Re: Madeline - preventive measures

November 13, 2008

Thanks Elaine and Alana. Elaine, I will keep your recipe on hand. It

would certainly be worth a try - can't hurt and certainly can't be any

nastier than some of the cough meds docs shove down your throat! LOL.

Alana, I am already on a Vitamin D supplement. I keep meaning to ask

my doc about NAC. I printed out that site and stuck it in my planner.

Hopefully I won't forget with it staring me in m face. I see the

pulmo on Monday.

Madeline

>

> Supplementation with Active Hexose

> Correlated Compound Increases the Innate

> Immune Response of Young Mice to

> Primary Influenza Infection

>

> Barry W. Ritz, Shoko Nogusa, A. Ackerman, and M.

> Gardner

>

> Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Drexel University,

> Philadelphia, PA 19104

>

> Young mice supplemented with AHCC daily before and during

> the course of influenza infection exhibited increased survival,

> enhanced NK activity in the lung and spleen, and rapid virus

> clearance from the lung, relative to young mice given a vehicle

> control.

>

> In summary,

>

> if our data can be extended to the human circumstance, we

> suggest that supplementation with AHCC, a natural bioactive

> dietary supplement, may provide a feasible approach to improving

> the immune response to viral infections, such as

> influenza.

>

>

> Alana

>

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