Perhaps the Greatest Immune-Enhancing Supplement Known to Man

Dr. Richard McCraw received his Ph.D. in Orthomolecular Science with a minor in Gerontology. He has owned multiple health food stores in North and South Carolina. Dr.McCraw now resides in Spartanburg, S.Carolina and focuses on his general practice of thirteen years and his health food store.

We have entered the age of immune dysfunctions. Almost all illness is the result of a weakened immune system. We have entered the age of the super-resistant germ. Antibiotics can no longer stop the onslaught of new and mutating bacteria as you have seen reported in the news media.

We must look to our own immune system’s defenses to protect us. A properly modulated,
functional immune system can defeat anything that tries to come against the human body.
What can turn our “Woody Allen” immune system into an “Arnold Swartzaneggar” fighting machine? Introducing Beta-1, 3-D Glucan, a dietary supplement that is derived from the cell wall of yeast. This formula is the most powerful immune-enhancing substance known to man without any side effects. There have been hundreds of studies performed using Beta-1, 3-D Glucan with astounding results. Beta-1, 3-D Glucan activates the immune system in the event of infection or assault, be it from bacteria, virus, fungus, parasite or radioactive. Beta- 1, 3-D Glucan activates the macrophage which is the huge immune cell that roams our body looking
to engulf any and all invaders. An activated macrophage resembles an angry octopus extending tentacle-like arms, physically pulling in infectious invaders and ingesting and destroying them with caustic enzymes.

The ability of Beta-1, 3-D Glucan to activate the macrophages from the yeast so significantly is unique. The macrophage has receptor sites that have to be turned on in order to fully activate. There are at least seven known receptor sites that the Beta Glucan turns on. Most other nutritional supplements can only turn on one or two of the receptor sites limiting the ability of the macrophage to be fully functional. Being in the health care industry for many years, I’ve seen a lot of products come and go, but I’ve never seen one product help so many different ills of the human body as Beta-1, 3-D Glucan. People come in my health food store daily with outstanding reports. Here are just a few anecdotal cases:

A young male had to undergo chemo treatments previously with several side effects including terrible nausea. He started taking the Beta-Glucan and continued for one month. He was then X-rayed, and much to his delight, they could find nothing.

A young lady came in and told me in confidence that her boyfriend gave her herpes, and she had been bothered with painful sores for two years. After taking Beta-Glucan for two weeks, the sores disappeared and so did the pain.

A young female with Lupus had extreme pain and inflammation. After one month of
Beta-Glucan, she reported tremendous pain and inflammatory relief.

I’ve seen allergies alleviated, diabetes controlled, tumors reduced, fungal infections disappear, pneumonia and the common cold abated, and autoimmune diseases such as Lupus, M.S., and Crohns Disease improve drastically. When you consider how this product called Beta-1, 3-D Glucan enhances the immune system, the uses are almost unlimited. I believe this nutritional supplement to be the greatest discovery of this century!
Please understand that I have had many years of sickness and suffering as well as several close calls to death. I regained my health through orthomolecular science (nutritional science). Life was great and my health was superb until I once again became extremely ill. I knew all the symptoms meant my prostate was in bad shape. My PSA was reading sky high, and even after several treatments , it was down to a whopping 10.0. My doctor suspected cancer. I continued my nutritional supplements daily which included Beta-1, 3-D Glucan as a mainstay. My latest PSA reading was a very healthy .9 ( which is a very low reading), and cancer is no long suspected. Let me just say that I’ve had no colds, no flu, no sore throats - none of the things that used to plague me. Since being on Beta, this product has strengthened my immune system and changed my life for the better. Everyday in my health food store, we have people come in and tell us how Beta-1, 3-D Glucan is the most exciting discovery ever in nutrition.

What is the therapeutic dose?

Beta-1, 3-D Glucan used to sell for as much as $198.00 per 100 mg capsule. It’s cost for a
therapeutic dose was out of reach for the average person. Now, through competition and advanced production techniques, Beta-1, 3-D Glucan is affordable.

