How do you boost your immune system?
1. Eat lots of different types of fruits and vegetable because they are filled with micronutrients that helps you keep a healthy immune system. Vitamin supplements can’t replace a healthy diet, but a general multivitamin may help if your diet is inadequate. People who may need vitamin supplements are people who eats really poorly, pregnant and breastfeeding women, people who consume alcohol in amounts over the recommended level, drug users and the elderly.
Over taking multivitamins when your body does not need it can be harmful for your body.
2. Enough Sleep : When we do not have enough sleep, your immune system weakens, and you get sick easily. During sleep, your body realeases a type of protein called cytokines which is important to help fight infection, inflammation and stress. More information in video…
3. Have positive mind set: Emotions believe it or not affects our immune system. When we are happy and positive, our imnune system increases and we fight infections better.
4. Exercises: Regular exerisces lifts our mood and improves our immune system. Regular exercises also helps reduce the risk of us getting heart diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes, dementia and more.
Now, Does supplements like vitamin C helps boost immune system?
There was a study conducted where 2 groups of patients with a cold, One group was given vitamin C daily and the other a placebo pill daily. The group of patients who took vitamin C ended up getting better faster by half a day. In other words the benefit of vitamin C is there but it’s marginal.
So how about the other supplements that claims to boost immune system such as Olive Leaf Extract, Echinacea, Zinc, Sambucus, Andrographis, manuka honey? Do they help in boosting your immune system? In order to say a yes or a no asnwer to this, we need to look at the results of clinical trials. and there are many ranking to clinical trials. starting from really biased, poorly conducted, small sample sized trials usually conducted by people who will profit from the sales of the products to strict non-biased, big sample size,well controlled, expensive doubled b;inded clinical trials.
Unfortunately, A lot of these researches are often the weakly conducted one due to a lack of funding. A lot of these ingredients can be sold by anyone with a pulse, so whoever that funds the research will think twice before putting their money into it, as they will not hold the exclusive rights to sell the ingredients. One thing you will noticed as well, a lot of the results of these supplements are inconclusive. The conclusion by the sceintist would often be – although there are some evidence this may work, more research and studies have to be done.
I am also cautious to claim that all of these ingredients are useless or do not work. Some of the ingredients does have better and stronger evidence than others. We need to look at them individually. And also, The fact is, Some people do genuinely find these ingredients work but others don’t. and the ones who do see a result may or may not be seeing a placeabo effect.
So as a conclusion, does these ingredients work? my answer to this is, it may. So if you decide to take these, please check with your local pharmacist if it is contra-indicated with what ever conditions that you have got or if it interacts with whatever medication you are already taking, and please do stick to the recommended dose. Because all of these comes with side effects as well.
In the next episode, we will be talking about how to treat hay fever, where sneezes, runny or blocked nose and itchy watery eyes are main symptoms.
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This video is for general information only and should not be used to diagnose or treat medical conditions. Pharmacist Soonkie has used all reasonable care in compiling the information but makes no warranty as to its accuracy. Always consult a doctor or other healthcare professional for diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.
