Asparagus
This vegetable can be difficult to cultivate, but once established the beds can produce for hundreds of years. Asparagus is rich in asparagine, an amino acid that is destroyed by cooking. It is an excellent inclusion in fresh vegetable juices. It is a mild diuretic.

Beets
Beets are high in vitamins and minerals and are excellent for strengthening the gall bladder and building blood. The tops are excellent salad greens. Beet juice is very strong and should be drunk only blended into other vegetable juices and not drunk alone.

Broccoli
Broccoli is the immature head of a flower, picked before blooming. It is rich in vitamins and minerals and also protein.

Brussels Sprouts
Brussels Sprouts is similar to Broccoli in its food value

Cabbage
Raw cabbage provides a rich source of vitamins and minerals as well as sulfur compounds. Drink cabbage juice within a minute as the essential elements immediately begin to oxidize. Use it in a mixture of vegetable juice. Do not store this juice. Juice it last and drink it fresh from the juicer.

Carrots
Carrots are, perhaps, the most valuable vegetable for juicing because of their healing properties. It is the usual base to which other juices are added. Although it has a high sugar content, the blend of ingredients in carrot juice cannot be excelled for balanced nutrition.

Celery
Celery is high in minerals and is a significant source for magnesium. It does not stand alone as a palatable juice for drinking, but it is an excellent flavor enhancer for other juices. Chopping the celery stalks into short pieces will help to prevent the long celery strings from clogging the juicer. Be sure to juice the leaves as well..

Cucumber
Cucumbers are an excellent addition to a mix of vegetables for juicing. They are high in potassium and contain other minerals as well.

Collards
Collards are rich in calcium and are high in vitamin A and iron.

Fennel
Fennel adds its own distinctive sweet taste to vegetable juice and has the nutritional qualities of celery.

Garlic
Garlic promotes enzyme action and adds its own distinctive taste to vegetable juices.

Ginger Root
The distinctive flavor of ginger is a welcome addition to the palate of flavors available to enhance vegetable juices. Use it sparingly until you are aware of the character that it adds to the juice.

Kale
Kale is in the cabbage family with similar nutritional qualities.

Lettuce
There are many varieties of lettuce. Iceberg lettuce is widely available because it is easy to grow and has a good shelf life. However, it is almost worthless as food. Look for the dark leafed varieties. Romaine is a good choice. It juices well, but it has a very short shelf life.

Onions
Onions come in a variety of sizes and attributes. Some are very strong flavored and others are sweet and mild. Green onions may also be juiced, adding their own ‘onion’ character to the drink.

Parsley
Parsley helps to reduce the strong odor and flavor of garlic and is an excellent source of chlorophyl. Juice it with other vegetables in order to prevent clogging the juicer with the dense pulp that forms when it is juiced alone.

Peppers
Peppers come in a wide variety of colors and flavors from sweet to very hot. If a milder juice is desired, remove the seeds before juicing,

Radishes
Red radishes may be hot or mild. The white ones are mild. They provide an interesting variation of flavor.

Spinach
Spinach juice is very mellowing to a strong flavored mix of vegetable juices. It is rich in minerals and vitamins.

Sweet Potato
Sweet potatoes are a good source of beta carotene and when juiced with carrots, provide a very nice variation of flavor.

This article was written by our guest writer, Mr. Bob Davis.
Founder of the Alternative Cancer Treatments website!

Grapefruit
Luther Burbank developed the Grapefruit by crossing the orange and the lemon. Grapefruit has become an important commodity in the winter fruit market. The sweet red fruits are a popular gift item during the winter holidays. As is typical of citrus fruits, grapefruit is rich in vitamin C.

Grapes
The varieties of grapes are varied with corresponding differences in taste according to color. The bright taste of the purple grape, the spicy taste of the red grape and the sweetness of the white grape offer a palate of flavors with which to satisfy a wide variety of tastes. The grape seeds are rich in pycnogenol, also called grape seed extract. The benefit of the seeds may be had by processing the whole grape in a blender. The pycnogenol is a nutrient that the body uses as a precursor to many materials used in healing the body of disease.

