How Antivirals Support a Healthy Immune System

How Your Immune System Works

Your immune system is a resilient and complex network of organs, cells and proteins that defend the body against foreign substances, pathogens and viruses, while also protecting your body's own cells. Essentially, your immune system’s main defense is to keep a record of every microbe it has ever defeated in specific white blood ‘memory’ cells (B-lymphocytes and T-lymphocytes). If those harmful microbes enter the body again, your immune system activates (and initiates inflammation), generates new antibodies, then fights off invaders quickly before they are able to multiply and make you feel sick. 

However, your immune system can become overworked and ineffective if it’s continuously battling on multiple fronts; chronic viruses, rising threats, or new germs. Your system can then be further weakened from invasive microbes and germs, stress, excess food and alcohol consumption, exposure to crowds, or even allergies.

The key takeaway is that our immune system is constantly working to keep us alive- and its response speed and strength is the difference between feeling sick or being healthy!

Enter your immune system savior…ANTIVIRALS!

How Antivirals Boost Your Immune System

Antivirals are substances that help stop a virus infecting healthy cells or multiplying in the body. They work in a variety of ways and can adapt a response depending on the virus type. Antivirals can:

• Block receptors so viruses can’t bind to and enter healthy cells.
• Lower the viral load (amount of active virus) in the body, allowing your immune system to overpower the threat.
• Promote breakdown of the exterior membrane of infected cells so antibodies can better neutralize the virus.
• Interrupt the replication of viruses.
• Boost the immune system.

Antivirals can ease symptoms, shorten the length of a viral infection, and can lower the risk of getting or spreading certain viruses. Unfortunately, some viral infections are chronic and stay within the body, so although antivirals can’t get rid of the virus outright, antiviral treatments can make the virus latent (inactive) so that you have fewer (if any) symptoms. 

We specifically need antivirals to combat viruses, as antibiotics generally combat bacterial infections. Bacteria reproduce outside of cells, thereby making them easier targets for antibiotics. However, viruses penetrate and replicate within cells, so antibiotics are ineffective.

Read on to learn how to harness the power of all natural antivirals….

Using Daily Antivirals to Prevent Infection and Support the Immune System

The daily use of antivirals can reduce the active viral threats within your body, keep you from getting certain viral infections after exposure, and can help suppress chronic viruses within the body, especially to those who are immuno-compromised, susceptible, or at risk.

In fact, antivirals can even be taken immediately after potential viral exposure to lower the chances of getting infected. 

The general recommendation for daily use of a dietary supplement like monolaurin is to start with a single pill, 2-3 times per day for a week, then increase the dosage to two pills 2-3 times per day for another week. If needed, the dosage can be increased, but always consult your doctor before taking monolaurin.

Stay healthy and happy, Soltytans!