Many of you may be wondering: How does Wellmune WGP stimulate the immune system? (If you haven’t read the article sharing the clinical proof that it works, you might want to do so first before reading HOW it works.)
First, science.
Over the last few thousand years of human evolution, your body’s immune system has gotten very good at killing off yeast and fungal infections. These yeasts and fungi attract antibodies that then attract blood proteins called complement. Imagine a round yeast cell with antibodies and complement attached all over its surface. Think of the plugin as flashing signals that say “It may not belong.”
Plugins don’t destroy, they just act as markers for things that may not belong and need to be removed. When complements label an invader as alien, neutrophils enter the picture. Neutrophils are the most abundant immune cells in your body and act as the first line of defense. Neutrophils have the ability to kill the invader. But, the plugin just marked it as “May not belong” so how does the neutrophil know whether to proceed with destruction?
The answer is a second indicator. If both indicators show that the substance is foreign, the neutrophil dispenses with it. What is that second indicator? It is a glycopolysaccharide (also known as beta glucan) found only on the surface of yeast and fungi. So this process works great against yeast and fungus, but not against bacteria or viruses, since they don’t have the second indicator.
The key is in this fact. For neutrophils to differentiate between normal cells and harmful foreign bodies, they must detect the presence of complement (signal 1) and a Beta Glucan (signal 2). When neutrophils encounter both, they move in and kill. The neutrophils in your body are always on the lookout for the presence of complement and beta glucans. However, many foreign pathogens do not have beta-glucans (signal 2) on the surface of their cells, so they are ignored by neutrophils.
How does Wellmune WGP fit into this picture as an immune system booster?
Wellmune WGP is classified as beta (1,3)(1,6) glucan, the substance needed to send signal 2. It is a natural product, isolated from a type of baker’s yeast. Wellmune’s job is to provide signal #2 when it’s missing.
It acts as a food for the immune system and an important source of nutrition for the immune system. After digestion, Wellmune WGP is absorbed through the small intestine, where it is broken down into pieces by another type of immune cell known as a macrophage and gradually released over several days.
Neutrophils in your body detect the presence of the released beta-glucans and bind to them, putting them on “partial alert”: signal 2 is given. By the time neutrophils go to the site of an infection, they already have the connection to the Beta Glucan ( signal 2), so the neutrophils must simply bind to the complement (signal 1) attached to the foreign intruder to begin killing it. Hence the nickname of Wellmune as an immune system booster.
Wellmune WGP essentially tricks your immune system into thinking that bacteria and viruses are yeast or fungus. It takes advantage of the powerful natural response to yeast and fungi to fight bacteria and viruses as well. In doing so, it uses the body’s built-in natural defenses to kill bacteria and viruses that neutrophils would not otherwise have destroyed.
Very smart idea. And it’s clearly working based on the results of animal and human clinical trials to date. Our biggest threats to public health are drug-resistant bacteria and new viral infections, not yeasts and fungi. Wellmune WGP gives us a way to have signal 2 “always on” so that our neutrophils can be sent against bacteria and viruses, not just yeast and fungi. Stopping an invader early is your best chance of defeating it. Therefore, having a boosted “always on” immune system with an army of available neutrophils goes a long way in quickly suppressing foreign invaders.