You’ll need more than vitamin C to boost your immune system

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You’ll need more than vitamin C to boost your Immune System

By Samantha Andersen

Nevada News Group

Boosting your immune system is a hot topic these days. After all, our immune system is our biggest defense against illnesses and diseases. Unfortunately, the immune system is quite a complex system in our bodies so there is no one way to boost it. It would be easy, wouldn’t it to just take one magic pill and not have to worry about it? It is a system though, not a single entity, therefore there is no single solution to boosting it.

Our immune system relies greatly on us taking care of ourselves. That includes a healthy diet, plenty of sleep, and exercise.

In fact, a healthy diet might be the most important thing in maintaining and improving your immune system. Over 70 percent of your immune system cells are connected to your digestive tract. This means on top of a healthy diet, a good immune boosting tool would be supplementing with vitamins, minerals, and probiotics. This doesn’t mean taking mega doses of one vitamin but being proactive about what may be missing in your diet.

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It is no secret that we need to sleep. Our bodies need the rest for more than to recharge for the next day. Unhealthy sleeping habits have been linked to serious health problems including heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and obesity. Lack of proper sleep habits may also be linked to suppressed immune function. A study found that people who sleep less than five hours a night regularly are more likely to catch colds compared to those who sleep more than five hours regularly.

Get up and get moving. This wouldn’t be a health and wellness magazine if we didn’t say it at least once. Exercise is a major benefit to not only your health and well-being, but also your immune system. Regular exercise is known to improve your cardiovascular health and lower blood pressure. This contributes to healthy circulation, which allows the cells and substances of the immune system to move through the body freely and do their job. So, get up and get moving. Even something as simple as a walk a day could aide in boosting your immune system.

Sources: www.health.hardvard.edu

Pcrm.org (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine)