This year it is of utmost importance that we pay attention to strengthening our immune system naturally.
Using certain herbs, foods, supplements and homeopathic remedies can help you avoid catching a cold or flu and build your immune system. If you do catch a virus, they can help relieve the symptoms and shorten the duration and severity of the illness.
What most people don’t realize is how much your daily diet has an impact on the strength of your immune system.
If you or your child are eating sweets daily, processed foods, junk food, drinking soft drinks or other sweetened beverages regularly, you are weakening your immunity and will be more likely to catch virus’s.
One teaspoon of sugar (soft drink has about 9-11 tspns per glass) can weaken your immune system for 4 hours. I believe that this is why so many people are now having an extreme difficulty fighting illnesses. (Besides repeated antibiotic use – but that is for another day)!
Try eating more vegetables, at least 5-6 servings a day!
Along with eggs for breakfast, how about a few pieces of steamed asparagus, some spinach, squash or a few tomato slices. Have a salad with lunch, and at least 2-3 vegetables with dinner. Fresh fruit can also bolster vitamin C and help build resistance.
Eat berries daily!
Especially frozen – freezing berries breaks the cell wall and releases more colour pigments containing the beneficial bioflavanoids.
Whole Grains are the way to go!
Avoid all white flour (eat only WHOLE grains), baked goods, sugary cereals, cookies, cakes, and lollies. You’ll feel so much stronger than you realize!
Do Vitamins support or hinder your health?
Good Natural Vitamins are a MUST!
It is very important to take a good quality, plant-based (not synthetic) multi-vitamin/ mineral supplement daily which supplies you with vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, amino acids, essential fatty acids, bioflavanoids, green foods, enzymes and more.
Taking Vitamin C every day will help you fight infections – preferably gained through foods high in Vit C like leafy greens (spinach, kale, etc), cruciferious veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts) or fruits (oranges, mandarins, grapefruits).
Often you will need an additional boost to help your body produce what it needs to function well. The best way to not waste money on supplements is to find out exactly what you need and how to source high quality supplements.
If this is what you want and need, then let me know and we can chat about testing your DNA, to find out the unique nutrition, supplements and exercise that are right for you!
What other foods help me support my Immune System naturally?
Eating garlic regularly or taking odorless garlic capsules helps fight viral, bacterial, and yeast infections.
Bee propolis is known as Russian penicillin and is often found in natural vitamin
supplements. It is collected by bees to protect the hives from infection.
Super Antioxidants
I HIGHLY recommend using Super Antioxidants in your health rotation. Not only because they help reduce the signs of aging, along with aches and pains, but they can greatly increase your immune system, being 20 – 50 times more potent than Vitamin C and E.
Olive Leaf extract is proven more powerful than penicillin in fighting upper respiratory infections, sinus, strep and throat infections.
My favourite is a high-quality, full-strength Oil of Oregano. It is a very powerful agent against bacterial, viral, parasitic, and fungal infections. I recommend keeping some on hand. It’s an excellent general tonic and immune stimulant.
How Colloidal Silver Works
You may also want to consider using Colloidal Silver for excellent anti-viral protection. It works great to help avoid or reduce symptoms of colds and flu. The body has an innate ability to rejuvenate and restore itself to optimum health. Colloidal Silver acts as an optimal immune system supporter by helping the body fight invaders.
The presence of Colloidal Silver near an invader disables its oxygen-metabolism enzyme, its chemical lung, so to say. Within a few minutes, the invader suffocates and dies, and is cleared out of our bodies by the immune, lymphatic and elimination systems.
Unlike pharmaceutical antibiotics, which destroy beneficial enzymes, Colloidal Silver leaves the tissue-cell enzymes intact, as they are radically different than those enzymes of primitive single-celled life. Thus, Colloidal Silver is absolutely safe for humans, reptiles, plants and all multi-celled living matter.
It is recommended that you work under the direction of a Practitioner when using Colloidal Silver, to ensure safe usage instructions are adhered to.
Exercise
Regular daily exercise and fresh air will also keep your lymph moving and your immune system strong.
Try rebounding (jumping on a mini-trampoline) everyday, even if it’s just 2-5 minutes, several times a day. It is an excellent and gentle way to get movement back into your life and build up your fitness slowly as well!
Sleep and Relaxation
And finally, get plenty of sleep and daily relaxation to reduce stress.
Stress inhibits our immune function, so managing your stress during cold and flu season (& throughout the year) is key to staying healthy.
If you would like some tips on how to – de-stress, source high quality supplements that are right for you, identify the best foods for your body, and begin enjoying a great nights’ sleep every night, book in a Free 45 minute Fatigued to Fabulous Clarity session… and let’s start the conversation about how you can achieve all of your health goals!
Much Love,
Nat xx
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