Sterols and sterolines seem to activate and sensitise the immune system. They do not only stimulate the immune system. If this was the case, they could cause autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and psoriasis and worse. This is because these diseases result from an over active immune system, which wrongly attacks the body tissue.

Sterols and sterolines help the body correctly identify self from non-self i.e. they sensitise or balance the immune system.

An over-active, non-sensitive immune system causes a variety of autoimmune conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, SLE (lupus), psoriases, allergies and asthma. These diseases cause the immune system to incorrectly attack the body’s ‘healthy’ cells.

An under-active, non-sensitive immune system can support illnesses such as colds, flu, Aids and cancer. These illnesses cause the immune system NOT to destroy the deviant or invading cells that it should be destroying. This is the opposite type of problem to that experienced in the ‘autoimmune’ diseases.

Sterols and sterolines prevent this from happening by sensitising the immune system so that 1) it correctly identifies the body’s own tissue and does not attack it, while 2) it correctly identifies and targets the foreign cells that need to be destroyed.

T-cells, which are part of the immune system, are responsible for recognising infected cells. Once the T-cells have identified the infected cells, they release chemicals called lymphokines, which attract cytotoxic cells. Once these cytotoxic cells arrive on the scene, they destroy the infected cells.

Sterols and sterolines increase the number of identifier T-cells, lymphokines and cytotoxic cells. Thus sterols and sterolines mainly boost the part of the immune system that is responsible for cell identification.

Conclusion: Sterols and sterolines do nt only boost the immune system by making it more active, but rather ‘sensitise’ the immune system, thereby helping the body to identify correctly which cells should be destroyed and which not. This is what makes sterols and sterolines different than Echinacea, which should only be used for colds and flu.