To deal with Swine Flu it is best to make sure the immune system is working strongly.

The fundamental approach to strengthening the immune system must be to keep improving your lifestyle – bit by bit, and over time. For example:

1. Improve your diet, eg
   1. Eat more vegetables
   2. Eat more berries (and less high-sugar fruit)
   3. Cut down on starchy food – bread, rice, pasta, potatoes
   4. Eat lean protein and omega-3 rich protein – skinless chicken and turkey breast, oily fish – sardines, mackerel, trout
   5. Do all the well-known things: cut down on sugar, manufactured food, fatty and cured meats, fast food, breakfast cereals.
2. Improve your exercise regime
   1. Get ‘cardio’ exercise 3-4 times a week – a 30-minute swift walk does this very well – and without damaging the joints.
   2. Carry out muscle resistance exercises 2-3 times a week – the gym is the usual place, but you can do them at home with special ‘rubber bands’ or weights.
3. Don’t overwork, and so exhaust yourself – you’ll know if you are doing this.
4. There’s a good post on the SHS (Specialist Herbal Supplies) blog about herbs for the immune system. Basically there are three herbal options they recommend for the immune system:

   1. The 90-day Immune Programme with Capsules or with Drops
   2. Echinacea Capsules or Drops, or
   3. Power Garlic Capsules

AHZ Aticles:
Immune System Boost
Echinacea – great Immune System herb
Garlic benefits for Immune System
Pau d’Arco – South American boost for the Immune System

Swine ‘Flu Tips is a post from: Alternative HealthZine

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In some ways, stem cell research is much more advanced in China than in the West. This is because the regulation is much less.

Sean Hu, of Beike Biotechnology in China was interviewed recently and gave some fascinating insights into stem cell research in China. This interview is reported by the excellent fight aging blog.

Dr Hu decided to form a company using stem cells for treatment in 2005. To date he has treated over 5000 patients and has seen sometimes staggering results. These results have included treatment for conditions generally regarded in the West as incurable, such as:

• ataxia
• autism
• ALS
• brain trauma
• cerebral infarction
• cerebral haemorrhage
• cerebral palsy
• diabetics, and
• spinal cord injury

One case Dr Hu gives as one example is of a 16-year old who was nearly blind in both eyes. After treatment, she was able to pass her driving test.

There have been many successful stories of stem cell therapy (SCT). One example is the recovery of a nearly blind sixteen-year-old girl, Macie Morse, who recently got her learner’s permit and started driving. She came to one of our hospitals for treatment in July 2006, with 20/4,000 vision in one eye and only light perception in the other due to optic nerve hypoplasia. After treatment, Macie now has 20/80 vision in one eye and 20/400-plus in the other!

Regulation vs. Resources

What has slowed research down in China is the lack of resources given to advanced research and treatment eg by government. There is no doubt, however, that the results have been fantastic, and will increase as time goes on.

Dr Hu says;

Regenerative medicine is the future. Asia will be at its centre. More and more western scholars and doctors are coming to China to collaborate.  … (our company) will set the standard and criteria for R&D in developing adult stem cells and iPS. We will have one of the biggest iPS centers of the world.

Having treated over 5000 patients, Dr Hu and his team have tremendous experience – which is just lacking in the West. He says he considers adult stem cell-based therapy, having seen overwhelmingly safe results from it.  He says:

…the value to everyone in the company – helping so many patients improve their quality of life – has been priceless.

Practical Consideration of Treatment

Unfortunately the treatment in China is not cheap; and it may well have to be repeated – though the good news is that if it worked the first time, it will probably work the next time.

Patients have to pony up $15,000 for a first treatment – hard enough for us in the West to find, let alone in China. But the results can be fantastic, and costs will, presumably, fall in time.

The point is – resources must be put into this research for the benefit of all.

Incredible Results of Treatment – West Wake Up!

As the technology develops, and the Chinese government gets more involved there is no doubt that we will see huge developments in China using stem cell therapy.

One would hope that the Western world would see these amazing results and look to their Hippocratic Oath, and fulsomely embrace stem cells as a way forward to relieve suffering for millions. Sadly, this is not the way medicine works in the West, as we have seen time and again. Progress can be painfully slow.

Advanced Stem Cells Research in China is a post from: Alternative HealthZine

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