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Check your scores against the charts below.
If your scores are high, the Healthnuts recommend:
Nature's Way Urban Air Defense
along with other dietary changes and supplements below.
Please note: Our experts' answers are not intended to treat or diagnose any health condition or to serve as a substitute for the advice of a medical practitioner.
| 9 - 15+ |
High Priority |
| 3 - 8 |
Moderate Priority |
| 1 - 2 |
Low Priority
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If you scored anywhere between 3 (Moderate) and 15+ (High), you may consider the following information.
The organs of the respiratory system - nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs - perform 2 basic functions. They ensure that oxygen is supplied to and carbon dioxide is removed from the body's cells. This process is respiration or the exchange of gases - oxygen and carbon dioxide. Our bodies' cells are too far from the air for a direct exchange of gases. Our lungs provide a place where air and blood can come close enough to each other for oxygen to move out of the air into the blood while carbon dioxide moves out of the blood into the air.
Here are some of the things that may help your lungs.
- Pancreatic Enzymes taken between meals will make their way to the bloodstream and digest foreign protein and clear out infection. So take Bromelain 400mg 3 times per day on an empty stomach.
- Colon health is very important because when toxic matter, undigested food, is absorbed from the bowels into the bloodstream it burdens the lungs and kidneys, among other organs.
- Eat plenty of fiber in your daily diet and drink plenty of water to help rid your body of mucus.
- Coenzyme Q 10 - 60mg daily This is a very good antioxidant and provides more oxygenation to the cells.
- Vitamin C - 3,000 - 10,000 mg with bioflavonoids daily to enhance immune function. It's also anti-inflammatory.
- Vitamin A - 20,000 I.U. twice daily for one month and then 15,000 I.U. daily. It's good for the mucus membranes of the lungs.
- Avoid mucus-producing foods like dairy products, processed foods, sugar, sweet fruits, white flour. Avoid also gas-producing foods like beans, cabbage, and cauliflower because the gas presses against the rib cage and makes it harder to breathe.
- The herb, mullein, soothes the mucus membranes of the lungs.
- The herb, slippery elm, helps secretion of the excess mucus from the lungs.
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