Has Medical Science Rediscovered the Immune System?

 "Scientists discover new part of the immune system"

These were the headlines of several British mainstream media outlets on 6 March 2025. The Israeli researchers said that what they had discovered "transforms our understanding of how we are protected against infection".

Of course, we have known that it is our immune system is what keeps us healthy for a very long time, although pharmaceutical medicine in recent years have been telling us that only their drugs and vaccines can keep us safe. But followers of natural medical therapies have always known about the importance of the immune system. This is how the BBC article on the discovery explains the new discovery.

        "A new part of the immune system has been discovered and it is a goldmine of potential antibiotics. (Scientists have) shown a part of the body known to recycle proteins has a secret mode that can spew out an arsenal of bacteria-killing chemicals. The researchers in Israel say it transforms our understanding of how we are protected against infection".

Well, this is brilliant! Isn't it? Perhaps we should all have known how special our immune system is in protecting us from illness and disease: but this discovery demonstrates just how clever the body is in achieving this remarkable feat, unaided, undirected. 

Apparently the discovery centres on the proteasome, described as "a tiny structure found in every cell of the body". Its main role is to "chop up old proteins into smaller chunks so they can be recycled to make new ones".  But now a series of scientific experiments (detailed in the Journal 'Nature') shows the proteasome detects when a cell has been infected by bacteria, and can then change its structure and role. "It begins to transform old proteins into weapons that can rip open the outer layer of bacteria to kill them".

The brilliance of our immune system is the reason why most people who follow natural medicine are content to rely on it to keep us fit and healthy. We certainly need to support and strengthen our immune system all the time but if we do this the secret of staying healthy, and recovering from sickness, is to rely upon it.

But this is not what conventional, drug-based medicine does. So the Guardian's article on the research adds to the headline: ... "and it could help solve our antibiotics crisis".

The antibiotic crisis to which they refer is, of course, that the pharmaceutical industry have been producing antibiotic drugs for nearly 100 years; and each one of them, in turn, has led to (i) resistance, and (ii) the development of superbugs. So pharmaceutical medicine has effectively stopped trying to replace the antibiotics as they no longer work. So an "Antibiotic Apocalypse" has been widely predicted within conventional medicine - the drugs on which they have relied for so long are no longer working, and are not going to be replaced.

So apparently medical 'science' sees this new scientific understanding of how the immune system works to be an opportunity to produce new and different antibiotic drugs! Prompted and assisted, of course, by this new knowledge about our immune system. Presumably the new drugs that might emerge can be patented by pharmaceutical companies (in order to ensure and boost profits), and to market them to an increasingly sick population.

But wait? Isn't the body already producing these 'new' antibiotics? Is it not doing so on the basis of the actual bacterial 'threat' to the health of each one of us as individuals? The research suggests that the proteasome, present in each cell, can detect a new 'problem', and reacts to it accordingly by producing a new and appropriately antibiotic? So if our body is capable of doing this for itself, why does conventional medicine need to intervene and produce its own?

This question represents the difference between pharmaceutical medicine and natural medical therapies (homeopathy, naturopathy, herbalism, acupuncture, et al). The latter seek, each in their different ways, to support and strengthen the functioning of the immune system. By contrast, conventional medicine seeks to interfere with the immune system with drugs - on the basis that 'it' knows best what our body needs.

And, in fact, this is the choice that we all have, as patients. 

    When we are fit and healthy do we have confidence in our immune system to keep us so? 

    When we are sick do we have confidence that our immune system is working to make us better? And that it needs to be supported, and left alone in order to do so?

If, as this research seems to demonstrate, that our body is capable of recognising a problem, and then can produce an 'antibiotic' capable of responding to it, why would we want a conventional doctor to 'second-guess' this natural process. 

Do we really believe that a doctor can do it better? 

Or should we not just leave well alone?

The Immune System. Why Conventional Medicine wants to Re-educate us

The Conventional Medical Establishment is trying to "re-educate" us about our immune system. The new medical understanding is that the immune system protects us best only after we have been vaccinated, and even questions whether there is any such thing as "natural immunity". 

These are some comments I have seen recently on the Quora website, responses to a question about whether "young children have a natural immunity to Covid-19, even if they do not catch it". What these responses describe appears to be an entirely new understanding of what the immune system is, what it does, and how it does it.

        "No human of any age has immunity until infected or vaccinated."

        "I don't think they could have any natural immunity....."

        "No. No one has any immunity to COVID 19. We/Humans have never had it before; therefore, we have never developed any immunity."

        "No, Next question please". 

        "One cannot have a “natural” immunity to a non-preexisting entity. First, one has to be exposed."

        "No. To have an immune response to a specific virus your immune system has to see the virus, either by catching ir or being vaccinated against it...."

        " No. There is no such thing as “natural immunity”.

        "There is no natural immunity".

        "The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 is novel to the human race, so no one is immune to it, especially children."

        "No human has 'natural immunity' until they are infected and their immune system responds." 

        "No, haven't you seen any local news? The hospitals are filled with children with Covid.

Most of the responses the questioner received were in the same vein. To date the questioner has received 53 similar responses. Perhaps this should not come as too much of a surprise. During the Covid-19 pandemic conventional medical 'experts' have been given free-rein, both by government and the mainstream media (MSM), to inform us about this entirely new understanding of our immune systems. 

"We have no immunity, we are all at risk, we all need the vaccine" has become part of the official narrative being incessantly forced on us.

Only vaccines can safe us from Covid-19!

So what you will now hear from me will be described by the conventional medical establishment as disinformation! However, I will quote only from conventional medical websites to describe what we used to believe the immune system is, and what it does. This 'misinformation', for examples, is taken from the John Hopkins Medicine website.

