Welcome to Cloverleaf Chiropractic Show. Today, I'm going to do a show on how the immune system works. What is going to make your immune system stronger and healthier?  Welcome to the Cloverleaf Chiropractic Show, a podcast advocating wellness, life and healing from within. With 38 years in practice, 50,000 patients and over 1 million chiropractic adjustments, here's your host, Dr. Daniel Abeckjerr. My name is Dr. Daniel Abeckjerr, doctor of Chiropractic. Stay tuned. And I'm doing this show to educate the public on health and wellness. And we're going to focus on this body, this amazing body and how it works.  So how do we make our immune system stronger? What is the immune system? In the dictionary, it says that the immune system is the defense system that protects you from invaders, pathogen, germs, viruses, bacteria, microbes. And of course, there's bad bacteria and there's good bacteria, there's bad viruses and good viruses. But the immune system recognizes an infection in the body and this sends an army of cells that fights the infection. And the main cell to fight the infection are the white blood cells. And basically, they're part of the army, and they fight to kill the pathogen or the microbe. And the way they do this is an amazing system. The body can make acid to kill the microbe or to dissolve the microbe. It can make poison to kill the microbe or the pathogen. It creates inflammation which helps. It can develop a system called a fever that can also kill a bacteria or virus. When you're young, when a person is young, their immune system is weak. As you get older, the immune system gets stronger. It's like building a muscle; if you want to build a muscle, you have to train your body to make that muscle bigger, it doesn't happen automatically. You have muscles to start with, but to make them strong, you have to work on them, and it takes years. Well, the immune system is the same way. You have to train it. And slowly and surely over the years, it'll get stronger and stronger. And the way it becomes stronger by exposing the body to the germs and the bacteria. We’re not designed to live in a germ free environment or a sterile environment like a lot of the kids are growing up today in the sterile environment and they're not being exposed to germs. And they have to be, otherwise they're not going to develop this immunity that the body creates. So when you have an immunity, you develop antibodies and the body is able to remember, it has a memory and then the next time you're exposed to this bacteria or this virus that can make you sick, you're not going to get sick. So the way the body does fight an infection most of the time is with a fever. And I think most people are not informed properly on what a fever is and how it works. Basically, a normal fever is 98 degrees to 100 degrees. And basically what it does, it's part of the immune system to fight infection. So the medical route or the medical approach is basically, well, fever is not good, we've got to get rid of it, we've got to eliminate the fever. And the first thing that most people give a child or an adult for fever is Tylenol or we want to reduce the hearing, we want to put the child in a cold bath, or a lot of times they're given antibiotics. What that does, it's not very specific. And antibiotic will go in your body, it will kill all the germs, the good ones and the bad ones and you end up with a secondary infection a lot of the times, so it defeats the purpose. So you're killing an infection and then you're creating a new one. So there's good germs and bad germs, and we're going to talk about that in a minute. But Tylenol will reduce the fever, but it also has side effects. It can damage the liver, especially in the young person. It can cause some major damage in the liver. When my son was young, he was about a week old, he had an infection due to a proced