Always wash commercially grown grapes carefully as they are sprayed with poisonous materials to protect them on the vine.

Lemons and Limes
Summertime and lemonade go together. Nutritionally, they are rich in vitamin C, bioflavonoids which are vitamins that maintain the strength of the walls of cells and capillaries. Bioflavonoids are found in the soft white inner skin of the lemon.

Melons
The varieties of melons are rough skinned, orange-fleshed varieties such as the Rocky Ford and the Tender-skinned honeydew with its pale green flesh. They are the most nutritious of fruits, ranking ahead of oranges and watermelon. They are excellent sources for vitamins A and C and they also assist in treating anxiety, so if you are worried, eat a cantaloupe.

Oranges
Through 1800′s oranges were not universally available, but now they are abundant everywhere. They are a seasonal fruit and they are best during the winter months, but they can be found year round with their cheery flavor. As with all vitamin C bearing fruits, they are at their nutritional best when freshly squeezed. The universal orange color of commercially grown oranges is produced by treating the skins to make them uniform and to give them sales appeal. An orange that has a pale skin is nutritious, so don’t let the color of the skin dissuade you from enjoying locally grown oranges if you are fortunate enough to be in a semi-tropical land.

Pears
Pears come in several varieties. The usual ones we find are the commercially grown ones that have been carefully selected for commercial use. Unlike apples, they have a very short period when they are ripe and before they spoil. They are shipped green and ripened in the store or at home, like bananas. They are ripe when they are soft and the stem pulls out easily. They are rich in vitamin C. They also provide calcium, potassium, phosphorus and other minerals.

Pineapples
The pineapples that are available in most stores are picked green and are ripened in transit. Field ripened pineapples have a distinctively sweeter flavor and a yellow skin. They are rich in vitamin C and minerals. They are also rich in bromelain which is a powerful digestive enzyme and is very beneficial when taken with some dietary supplements.

Tomatoes
The tomato was long considered to be poisonous to the western world. They were used as ornamental plants and called ‘love apples’. It was after a man who had visited India and saw that tomatoes were good food, sat on the court house steps of an American city and actually ate a ‘poisonous’ love apple in full view of the public – and he didn’t die, that tomatoes became a staple in the diet of the western world. Incidentally, we think of tomato paste, and pizza in the same thought. Actually, Italy imported their first tomatoes from the United States

Tomatoes are rich in vitamin C. Also the peak of their nutrition is achieved on the vine just hours before they are over ripe, so, grow your own tomatoes if you can. Commercial tomatoes that are picked green and store ripened may look pretty but they are missing the nutrition that is available in a vine ripened tomato.

Watermelons
We all know about watermelons but we may disagree on how to pick out a perfectly ripened one. It should make a hollow sound when it is thumped with a knuckle. Watermelon rinds make tasty pickles but the best nutrition of the rind is gotten by juicing.

his article was written by our guest writer, Mr. Bob Davis.
Founder of the Alternative Cancer Treatments website!

It takes a little planning, but we should take the time and make the effort to plan such an important part of our life as our health and longevity.

There are many delicious combinations of fruits. The very juicy fruits such as pears and grapes may be combined with a host of different berries, such as strawberries, blueberries to make ‘to die for’ flavors. Apples are a standard staple for juicing. Peaches, and cherries in season are excellent.

You might experiment by juicing a variety of fruits separately and blend combination in a small container to determine what you like the best. As the seasons progress and we go from strawberries to blackberries, and peaches to apples, we have an extensive palate of flavors to blend into a cornucopia of delicious variations.

Of course, you will want to use fruits at their juicy best. I see people eating hard pears, peaches and plums. They may look pretty but they lack the flavor and nutrition, the ‘deliciousness’ of the fully ripened fruit. Most commercially grown fruits are picked and shipped green and are intended to be ripened at the point of delivery. Plums are a good example of this practice. They are full formed but not fully ripe when you bring them home. (Ideally, you would buy tree ripened fruit ready to eat, but this is not how commercially grown fruit is handled. A trip to a farmer’s market is a treat when you find fully ripe and ready to eat fruit in all its glory.) The fruit should be kept in a warm place and covered with a paper bag to hold in the ripening gas (ethylene) that is emitted by the green fruit. The warmer the fruit and the more gas is retained, the faster the fruit ripens.

This offers the opportunity to control the ripening speed so a relatively large supply of fruit will not ripen all at once, the fruit that is kept cool and ventilated will not ripen at the rate that warm and enclosed fruit will ripen. The ripening process converts starch to sugar, the texture becomes soft and juicy, and the acid nature of the green fruit becomes neutral. The fruit becomes aromatic and smells’ ripe’. Then it is at its most nutritious and delicious best.

On the other hand, strawberries are not ripened by ethylene but by genes. As the berry ages, more ripening genes are developed to accelerate the ripening process.

FRUIT JUICE RECIPES

Lemon~Lime Ginger Ale
(Serves 1)
• 1 apple, cored and sliced
• 1/4 lemon
• 1/2 inch fresh ginger (less if you find the taste too strong)
• 1/2 lime
• handful of grapes
• sparkling mineral water

Remove the grapes from the stem. Juice the apple and ginger together, then juice the rest of the fruit. Pour the juice in a large glass and fill to the top with sparkling water and serve with ice.

Gingered Apple Cider
(Serves 1)
• 1 inch piece ginger
• 3 apples or 1 cup apple cidar

Process through a juicer and serve.

Peach~Pear~Apple Juice
(Serves 1)
• 2 peaches, remove seed
• 1 apple, cored and sliced
• 1 pear, sliced

Process through a juicer and serve.

Fruit Punch
(Serves 1)
• 6 strawberries, fresh or thawed from frozen
• 1 apple, cored and sliced
• 1/2 orange, peeled and sectioned

Process the fruit in a juicer and serve.

Fruit Nectar
• 1 orange, peeled and sectioned
• 1/2 cup raspberries, fresh or thawed from frozen
• 1 nectarine, pitted and sliced

Process the fruit in a juicer and serve.

Sparkling Tropical Fruit
(Serves 1)
• 1 kiwi, peeled
• 1/2 mango, peeled and sliced
• 1 orange, peeled and sectioned
• sparkling mineral water

Process the fruit in a juicer.
Pour the juice in a large glass and fill to the
top with sparkling water and serve.

Blueberry~Cherry Juice
(Serves 1)
• handful of cherries, pitted
• 3/4 cup blueberries
• 1 apple, cored and sliced

Process the fruit in a juicer and serve.

More Fruit Juice Recipe Ideas …
• 1 cup strawberries
• 2 med. apples
• 1 tsp. lemon juice

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• 1/2 red grapefruit
• 1 med. orange
• 2 handfuls cranberries

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• 1 pear
• 1 peach
• 1 apple

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• 1 orange
• 1 mango
• 1 apple

VEGETABLE JUICE RECIPES

Cucumber~Celery Cooler
• 1 apple, sliced
• 4 medium carrots, greens removed
• 1 stalk celery
• 1/2 lemon, peeled (optional)
• 1/4 medium cucumber, peeled

Process the ingredients in a juicer and serve.

Garden Salad
• 1 apple
• 3 medium carrots, greens removed
• 1/2 green pepper, sweet
• 4 leaves romaine lettuce
• 1/2 lemon, peeled (optional)
• 1 tomato

Process the ingredients in a juicer and serve.

Calcium Drink
• 1/2 cup fresh broccoli pieces
• 1 apple
• 3 medium carrots, greens removed
• small handful fresh parsley
• 1/2 lemon, peeled (optional)

Process the ingredients in a juicer and serve.

Sweet Potato Carrot Juice
• 2 medium carrots, greens removed
• 1 celery stalk
• 1 small sweet potato
• 1 apple
• 1/2 lemon, peeled (optional)

Process the ingredients in a juicer and serve.

A FUN and EASY way to get more vitamins & minerals into your diet is by drinking freshly made fruit juices, vegetable juices, and by blending thick and frothy smoothies and shakes from frozen fruit.