        "The immune system protects your child's body from outside invaders, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and toxins (chemicals produced by microbes). It is made up of different organs, cells, and proteins that work together. There are two main parts of the immune system:

• The innate immune system, which you are born with.
• The adaptive immune system, which you develop when your body is exposed to microbes or chemicals released by microbes."

THE INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM. This is your child's rapid response system. It patrols your child’s body and is the first to respond when it finds an invader. The innate immune system is inherited and is active from the moment your child is born. When this system recognizes an invader, it goes into action immediately. The cells of this immune system surround and engulf the invader. The invader is killed inside the immune system cells. These cells are called phagocytes." (also from the JHM website, my emphasis).

THE ACQUIRED IMMUNE SYSTEM. The acquired immune system, with help from the innate system, produces cells (antibodies) to protect your body from a specific invader. These antibodies are developed by cells called B lymphocytes after the body has been exposed to the invader. The antibodies stay in your child's body. It can take several days for antibodies to develop. But after the first exposure, the immune system will recognize the invader and defend against it. The acquired immune system changes throughout your child's life." (also from the JHM website, with my emphasis).

The JHM website only then adds that "immunizations train your child's immune system to make antibodies to protect him or her from harmful diseases." It is almost an after-thought. But it is an after-thought that does not explain why the child's immune system should not work; why it should fail in its primary task; or what has compromised our 'natural immunity' so that we need vaccines.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases describes the function of the immune system as follows"

        "The overall function of the immune system is to prevent or limit infection..... The immune system can distinguish between normal, healthy cells and unhealthy cells by recognizing a variety of "danger" cues called danger-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs). Cells may be unhealthy because of infection or because of cellular damage caused by non-infectious agents like sunburn or cancer. Infectious microbes such as viruses and bacteria release another set of signals recognized by the immune system called pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs)." 

Let's try one more description of the immune system this time described by the NCBI, the National Centre for Biotechnology Information .

        "The immune system has a vital role: it protects your body from harmful substances, germs and cell changes that could make you ill. It is made up of various organs, cells and proteins. As long as your immune system is running smoothly, you don’t notice that it’s there. But if it stops working properly - because it’s weak or can't fight particularly aggressive germs - you get ill. Germs that your body has never encountered before are also likely to make you ill. Some germs will only make you ill the first time you come into contact with them. These include childhood diseases like chickenpox."

        "Without an immune system, we would have no way to fight harmful things that enter our body from the outside or harmful changes that occur inside our body. The main tasks of the body’s immune system are: 

• to fight disease-causing germs (pathogens) like bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi,
• to remove them from the body, 
• to recognize and neutralize harmful substances from the environment, and 
• to fight disease-causing changes in the body, such as cancer cells.

This is how the immune system has been understood for a very long time. Thucydides, an Athenia historian and general, said this about acquired immunity in 430bce, during the Athenian Plague.

        "Yet it was with those who had recovered from the disease that the sick and the dying found most compassion. These knew what it was from experience and had no fear for themselves; for the same man was never attacked twice - never at least fatally."

So nothing in any of these conventional medical descriptions, pre-Covid-19, talk about the inability of the immune system to recognise new, or strange viruses, whether artificially produced in a Chinese laboratory, or not. They do not support what conventional medicine now seems to be saying. To the contrary, we have been told, and we have been aware for many millenia, that the immune system is designed to protect us against 'foreign substances'.

Nowhere, in any of these descriptions, is it suggested that we have NO immunity UNTIL we have CAUGHT the infection; and certainly not UNTIL we have been vaccinated.

• So who is spreading disinformation?
• Has conventional medicine been wrong about the immune system for centuries - until now? If so, where is the science?
  
• Or perhaps our former understanding of innate and acquired immunity (= natural immunity?) does not lead to the financial rewards that 'vaccine acquired' immunity provides for the pharmaceutical industry?

I do not know who the young person was who asked the question. But the responses he/she received will have left him/her in little doubt that he/she was completely unprotected against the Covid-19 virus, and that he/she would either have to subject himself/herself to the virus, or get the vaccine.

Of course the immune system does not protect everyone from everything; if it could do that no-one would ever be ill. We have known this for a long time too. But the problem is not the immune system - it is our treatment and abuse of our immune system. If we eat badly, if we don't exercise properly, if we smoke, if we drink to access, if we take pharmaceutical drugs, et al., we can undermine, or compromise our immune system. When we abuse our bodies our immune system will not function so well; it will not give us the protection it should; we will succumb to illness.

The Covid-19 narrative has, at least (and to a very limited extent) been honest about this. We have been told that those people most at risk of infection, hospitalisation and death are people with compromised immune systems. However, the narrative has never gone on to develop this further. Conventional medicine should have been telling us how best we can support natural immunity but it has signally failed to do so.

• It has never told people what they can do to support and strengthen their immune systems - in terms of nutrition, exercise and life-style choices.
• It has never offered people tests that can assess the strength of their immunity (although I believe such tests do exist).
  
• It has never told people who have strong immune systems that they could/should carry on their lives, normally, through the pandemic - in order to keep social life moving.
• The official narrative certainly never mentioned that people with "underlying health conditions" were often people who have a history of taking pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines for other illnesses, and that taking these drugs could have compromised their immune system.
• We have never been told that people who had had limb and organ transplantation, and other people taking "immuno-suppressant" drugs (that is, pharmaceutical drugs that intentionally compromise our natural immunity) were most at risk from the Covid-19 virus.

So the pharmaceutical industry might want to promote their vaccines. It might want to downplay the importance of innate and acquired immunity - natural immunity. It might want to suggest that vaccine immunity is best.

