Immune System Cells
The immune system is an amazing defence mechanism inside your body, designed to prevent and combat disease. It works round the clock, in the background, helping you to stay healthy. However, as you age, your immune response diminishes.
The major driving force and main regulators of your immune system are your ‘helper’ immune T cells. So, what if one day you become ill and need healthy immune T cells to make you better, only the ones you have in your blood don’t respond as well as they once did.27
Your immune system is spread throughout your body. The major areas are your skin, nose, mouth, eyes, thymus, spleen, lymph system, bone marrow, white blood cells, antibodies, complement system (proteins in your blood that work with your antibodies) and your hormones.
Your immune system helps protect you against harmful bacteria, microbes, viruses, toxins and parasites.
The most important part of your immune system, your immune T cells, are found in the white blood cells part of your blood, called leukocytes.
The older we get, the less efficient our immune T cells are and the harder the immune system has to work to keep us healthy. And if we get ill, our immune T cells may not be healthy enough to help us recover.5
If your immune system is compromised, for instance with rheumatoid arthritis or chronic asthma, your immune T cells might not have the strength to battle off infection and disease.
Storing your immune T cells now, whilst they are in peak condition, may mean that, should you need them in the future, they’re ready and waiting to help, against diseases such as:
