“Immunity is so unimaginably complex… that the idea of ‘boosting’ it, is a bizarre misunderstanding.

It’s not possible to boost something that has thousands of specific elements, many of which, if ‘boosted’ become toxic, and others, when ‘boosted’ become useless… with products or supplements that have little or no proven efficacy or scope of effect. People and companies like to make this claim — especially to sell products. It’s meaningless in science. It makes the opposite of sense.

When actual scientists who study the immune system hear the phrase ‘boosting immunity’ attached to some supplement, they hear ‘those folks are making up nonsense.

An example is antioxidants. While it’s true that free radicals present a danger to cells … white blood cells use oxidation trails to locate situations in the body — like infections — that require their immunological effect. So if antioxidants both ‘boost immunity’ and blind your macrophages… what exactly is getting boosted?”

— infraheard