But nobody needs to believe this blatant promotional sales pitch!

Natural immunity is alive and well; and unless we abuse it it will continue to protect us from most infections, and keep us well, just as it has always done.

 

POSTCRIPT

91 Scientific studies prove naturally acquired immunity provides better protection protection than the Covid-19 Vaccines (a summary given of each study provided here)

WHO AM I? I am a Pro-Choice Well-Being Advocate

If, like me, you are fed up with being abused by government, the mainstream media (MSM), and conventional medicine about pharmaceutical vaccines, let's make a stand!

• I am not going to have the Covid-19 vaccine, no matter what these 3 pillars of our society say.
• I am fed up with being called an 'anti-vaxxer', or 'vaccine hesitant' - this does not explain my position.
• I am fed up with being told that only vaccines will save the world, return social life to normal, and rescue the economy.
  
• I am fed up with being ignored, never given the chance to explain my position on MSM, and never being given a right to reply to abuse (much of it by journalists).
• I am fed up with insistent reminders from the NHS that I should get vaccinated.

So, the first issue. How should I describe my personal stance? I have been discussing this with several colleagues, and I have decided that this is how I would like to be described.

I AM A PRO-CHOICE, WELL-BEING ADVOCATE

I believe in patient choice, and more widely, in health freedom. This means, in negative terms, that I refuse to be forced into accepting pharmaceutical medication. I believe I have good evidence and information on which to base my stance, both negative and positive. First, the negative reasons.

1. The treatments offered by the conventional medical establishment (CHE) are not effective. Most of them do not work, and the efficacy of all pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines are grossly exaggerated by CHE and the mainstream media (MSM).
2. CHE drug treatments are all dangerous, with adverse drug/vaccine reactions ensuring that their disadvantages far outweigh any benefits.

I do not care if you agree, or disagree with this stance! That is entirely your prerogative. I can defend my position with good quality information, much of it coming from the literature of the CHE itself. I have written a book, freely available on the internet, called "The Failure of Conventional Medicine" and in this I fully explain my position. You may disagree, although you cannot disagree without first knowing what my position is. I am not an 'anti-vaxxer', or 'vaccine hesitant' - without very good reason.

All I ask is that you first seek to understand my position. Do not dismiss me without first knowing what this is.

I am fully aware of the position of CME on vaccination. Everyone does! We have heard nothing else from government, health authorities, and the MSM for over a year now. And these sources of information have been most careful to ensure that my position, as a pro-choice well-being advocate, has never ever been presented or explained.

So what is a 'Pro-Choice Well-Being Advocate'?

First, we are people who believe that personal freedom and liberty is important; and that there is no freedom more important than the freedom to choose our medical treatment when we are ill. We believe that it is unacceptable for government, or one particular medical system, or the corporate-dominated and controlled MSM, to encourage/oblige/force anyone to take pharmaceutical medication. 

And we demand full information, from all side of the health debate. Moreover we want this information to be freely and transparently available to everyone - so that we are all able to make an informed choice. An informed choice is not necessarily a 'correct' choice, or a 'sensible' choice, or even a 'wise' choice; but it is a choice that should not forced on anyone by the 'experts' of one particular medical system.

Second, pro-choice well-being advocates believe in something that is vitally important. Our belief is no longer accepted by the CME but this does not make the CME right. Our reasons for not getting vaccinated are for good positive reasons:

• they are reasons connected with the immune system, supporting and strengthening natural immunity to infection and illness, through diet, nutrition, exercise, life-style choices. And (for me) with homeopathic prophylaxis; and ultimately (should I fall ill) having homeopathy at my side for treatment.

It does not matter to me if you believe this is inadequate, that you think this will not protect me from Covid (or anything else), and that I should still have the vaccine. That is YOUR assessment of what heath is all about. It is most definitely NOT mine! It is not about well-being!

Third, well-being is an importantly different concept to today's normal definition of 'health' - which is why I prefer the term. We believe that everyone is equipped by nature to stay well. Certainly, we can compromise our well-being by poor life-style choices, bad diet, or indeed through the harmful side effects of conventional medical treatment. But this does not make germs (bacteria or viruses) an enemy. They become an enemy when we undermine our personal protection against them. We recognise that we live with germs every second of every day, and that the secret of well-being is to live with them, alongside them, in harmony.

So, our response to Covid-19 is much the same as it is for measles, pertussis, HPV, influenza, et al; plus every other disease for which conventional medicine wants to force drugs/vaccines on us. We support well-being every day by maintaining our immune system, by strengthening our natural immunity. And, importantly, we get on with life without the panic and fear we have been witnessing over Covid-19.

We are not selling drugs or vaccines? We are not promoting anything. We are not profiting from what we do. We believe we keep well, and protect ourselves from illness, by looking after ourselves.

Fourth, we recognise that we are all responsible for our own well-being. Health does not come from a bottle of pills, or even an injection. It comes from within ourselves. What this means is that I cannot be responsible for your health, and that I cannot expect you to be responsible for my health. Well-being is about the decisions we each make about our lifestyle. This is not a selfish position. It is not a decision at all. It is the reality. Our health is in our own hands; it is our responsibility; we make ourself well, or susceptible to sickness, by our own decisions. 

When we get ill natural medical therapies are there to help us support and strengthen our immune systems; but part of that consultation will almost inevitably involve a discussion about the lifestyle choices we have made, and what we can do to enhance our well-being.

Fifth, we recognise that one of the main side effects of pharmaceutical medicines is to compromise our natural immunity, to make the patient more rather than less susceptible to illness. So we avoid them. Pro-choice well-being advocates do not recommend chasing germs, and killing them, as the CHE does. We take this position because we believe, ultimately, they are counter-productive to our well-being.

