Aloe Vera And The Immune System
Aloe Vera and the benefits of Aloe Barbadensis Miller (pure Aloe Vera) works to improve the body’s immune system. The human immune system is incredibly complex, and when you think of the billions if not trillions of cells which go to make up our bodies, and how they work together to protect us via an organised communication and response system, it’s almost mind-boggling.
The Immune System
Essentially the immune system works through triggering a wide array of chemical processes. The simple job is to discriminate between ’self’ and ‘non-self’ cells and organisms; ie. things that belong in body and things that don’t.
Examples of some the things which don’t belong are viruses & bacteria. When our immune system is working correctly, it reacts swiftly to the foreign particle in our bloodstream, usually by detecting certain proteins or chemicals on the cell wall of the potential threat.
There are times when our immune system won’t work quite as it’s supposed to; and when this happens, the immune system becomes less able to discriminate between ’self’ and ‘non-self’. It begins to see certain types of normal cells as foreign, and so reacts against them.