A friend of mine describes drinking freshly made fruit juices like this:

“If you have never taken a mouthful of cantaloupe juice or strawberry juice mixed with apple, you simply have not lived. Blueberry juice is a taste of liquid heaven.”

Freshly made juices are a tremendous source of bio-available vitamins and minerals which are the partners of enzymes and co-enzymes. Vitamins activate enzymes and without vitamins, enzymes could not carry out their work, and we could not live.

Enzymes act as catalysts in hundreds of thousands of chemical reactions that take place throughout your body, and are essential for digesting, absorbing and converting food into body tissue. Enzymes produce energy at the cellular level and are critical for most of the metabolic activities taking place in your body every second of every day.

Another benefit of drinking fresh juices and smoothies is that your body can absorb MORE of the vitamins and minerals then if you were to eat the fruits and vegetables whole! Many of the nutrients are TRAPPED in the fiber and by blending fruits and vegetables, you break down the fiber and release the vital nutrients.

Example:
When you eat a raw carrot, you are only able to assimilate a small percentage of the available beta carotene. When a carrot is juiced, removing the fiber, a LARGE percentage of the beta carotene can be assimilated by your body.

Of course, you still need to eat whole produce because fiber is also an important part of your daily diet.

Meeting you or your children’s need for energy and nutrients is essential for good health. Children who do not meet their needs for energy may stop growing and gaining weight. In severe situations, they can develop a condition which is life threatening called protein energy malnutrition. Vitamins and minerals are only required in very small amounts, but a diet insufficient in these can cause SEVERE deficiency diseases.

You may be showing signs of malnutrition if you …
• feel tired and weak.
• feel like you never have the energy to clean your home, make meals or even do the dishes.
• have difficulty losing or gaining weight.
• can’t easily get to sleep.
• feel stressed and/or nervous.
• feel drowsy during the day.
• sometimes can’t concentrate, you’re mind feels numb, or you get confused easily.
• have problems with your digestion.
• have constipation and/or hard dry stools.
• have mood swings, or get easily upset.
• don’t have patience for anything.
• sometimes feel depressed.
• have overly dry or oily skin.
• sometimes have nausea and/or abdominal pain.
• have annoying eye twitches.
• bruise easily.
• have muscle cramps and/or low back pain.
• sometimes get cracks and sores in the corners of your mouth.
• notice that your nails have become thin and/or brittle.
• are losing your hair.
• have water retention.
• have uncontrollable temper outbursts.
• don’t eat a well-balanced nutritious diet EVERY DAY

Natural vitamins are found only in living things, that is, plants and animals. Your body, with a few exceptions, can’t manufacture vitamins. They must be supplied in your food or in dietary supplements but supplements can’t replace food, especially fruits and vegetables which provide thousands of substances, some of which have well-known functions, and some whose roles in the human body are not yet understood or recognized.

Vitamins and minerals …
• reduce your risk of getting a stroke or heart attack!
• strengthen your nails!
• improve your hair condition, strength and growth by providing certain essential nutrients to the hair follicle!
• beautify your skin by keeping it smooth, soft and disease-free!
• provide essential compounds that are necessary for growth, health, normal metabolism and physical well-being! Without them, you would die!
• promote normal growth and development!
• maintain bone density and strength!
• regulate blood clotting!
• help in the function of nerves and muscles, including regulating a normal heart beat!

When it comes to choosing a healthy diet for their children, many parents don’t realize the important role that beverages play. For example, fruit flavored drinks and soft drinks are not a substitute for real fruit. Many of these drinks only contain 10% real fruit juice. The very best drinks are made from whole fruit and you can make great fruity healthy drinks at home.

