(PRWEB) February 5, 2005 -- When the immune system is working properly, we remain healthy. However, the immune system can and does become compromised. This may be a result of incessant environmental assaults such as from exposure to pesticides and pollutants commonly found in the air, food and water. Our bodies may become overwhelmed resulting in the regulatory features of the immune system being weakened thereby becoming less effective. This ultimately can result in leaving the body susceptible to viruses such as: Influenza, Norwalk virus, Bird Flu, Epstein-Barr, Hepatitis, Herpes, and AIDS.

Viruses are so minute they can maintain their ability to infect even after passing through filters small enough to strain out all bacteria. Viruses are intracellular molecular parasites. They enter the body silently, and as in the cases of HIV and Hepatitis C, they often do so without notice, using our cells to manufacture substances needed for their own replication and life cycle. They have no metabolic life of their own outside a host cell, which makes them dependent on living cells for their existence.There are 4000 known types of viruses, but less than 3 percent are well characterized, with new viruses being discovered regularly. The Bird flu virus is being studied as a species crossover threat.

Hope for control of these viruses comes from the great deposits of animal and plant material (humates) sealed away from wind and rain for millions of years. These humates have decomposed and then been compressed together by the millions of tons of earth locking in their seventy-two natural nutrients. Humate is a safe material existing in all soils. It has been around since the beginning of time. Scientists have most appropriately referred to humic acid (from humate) as the latest antiviral answer.

Dr. Howard Peiper explains in the book, "Live Disease Free," that one of the many reasons for the excitement involves the effect that humic acid has in its dramatic ability to penetrate even deadly ultramicroscopic viruses. Viruses encapsulate themselves within an impenetrable protein barrier where defense mechanisms cannot reach them. One pharmaceutical-grade product, Zap-V has viral infusion inhibitors. This process puts a coating around the viruses preventing the virus from adhering to a healthy cell. It also prevents the virus from reproducing. The viruses then become vulnerable to attack by the immune system, which is also, strengthened by the humic acid.

Benefits from a consistent long-term plan of dietary supplementation of humic acid are: increased resistance to colds and flu, infection and disease; supercharging your immune system; assists in purging parasites, pathogens and viruses from the body; restoring your body to its optimum potential over time; creating an immediate feeling of wellbeing. As more clinical studies confirm humic acids incredible success, the threat of new uncontained viral strains will be diminished.