10 Natural Ways to Boost Your Immune System
As the Spring Festival, it is time to visit relatives and friends, go traveling and gather together to promote relationship. However, frequent outings, or uncontrolled intake, are easy to get sick. DLdevelop introduces 10 natural ways to boost your immune system, and make sure you have a good time during the Spring Festival.
1. Get enough sleep and control the pressure. Sleep deprivation and stress overload increase hormone cortisol, and its continued increase inhibits immune function.2. Avoid smoking. It destroys basic immune defenses and increases the risk of bronchitis and pneumonia in everyone, as well as children's middle ear infections.
3. Drink less. Excessive consumption can damage the immune system and increase the susceptibility to lung infections.
4. Eat plenty of vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds to provide the body with the nutrients needed for the immune system. A study of older people showed that increased fruit and vegetable intake improved the antibody response to the Pneumovax vaccine, which prevents Streptococcus pneumoniae.
5. Consider probiotics. Studies have shown that supplements can reduce the incidence of respiratory and gastrointestinal infections.
6. Capture some light. Sunlight can cause the production of vitamin D in the skin. A 2010 study of children showed that supplementing 1200 IU of vitamin D per day reduced the risk of influenza A.
7. Go eat garlic. Garlic is a immunopotentiator.
8. Eat medicinal mushrooms, such as mushrooms. A recent study showed that concentrated mushroom extract can enhance the immune function of breast cancer patients.
9. Try to support the herbs.
10. Listen the music you like. Joyful music stimulates the brain to feel pleasing and enhances immunity.