bolster your defense system:

Trust Mom

Though you may not be able to tell by the fat-laden meat loaf she makes, your mom wants to keep you healthy. Let’s face it: though she may have been wrong about rock music, she got things right a lot of times. These are her best prescriptions for staying germ-free.
“TIMMY, WASH YOUR HANDS!” Bribes, high fives, and love notes aren’t the only things that pass from hand to hand. Germs do, too. In fact, they travel through your hands like a Ping-Pong ball. They’re constantly being passed from one person to another through shaking hands and touching objects that other people have touched. It’s the most common way infections can be passed—you touch someone or something, then your hand touches your mouth, nose, or eye. Now, we’re not suggesting you lock your hands inside your pockets and never touch a thing (a definite downer on your anniversary).

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Let’s go back to the security guard questioning a possible intruder. In many cases, the guard can recognize someone suspicious (nylons over the head is a dead giveaway). But let’s say an intruder is disguised as a delivery person or claims he’s just visiting an aunt; then it takes a lot more skill and investigation to determine whether that person is a threat or not. That’s one of the ways your immune system can go haywire—by not recognizing a potential threat. When you’re immunized against mumps early in your life, your body actually gets the information about what the mumps virus look like. Your immune system then stores that info in its memory data bank; later if you were ever exposed to mumps, your body would pull out the file on mumps, immediately recognize those cells as intruders, and send out the right defense in order to thwart an attack—without your ever having to be affected at all.
Now, when your immune system doesn’t know what a potential intruder looks like, you have problems. If your body has no data on file—no record of criminal activity of sorts—your immune system has no ability to respond to that particular intruder. And as your immune system ages, it loses files. In the case of a typical flu virus, your body knows parts of it (it mutates every year, it seems, so you know only a part of the newer strain unless you’ve received a current flu vaccination) and is able to fight it off.
But when a virus is new—as in the case of the SARS virus—it doesn’t display the same markers, indicating that it is foreign to your body. Without that prior file, your immune system doesn’t respond as quickly; the virus is then free to rummage through your things and destroy whatever it chooses: part of your nervous system, respiratory system, or something else. We feel the effects of the invaders when they produce toxins or when we produce substances that try to kill the offending agent. Those toxins or substances cause fever, chills, and aches. Fevers sometimes are good, because they’re very dangerous to invading cells but not to your resilient cells.

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One day, an old man was walking along the beach in the early morning and noticed the tide had washed thousands of starfish up on the shore. Up ahead in the distance he spotted a boy who appeared to be gathering up the starfish, and one by one tossing them back into the ocean.

He approached the boy and asked him why he spent so much energy doing what seemed to be a waste of time.

The boy replied, “If these starfish are left out here like this they will bake in the sun, and by this afternoon they will all be dead.”

The old man gazed out as far as he could see and responded, “But, there must be hundreds of miles of beach and thousands of starfish. You can’t possibly rescue all of them. What difference is throwing a few back going to make anyway?”

The boy then held up the starfish he had in his hand and replied, “It’s sure going to make a lot of difference to this one!”

The boy tossed that starfish into the water. He then looked intently at the old man and said “I will save as many as I can”.

The old man had no reply. He was really ashamed of his own attitude. He stood speechless for a while. Then slowly he picked up a starfish and threw it into the water, joining the boy in his efforts. The boy gave him a gentle smile and soon both of them were silently tossing one starfish after another into the water.

Soon, the boy and the old man saw that they were not alone. Other people who had come to the beach for a walk noticed them both working diligently to save the starfish. One by one, people started joining in the effort.

As the sun rose higher in the sky, hundreds of people silently worked to save the starfish. Young people, old people, rich people, poor people all joined hands in the noble task.

Amazingly within a couple of hours, the beach was almost clear of starfish. As the last starfish was thrown into the sea, a thunderous cheer spontaneously arose from the people. Each one of them felt they had done something important, something that made a difference. They cheered and hugged each other. Some of them even exchanged names and numbers and promised to stay in touch.

Nothing is impossible if we work together. But someone needs to be bold enough to take the first step. Many other will follow. Even one person’s determination and conviction can change the world.

Are you the ONE??????

Take the first step in CREATING your IDEAL WORLD today and you will see the WORLD will follow??

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You already know a lot of things that your body welcomes—water, vitamins, daily foot massages. And you’re surely familiar with some of the things most destructive to your body—cocaine, tanning beds, and bacon-and-sausage sandwiches. But there’s a whole family of invisible threats to your body that are out to make your life miserable, or worse.

BACTERIA Though their reputations are worse than those of crooked politicians, bacteria are a necessary part of our lives. In fact, we can’t live without bacteria—they help us digest food; they add nutrients to our food choices before we even eat them; and good bacteria help keep the bad bacteria out. And bacteria grown at pharmaceutical companies have been trained to help make many substances, like beer, and useful drugs, like human growth hormone. But just as with breakfast cereals, as many bad kinds as good kinds are out there. Bacteria, which are single-cell organisms, are neither plants nor animals. They’re actually very prehistoric organisms that lack the subtle architecture of human cells—namely, they don’t even have a nucleus (the brain of our cells). In terms of size, about a thousand bacteria fit into 1 millimeter—about the thickness of a dime. Bacteria have the ability to replicate themselves—and that replication is what causes an infection. The result, like pimples or strep throat, can be treated with antibiotics designed to kill the bacteria (a throat culture or rapid diagnostic test can often determine whether a sore throat is caused by a bacteria or a virus). Bacterial infections can also be sexually transmitted, as in the case of chlamydia—one of the most common bacterial infections, which actually has no symptoms in 75 percent of people who have it. Any bacterial infection left untreated or under-treated, even if you have no symptoms, can cause chronic inflammation as our body aggressively responds—and that promotes aging of your arteries and your immune system. The other worry with many of these kinds of infections is that, if left untreated, they can wear down your immune system and cause more permanent damage to your organs. Uncontrolled strep infections, for example, can lead to abscesses in the tonsils, and associated breathing problems, as well as cause long-term damage to the heart and kidneys.

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There are usually only a few ways in and out of your house (doors, windows), and the same holds true for your body. Invaders like viruses and bacteria can break through the typical entranceways, like the mouth, nose, genitals, and, of course, skin. And just as burglars can snoop anywhere in the house, viruses and bacteria can go anywhere they want. Your security system, however, has only a couple locations in your house—the control panel on the wall, for instance, which provides the main communication with the entire system. In your body, your immune response system is housed in a few key areas.

THYMUS It may sound like the name of a mythological Greek god, but the thymus plays a crucial role in your immune system because this is where your T cells mature. T cells are those helper cells that come in and add reinforcements to the initial emergency call. Some convince other cells to enter the fray and spread the news of battle. Some directly destroy the intruders and are aptly named natural killer cells. When you were a child, your thymus, which is located in front of your heart, was actually the size of your heart. (In fact, it was so big that when doctors do heart surgery on children, they have to fight through the thymus just to find the heart.) In adults, the thymus is much smaller—it actually shrinks dramatically as you age, until it is barely noticeable in eighty-year-olds. Presumably, this shrinkage is because you need a stronger immune response as a child, because you haven’t yet been exposed to many of the viruses and bacteria that can make you sick. As you get older, you have more exposure and thus more resistance. There is some speculation that smaller thymus size can also mean that you’re more prone to immune-related disorders that feature bacteria and viruses that your body doesn’t recognize.

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