After completing this course, you’ll be able to:

1. Define immunity

2. Understand the importance of prevention

3. Understand the history of the study of immunology

4. Understand the definition of a well-functioning immune system

5. Understand the definition and difference between "self" and "non-self"

6. Understand the two types of immune response, humoral and cell-mediated

7. Understand the importance of the thyroid gland

8. Understand the specific memory/vaccination theory

9. Understand the importance of bone marrow

10. Understand the difference between T Cells, helper T Cells, and B cells, Natural Killer cells and how they interact in the immune responsesponse

11. Understand lymphokine activity, phagocytosis, monocyte function

12. Learn the names of the main immunoglobulins

13. Understand inflammation

14. Understand the first line of defense

15. Understand cancer, AIDS, and respiratory disorders

16. Understand the function of the immune system as a whole

17. Become aware of the two schools of disease fighting

18. Understand adrenal gland function

19. Understand the liver as the producer of major amounts of lymph (Kupffer Cells)

20. Understand retroviruses

21. Understand how food toxins mobilize the immune system

22. Understand the decline in society’s health

23. Understand changes in environmental chemistry

24. Understand effects of X-rays, radiation and toxic residue upon body biochemistry

25. Define heavy metal poisoning and its effects

26. Define premature aging and its symptomology

27. Understand nutritional effects

28. Understand food additives

29. Define and discuss calories, nutrition and metabolism

30. Understand protein deficiencies and their effects

31. Understand enzyme importance

32. Understand how cooking destroys nutrition

33. Understand how many food additives are consumed in our diets

34. Understand diseases linked to diets

35. Understand the clinical symptoms of toxicity

36. Understand typical diet deficiencies

37. Define diagnostic lab tests

38. Review the nervous system

39. Understand catecholamine (enzyme transmitter discussion)

40. Understand how vitamin C affects the nervous system

41. Understand the connection between vitamin B12, calcium and nerve transmission

42. Understand the effects of stress on the nervous system

43. Understand adrenal gland function

44. Understand connection of biochemical cortisol to brain and emotions

45. Understand self-actualization

46. Understand the health effects of different cultures

47. Understand the effects of bee pollen, soy and fermented foods

48. Discuss immunoglobulins and allergens

49. Understand that a weak immune system creates more allergic anti-bodies

50. Understand the connection between the immune complex and allergies

51. Define and discuss the difference between immediate and delayed response to foods and airborne allergic materials

52. Define and discuss food reactions – food poisoning versus hypersensitivity

53. Understand testing for food allergies

54. Define IgGs one through four

55. Understand the methodology of testing

56. Understand the difference between skin testing versus serum testing

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