Nutrients are affecting the immune system at physiological, cellular and genetic level.
Modern dietary habits are main causative factors for many non-transmissible chronic diseases (such as allergy, autoimmunity, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and cancer), and could facilitate the occurrence of infectious diseases. Just as particular nutrients make us sick, proper nutrition is one of the most effective and least costly ways to decrease the burden of numerous diseases and associated co-morbidities modulating the immune response.