As a preventative supplement, most people see great results taking one or two 100 mg capsules a day. For serious health conditions, a much larger dose is necessary. A Japanese study showed excellent results using 25 mg per kilo of weight (weight in pounds divided by 2.2 times 25 mg). A 150 lb. person would need approximately 1700 mg daily as a therapeutic dose. Results are seen in as little as two weeks or as long as two months or more. Every person is unique and so is every immune system. Some people can see improvement taking 200 mg daily, while others may need 2000 mg daily.

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Vaccine Danger Cover Up Documented in National Magazines:
Suspected Connection Between Contaminated Polio Vaccines and Brain, Lung and Bone Cancers Revealed

A.J. Lanigan is an author, lecturer, formulator and manufacturer. He is an expert in the field of immunology. For over eight years, he has developed products related to immunology.

From blue chip Money and New York magazines, read by more than 10 million people, to The Star tabloid, picked up by nearly four million shoppers in supermarkets everywhere, many more unsuspecting Americans now know that polio vaccines grown on the kidney tissues of monkeys have been contaminated with monkey viruses, and federal government public health agencies have known all along but have covered it up. DPT vaccine dangers and flaws in the mass vaccination system were also highlighted in the comprehensive and hard-hitting Money magazine article which featured the work of the National Vaccine Information Center and parents whose children were injured or killed by the whole cell pertussis vaccine portion of the DPT shot and victims of the oral polio vaccine.

Monkey Viruses - When Did They Know? - The New York magazine article (Nov. 11 issue) hit the newsstands the first week in November with the title “ A Shot in the Dark” (reinforcing the 1985 book exposing DPT dangers with the same title). Detailing the development and marketing of the historic Salk Vaccine given in 1955 to about 10 million American children, New York described how scientists inside and outside of government and pharmaceutical companies have known for nearly four decades that many polio vaccine batches, especially between 1955 and 1963, have been riddled with Simian Virus 40 (SV40). Readers learned how scientists have also known that SV40 causes cancer in hamsters, and in New York’s most important and disturbing revelation, readers were informed that scientists have recently identified SV40 DNA and some of the whole virus in the tumors of adults who were vaccinated with the contaminated polio vaccine as children and are now dying from brain, lung and bone cancers.

The spectrum of infectious disease is changing rapidly in conjunction with dramatic changes in our society and environment. Worldwide, there is explosive population growth with expanding poverty and urban migration; international travel is increasing; and technology is rapidly changing all of which affect our risk of exposure to the infectious agents with which we share our environment. Despite historical predictions to the contrary, we remain vulnerable to a wide array of new and resurgent infectious diseases.

As our nation proceeds with health care reform, we must identify those public health priorities that need to be addressed at the community level as well as those that can be addressed by individual patient care providers. Preventing infectious diseases must be a high priority in a reformed health care system and requires close cooperation between clinicians and public
health professionals.

Our vulnerability to emerging infections was dramatically demonstrated in 1993. A once obscure intestinal parasite, Cryptosporidium, caused the largest waterborne disease outbreak ever recognized in this country; an emerging bacterial pathogen, Escherichia coli 0157: H7, caused a multi-state food-born outbreak of severe bloody diarrhea and kidney failure; and a previously unknown hantavirus, often producing a fatal lung infection, was linked to exposure to infected rodents.

In recent years, our antimicrobial drugs have become less effective against many infectious agents, and experts in infectious diseases are concerned about the possibility of a “ post-antibiotic era”. At the same time, our ability to detect, contain and prevent emerging infectious diseases is in jeopardy.

Since 1987, the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine had published three reports, each of which documents, from different perspectives, the urgent need to improve our ability to identify infectious disease threats and respond to them effectively. To meet this urgent need, we must improve the public health infrastructure at the local, state and federal levels and recognize that the health of the American people is inextricably linked to the health of people in other nations; infectious diseases can and do spread rapidly around the globe; and global surveillance for emerging infections is vital to public health.

