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Top 5 Ways To Boost Immunity With Keto Zone
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conditions, the immune system suffers. When they proliferate, the immune system improves. To boost immunity with Keto Zone, eat fermented foods that can improve your gut bacteria. These include: • Plain yogurt • Kimchi • Sauerkraut • Kefir • Kombucha • Tempeh • Fermented vegetable powders, like Fermented Green Supreme food • Living foods, like Living Chia with Probiotics • Probiotic supplements Do fermented foods really help the bacteria in the gut? Studies show that people who eat yogurt regularly have more lactobacilli (healthy bacteria) and less Enterobacteriaceae (inflammatory bacteria) in their intestines. What’s more, probiotic supplements contain live, viable probiotic bacteria in pill or powder form. These supplements are especially beneficial Looking for ways to avoid getting sick in the upcoming months? You can boost immunity with Keto Zone! to humans who have digestion issues, such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome, frequent loose stools, constipation, and more. Typically, probiotics supplements don’t provide a permanent cure to digestion issues, nor do they colonize in the gut permanently. However, both anecdotal reports and studies show they help acute digestion symptoms. They can also produce beneficial effects on the bacteria in the gut.
2. REDUCE INFLAMMATION WITH OMEGA-3S, SPICES, AND LOW-CARB KETO ZONE EATING
Did you know that inflammation is an abnormal immune response that affects the health of the digestive tract (which affects immune function) and whole-body health. Our bodies react with inflammatory responses or anti-inflammatory responses based largely on our health and our diet. You can use Keto Zone to reduce inflammatory responses and improve the immune system. How? First, reduce inflammation by removing highsugar and high-carbohydrate foods. Second, increasing your intake of omega-3 foods such as fatty fish, hemp heart seeds, flaxseeds, chia seeds, and others can reduce inflammation Third, including highly anti-inflammatory spices like turmeric, ginger, cinnamon reducing inflammatory responses. Fourth, use Keto Zone guidelines to reduce processed foods. Processed foods are often laden with high-omega-6 oils, like soybean oil. These ingredients and oils fight omega-3s and increase inflammation. As you follow these guidelines, you can reduce inflammation, improve immune function, and even reduce the risk of seasonal depression.
3. EAT LESS SUGAR AND CARBS FOR BETTER SLEEP
There are many advantages to reducing sugars and carbohydrates in the diet. Two are better sleep and better metabolic responses. When dinners are high in sugary and refined carbs, our bodies have to deal with blood glucose and insulin spikes at a time of day they are not meant to deal with it. At night, our bodies don’t want to digest and metabolize foods. In fact, late eating, and high
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Top 5 Ways To Boost Immunity With Keto Zone 1. BOOST IMMUNITY WITH KETO HEALTHY GUT BACTERIA
Healthy gut bacteria have a direct impact on the whole body’s immune function. When they are diminished from illness, antibiotics, or other
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carb0hydrate eating during the evening and night are associated with altered metabolism, increased incidence of diabetes, and weight gain.
When you don’t eat as much as night, especially carbohydrates and sugars, you can allow your digestive tract to “rest,” and sleep better.
The science is clear: Adequate, high-quality sleep is crucial for immune function, fighting chronic disease, and brain health.
4. FOCUS ON KETO-FRIENDLY VITAMIN D
Vitamin D plays an important role in immune function. During months when most people don’t receive enough direct sunlight (autumn and winter), it’s time to make sure our diets and supplements are high in vitamin D.
In fact, a 2017 analysis of 11,321 participants in the British Medical Journal found that those with vitamin D levels of <10 ng/mL had a higher risk of respiratory infections compared to those at 10 ng/mL or greater.
To improve vitamin D levels, make sure you’re: • Getting outside for direct sunlight exposure to start. Try exposing skin for just 10-15 minutes per day. • Eating wild fish such as herring, wild salmon (try this Keto Zone chowder recipe), and tuna. Cage-free eggs and cheese also supply small amounts. • If overweight, using Keto Zone guidelines to lose weight.
Supplementing vitamin D3 as needed. Just 1000-2000 IU per day in the winter can raise insufficient levels, and up to 4000 IU per day can be used to correct a deficiency. Retest to monitor.
5. USE SUPREMEFOODS TO
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Fermented vegetables, grasses, and fruits are full of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that boost immune function.