So advocates of pro-choice well-being cannot agree to vaccination. It is not because we are 'anti-vaccine', or 'vaccine hesitancy'. It is because, for us, health comes from within. We do not believe that conventional medicine is helpful, that it does not understand health, and that ultimately it is contrary to our wellness and well-being.

Listen to your Immune System: get to feel how your natural immunity is constantly working

How well is your immune system working? How good is your natural immunity? And how do you know?

The question is usually answered by asking how susceptible you are to bugs and germs, how frequently you contract coughs, colds, and sore throats.

Yet in recent months I have come to think perhaps there is another way. I may have been as I was aware of the Covid-19 problem that made me conscious of every little tickle in my throat, every slightly blocked nose, every temporary cough, every momentary desire to sneeze.

I didn't realise how often these things came; nor how quickly they went again, quite spontaneously, sometimes within just a few minutes; and without having to do anything. So what is happening?

We should recognise that we live with germs, bacteria, viruses every minute of the day. They are part of 'us', part of our make up. We can usually live in harmony with them. Only since the germ theories of Louis Pasteur, in the latter part of the 19th century, did we begin to look at them as 'the enemy'. 

So what maintains the balance between 'them' and 'us', what stops the germs doing what they can do if they get out of control? The answer is simple - it is the 'host'; that is, it is you and me; it is our body, within which the germs function, that controls them. And this is what the body's immune system is set up to do, every moment of the day.

We have all known this for a very long time! What I did not realise, perhaps as I should  have realised, is that our immune system is working, continually, to correct even the most marginal, most delicate of imbalances.

Only conventional medicine, in its desire to sell vaccines, appears to have forgotten the importance of natural immunity. Perhaps it has also had to forget because a 'side effect' of so many of their pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines is actually compromise the immune system. This is what gives rise to the numerous 'autoimmune' diseases from which so many people now suffer. Indeed, some drugs actually set out to suppress the immune system (immunosuppressant drugs).

What natural medical therapies realise is that we have to look after our immune system. When it works it works and we don't even know it is working. When it is compromised we pay a serious price in terms of our general health. I have written about how we can support and strengthen our natural immunity, through healthy lifestyle choices, good diet and nutrition, exercise and the like. And of course, staying clear of pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines.

So here is an exercise for you. Begin to recognise the functioning of your natural immunity, take notice of the small, temporary signs of potential ill-health that I have listed; witness their emergence; and see how they come and go, quite naturally. This is the immune system at work. Appreciate it. Begin to do all the many things that will support and strengthen your personal immunity.

It's a lovely exercise. It encourages us to eat another bowl of fruit, and/or to get out into the sunshine, and/or to exercise. And it makes us appreciate, and look after. the wonderful body we have all been given - brilliantly designed to keep us in good health.

AND ALL WITHOUT THE NEED FOR VACCINES

There are a large number of studies that demonstrate that natural immunity is more robust than the Covid-19 vaccines.

The Immune System. Supporting & Strengthening our Natural Immunity

Conventional medicine no longer believes in the immune system, how it is designed to keep us well, provides natural immunity, not least against infectious disease. This is the inevitable conclusion to be drawn from its lamentable, chaotic and incompetent response to the Covid-19 pandemic. During this entire time it has consistently and persistently said that vaccines were "our only defence against the virus". It has certainly failed to provide us with the information that we all need to support and strengthen our immune system.

A new health divide is developing. And as the Covid-19 pandemic has progressed, it became increasingly clear that this divide focuses, almost exclusively, on our attitude to natural immunity. Pharmaceutical medicine ignores it. Natural medical therapies puts it at the centre of all its treatments.

THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

We all have an immune system. It works by recognising and identifying infections and injuries in the body, and responds by trying to protect us, and restore us to good health and well-being. The immune system operates in many ways, some of which conventional medicine confuses with illness (for example, a fever, a cold, a runny nose, feeling 'run down, or 'under the weather') - all of which require medical treatment. 

So when many people are told they are sick it is actually a sign that their body is fighting back against an infection, or an over-active virus. It is our immune system at work!

SO HOW CAN WE SUPPORT/STRENGTHEN OUR NATURAL IMMUNITY?

So how good is our immune system? A simple rule of thumb! Do you succumb readily to infections like colds, sore throats, coughs, etc; do you seem to catch anything and everything that is 'doing the rounds'? If  you do your immune system probably needs some attention. If not, then your immune system is probably doing it's job.

Boasting our immune system is always a good idea, but doing so is not always entirely simple because it demands a certain level of personal commitment on our part. We have to look after it. Our immune system is an incredibly complex and multifaceted system that needs to be kept in balance and harmony.

This is our personal responsibility. Our immunity to illness and disease does not come from a bottle of pills, or a packet of pharmaceutical drugs, or from a vaccine injected into our arm. 

Enhancing natural immunity is largely up to us, it is intimately concerned with how we look after ourselves - on a regular daily basis.

This aside, supporting and strengthening our immune system is simple process, requiring minimal expenditure, just a degree of personal commitment and determination. Equally, there are things, lifestyle choices, that can undermine or compromise our immune system. Despite this there are a number of things we can do to boost our immunity, and benefit our health. This involves adopting a healthy lifestyle. The body is made up of a number of different systems, the respiratory system, the digestive system, and so on, and they all function at their best when we look after them, as best we can, by choosing basic health strategies, such as:

1. Do not smoke. 

Our lungs are designed to breath fresh air. The body needs oxygen to protect itself. Smokers are known to get more colds, and other respiratory complaints than non-smokers - a clear indication that smoking plays a role in compromising our immune system.

