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    February 26

    Two Healthy Lungs

    On an average day you can expect to take 17,820 breaths. For the most part, you do this automatically and with minimal attention to the complex function of your respiratory system. As the main organ of this system, your lungs play an essential role in the breathing process. So what would your lungs say to ensure that this process continues without any malfunction?

    First and foremost it would probably tell you to never smoke and to stay away from smoke-filled places. This is because your lungs are highly sensitive to the toxic substances and carcinogens found in cigarette smoke.

    Take for example the tiny air sacs located at the end of the bronchial tubes called alveoli. When you inhale, they’re filled with fresh oxygen that is transferred to your blood through capillaries. Every time you smoke, you destroy some of these tiny air sacs. With less alveoli, your body receives less oxygen and your breathing may become more labored to compensate.

    Smoking also affects what can be described as the respiratory cleaning system. Tiny hair-like structures called cilia sweep mucus, pollen, dust, and particles out of your lungs. Damaged cilia can’t effectively clear mucus from the airways. So what happens when particles, mucus and dust can’t be cleared from your lungs and airways.

    When your lungs’ natural cleaning and repair system is damaged, germs, dirt and chemicals from cigarette smoke stay inside your lungs. This puts you at risk for chronic cough, chest infections, lung cancer and COPD. Besides not smoking, your lungs would probably request that you learn more about a protein that is crucial in keeping it healthy. That protein is called glutathione or GSH for short.

    Glutathione is a protein that is produced in every one of the trillions of cells in your body. It’s so crucial that you literally could not survive without. In its absence, your body would fall victim to illnesses that a healthy person would just sneeze away.

    It’s an important antioxidant, so much so that other well known antioxidants such as vitamin C and E could not work properly if not for glutathione (GSH). It serves as an immune system booster as white blood cells, which are cells responsible for defending your body from infectious diseases, need GSH to function optimally and relipcate themselves. GSH also detoxifies your body of harmful toxins and pollutants.

    GSH is important to your lungs because it provides protection from oxidative stress and free radicals. Your lungs are particularly susceptible to this kind of stress because it is the center point of oxygen interchange, which produces large number of oxyradicals. Also, white blood cells are highly active in the lining of the lungs. As a method of fighting infection and bacterial invasion, they release chemicals that are oxidative. GSH neutralizes these chemical as well as free radicals to prevent lung damage. Thus, it’s important for your body to maintain an adequately level of this vital protein.

    Glutathione is found in such foods as asparagus, avocado, and broccoli. There is a way to dramatically increase the amount of GSH that your body produces. Immune AD is a natural food protein concentrate scientifically formulated to assist your body in maintaining elevated concentrations of glutathione. It’s the most effective GSH enhancer on the market today because it provides your body with the necessary building blocks to make an abundance of GSH.

    Immune AD is 100% natural, specifically designed to promote GSH production. It supports optimal immune defenses and enhances the removal of toxic substances.
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