Immuno-nutrition: The main pillar of healthy longevity

Anti-aging medicine has shown that to achieve healthy longevity — a youthful, full, and happy life with a cellular or biological age of around 30 years — it is essential to have a modulated, competent, and energetic immune system.

The immune system is our body’s defense network, protecting us from all external agents that can cause disease, such as:

• Enemy foods that cause sensitivity, allergies, or intolerance
• Pathogenic microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites
• Environmental toxins such as Wi-Fi radiation, pesticides, and heavy metals
• Internal aggressors such as cancer cells and toxins produced within the body

Proper nutrition is the key, and this is where immuno-nutrition becomes a non-negotiable, indispensable factor for achieving that goal.

What Is Immuno-Nutrition?

Immuno-nutrition involves adopting dietary habits guided by an expert nutritionist with the goal of modulating the immune system through nutrition.
This is done by eliminating pro-inflammatory foods — the enemy foods — that are specific and unique to each person.

These harmful foods trigger a generalized inflammatory state, preventing the digestive system from fulfilling its key roles:

• Absorption of nutrients
• Immune barrier function
• Elimination of toxins

When this happens, the intestinal wall becomes permeable, allowing enemy foods and toxic biological and chemical agents to pass into the bloodstream and throughout the body.

Imagine a strainer whose holes have widened — that’s what happens with leaky gut.
This condition allows toxins to enter the blood, inevitably triggering an inflammatory immune reaction in all systems and tissues of the body.

The result? Premature aging and the development of chronic diseases such as:

• Hypertension (HTN)
• Autoimmune diseases like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, thyroiditis
• Cancer predisposition

On the other hand, following an immuno-nutrition program under expert supervision promotes a state of systemic anti-inflammation, leading to total health and well-being.

Key Terms:

Modulation: Bringing a system’s functioning to its optimal level and maintaining it there.

Aging (senescence): A biological process through which living beings grow old. It refers to a series of functional and structural changes that occur over time and are not the result of disease or injury. Aging is a gradual process of degradation of the human organism, with various theories regarding its cause.

Longevity: Long duration of life.

Anti-aging: Refers to methods or substances that help prevent, delay, or reduce the effects of aging.

Chronological age: The amount of time, measured in years, that has passed since one’s birth — the starting age from birth.

Biological (real) age: Cellular age, calculated based on very specific clinical and laboratory parameters.

Dr. Alberto Muhammad Wulff, MD
Internist – Anti-Aging Medicine‍