As the COVID pandemic continues and flu season begins, staying healthy and finding ways to improve your immunity is important.
“A resilient immune system is not just preventing, but constantly eliminating our exposures to background infections or inflammatory agents,” says Dr. Anjali Bhagra, a Mayo Clinic integrative medicine specialist. “It allows your body to keep healing from inflammatory or infective triggers.”
In this Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast Dr. Bhagra, whose research focuses on resilience, talks about the ways to build your immune system and how resiliency practices can help you cope with illnesses this winter.
This interview originally aired October 22, 2020. Information in this post was accurate at the time of its posting. Due to the fluid nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific understanding along with guidelines and recommendations may have changed since the original publication date. For more information and all your COVID-19 coverage, go to the Mayo Clinic News Network:
