Our immune system is the best
protection mechanism that our body uses to defend from the various viruses,
bacteria, parasites and fungi.
Sometimes, it tends to grow weak due to various reasons, may be a poor
diet, unhygienic food, some kind of illness, and nowadays due to worry, stress,
keeping anger in mind, think of same thing in your mind day in and day out, and
various other causes can be attributed to the immune system going weak. Some of these causes you might not even heard
about it and wondering whether there is any truth in this.
This is how it goes into the art of
healing the body. Say in the kitchen,
you accidently cut your finger, a small cut it might be, besides the pain you
are feeling from the cut, there are germs that try to invade your body through
that cut and then immediately your body’s immune system also comes into act.
First of all, the blood cells called platelets join together at the cut and
forms a clot to stop the bleeding and at the same times release chemicals
called cytokines into your bloodstream.
Cytokines attract the attention of certain cells to start healing the
cut. At the same time, they also alert
your immune system to scan for infection in the injured area. You might notice the injured area swelling
and getting read as all the cells that the cytokines called rush to the scene. This swelling is called inflammation. As the germs begin to attack your body,
several different immune cells also come to help fight them off and these are
the cells that just hang out just beneath your skin and wait for germs. These are called macrophages and they
function like dump trucks. They go
around underneath your skin and collect all the garbage that isn’t supposed to
be there. These include damaged cells or
bacteria that can cause infections.
Two
types of cell defenders, that live in your lymph nodes, called inactivated T-cells
and B-cells, are also waiting for a chain of communication to begin, to start
their work.
To be cont’d…..
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As you can see, a small cut and the
immune system comes into play to protect your body, that in itself is an
indication that any issues in your body can be got under controlled or cured,
be it a small infection or be it a word called ‘Cancer.
