A healthy respiratory system
To most 21st century dwellers, the terms smallpox, tuberculosis and typhoid recall thoughts of period novels, settler days and times gone by. While social and medical developments have all but eliminated these historic threats, they have been replaced by a new set of immune challenges. Asthma, sinusitis and ‘flu epidemics are now household names.
In our modern world, virulent bacterial pathogens have been replaced by pollutants and chemicals, triggering hayfever, sinus, and asthma. Cramped unhygienic conditions have been replaced by a sanitised but highly-populated environment, leaving us widely exposed to viruses but without the immune experience to fight them.
Read more about your immune system and how natural therapies can help under Health Tips, Immune Health.