How to make homemade fruit and vegetable juices:
1. You’ll need an inexpensive juicer.
2. All fruits and vegetables should be juiced raw.
3. Small seeded fruit, such as watermelon and pears, may be juiced with their seeds, with the exception of papaya and apple seeds. Orange and grapefruit seeds might impart a bitter taste to your juice. Remove the large pits from fruits like peaches and nectarines, etc.
4. Peel all fruits and vegetables that are not organically grown because the peel is where most of the chemical residues can be found. While most skins of organically grown fruits and vegetables may be left on, with the exception of waxed produce, the skins of pineapples, kiwis, oranges, grapefruits and papaya should be removed.
5. Choose fresh ripe produce. Rubbery vegetables, bruised fruit, wilted greens and over or under-ripe fruits will produce juices that are neither tasty nor healthful.
6. Cut the fruits or vegetables into pieces that will fit into the mouth of your juice machine. Turn the juice machine on and push the pieces through the mouth of the juicer. As you juice, pulp will collect in a large receptacle. If you don’t clean the pulp out right away, it will develop a sour odor and tiny gnats and fruit flies may appear after 8 to 10 hours.
7. It is best to drink freshly made juices within one day.

How to make perfect homemade smoothies and shakes:
1. Put the fruit in the blender first. Make sure that the items are smaller than a golf ball so they will blend completely. Add the liquid ingredients next.
2. Fasten the lid and press the start button. Use high speed for about 20-30 seconds.
3. Stop the blender and check to see if the ingredients are well blended. Sometimes the frozen fruit will jam under the blade. If there is jammed fruit, use a spatula to unjam the fruit, and blend again.
4. Once the mixture is evenly blended, slowly add two ice cubes through the opening of the blender lid. Keep adding one or two ice cubes at a time until the blender sounds smooth. If your blender is not strong enough to blend ice cubes, omit the ice and substitute just enough ice cold water or fruit juice so that the shake will have a milkshake consistency.
5. If the shake/smoothie is too thin, add more fruit or ice. If it’s too thick, add more liquid.

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The “Hollywood Diet”: uses bottled juices which are lacking the essential enzymes necessary for good nutrition. You would not want to stay on this diet for more than the recommended two days. Fresh vegetable juices, on the other hand, supply all of the vital resources necessary to sustain your body for a month or more.

Vegetable juice contains the nutrients. The fiber is the package that it comes in. You need not worry about not having enough dietary fiber. There is plenty of fiber left, as your bathroom experiences will testify. The big difference is that you get very large amounts of the nutrients which your body immediately utilizes to provide energy, growth, and healing.

This process is so encouraging to your impoverished body that it immediately sets about the various healing processes that it has not been able to address because of the lack of nutritional resources.

As the metabolism increases and the number of calories is reduced from the diet that you had before with all of its fats, starches, and sugars, the body goes into its reserves for energy, your stored body fat.

Fortunately, the more overweight you are, the more energy is required to operate your system and the faster the excess fat is consumed as fuel.

For this therapy, you will need a vegetable juicer and a good source of supply for the many pounds of vegetables you will use every week.

The only tool you’ll ever need to enjoy freshly-made wholesome juices!
If you’re not familiar with it, it’s called the juicer! As opposed to the blender, the juicer actually separates the juice from the fiber of fresh fruit and vegetables.

One of the pure benefits of owning a juicer is that you get to enjoy delicious wholesome fruit and vegetable juices made right in your home every day. Approximately one cup of carrot juice is equivalent to four cups of raw, chopped carrots. The word ‘V8’ will never be the same again!

You can purchase a juicer from most department or health food stores in North America.

What do you do with the pulp that is left in the juicer?
If it’s not organic, many say to throw it out. If it is organic, you can do what my mom does and make a soup broth from it. She puts the pulp in a saucepan and covers it with pure water. After simmering it slowly for 15 minutes, she removes the pulp and uses the broth as a soup base. If you’re on a juice fast, you can simply enjoy the broth as it is or add a few seasonings. Be careful not to add too much salt.

Will you regain the weight after a juice fast?
On the average, 5-7 of the pounds lost during a juice fast are fecal matter from the colon, depending on the number of juice fasting days. You’ll regain that after you begin eating solid foods. And as with any diet, you’ll regain weight if you return to the old-eating habits that caused you to become overweight to begin with.

The main benefit offered by a juice fast, to those who wish to lose weight, is the speed of the weight loss. But if that person returns to a nutrient-deprived self-engorged diet, he will regain every pound that he lost.

