H1N1 (“Swine Flu”) and Health Nutrition

Facing the Flu H1N1 (Swine) Flu outbreak Mark D. Sisson, a health, fitness and nutrition expert stressed that good health immune system is critical. According to Sisson, the key to avoiding the Swine or any other type of flu, or lessening its impact greatly, depends on the health of the individual’s immune system and strength of their organ reserve, which is the functional capacity of one’s organs to support life. People should take some steps to ensure they have a strong immune system, including avoiding sugar and bad fats and – for some people – even grains for their bad effect on the immune system. Health nutrition, in contrast, will boost the immune system.

It is no secret anymore that true immunity comes from nutrition, because proper nutrition builds good immunity. Nutrition is the most valuable point of health that boosts our immune system like nothing else can. Health nutrition is the key factor to prevent and for the recovery of disease that allows us to overcome the most devastating diseases known to mankind, and gives us a vibrant healthy life.

Fresh fruit and vegetables containing health nutrition, such as broccoli, watercress, carrots and peas which contain antioxidants, apples, prunes, citrus fruits, cabbage and lettuce which contain flavonoids, as well as oily fish will boost our immune system. In general a well balanced diet that is nutrient dense and includes a wide variety of different foods will help keep the immune system healthy and working well. Research studies have found that nutrients are most effective when taken in balance of each other and are included as part of a healthy diet.

Health nutrition in herbs, foods, and vitamin supplements are the source of our immunity which is missing from allopathic medicine today in favor of drugs (chemicals). Many physicians are learning nutrition and herbology and homeopathy so people will have a choice and a place to turn to nutritional oriented physicians when in need.

Some health nutrition can assist in combating various viruses – including flu virus, one of the most popular one is monolaurin (glycerol monolaurate). It is a monoglycerol ester of the saturated fatty acid, lauric acid. Lauric fatty acids are present in many animals and plants, for example, in cow's milk, butter, margarine, palm-kernel and coconut oil, and also in human adipose tissue, urine, milk, and amniotic fluid. This health nutrition possesses broad-spectrum activity against fungi and viruses.

Monolaurin is supposed to be effective against those viruses by breaking down the membrane, envelope or outer wall of the viruses so that they are chopped into bits, turned to liquid, and eventually are removed from our body. It is believed to work by interacting with the lipids and phospholipids that form the envelope, causing it to weaken or disintegrate, destroying their main defense and prevents the virus from 'un-coating.' By doing so, monolaurin prevents viral attachment to susceptible host cells. That's how this health nutrition inactivates the virus.