Re: Flax oil, kefir, yogurt producing no immune system benefits

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:23:56 GMT in article
<MRiBf.1454$1n4.872@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Knack"
<zymatik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>> You don't seem to be doing terribly well. I cannot remember when I last
>> had
>> cold or flu, must have been years ago. And last time i had cold or flu
>> which
>> lasted 10 days or more was in 1988. Perhaps you do need to take more
>> selenium, zinc, vitamin C, astragalus, propolis, garlic, etc., etc. ...
>> ;-).
>
>Well, I can't see taking larger quantities of the routine pills that I
>already take, but perhaps I could take those special extracts such as
>astragalus, echinacea, etc. the day before I get on a plane, and then
>continue taking them for a few more days. But if those timely special
>extracts do the trick, then what good are all my regular routinely taken
>pills?
>
Are you a clairvoyant? Can you tell in advance, when you are going to get
infection? Of course not, but even if you did, the things you take may need
time to "do the trick". And suppose you have a Th1/Th2 imbalance with Th2
dominance, which is fairly common. To avoid problems you would then perhaps
need to take something continuously to restore and retain the balance.
Roughly speaking the Th1 cells are responsible for the cell mediated
immunity and the Th2 cells for humoral immunity. If you have Th2 dominance,
you have problems with cell mediated immunity. The easiest way to determine
the status of your cell mediated immunity is to take the delayed
hypersensitivity test, see for example

Delayed-type Hypersensitivity Test (DTH): Information From Answers.com
<http://www.answers.com/topic/delayed-type-hypersensitivity-test-dth>

Delayed hypersensitivity skin test
<http://health.enotes.com/medicine-encyclopedia/delayed-hypersensitivity-skin-test>
<http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/delayed_hypersensitivity_skin_test.jsp>


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Matti Narkia
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