How to Naturally Boost your Immune System

Viruses and Bacteria are becoming more resistant to our medicines with every passing year. Having a strong immune system can help you stay healthy and sharp and here are some ways to kick up your immunity naturally.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• exercise
• orange foods
• green-tea
• milk and vitamin D
• low-stress

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   exercise equipment

   One of the first things you can do to increase immune system health is to reduce your stress. People often hear about how stress can influence health, but tend to underestimate its importance. There are many ways to reduce stress including working-out, breathing exercises, and dozens of others that can be found right here on eHow.

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   antivirus

   There are also many foods that increase your immune systems effectiveness. Mushrooms have been shown to increase the production of white blood cells. It seems that something in the fungus helps our body produce pathogen fighting white blood cells. Onions and garlic have also been shown to help your body maintain health.

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   virus protection

   We have all heard that Vitamin-C right oranges can help increase our immune systems. But eating orange vegetables like carrots, tomatoes, peppers, and sweet potatoes can also be of great assistance to your body. These orange veggies help boost immune power and also will give you healthier skin.

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   green tea diet

   Drink green tea and be sure to get the zinc your body needs into your diet. Stick to leaner red meat and go for beans and certain sea foods such as oysters.

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   immune system supplements

   Try to eat foods that are high in Vitamin D like salmon or Tuna and have a glass of milk regularly.

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   free sunlight

   Spend time in the sun whenever you can. It is free and helps your body make critical vitamins.

Tips & Warnings

• Of all the tips on this page; exercise is the most important, but for your immune system it isn't so much about how hard you work out as how regularly. Just walking for thirty minutes a day can mean the difference between getting sick and staying healthy.
• Try to avoid taking a pill everyday to get the balance you need. I'm not talking about a multi-vitamin, but rather other pills to help control your body's functions. It's important to our health that we try to do things naturally first.

Resources

• Great Green Tea

[Mindee94]

on 5/28/2009 Definitely not a topic to be overlooked. Thanks for the clear and pertinent information

[gntlben]

on 4/18/2009 Great article. My immune system is already compromised, so I'll do anything to help it along. Five stars.

[aquaeyedgirl]

on 4/16/2009 Thank you for the suggestions! Good article~I agree with taking in Vitamin D. I also suggest Wheatgrass and Omega 3s.

[leaper]

on 4/8/2009 Very good advice! I love the green tea idea!

[cygnetbrown]

on 4/8/2009 Great advice. I use a lot of these tips and this past winter I had only one 3 day cold.