The Immune System: Our First and Best Defence

23/1/2026

If we live only within our small daily routines, it is easy to become unaware of the potential dangers around us — dangers that may be distant, approaching, or even imminent.

We can choose to live day by day without much thought, or we can live fully present while still being prepared — prepared for moments like SARS or COVID-19, when a deadly airborne pathogen suddenly takes the world by surprise.

When that happens, what do we rely on?

My own journey of asking this question began many years ago, during the SARS period, when my children were still very young. That was when I started seriously studying how we can protect ourselves from harm. It was also when I began to see more clearly how wonderfully we are created by God — that He has placed within each of us an extraordinary immune defence system designed to protect, preserve, and heal us.

This understanding has guided more than 20 years of learning, research, and building what eventually became the Elixir Botanica protocol and VigourCells.

When COVID-19 arrived, I was not so much afraid of the virus as I was concerned about compromising my natural immunity. I believed then — and still believe now — that the strength of our body’s own defence system matters deeply in how we respond to disease.

This conviction was renewed when I recently read a Newsweek article reporting that scientists are warning antimicrobial resistance (AMR) could become a greater global killer than cancer in the coming decades. Drug-resistant infections, often called a “silent pandemic,” may one day claim more lives than cancer itself.

And when you think about it, this is not surprising. Cancer usually affects individuals, but infectious pathogens — especially those that are airborne or waterborne — can spread rapidly through entire populations.

Which brings us back to a sobering truth:

our first and most constant line of defence is not medicine, not hospitals, and not emergency interventions — it is the innate immune system God has already given us.

This system is working every moment of every day. It includes our physical barriers, our white blood cells, our inflammatory signals, and our cellular repair mechanisms. It does not wait for test results or prescriptions. It responds immediately.

But today, many of the medicines we depend on — especially antibiotics — are becoming less effective as pathogens evolve. This means we cannot afford to depend only on treatments after we fall ill. We must care for our health before illness arrives.

That is why I am deeply committed to supporting my body every day, not only when something goes wrong.

Every morning, I take my Elixir Botanica protocol, and I never miss my VigourCells — not out of fear, but out of intention. VigourCells is not meant to treat a disease. It is designed to support the cellular terrain: antioxidant networks, mitochondrial health, and the body’s natural resilience.

I often think of the immune system like a garden. When the soil is healthy and the fence is strong, pests and weeds have a much harder time taking over. My daily protocol is simply tending to that garden — feeding the soil, strengthening the defences, and allowing the body to do what it was designed to do.

The global warning about antimicrobial resistance reminds us of something very simple but very powerful:

prevention and resilience matter more than ever.

And resilience begins with what God has already placed within us.

I am profoundly grateful to God for answering my prayers and giving me the wisdom to value, protect, and support this gift of health — and to develop VigourCells as part of that journey. It is something I take faithfully, and something I truly encourage others to care about as well.

Not because we live in fear of disease, but because we honour life.

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Postscript — A Thought from a Movie

One of my favourite movies is War of the Worlds, starring Tom Cruise. In the story, the world is not saved by weapons, but by ordinary microbes that humans have long adapted to — microbes that the alien invaders could not survive.

It’s a powerful reminder that microbes are not always our enemies. When our innate immune system is strong and balanced, it knows how to live with them — and sometimes, they even become part of our protection.

That is the quiet power of the body God designed.

Have you taken your VigourCells and EB today? I have.