Your Immune System is a
network of cells, tissues, and organs that work together to defend the body
against attacks by organisms such as viruses, bacteria, fungi that can cause
minor to serious infections that can even last a life time. At any point of time, your Immune System is
continuously fighting against these organisms that are there in your body, you
might not even remember that during your young days you never had so many
health issues to take care of or even remember having been in a diseased state
except for the occasional bouts of colds and fever. Having one or two bouts of cold and fever is
said to be a good for the body because then the body will prepare the defense
mechanism for that particular bacteria or virus that had entered your body and
to keep a memory of the same for future defense.
As you grow older, in
most of the adults the immune system starts keeping up with age and slowly the
immune system performance starts going down.
This can be attributed to various reasons like going on fighting against
the various invaders trying to get in the body, various invaders that are
already in the body in the intestines, at certain point of time, comes a time,
when the immune system is less able to distinguish between self from non-self,
that is to identify foreign antigens and as a result starts attacking the body’s
good cells and as a result autoimmune disorders become more common as you
age. In fact, there are various reasons why
this happens also. In today’s fast
consumer industry, the modern human being does not have the time to eat food in
a relaxed way as it used to be earlier, the main cause of which is having food
on the go, eating fast, eating of junk food, beverages, wrong combination of
food while eating, microwaved food, chemical and fertilizer laden fruits and vegetables, barbeque food,
not exercising, over exercise, not taking in sufficient sun vitamin D, wear and
tear of the various parts of the body due to body abuse like drinking
alcoholic, having only non-vegetarian food, not drinking sufficient water,
stress in modern day life, buried emotions and many others. Apart from these abuse over a period of
time, there are other reasons for the immune systems going down.
