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Why do you have to lie down after a meal?
Most fat in meals is absorbed through lymph ducts of small intestine. 2 to 3 hours after a meal is the time period that cisterna chyli enlarges most because a large amount of lymph containing fat flows in. That is why it is the most effective to lie down and perform abdominal breathing 2 hours after meals. The secrets of abdominal breathing to flow lymph stored in cisterna chyli are: 1. Performing abdominal breathing, putting your hands on your abdomen and confirming your abdomen moves up and down with breathing. 2. Breathing in slowly through your nose feeling your abdomen expands 3. Breathing out slowly from your mouth feeling your abdomen contracts 4. 2 to 3 times a minute, breathing slowly, taking about 20 seconds Another easy and effective method to boost up your immune strength The key word is strengthening immune cells. Immune cells are very sensitive. If the core body temperature goes up by 1 degree C, they feel stress and get activated. The temperature of the skin goes up and down according to the outside air temperature, but the core body temperature is maintained at a constant temperature regardless of the outside air temperature. If you raise the core body temperature by 1 degree C (1.8 degree F) by taking a bath, the heat becomes stress for the immune cells, resulting in strengthening the immune cells. How to take a bath to raise the core body temperature by 1 degree C is Soaking your body up to your shoulders into water of 41 degree C (105.8 degree F) for 15 minutes. The indication that the core body temperature raises by 1 degree C is to start sweating on your forehead. The above 2 males tried both abdominal breathing and bathing for another day. Their NK activities were: 71 years old male: 30 to 43 54 years old male: 17 to 17 Why does lying down boost up the immune strength?
NK cells in lymph nodes are ordered by a kind of protein flowing in lymph and go to patrol all over the body. It is considered that NK cells are stimulated by the flow of this protein and go to patrol. But if the flow of lymph is not good, the amount of the protein flown in lymph nodes decreases and NK cells tend not to go to patrol, leading to the lowering of the immune strength. So if you can make the flow of lymph better, NK activity goes up and the easiest method to make the flow of lymph better is lying down. Lymph tends to stagnate because lymph doesn’t have a pump like heart for blood, so if you stand or sit for a long time, lymph tends to accumulate in lower body by the influence of the gravity. Lying down makes the flow of lymph better and the lymph stagnated in the lower body goes back to the upper body, a large amount of the protein flows into lymph nodes, NK cells taking a rest are stimulated and start going to patrol. While you are lying down, performing abdominal breathing is more effective. There is cisterna chyli in the abdomen (Fig. 3), where lymph coming from the legs and the intestines is stored, like a tank. Cisterna chyli enlarges when lymph flows in. If you perform abdominal breathing to raise up the abdominal pressure, the stored lymph flows out in one go. At that time, it is important that the lymph from the intestines flows well because the intestines are connected to the outside and invaded by foreign substances so there are a lot of the best immune cells. If you can flow the lymph stored in cisterna chyli, you can send the best immune cells all over the body through lymph. Why do you have to lie down after a meal? What should we do to boost up the immune strength once lowered?
Waking up the sleeping immune cells. The method is to do some easy task for 20 minutes after a meal. Here is verification of how effective doing the task is. 3 persons who recently felt the lowering of the immune strength gathered. 56 years old female who often catch a cold and get canker sores easily 71 years old male who gets tired easily 54 years old male who often catches a cold They had NK activity test which evaluates the condition of NK cells. The guide line is 25 and if it is more than 25, the immune strength is normal, but if it is lower than 25, it is considered as the lowering of the immune strength. The results of their NK activity test were: 56 years old female: 23 71 years old male: 20 54 years old male: 6 So their NK activities are all less than the guide line. The method to boost up the immune strength is doing something 2 hours after lunch for 20 minutes every day. The 3 people tried the method for 4 days and checked how NK activity changed. 56 years old female: 23 to 43 71 years old male: 20 to 30 54 years old male: 6 to 17 All three people’s NK activities went up. So what is “something done after lunch”? That is lying down. Why does lying down boost up the immune strength?
10 thousand cancer cells died 3 hours after NK cells are put in. (Fig. 1) When they were left as they were, they increased by double in 2 days. (Fig. 2) Therefore, the strength of NK cells is equal to the strength of the immune system and that is the essential requisite to make the body not to get any diseases.
But the immune system possibly weakens gradually. One of the reason is aging. The activeness of NK cells is peak at the age of 20 and it becomes a half at the age of 70. So it is pretty natural that we tend to have cancer with age. There is an unusual reason that immune cells become weak. Immune cells which are supposed to protect our body take a rest without doing their jobs! Immune cells wait in lymph nodes located at important parts of the body and patrol all the body through blood vessels regularly. Once immune cells find a foreign substance, they attack and kill the foreign substance. (Fig. 3) If the activity of the immune cells is decreased by some cause, the immune cells keep resting in the lymph nodes and don’t go to patrol. That is considered as one of the biggest causes of the lowering of the immune strength. What should we do to boost up the immune strength once lowered? - Breakfast -Do you eat just fruits or smoothie in the morning?
On a winter morning, it is not recommended. Why? Because fruits or smoothie makes your body cold, causing various poor health such as sensitivity to cold, a common cold, sluggish feeling or constipation. As potassium contained in fruits and smoothie has an effect of encouraging urination, the heat in the body goes out and the body temperature goes down. The best breakfast to strengthen your immune system is Rice with a raw egg (Fig. 1) Raw eggs contain glutamine which is an amino acid and becomes nutrition for immune cells to fight against pathogenic bacteria. Glutamine is contained in raw eggs, raw fishes and raw meats. Glutamine’s function becomes weak if it is heated up so rice with a raw egg is recommended to strengthen the immune system and prevent a cold and flu. The best breakfast to warm your body is Miso soup with salmon (Fig. 2) When you eat something, heat is produced to convert foods into energy. Protein produces heat efficiently. Vitamin B1 dissolves sugar taken from the rice eaten together, makes the sugar easily absorbed and encourages the production of heat. So the combination of salmon and miso which are rich in protein and vitamin B1 is ideal to raise the body temperature. Since pork contains protein and vitamin B1, miso soup with pork (Tonjiru) is also recommended. When the body temperature raises by 1 degree C (1.8 degree F), the metabolism increases by 13%. If the abdomen is warmed up, the intestines move actively, leading to dissolving constipation. Adding olive oil to miso soup is more effective to warm your body. Olive oil makes oil film which increases the warming effect in the stomach. 1 to 2 table spoons of olive oil is good to add. |
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