Health is not simply the absence of disease. Health is an active state. Your body has within it five health defense systems: angiogenesis, stem cells, the microbiome, DNA protection, and immunity. These systems are responsible for maintaining our health and resisting the regular hazards we all face everyday as part of ordinary life—and they heal us when disease inflicts damage in our body. (more…)
When the fall hits, we all think of flu season and ways to support our immunity. We often talk about increasing or boosting immunity but, like most of our biological systems, the immune system is tremendously complicated. Immune cells have to make difficult decisions from moment to moment. Is this a pathogen that needs to be eliminated, or a cell that must be preserved? If it is a pathogen, how do we fight it? (more…)
Watch Rob Verkerk’s Speaking Naturally interview with Sylvie Beljanski and Nathan Crane, the key organizers of the forthcoming Beljanski Integrative Cancer Conference in Jacksonville, Florida between 13 and 15 October. (more…)