“Ingenuity, knowledge, and organization alter but cannot cancel humanity’s vulnerability to invasion by parasitic forms of life. Infectious disease which antedated the emergence of humankind will last as long as humanity itself, and will surely remain, as it has been hitherto, one of the fundamental parameters and determinants of human history.” William H. McNiel in Plagues and Peoples, 1976 Once expected to be eliminated as a public health problem, infectious diseases remain the leading cause of death worldwide. Dramatic changes in society, technology and the environment together with the diminished effectiveness of certain approaches to disease control have propelled this nation and the rest of the world into a new era; the spectrum of infectious diseases is expanding and many infectious diseases once thought conquered are increasing.

Options to these potentially dangerous methods that are safe can be accessed today. The latest methods would include antigen specific Transfer Factors, Beta Glucan and mucilaginouspolysaccharides (MPS) from aloe. Before I would introduce potentially contaminated materials into my body or the body of a loved one, I would explore ALL options.

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Beta-1, 3-D Glucan . . . and it’s effects

A.J. Lanigan is an author, lecturer, formulator and manufacturer. He is an expert in the field
of immunology. For over eight years, he has developed products related to immunology.

Macrophages play an essential and pivotal role in the initiation and maintenance of the immune response. From an evolutionary point of view, the macrophage is the oldest and most consistently preserved immunologically competent cell known. Not only humans and higher animals, but primitive invertebrates such as Hydra which have no other immunological effector cells, have macrophages.

In order to function defensively, the macrophages must pass through a state of activation which involves certain orphological changes. Also, most importantly, a whole sequence of metabolic changes occurs which results in the production of a series of so-called cytokines.

They act as internal regulators of the immune system. Activation can be initiated by a variety of different stimuli such as endotoxin, bacteria, viruses or chemicals. However, these activators can be too toxic or pathogenic to be useful. Beta-1,3-D glucan on the other hand is orally effective, completely safe and non-toxic and may be one of the most potent stimulators of the immune response. There are several different types of beta glucan with different levels of activity, the majority of which are inert and used as simple food fillers. The most active type, however, is Beta-1,3-D glucan from the cell wall of yeast. A three dimensional model of this molecule shows it to be a helix, and research at Harvard University has shown that receptors for approximately seven sugar residues exist on the macrophage cell membrane. The fact that such a small number of glucose units can activate these receptors is very remarkable.

What is more remarkable still is that there are specific receptors for this sort of polysaccharide chain on the surface of the most ancient cell in the immune cascade. There is now evidence to show that beta glucan is, from an evolutionary point of view, the most widely and most commonly observed macrophage activator in nature.
The activated macrophage is a veritable powerhouse. A macrophage can recognize and kill tumor cells non-specifically, as well as remove foreign debris. It also can produce a number of essential cytokines that are able to stimulate the immune system in general and boost bone marrow production. Some individuals, because of age, chronic infection or poor nutrition have a compromised immune defense system. They are susceptible to all of the following problems: arthritis; reduced wound healing capacity; reduced bone marrow proliferation with resulting lowered white cell counts and anemia; increased incidence of cancers; and increased incidence of viral, fungal, and bacterial infection.

Beta-1,3-D glucan is a safe and very potent nutritional supplement with a systemic effect that can be described as non-specific immune stimulation combined with free-radical scavenging activity. As a Baker’s yeast extract it is Generally Regarded As Safe (GRAS category according to the FDA) and has no known toxicity or side effects.

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“Experts Urge Steps to Stem Antibiotic Resistance”
Washington Post - Health (8/26/97) P.7; Okie, Susan

Health experts are calling for changes in antibiotic use to slow the spread of drug-resistant infections such as tuberculosis. Resistance emerges when antibiotics alter the bacterial setting, eliminating sensitive strains and giving a survival advantage to germs that can endure the drug. Therefore, each time an antibiotic is used, the risk that a patient will become infected with, or become a carrier of, a resistant organism increases. A recent study conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that more than one-third of the 150 million antibiotic prescriptions written annually for Americans who are not hospitalized was unnecessary. However, research has shown that changing how the drugs are used could have a substantial impact in reducing resistance. For example, a focus on directly observed therapy in which patients take their medicine in the presence of heath care professionals helped to affect an 80 percent drop in new cases of multi-drug resistant TB in New York between 1992 and 1996. Paula I. Fujiwara, head of TB control in New York City’s health department, noted, “You have to have a program in place to monitor, to give the drugs correctly, in order to prevent them being wasted.”

