Lung health is very important right now for a number of reasons. Fortunately, boosting your lung health is not difficult or expensive – and you can start today! In a recent interview (watch the video here, Genita M. Mason N.C., H.H.P., F.E., Medical Director of The Biosanctuary, shares five ways to boost your lung health, and protect yourself, particularly against COVID-19, with the flu season here and wildfires affecting air quality.
Respiratory and lung health is now a number one concern, for a number of reasons, including the upcoming flu season, the widespread wildfires and, of course, COVID-19.
Flu – or influenza – is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses that can result in mild to severe illness, and even in hospitalization or death. Some people, such as older people, young children, and people with certain health conditions, are at high risk of serious flu complications.
Seasonal flu epidemics are caused each year by influenza viruses that spread among people. In the US, flu season extends over fall and winter. Reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses like flu is more important than ever this fall and winter because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition, across large parts of the country, air quality has been greatly compromised by the widespread wildfires, causing low grade lung inflammation that will certainly complicate both flu and COVID-19 cases.
It is widely known that COVID-19 attacks the lungs and if you’re already starting out with inflamed lungs due to the flu, the poor air quality or an existing lung or respiratory illness, your chances of a quick recovery from a COVID-19 infection is greatly reduced.
The leading cause of death for COVID-19 is acute respiratory distress syndrome. When someone is infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the body produces an aggressive and excessive inflammatory response, accompanied by with the release of a large amount of pro-inflammatory cytokines in what is called a “cytokine storm”. This hyperactive immune response is of particular concern to those who already have even a low-grade inflammation in the lungs and any respiratory disease.
COVID-19 is not going away. A second wave has already hit Europe. Like influenza, everyone will get it sooner or later, so taking good care of your health is more important than ever.
It is especially important to know how you can boost your lung and respiratory health. The first step is understanding the gut-lung connection.
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The gut-lung connection
First, it is necessary to understand a fascinating truth: respiratory health requires a healthy gut, because there is a very important connection between the lungs and the gut. It is also the reason why some people are dying from COVID-19 so quickly, and others (those with a healthy gut) are asymptomatic, not displaying any, or hardly any, symptoms.
It all has to do with the health of your immune system. And the most important factor when comes to a healthy immune system is a healthy gut. The gut is the seat of immune system and, protecting one of the major tunnels into the body, the gut is also a major production system of immune system.
This 35-foot organ deals with pathogens that are both swallowed and inhaled. Whenever the gut encounters an invader, it creates the immune factors required.
The lungs also recruit the immune factors they require to fight pathogens inhaled from the gut, via the arteries that surround the colon.
If the gut is toxic with yeast, fungus and harmful bacteria – as is the reality for the vast majority of people today, then the gut cannot produce the immune factors required immediately and the lungs – unable to obtain the immune factors required from the gut – are left defenceless, resulting is severe illness, possible hospitalization and even death.
In addition, harmful bacteria from the gut can also leak into lungs (whether or not you have leaky gut) via these same arteries, causing inflammation in lungs. A toxic gut releases polysaccharides that compromise lung health and causes inflammation – a dangerous co-morbidity for COVID-19.
While the lungs, as well as the brain and the vagina, have their own immune systems, each system is interlinked with the all the others. These days, people are educated that organs are separate or compartmentalised. But this is not how an organic organism, such as our beautiful and miraculous bodies, work. Every organ is connected to every other organ and every system affects every other system. The most important system when comes to all the different immune systems and the overall immune system is gut.
What is fundamentally important is to understand that taking care of your lungs means taking care of your gut health.
Five ways to boost your lung health
1. Get the right nutrition
Avoid all inflammation-causing foods for at least four days – and that means no grain, no dairy and no sugar. Be sure to eliminate all grain – not just gluten, because even organic grain is hybridised these days. All grains cause inflammation issues, especially in people who can’t digest and metabolise grains. Good gut health also requires taking a good soil-based probiotic and choosing organic food.
2. Eat less
Good gut health also requires you to reduce calories, while increasing nutrition. That means eating less while choosing healthy food. If you are getting the right nutrition, it is not necessary to eat as much food as Americans generally do. The shocking obesity rates in the country are a clear sign that people just eat too much.
Eating less not only means eating smaller amounts, but also eating less frequently. Ideally, you should not eat anything for four to six hours after a meal – no snacking at all. This allows your gut time to properly digest the food consumed. When all the food in your gut is fully digested, your gut will produce a cleansing wave, cleaning up all the toxins in the gut.
3. Brush your teeth at night
Most people only brush their teeth in the morning and skip brushing their teeth at night. As a result, their gut is under attack during the night as they aspirate (breathe in) and also swallow all the pathogens in their mouths, all night long.
4. Use hydrogen peroxide spray
Hydrogen peroxide spray is one of the most effective ways to protect yourself from inhaling or swallowing pathogens.
Get a 35% hydrogen peroxide solution that’s generally available and dilute by half with water for a 17% solution that you can spray into your mouth to kill all pathogens. It is recommended to spray your mouth and the back of your throat twice every half hour or hour, but do not inhale. You can also spray this solution on the outside of your mask.
5. Nebulise with glutathione
Glutathione scavenges free radicals, reactivates other antioxidants and plays a crucial role in the immune response, DNA repair and detoxification. Glutathione is found all over the body but is found in the highest concentrations in the lungs and liver. Increasing glutathione levels will dramatically decrease risk of disease and vulnerability to toxins.
Now that you understand why is it’s so important to take care of your lungs and respiratory health at this time of flu season, wildfires and COVID-19, you will be better motivated to take action and implement these five easy ways to protect and boost your lung health. If you would like to find out more about the lung-gut connection, you can watch the interview with Genita M. Mason N.C., H.H.P., F.E., Medical Director of The Biosanctuary, here…[ 1Test – 000Genita – Gut+Lung+Immunity.mp4]
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