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Popping pills is no quick fix for boosting your body’s immune system

Quoted: “The immune system is made up of scouts — or white blood cells — that look for invaders or anyone who might harm the host,” said family physician David Rakel, director of integrative medicine at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “If the scouts find something, they blow the whistle and recruit a number of other cells … to immobilize and destroy the invading organism.”