3 Ways to Boost Your Immune System Naturally

3 Ways to Boost Your Immune System Naturally
What you eat can boost and improve your immune system. shutterstock
By Nisha Jackson, PhD 
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Boosting your immune system is something we all should be thinking about! This simplistic approach to boosting your immune system naturally can be categorized into three sections: diet, stress management, and supplements.

Diet

The first step to boosting your immune system is to address unhealthy eating habits that can impair your ability to respond quickly and effectively to an attack. The goal is to eliminate, or significantly limit, foods that create inflammation in the body and cause your body to work overtime to heal. These foods include foods with added sugar and most boxed, packaged, or man-made foods.

Excessive sugar consumption alone can result in a 50% reduction in overall immune activity for up to five hours following consumption. Start reading labels! Sugar is added to so many foods, even those that sound “healthy” like juices.

Nisha Jackson
Nisha Jackson
PhD 
Nisha Jackson is a nationally recognized hormone and functional medicine expert, lecturer, motivational speaker, radio host, columnist, author of “Brilliant Burnout” and founder of OnePeak Medical Clinics in Oregon. For 30 years, her approach to medicine has successfully reversed chronic problems such as fatigue, brain fog, depression, insomnia and lack of stamina.
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