To enjoy the lasting weight-loss benefits of a juice fast, one must adopt a healthier eating lifestyle.

Explore the pages on this site to learn how juice fasting overcomes addictions, how it heals and detoxifies the body, how much weight you can expect to lose, get free juice recipes, and so much more.

Start slowly by introducing some nutritious foods back into your diet, Use whole fresh fruits and vegetables. Start slowly with reasonably small portions. You may be surprised that your stomach will no longer accept the portion sizes that you ate in the past. In fact, it has shrunk.

Remember that the whole idea is to build health, so understand that you will not go back to your excessive ways of eating. A half of a pizza and a half gallon of coke are things of your past. This is not to say that you will ‘never’ eat these foods again, They will just not be a staple in your diet. When you do ‘indulge’ it will be limited and controlled. You will not feel guilty if you plan to depart from your diet now and then.

Set a plan, Declare to yourself that you will allow a certain favorite food only every so often. In my case, I allowed myself to have a soft ice cream cone once a month during the summertime. This kept me from feeling sorry for myself and gave me real control. I didn’t feel guilty because I had not violated my diet plan. This past year, I didn’t have any soft ice cream. It has lost its attraction to me and I really don’t miss it.

I have finally taken comfortable control of this part of my life, and I like it.

Please don’t panic and think that you will never enjoy foods again. You will enjoy foods, good foods, and you will prefer it to be this way. A friend who made this change, said to me, “I will never go back to my old ways of eating. Why would I ever want to feel like that again?”

This is the prospect that awaits you. Those who achieve this success are very glad that they did. I know one lady who, regardless of how hard she tried, could not lose her ‘belly’. After the correction to her diet, she is perfectly slim, athletic, and very happy with herself and her life. This is all because, instead of counting calories, she is properly nourishing her body and her body is responding according to the blueprint that she carries in every cell for a health body, her DNA code.

Your DNA is struggling to do the same thing for your body. Give it the nourishing resources that it needs and it will do the same for you.

This article was written by our guest writer, Mr. Bob Davis.
Founder of the Alternative Cancer Treatments website!

Weight to lose
If you have a lot of weight to lose, the initial loss may be 2 or 3 pounds a day. This will slow down and can even become stagnant for brief periods as water replaces the oil in the fat cells.

If your loss has slowed because of a slowing of your metabolism, you may reduce your caloric intake and add some basic exercise to your routine. Government studies have found that heavy, aerobic exercise may not be necessary. A good walk every day may be all that you need.

It is best if you consider the number of pounds that you lose as casually as you can and just let it happen. Don’t weigh yourself several times a day. Occupy your life with other things. Concentrate on the other healthy things that are part of your overall heath recovery plan.

This article was written by our guest writer, Mr. Bob Davis.
Founder of the Alternative Cancer Treatments website!

Virtually any improvement that we can make in these areas enhances the body’s ability to shed these burdens of toxic waste.

The body stores oil-soluble toxins, logically, in our body’s oil supply, our fat. That is, in part, why a fat-reducing program is also a detoxifying process.

There are some things that we can do that directly helps the body to detoxify. This is fortunate, because, with our busy life styles, we can’t always take time off from work or school and visit a spa. We can do many effective things that can be incorporated into our lifestyle.

Water fasting is a stringent and effective way to detoxify your body because it forces the metabolism of body fat and thereby releases stored toxins in the body fat into the blood stream for elimination as the fat oils are used for fuel. Only the very healthy should go on short water fasts because the toxins released could overwhelm toxic and sick bodies.

Juice fasting is the king of detoxification methods because it nourishes the body, especially with live enzymes which jump start’ a sluggish immune system and provides nourishment for sustaining the fast for long periods of time.

Lemon juice and honey fasting. This is less stringent that water fasting as it supplies some basic nutrition and the cleansing progresses at a level that is more comfortable than water fasting alone.

Cleansing with raw food. This refers to vegetables and fruits, of course. Again, the live enzymes yield great benefit to a body that has been impoverished with cooked foods for a long time. Many people seldom eat any fresh vegetables and their only fruit may be a banana on their breakfast cereal.

