The environment vs our immune system – a lifetime long battle and the toll it takes

A plethora of factors goes into deciding how your immune system will respond to its environment. Depending on these factors, the outcome might be a simple running nose that we associate with spring time allergies. Or might be full blown heart disease that cannot be repaired. It’s time that we start talking about just how much of an impact our environment has on our bodies. 

Environmental specialist Douglas Mulhall, author of The Calcium Bomb, knows there is much more than what meets the eye when it comes to the why and how our environment affects our immune system’s ability to protect us. In fact, it plays a major role in health and wellbeing.

“Many people worry about what we do to the environment, but what’s the environment doing to us ? A love-hate relationship between your body and its surroundings starts from the day you’re born. Your immune system is good at fixing short term problems, but it turns on you when attacks from your environment persist. Standard therapies are NOT designed to deal with the resulting damage, especially to your arteries,” says Douglas.

There’s a classic saying that goes, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Which is true in a variety of situations, including this one with the environment. 

Mulhall goes on to say that, “Be ready to look outside the box to prevent and treat the environmental damage leading to heart disease. For example, major results were achieved years ago by removing toxic metals from heart patients while reversing their condition, but very few healthcare providers know about that. When you’re looking for a place to live or work, or improve where you are now, make indoor environmental quality a priority. Healthy indoor air can get rid of the harmful particulates that trigger heart disease. Learn to look at your diet through another lens; preventing and reducing your body’s inflammatory immune response.”