2. Alcohol Consumption.

Being adequately hydrated is important to our general health. Dehydration contributes to a susceptibility to bacteria and viruses; it can cause headaches, hinder digestion and physical performance, reduce mental focus and mood, and reduce the functioning of the heart and kidneys, and make us more susceptible to illness.

In line with this, the over-consumption of alcohol should be avoided; it can actually dehydrate the body, and should be consumed only in moderation.

3. Avoid Pharmaceutical Drugs and Vaccines

Few guides providing advice to support our immune system will tell you this. Yet people who take prescription drugs have become some of the sickest people around. All pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines are toxic, something else for our immune system to cope with. They are invariably largely ineffective; and they are all unsafe - the cause 'side effects' that of immune system cannot cope with. For more information on the illnesses and diseases that can be caused by pharmaceutical drugs, go to this website.

Even conventional medicine is now beginning to realise the importance of a healthy digestive tract to the health of our whole body, and to our immune system. Most pharmaceutical drugs are taken by mouth and so pass straight into the digestive track. These drugs are all toxic, in some way, but antibiotic drugs are perhaps the worst of all. They are designed to kill bacteria, and so are known to compromise the important gut microbiome. In recent years there is increasing evidence to suggest that even diseases previously thought to be unrelated to the stomach and the digestive system might actually be caused by drug damage, including both Dementia and Parkinson's disease.

Yet many other pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines can, and do interfere with the functioning of the immune system, many of which are now being associated with the epidemic levels of auto-immune disease we are now experiencing. 

And, of course, there are also pharmaceutical drugs, immunosuppressant drugs, that are designed, quite intentionally, to compromise our immune system.

During the Covid-19 pandemic many of the 'underlying health conditions' that were the real cause of most of the deaths, had been caused by pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines taken over the years for a variety of conditions.

4. Obesity. maintaining a healthy weight.

Refined sugars and carbohydrates are known to contribute massively to overweight and obesity, and obesity is known to undermine our natural immunity, and increase the risk of getting sick on a regular basis. This is why diet, nutrition and exercise are so very important to the immune system.

5. Diet and Nutrition.

This is probably the most important aspect of supporting and strengthening our natural immunity. The primary recommendation is to consume whole plant foods like fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and legumes as these boast our immune systems because they are rich in nutrients and antioxidants. The immune system needs a diet high in fresh fruit and vegetables as these are rich in zinc, selenium, iron, copper, folic acid, vitamins A, B6, C, D and E, and much more.

The best foods, usually mentioned, are citrus fruits (oranges, grapefruit, lemon, limes, tangerines, clementines), red peppers, broccoli, garlic, ginger, spinach, almonds, sunflower seeds, turmeric, green tea, kiwi fruit, papaya, poultry (high in Vitamin B6), and shellfish (crabs, oysters, mussels, lobster).

Usually a well balanced wholefood diet will be sufficient, although many people still like to augment this with the use of multi-vitamins and mineral supplements. These are known to strengthen the body's natural immunity. Yet care does need to be taken. Too much of any vitamin, mineral or other supplement, may cause an imbalance. However Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Zinc supplementation can always be considered, as can supplements based on Elderberry, Echinacea and Garlic, which are also known to be helpful.

Eating more fermented foods is also recommended. Foods rich in beneficial bacteria, called probiotics, can provide vital support the digestive tract. These include natural (live culture) yogurt, sauerkraut, kimchi, kefir, and natto. A flourishing microbiome, a network of gut bacteria, helps your immune system differentiate between normal, healthy cells, and harmful invader organisms.

Correspondingly, and as a direct consequence of all this,  it is always best to avoid highly processed food, 'fast' food, or 'junk' food.

Recent research has indicated that a healthy diet halves the risk of severe Covid-19 - so this can be acheived - with no drugs or vaccines (no side effects) - just healthy eating!

6. Exercise.

It is known that regular, moderate exercise improves cardiovascular health, lowers blood pressure, helps control body weight, protects against a variety of diseases - and also supports and strengthens a healthy immune system. This is why lockdown policies, during the Covid-19 pandemic, have been so ridiculous and counter-productive.

Prolonged and/or intense exercise may sometimes be problematic too. It is now thought to suppress or compromise the immune system. So there is no need to overdo the exercise! Certainly walk every day for 20-30 minutes, or go to the gym or swimming pool several times a week, or play a round of golf on a regular basis - or similar. This is usually quite sufficient to maintain our natural immunity.

7. A Stress-Free lifestyle.

Prolonged stress is known to imbalance and suppress our immune function. There is a close link between our minds and our bodies, and emotional stress is known to cause stomach upsets, heart disease, and much else. 

So it is important to minimise stress in your life, although this is not always entirely possible. Chronic stress can arise through our family relationships, our friends, and co-workers, or the challenges that exists with the place of work. 

Where this is the case there are activities that can help manage stress, including exercise, yoga, and similar 'mindfulness' practices. Some people may also benefit from seeing a counsellor or therapist to reduce stress levels.

8. Sleep.

Sleep and natural immunity are closely linked. Poor quality sleep is linked to susceptibility to sickness, perhaps best described as a 'tired' immune system.

9. Older Age

We are often told that our immune systems declines with age, that ageing makes us all more susceptible to infection and illness. This may be true, but as we get older this makes all this advice more important as we get older. Old age does not prevent people caring for their immune systems, and ensure that our natural immunity stays in good working order.

10. Herbs and Supplements.

Many people support their immune system with herbs and supplement. There are a great number of these on offer, many tell us of why we should take them, and how our immune system will benefit from them. So there is a bewildering and complex amount of choice, and often their benefits are exaggerated.

Yet for people whose immune system has been compromised, in some way, they can be helpful in providing some useful and beneficial nutrients. They need to be carefully chosen, for both financial and health reasons. They can certainly help, and will not carry the same level of risk of adverse reactions as pharmaceutical drugs.

11. Natural Medical Therapies.

Natural medical therapies, including homeopathy, naturopathy, herbalism, acupuncture, Ayurvedic, reflexology, and many others, all highlight the importance of natural immunity, and treatment focuses on the support of the immune system. If anyone is aware that their natural immunity is weak, or that it has been compromised, they should research how these therapies might assist in enhancing immunity. Contact a local therapist, explain your problems, book a consultation.This is what many people are now doing, those who have freed themselves from pharmaceutical medical propaganda, and understand that pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines are neither effective or safe.

See also this link, "Build your immune resilience - as nature intended".

CONCLUSION.

Supporting and strengthening our immune system does not need to be expensive. Most of the above can be done without medical intervention, indeed it can help to avoid the need for medical intervention. 

We are all in control of our immune system, for better or worse. We can all make important lifestyle and dietary changes right now which will help to support and strengthen our immune system - and enable it to keep us well.

No drugs, no vaccines are  necessary - just a sensible way of life.

It is sad that none of this advice is offered by conventional medicine, which appears to be too busy, or more interested in getting us to take their drugs or vaccines in their belief that this the only way to protect ourselves from illness, disease and death! This is not true. It is misinformation.

This is what the health divide is about: we all need to recognise that the fundamental basis of good health is our immune system, that maintaining this is what distinguishes natural medicine from pharmaceutical medicine, and that everyone has the ability to support and strengthen their own immunity.

• For another, slightly different look at the importance of natural immunity, and its neglected importance in defending us from Covid-19, go to this WDDTY link, "How to reset your immune system".

• There are a large number of studies that demonstrate that natural immunity is more robust than the Covid-19 vaccines.

A vaccine? Or a healthy Immune System? What's the best protection for Coronavirus COVID-19?

For most of 2020 we have been told, quite correctly, that there was no conventional medical treatment for COVID-19, and that our only hope was to develop a vaccine. Now at least 3 vaccines are going to be available, probably sometime in January 2021.

Government, the NHS, and the mainstream media (MSM) are now preparing us for this; we must now all have the vaccine because it will save our lives, and the lives of other people. The vaccines are alleged to be 90%+ (information courtesy of press releases from the pharmaceutical companies); and they are safe (even though they could only have been tested for safety for just a few weeks - and ditto the source of information).

BUT ACTUALLY WE DO HAVE A CHOICE. We can have the vaccine; or alternatively we can refuse the vaccine. Government, the NHS and the MSM seem set to make the vaccine mandatory; or to introduce health passports to force us to take the vaccine, regardless of their current denials.

AND THERE IS A SECOND CHOICE. We can refuse the vaccine and instead support and strengthen our immune system. This is the natural medicine approach, the approach that has been advocated on this blog since the start of the year.

THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AND VITAMIN D

The conventional medical establishment (which includes the government, the NHS and the MSM) has been particularly quiet about the importance of natural immunity. It has barely been mentioned. If the word 'immunity' has ever been mentioned it was in connection with the immunity provided by vaccines. But, of course, 'natural' immunity is not provided by vaccines. Natural immunity is an inherent, built-in system that we all possess.

It is known that over 80% of COVID-19 patients are deficient in Vitamin D (Journal of Critical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2020), the 'sunshine' vitamin, and doctors are aware (or should be) that it can be protective against the virus. Vitamin D is vital to a healthy immune system, and supports our ability to withstand viral infections. Yet Vitamin D has rarely been mentioned by the conventional medical establishment since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Then, suddenly, and so shortly after the 'good news' announcements about the COVID-19 vaccines, the NHS is offering 2.7 million 'vulnerable' people in England free Vitamin D supplements this winter.

The vitamin D will be made available to "the groups most at risk", particularly residents of residential care homes, and people with serious underlying health conditions. In other words those people most likely to contract and die with coronavirus COVID-19; the people who have been contracting and dying with the virus during the last 10 months.

I will leave this strange but interesting correspondence for you to consider. Why the NHS have been so tardy, hitherto, in offering immune-supporting supplements? Could it be that the NHS now wants to reduce the death rates of vulnerable populations so that the benefit can be claimed for the vaccine? This technique has often been used by pharmaceutical companies. For instance, public health policies reduced the seriousness of measles drastically before the MMR vaccine was introduced; but now, according to conventional medicine, it is the vaccine that has all-but overcome the disease.

OTHER SUPPORT FOR OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

So perhaps I can offer the NHS some further advice about supporting our immune system. Vitamin D is good, but not suffient. What follows has been taken from a brilliant leaflet produced by the Arnica Parents Support Network, which promotes natural immunity. I recommend that everyone downloads this leaflet, as what follows is a summary only of the information.

General Cautions and Suggestions

• Drink plenty of water, stay hydrated,
• Don't smoke or vape,
• Avoid processed sugar,
• Sleep,
• Avoid pollution,
• Breathing (the Buteyko method),
• Use steam inhalations,
• Avoid caffeinated drinks,
• Reduce fear and stress,
• Moderate exercise and sunshine,
  

Avoiding conventional medical 'solutions' are also included

•  avoid anti-inflammatory drugs,
  
•  do not medically suppress a fever,
• do not suppress a cough,

Nutrition and Supplements

• Anti-viral foods, ginger, tumeric, garlic, red grapes, onions,
• Kiwi Fruit,
• Magnesium rich foods,
• Reishi.Chaga/Shitake tea,
• Vitamin C
• Zinc,
• Vitamin D3, (with K2),

The leaflet also provides references to Homeopathy, useful herbs that support a healthy respiratory system, and the use of Essential Oils.

AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO COVID-19

If the conventional medical establishment was honestly interested in keeping us healthy, and not so busy promoting pharmaceutical solutions to health problems, we would have been hearing a lot more about this kind of living strategy, and promoting natural immunity and health. And we would all know more about natural immunity, and what we can do to support and strengthen our immune system.

It has been estimated that 92% of the USA population suffered from at least one nutrient deficiency. The sign of this is often that people are always tired, suffer brain fog, feel light headed, have problems with concentration, suffer digestive problems, and so on.

The NHS could have guided us about the strength of our immune system, allowing us to evaluate our individual levels of immunity, allowing us to make the extent we should try to avoid the virus. The information could have been used to help us protect ourselves from COVID-19. We are not helpless, undefended creatures, fighting a lethal virus. 

We did not need a patronising, paternalistic government to protect us, to tell us who we could see, where, and when. We could have worked this out for ourselves - with the help of just a little information.

If this sensible, grown-up approach had been taken from the beginning of the pandemic we would not have had to limit ourselves to hand washing, social distancing, masks, etc; we would not have had to endure continual lockdowns; we could have saved our mental health, our relationships with important others, our schools, and much else. We could have save our livelihoods and our national economy from the devastation caused by the policies of the conventional medical establishment.

The value of vitamin D has been known by the conventional medical establishment for over a century. It has not forgotten this; it is now intent on selling vaccines rather than protecting lives. This is what the doctor's e-magazine, Pulse says about this - now, after over 10  months.

        "A number of studies indicate Vitamin D might have a positive impact in protecting against Covid-19. I have asked NICE and PHE to re-review the existing evidence on the link between Covid-19 and Vitamin D to ensure we explore every potential opportunity to beat this virus."

What has been done to us in 2020 has been outragious, perpetrated by a medical system (and the Establishment it controls) that is not only hopeless, but criminally incompetent.

Homeopathy and Wellness. Why be sick? Decide to become an insider?

The homeopathic community works like a secret society

- it has to!

Homeopathy is everywhere under attack; certainly here in Britain; certainly in the rest of Europe, certainly in the United States; indeed, in most countries around the world where pharmaceutical (or conventional) medicine is dominant.

Can you remember? When did you last heard your government, or your doctor, or your national health service, or your news provider, have a good word to say about homeopathy? If homeopathy is mentioned at all by any of these sources it is invariably to denigrate it.

It's not that we don't try to get our message across (not least on this blog); but particularly in the last 20 years this has not been possible. All sources of health information have been taken over by the financial might of the pharmaceutical industry, and the conventional medical establishment. Even the internet is changing, with You Tube, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other major social networks now blocking information about homeopathy. So the dominant message is constant and persistent.

• Pharmaceutical drugs are winning the war against disease.
• Drugs and vaccines are entirely safe, side effects are rarely mentioned.

Yet everywhere people are sick; and we are getting sicker. 

• Any chronic disease you might like to mention is running at record levels, and continue to rise; and we can all see how effective conventional medical treatment is when faced with an infectious pandemic!
• A multitude of pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines have been withdrawn over the years because of their side effects; because the are not safe; because they are harming patients.
  

And the conventional medical establishment routinely insists that homeopathy does not work, cannot work, that there is no scientific basis for science.

This forces the homeopathic community to operate in the manner of 'secret societies'. There is no alternative. We know that pharmaceutical medicine is ineffective and dangerous; we want nothing to do with it. And we know that homeopathy is safe and effective; so we want to get on and use it when we need to.

I have probably known this for a long time, but recently I published a blog about the busy-busy world of homeopathy throughout the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, and realised that very few people knew anything like this was happening.

The Secret World of Homeopathy 

During the 19th century, even into the first part of the 20th century, homeopathy rivalled conventional medicine in popularity and public esteem. The 20th century, however, produced a wave of optimism for conventional medicine. If science could lead to the development of automobiles, telephones, aeroplanes, and the like, it would surely be able to overcome illness and disease. For a time this seemed feasible. Anaesthesia opened up the possibility of surgical intervention. Antibiotics seemed able to cope with microbial infections. And the pharmaceutical industry regularly introduced new 'wonder' drugs, telling us that they would soon overcome disease.

By the 1970's pharmaceutical medicine had gained the ascendency, and homeopathy was perhaps at its very lowest ebb. It survived for two reasons. 

1. More people began to realise that the new 'wonder' drugs neither worked very well, and their side effects were harming patients; more recently resistance to antibiotics made their future uncertain, and now untenable; and more perceptive people realised that surgery usually came only at the very end of illness, after years of failing to treat it successfully.
2. The need for a safer and more effective medical therapy slowly began to re-emerge.

Yet the loss of confidence in pharmaceutical medicine, and its decline; plus the gradual re-emergence of homeopathy (alongside many other natural therapies) was something the profitable and influential drug companies were not going to accept. A new strategy emerged: it moved away from treating illness and disease with failed drugs and failing vaccines; and instead to protect their dominance, their wealth and their influence by attacking and undermining natural medical therapies, especially homeopathy. 

So for the last 20-30 years politicians and governments have been lobbied; health agencies have been taken over; news agencies have become financially dependent on advertising revenues. Until now - when every source of health information is effectively under the control of the pharmaceutical industry.

So if you were unaware of the busy-busy world of homeopathy this is the reason. If you, your family and friends, could have benefited from being part of the homeopathic community the information you required to make that choice was not available to you. If you have had friends or relatives who have all you have been able to do is to watch, just as doctors watched, as they died. The nursing and the care they were given may have been brilliant; the nurses have deserved their applause; but the doctors have had no treatment to offer. And no-one was going to suggest that homeopathy might be an alternative.