You will notice immediate benefits. Your bathroom experiences will be virtually odorless and you will experience unbelievable regularity. The normal function is to have a movement for each meal. The fiber assures adequate bulk as the nourishment of the raw food enhances and cleanses the blood stream.

For healthy people, especially the very young whose bodies have not been compromised by the highly toxic lifestyle of fast foods, this is the best way to achieve maximum health.

Most people don’t realize that one of the biggest organs of elimination is the lungs. Exercise in the fresh air and sunshine is a powerful detoxifying treatment. This and stress reduction are among the most effective ways to build vibrant health.

This article was written by our guest writer, Mr. Bob Davis.
Founder of the Alternative Cancer Treatments website!

Elevated Macrophage Activity: Macrophages engulf and destroy bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. They can ingest worn-out or abnormal body cells. Macrophages form an important first line of defense against harmful particles that have reached the body’s interior.

Increased Cell-Mediated Immunity: Lymphocytes are the white blood cells responsible for the body’s ability to distinguish and react to foreign substances, including those of which microbes are composed. Lymphocytes have about 100,000 identical receptors on their cellular membrane that enables them to recognize specific antigens. Each receptor has proteins containing grooves that fit into patterns formed by the atoms of the antigen molecule so the lymphocyte can bind to the antigen. This works somewhat like a key fitting into a lock. There are more than 10 million different types of grooves in the lymphocytes of the human immune system. The T lymphocytes are responsible for continuous surveillance of cell surfaces for the presence of foreign antigens. Lymphocyte production is regulated by growth factors, known as lymphokines.

The name “lymphocytes” may appear as complicated as “life insurance terms” to most of us at first glance, but it’s not that hard to understand, given the proper resources. Lymphocytes are the white blood cells responsible for the body’s ability to distinguish and react to foreign substances, including those of which microbes are composed.

Lymphocytes have about 100,000 identical receptors on their cellular membrane that enables them to recognize specific antigens. Each receptor has proteins containing grooves that fit into patterns formed by the atoms of the antigen molecule so the lymphocyte can bind to the antigen. This works somewhat like a key fitting into a lock. There are more than 10 million different types of grooves in the lymphocytes of the human immune system.

The T lymphocytes are responsible for continuous surveillance of cell surfaces for the presence of foreign antigens. Lymphocyte production is regulated by growth factors, known as lymphokines.

Increased Immunoglobulin Levels: Immunoglobulin is used to provide passive immunity to a variety of diseases such as measles, hepatitis A and hypogammaglobulinemia.

Increased Neutrophil Bactericidal Activity: Fifty-to-eighty percent of the white cells are neutrophils. Neutrophils move with amoeboid motion. They extend long projections followed by contraction of filaments drawing the nucleus and rear of the cell forward. In this way, neutrophils rapidly advance along a surface. Neutrophils are actively phagocytic engulfing bacteria and other microorganisms and microscopic particles. When they arrive at the target, neutrophils have microscopic packets of potent enzymes capable of digesting many types of cellular materials.

The bone marrow of a normal adult produces about 100,000,000,000 neutrophils daily. When a bacterium is engulfed by a neutrophil, a metabolic process within the granules produces hydrogen peroxide and a highly active form of oxygen called “superoxide”, which destroy the ingested bacteria.

Heightened Monocyte Killing and Bacterial Function: Monocytes are the largest cells of the blood, averaging 15-18 micrometers. They make up about 7 percent of the leukocytes. Monocytes are actively mobile and phagocytic. They are capable of ingesting infectious agents and other large particles. Monocytes usually enter areas of inflamed tissue or at sites of chronic infections.

Enhanced Natural Killer Cell Activity: Natural killer cells were first recognized in 1975. Researchers observed cells in the blood and lymphoid tissues that could kill tumor cells and cells infected with viruses. Most immunologists feel that natural killer cells play an important part in checking the growth of tumor cells and cells infected with some viruses.

Basically, you get to laze around while your immune system and cleansing organs do all the work. Billions of tiny employees working 24 hours per day, cleaning up your mess and working for free without any appreciation. You should feel guilty.