Every
part of your body, including your immune system, functions better when
protected from environmental assaults and bolstered by healthy-living
strategies such as these:
- Get enough sleep
Getting
adequate rest may strengthen your natural immunity. Also, you may sleep
more when sick to allow your immune system to better fight the illness.
- Eat more healthy fats
Healthy
fats, like those found in olive oil and salmon, may boost your body’s
immune response to pathogens by decreasing inflammation. Although
low-level inflammation is a normal response to stress or injury, chronic
inflammation can suppress your immune system.
- Eat more fermented foods
Fermented foods are rich in beneficial bacteria called probiotics, which populate your digestive tract.
- Limit added sugars
Curbing
your sugar intake can decrease inflammation and aid weight loss, thus
reducing your risk of chronic health conditions like type 2 diabetes and
heart disease.
- Stay hydrated
Hydration
doesn’t necessarily protect you from germs and viruses, but preventing
dehydration is important to your overall health. Dehydration can cause
headaches and hinder your physical performance, focus, mood, digestion,
and heart and kidney function. These complications can increase your
susceptibility to illness.
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