Ci sono erbe antivirali?

At the time of the year many people in the northern hemisphere are thinking about the heat and sunshine of the forthcoming summer compared to colds, flus and other common viruses that usually attack us in the inverno months, but for many unlucky individuals, a summer cold may attack at any moment, and even flus aren’t unheard of at this time of year.

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Having a healthy diet and lifestyle are the best possible methods to keep your sistema immunitario working normally (if you’re an healthiest healthy person ), but even the best defences can become vulnerable when we are feeling tired, rundown or overworked. Every second of every dayour bodies are bombarded with potential pathogens (disease-causing organisms or virus particles) which are found upon our skin, in our mouths, within our bodies, in the air we breathe and the food we eat – in fact almost all around, inside and upon us.

Fortunatamente, la maggior parte degli agenti patogeni che incontriamo non è in grado di attaccarci, o perché non riescono a raggiungere la parte del corpo in cui possono causare un problema, o perché il nostro sistema immunitario li neutralizza prima che facciano danni o abbiano la possibilità di replicarsi in quantità pericolose.

Sistema immunitario

The immune system is in fact an unbelievable thing. Essentially, your immune system’remembers’ experiences with pathogens, so under normal conditions, any single sort of cold or virus dell'influenza you’ve previously had may not make you sick again (there are some exceptions but to cover them would take us well beyond the scope of this article). Unfortunately, the viruses which cause colds and flus mutate rapidly. It follows that their methods of attacking and entering your cells are changing all of the time.

It’s a little like a continual game of cat and mouse, along with your own body beating one patogeno, only to be assaulted by a mutated descendant a couple weeks or months afterwards. This continuous, rapid mutation of viruses is why there will probably never be one cure for the common cold, and why pharmaceutical companies and countries’ medical authorities should take (a incredibly educated and exact ) gamble about which strain of influenza will be the dominant one, come the winter season, and spend weeks producing tonnes of vaccine in the speranza of protecting the vulnerable from disease.

Conclusione

Per la maggior parte di noi, il raffreddore e l'influenza sono una seccatura di cui potremmo fare a meno. Essere malati ci fa sentire male, ci rende meno produttivi e naturalmente nessuno di noi vuole trasmettere una malattia a un individuo anziano, fragile o vulnerabile, per il quale un semplice raffreddore può diventare più di un fastidio. Mantenendo una dieta e uno stile di vita nutrienti possiamo mantenere il nostro sistema immunitario in funzione in modo efficace e assicurarci che il nostro corpo abbia la forza e le risorse necessarie per combattere qualsiasi infezione. Possiamo anche assumere integratori contenenti erbe antivirali come l'Echinacea e l'estratto di Sambuco, che aiutano a ottimizzare e sostenere il sistema immunitario, oltre ad agire come agenti antibatterici.