“Fluconazole-Resistant C. Albicans May Be Transmitted Orally” Reuters Health Information Services (8/25/97)

New research published in the July 15 issue of AIDS suggests that Candida albicans may be transmitted between HIV-positive sexual partners, an event that would explain the increased rate of fluconazole-resistant strains of C. albicans. Dr. Francoise Dromer and colleagues at the Pasteur Institute investigated the oral flora of ten couples with HIV and found that the “genetic diversity of the clones with one DNA subtype was specific to a given patient or a given couple.” The team also noted that fluconazole-resistant strains were present in three individuals who had never received azole treatment. “The fact that the couples tended to share genetically indistinguishable clones [is] highly suggestive of transmission between partners,” the scientists stated.

The following are a series of one line quotes from the scientific literature. Cites may be obtained off Medline.

The emergence of multiple antibiotic-resistant microorganisms has led to a search for alternatives to traditional therapeutic regimens. Beta Glucan, an immunomoduator, can selectively enhance the microbicidal activities of neutrophils and macrophages without stimulating proinflammatory cytokine production. Glucan is a potent
reticuloendothelial-modulating agent whose immunobiological activity is mediated, in part, by an increase in the number and function of macrophages. Lysozyme concentrations were increased approximately sevenfold in some studies. Biologic response modifiers, like Beta Glucan, will modulate immunity, modify neoplastic (cancer) disease and increase resistance to microbial challenge. Glucan can enhance some elements of the immune system against staphylococcal infections.

Beta Glucan has been found to protect against infection with Babesia microti, an intra-erythrocytic protozoan parasite, nonspecific protection. Glucan has been shown to significantly inhibit renal necrosis associated with systemic staphylococcal diseases and showed enhanced survival.

Glucan has been shown to increase peripheral leukocyte counts. Beta Glucan induced increase in phagocytosis and induced hyperplasia of macrophages. Glucan significantly enhanced survival when challenged systemically with Staphylococcus aureus. These studies indicate that glucan confers an enhanced state of host defense against bacterial infections. With orally administered glucan, interleukin-2 was evaluated in treated animals and showed an increase. There was significant increase in polymorphonuclear leukocytes and peripheral monocyte number. A significant increase in number and in vitro candidacidal activity was also observed for alveolar (lung) macrophages. The resistance towards systemic infection with Candida albicans of Staphylococcus aureus increased, significantly reducing the growth of microorganisms in the kidneys of infected animals. Toxicological studies showed that glucan is highly tolerated. In the area of protective capacity in respiratory infection, Beta Glucan significantly increased rated of phagocytosis and killing of Staphylococcus aureus.

BetaGlucan greatly increased numbers of macrophages in the lungs of glucan-treated rats; the lungs of glucan-treated mice appeared normal and that glucan can enhance intrapulmonary bacterial killing. The ability of glucan was shown to increase the number of lung macrophages resulting in increased bacterial ingestion. Particulate glucan resulted in significant reductions in the growth of a syngeneic anaplastic mammary carcinoma and melanoma and showed enhanced survival. Studies demonstrate that prophylaxis with Beta Glucan in combination with antibiotics provided enhanced protection against lethal challenge with Esherichia coli or Staphylococcus aureus as compares with the use of antibiotics alone.

This is just a sampling of the data that exists in abundance out of peer reviewed volumes. Anyone who takes the time to examine this data would be prudent to explore Beta Glucan as a source to help your immune system be all that it could be without the misuse, overuse, or abuse of antibiotics.