When eating low carb, it can be difficult to find ways to include enough. A great way to consume them, and stay in the Keto Zone, is with Divine Health Fermented Green Supreme food and Organic Red Supreme food.
Supreme foods powders contain amazing ingredients such as: • Spirulina: Spirulina has been found to improve immune functions and anemia status. • Beets: Beets contain betanins that contribute to three main disease-fighting actions: fighting free radicals, reducing inflammation, and supporting cellular detoxification. • Fermented Wheatgrass: Proteins found in wheatgrass are known to prevent many diseases, oxidative stress, primary metabolism, storage, and energy-related mechanisms.
More Ways to Stay Healthy: • Hydrate Every Day. Your body needs water to function its best. Dehydration will affect your energy, immune and lymph systems, and overall health. Drink water, unsweetened teas, and other fluids throughout the day especially during dry winter months. • Get outside. When you spend time outside, bundled if needed, you can get a boost in vitamin D, and get away from all the germs that circulate indoors. In fact, just exposing your hands and face to sunlight allows your body to synthesize vitamin D. Make it a priority this winter. • Wash your hands and avoid touching your face. You get sick for one reason (and one reason only): germs. Bacteria and viruses make you ill by finding a way into your body through physical contact. Once this happens, it’s important having a strong immune system as discussed above. Since most of your contact with the world happens through your hands, washing them often is one key to not getting sick.
BOTTOM LINE
You can boost immunity with Keto Zone. Keto Zone encourages whole-food, anti-inflammatory, high-antioxidant, low-carb eating. Its recommendations are meant to boost whole-body health, and it can help keep you healthy year-round.> © All rights reserved 2021
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Winter Aches & Pains? Try These 8 Effective Natural Pain Relievers Today
If you have achy joints, bones, or muscles, winter can mean more pain. It can be easy to become dependent on daily pain-killers to find comfort. But, there are effective natural pain relievers available. And most are extremely affordable.
The best part…
Not only do these natural pain relievers reduce pain, but they also promote whole-body health. Instead of just numbing the pain, they can promote strong joints, ligament, tendons, bones, and bodies.
Here are our 8 effective natural pain relievers for winter aches and pains.
8 EFFECTIVE NATURAL PAIN RELIEVERS 1. GINGER
What’s ginger got that other spices don’t? Gingerols and shogaols, these active medicinal components are potent phytochemicals with pain-reducing qualities. In fact, ginger has been used as one of many natural pain relievers in eastern medicine for centuries. It’s known to aid many ailments from joint pain to nausea and motion sickness to bacterial infections.
Study after study has validated it as a natural pain reliever.
One such study from 2014 found that ginger effectively relieved pain from osteoarthritis within 24 weeks. Another concluded that topical ginger ointments and creams reduced pain in joints. What’s more, studies confirm that gingerols are strong antiinflammatory and analgesic agents.
For a wonderful ginger dip, try our Keto Zone Spicy Ginger Dip.
Or, add a 1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger to Turmeric Tea Recipe listed below.
2. TURMERIC
Curcumins are turmeric’s secret weapon. And while it’s difficult for researchers to fully understand how curcumins work to decrease joint pain, their works conclude that it is effective. F o r example, a recent meta-analysis found that the curcumins in turmeric extract are effective in treating arthritis. Additionally, animal studies show that curcumins actually protect cartilage. Another study of 50 arthritis sufferers showed a 58% reduction in stiffness and pain with curcumin treatment in 90 days. What’s more, curcumin effectively reduced inflammation in the participants: C-reactive protein, a marker for inflammation, decrease by 16-fold!
Want a great winter recipe to increase your turmeric intake? Try Keto Zone Turmeric Tea.
If you suffer from pain, also add Dr. Colbert’s High Potency Turmeric Supplements each day.
3. BLACK PEPPER
Black pepper also contains a secret weapon: Piperine. And piperine is a strong anti-arthritis nutrient.
Many studies have supported it as a compound that reduces pain, increases healing and decreases pathology in arthritic animals and humans.
As a bonus, piperine increases the absorption of curcumins by up to 10 times. It stimulates “transporters” in our intestines to increase absorption, so take them together by simply adding freshly ground pepper to anything that contains turmeric (Dr. Colbert’s High Potency Turmeric Supplements contain both).
