Top 10 Foods To Boost Your Immunity: How To Boost Natural Immunity/
Food for immunity boost
Need to prevent the Flu and the common cold heading into Flu Season? We will show you the best foods to eat NOW so you can help boost your immune system as much as possible
10. Apples
Starting with the most common one on our list today, apples are a good source of antioxidants and vitamins that generally help to boost your health. Studies have shown, that eating an apple a day, does indeed keep the doctor away, as it helps prevent common illnesses like the common cold.
9. Sweet Potatoes
You know, I’ve always thought that sweet potatoes are just full of carbohydrates and that is why athletes like them, because they digest slowly, providing energy over a long period. Little did I know, that they are actually excellent sources of vitamin A. If I had known this, I’d have probably taken Thanksgiving dinners seriously, and not focused on the turkey alone.
8. Fatty Fish
This might sound ridiculous, but eating a lot of fish like salmon, mackerel, tuna, and sardines can help prevent and fight the flu. How, you may ask, hold on and I’ll show you in the video
7. Oysters
If you love seafood, after this video, you would love seafood even more. Did you know that seafood has the property to fight flu and other diseases? Well, now you know.
6. Chicken Soup
Chicken soup has been nickname “Jewish Penicillin”, for its proficiency as a remedy for cold. This is because the chicken protein contains a type of amino acid named cysteine, in large amounts. Its chemical structure is similar to the drug known as acetylcysteine, a drug used to clear airways that have been blocked by mucus. Now you know why this remedy works like magic. Unfortunately, it works so well that after one serving, you get better, so you won’t be getting any more.
5. Turmeric
Turmeric is composed of over 100 compounds, but the active ingredient is curcumin, and it has been credited with the medicinal benefits of turmeric. Curcumin is an anti-inflammatory compound, with very strong antioxidating effects, that can help boost the immune system, and protect the body against certain infections like the influenza virus, and some even say it prevents the coronavirus. While we’re not very sure about the preventing, we do know it can relieve the symptoms.
4. Sunflower Seeds
Sunflower seed and sunflower seed oil is super-rich Vitamin E, a very important nutrient for building a stronger immune system and fighting off the cold. One of the reasons why the influenza virus is very damaging is because of its oxidizing effects, that breaks down so many cells in the body. Vitamin E prevents it from going on this destruction spree, and generally deactivates the virus, making it weaker. This action makes vitamin E serve as a protective agent for the organs of the body, especially the liver. In treatment, Vitamin E is usually combined with oseltamivir for more effective antiviral therapy. So even if it means fighting with the bees for these seeds, do what you have to do, but make sure they’re a part of your diet. Your body will thank you for it.
3. Mushrooms
Mushrooms come in different types, while some are horribly poisonous, others are a direct opposite, with some excellent medicinal qualities. One of such is the oyster mushroom, a kind of mushroom that contains shikimic acid. Shikimic acid is one of the materials used to produce the antiviral drug Tamiflu. This substance gives the mushroom the ability to fight the influenza virus. Apparently, anything that has to do with oysters has the ability to fight the flu—might as well change my name to Oyster-Man.
The Aurebasidium mushroom also inhibits influenza significantly, and it can ft also fight cancer, but we’d talk about that some other time. There are several other species of mushrooms that have some antiviral tendencies, and some of them even proved useful in the development of an influenza vaccine.
2. Nuts
You know how we mentioned, that Vitamin E is very useful in fighting off the flu and common cold, well nuts have an abundance of this nutrient, which makes it a crucial part of the fight against viruses. The best part of this is that you can add nuts to literally anything, and it can even be taken as a snack.
1. Dark Chocolate
Dentists always warn against eating too many sweets, well here is one you can eat, and get away with.
As surprising as this might sound, dark chocolate actually has the property to not only boost your immune system but also relieve the symptoms of cold or flu. This is due to the high amounts of antioxidants like beta carotene, vitamins C and E.
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