The Homeopathic Community - and Coronavirus COVID-19

 I discovered homeopathy when I was 28 or 29. I was previously a sceptic. The realisation that pharmaceutical medicine was dangerous was a slightly longer process, but when I was in my early 50's (and working with elderly people, many of them sick, and under conventional medical treatment) I decided that I wanted to avoid being dependent on pharmaceutical drugs when I grew older. So I progressed from being a patient, and became a member of the homeopathic community, an insider; part of the 'secret' society.

I have never regretted it. Now in my mid-70's I have had no worries about COVID-19. I understand, as do many 'insiders', the importance of the immune system. I knew about the preventative remedies that support the immune system which were available to homeopaths. And I know about the homeopathic remedies that can help the immune overcome treat the illness should I contract it.

Outside this secret world I hear the panic and fear that coronavirus COVID-19 has produced in so many people; I have been delighted to be free from it. 

• I have watched as social relationships have been harmed by the government's health policies; with older people dying alone; funerals that friends are not allowed to attend; young couples postponing their marriages; pregnant women giving birth without their partners; school children having their education harmed; and much more.
• I have watched as people's jobs and livelihoods, in viable sectors of the economy, have been destroyed by the failure of conventional medicine to cope with this not-too-infectious, and not-too-deadly coronavirus.
• I have watched as the national economy is gradually destroyed because of 'public health' policies of social distancing and lockdown that are not working because 'chasing the virus' is a futile activity.

So I eat another orange, or go out into the sun, pleased that I am part of the homeopathic community, an insider, with full access to the knowledge of this wonderful 'secret' society.

Yet in fact, homeopathy is not so secret. Anyone can join. It is not exclusive. Sometimes it is frustrating, listening to conventional medicine telling us through the mainstream media that homeopathy does not work, cannot work, that there is not scientific evidence that it works. But as an insider I can just smile, take my remedy Oscillococinum (which I've done now for the last 20 flu-free years) and get on with living, free from fear, or being sickened by pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines.

WHY NOT COME AND JOIN US?

Our Amazing Body, the Immune System, and Pharmaceutical Medicine

How do we breathe? 

Do we have to remember to do so?

Do we have to think about it?

How do we keep our blood circulating?

Do we have to do anything to keep it moving around?

Do we have to tell it to do so?
 

How do we keep our body at a stable temperature?

The same questions can be asked - but the answer is the same.

 

We do not need to do anything. It is all done for us, whilst we just get on with living our lives.

Every minute of the day our body is doing all the things we need it to do to keep us alive; except for feeding ourselves, exercising, and leading a sensible, sustainable lifestyle. If we undertake this properly the body even keeps itself well, it protects us from illness and disease.

Our immune system keeps us from harm, it automatically does things that keep us healthy
And we know nothing about it

We do not have to think about fighting off infections.

FIGHTING CORONAVIRUS

Only conventional or pharmaceutical medicine seems to have forgotten about our body's amazing ability to do all this, and our brilliant immune system. I wish I had £1 for every time I have heard a conventional medical spokespersons saying that a vaccine is going to be necessary, that we won't be protected from COVID-19 before a vaccine is available.

This message has become a regular feature of pharmaceutical medicine's propaganda - that in order to stay well we need a pharmaceutical drug or a vaccine - our body will not, cannot do it alone.

What conventional medicine is telling us is that it knows what is happening when we are ill - a fever - inflammation - whatever - and that it has the drugs and vaccines to stop it happening. It can force the body back into health, back into compliance. Moreover, these drugs have to fight the body, with drugs that oppose ("anti-......."), or ........ blockers or ......... inhibitors. The all oppose, inhibit, block what the body wants to do, needs to do. The doctor knows best how to keep us healthy and fit! Pharmaceutical medicine  even have drugs now, immuno-suppressant drugs that purposely stop our immune system from working. What sort of medicine is this?

They suppress the immune system because, they say, it has "turned in on itself", it is faulty, and is causing disease. So why does it do this? We are not told. But presumably, pharmaceutical medicine has drugs and vaccines that will protect us against infections, like coronavirus, that we no longer have natural immunity to. Yet we know it has no such thing.

And does the immune system really turn on itself? Or is autoimmune disease caused by pharmaceutical drugs - drugs like antibiotics, statins, and vaccines? The faulty immune system is part of conventional medicine's denial - that it is causing harm to our bodies.

 

Fortunately, natural medical therapies have not forgotten about the importance of our amazing body, or our brilliant immune system. All natural medical therapies, quite rightly, place these things at the very centre of our healing process, each in their different way. It is what makes them 'natural'. They are not picking a fight with the body, or engaging in unwinnable battles with germs. All natural therapies emphasise the important of diet and nutrition, exercise, good lifestyle choices, and so on. In addition they have developed strategies, treatments for supporting the body. Homeopathy, for instance, seeks to support the body, to stimulate the natural healing qualities of our body. 

 

We have to live with bacteria and viruses, we always have done, and coronaviruses are here forever; they will not go away, they will not be killed, they will mutate first. They are here now, and they will be here in future. They will kill some people, every year, people with 'underlying health conditions', although with the support of natural medical therapies, we give ourselves a greater chance of surviving epidemics like COVID-19.

So why has conventional medicine forgotten about the amazing body, the brilliant immune system? The answer is rediculously simple! Neither our body, nor our natural immunity, is profitable. It has to be sick to be profitable. Drug companies have to frighten us into believing that we will be sick, or will die, without their pharmaceutical wonder drugs. Good health comes from a bottle of expensive pills.

 

And this is why the coronavirus COVID-19 panic has been generated.

Doctors want to sell us more pills we do not need.