4. LEMONGRASS ESSENTIAL OIL
While essential oils are a confusing area of natural pain relievers for many, lemongrass essential oil is effective, safe, and easy to use when applied correctly.
As a simple explanation, plants manufacture chemical compounds (essential oils) to protect themselves, heal themselves, and even repel disease and animals that may hurt them. Some of the chemical compounds are at a molecular size that can be absorbed through human skin and/or respiration.
Lemongrass essential oil (Cymbopogon citratus) is one such compound. Many animal studies have shown it to reduce pain, inflammation, arthritic symptoms, and depressed serotonin in animals.
However, care must be taken when using it.
First, make sure to use it in a diluted form. To do so, simply mix 10 drops “100% pure lemongrass essential oil” with no less than 1 tablespoon carrier oil. A carrier oil is simply an oil used to dilute essential oils. Examples include fractionated coconut oil, castor oil, argan oil, and/or olive oil.
Second, try using the diluted lem-
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ongrass oil in just a small amount on a small area of the body. Wait at least 3 days to make sure you don’t have a reaction. Then, apply it up to twice per day on painful areas. If applying by hand (rather than will a rollerbottle) make sure to wash hands and not get the oil in your eyes.
Third, realize that essential oils aren’t regulated by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), so it’s important to only use brands you trust and oils that are 100% pure. You can look for oils manufactured by a brand that’s a member of the National Association of Holistic Aromatherapy. While essential oils have the potential to be amazing health aides, they are potent and should be used with care.
5. COMPRESSION
While many mistakenly believe that compression apparel only provides external support to joints (like a brace), they actually do much more internally than externally. In fact, most compression sleeves are slender and minimal, allowing the joint to flex and extend freely without structurally supporting it. So how do they help pain?
Compression apparel are natural pain relievers since they:
• Modulates spinal cord excitability for many pathways and muscle groups • Significantly improve accuracy in movements • Increase the sensitivity around the joint in which the sleeve is applied
This means that the compression sleeve can help the mind-nervebody pathways filter out irrelevant information and increase sensitivity to task-related sensory information and enhance movement.
When movements are performed precisely and biomechanics improve with compression, pain and soreness decreases.
6. COLLAGEN
We’ve discussed collagen’s benefits at length for joints, ligaments and tendons, skin, digestion, and overall health.
When it comes to pain, the best type of collagen is “type II collagen” derived from chickens. It specifically contains hyaluronic acid, glucosamine sulfate, and chondroitin sulfate to support healthy cartilage and joints.
In fact, one 2008 study found that athletes who took hydrolyzed collagen had less joint pain at rest and when active. Another found that type II specifically reduced knee pain in those with osteoarthritis. Yet another 6-month study showed that it can improve lower back joint pain.
The best option for collagen is none other than Keto Zone Hydrolyzed Chicken Collagen and Marine Powder. It includes all 3 types of important collagens, so you get every type you need in one powder. What’s more, the addition of probiotics makes it even better digested and absorbed, and a whole-body pain reliever.
7. WEIGHT LOSS
If you are currently overweight, one of the best things you can do for joint and bone pain is to lose weight. If you don’t know where to start, you’re in luck, because we have the resources you need.
Not only will you lose diseasepromoting abdominal weight, but you’ll also lose it safely and efficiently while improving wholebody health and reducing joint pain. 8. OPTIMISM AND PRAYER
Believe it or not, optimism can reduce pain. And, yes, it’s all in your head.
Our brains are incredibly powerful. And our thoughts can translate into real pain or pain relief.
In fact, there’s a growing body of evidence that optimism plays a protective role in acute and chronic pain. In fact, a recent medical review found that optimism is associated with less acute and chronic pain.
And what’s more, those who consistently practice prayer are often more optimistic and hopeful about the future. When you take your burden to God, you release them and can reduce stress and negative thoughts.
This all translates to more pain relief (physically and mentally).
BOTTOM LINE
Looking for natural pain relievers? Of course, there are many options. We’ve provided 8 that are effective, can be initiated easily at home, and are affordable. Massage, cold-therapy, and others are effective as well.
But to start, find relief using natural foods, plant compounds, compression, prayer and optimism, and weight loss today! © All rights reserved 2021
Dr. Don Colbert, MD PA www.drcolbert.com >
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