Die Bedeutung von Mineralstoffen und Spurenelementen in der Immunologie

Journal/Book: Erfahrungsheilkunde. 1989; 38/9: 530-535.

Abstract: The immune system is not actually an organ, but it consists in the interaction of specialized cells, glycoproteins, enzymes, and hormones, whose activities are distributed all over the organism. Its main function, i.e. the defence against unwanted, harmful substances and microorganisms, requires above all the activity of enzymes. These enzymes are necessary for the formation of phagocytes and lymphocytes, as well as for the destruction of foreign bodies. Nearly all enzymes which are involved here depend an the presence of a sufficient amount of numerous trace elements. Therefore, every severe deficiency in trace elements, just as well as a surplus in the toxic range, leads to a weakening of the immune System. The acceleration of the ageing process is inevitably connected with such deviations.The interactions of the individual trace elements and of the immune system are rather non-specific, and several details of the effects of many trace elements are still unknown. But their effects are without doubt enormous. That branch of the trace element research which deals with the influence of the trace elements an the immune system could therefore prove to be one of the domains of medical research with the most promising future.

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