I lay on that hospital gurney for two and a half hours in an empty hallway, apprehensively awaiting my turn. I got lost in my thoughts. I felt a profound sense of loneliness and hopelessness, all the decisions in my life that had brought me to that point laid out before me. I wanted to be anywhere else but that hallway.
Boosting Act 3, the adaptive immune system, is also supported by a healthy lifestyle, and it is here that the use of medical vaccinations come into play. Vaccinations essentially short-cut the path to the development of our memory cells – we want those memory cells developed as quickly and painlessly as possible to target specific pathogens as soon as they enter the body.
Normally, lung tissue is thin and lacy but when fibrosis occurs, it’s like any scars on our body, there is a thickening of the tissue and a reduction in flexibility. This means when breathe, inhaling and exhaling, it’s harder for the tissue to expand and contract leading to less oxygen in our blood stream. We require more energy to breathe and the additional energy demand, leads to shortness of breath.
Zestt Wellness co-founder, Darcy Schack, describes it as “like trying to breathe through a straw” and I have certainly seen him suffering quietly, and not so quietly, on many occasions.
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