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October 20, 2020

Boosting Your Immunity For Dummies

Overview

Boost your body's defenses to fight-off disease and live stronger and longer

Every single day our bodies are under attack from nasty little organisms which range from the pesky to the frighteningly serious. So, what’s the best way to fight back? Thankfully nature has provided us with a powerful interior armor-plating—and Boosting Your Immunity For Dummies shows you how to keep that crucial biological gift in tip-top condition.

Brought to you by bestselling author Kellyann Petrucci, MS, ND, a board-certified naturopathic physician, and Wendy Warner, a board certified holistic physician,—Boosting Your Immunity For Dummies sets out the sound ways we can supercharge our immune systems to prevent illnesses and diseases such as arthritis, autoimmune conditions, pneumonia, cancer, and the flu. Using a simple program of diet, exercise, stress-reduction, and nutritional supplements, we can keep our internal defenses humming happily along—and get generally healthier in the process!

  • The best nutritional strategies to avoid cold and flu
  • 40+ recipes that show healthy eating can also be delish
  • Cutting-edge research on immune-boosting health and diet
  • Lists and tips for keeping a low-cost, healthy pantry

Through diet, exercise, stress reduction, nutritional supplements, and the role of water, sunlight, and oxygen, you can harness the power of your immune system and drastically improve your immunity to disease.

P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you're probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Boosting Your Immunity For Dummies (9781118402009 find this on the copyright page). The book you see here shouldn't be considered a new or updated product. But if you’re in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. We're always writing about new topics!

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About The Author

Dr. Wendy Warner, a board certified holistic physician, is a nationally known lecturer and teacher of integrative holistic medicine.

Dr. Kellyann Petrucci, who is a go-to expert in the nutritional field, helps patients build the strongest, healthiest bodies through her family-based workshops and consulting practice (http://www.drkellyann.com Twitter @drkellyann).

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Your immune system is something you can manage: When you begin to eat the right foods and live in a way that boosts your immunity, you look and feel better. Whether you’ve been diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder or just want to take control of your health and increase your energy level, you can take simple steps in the areas of nutrition and detoxification to keep your immune system healthy and happy.

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Medicinal herbs really are nature’s gift. They work wonders at alleviating and preventing many ailments, and herbs are an effective, inexpensive, and convenient way to manage your health.Herbs can help many conditions. If you suspect vitamin or mineral deficiencies, lack proper rest, are under chronic stress, or get numerous colds or infections, you probably have a lowered immune system and medicinal herbs may help.
Exotic superfoods are more mysterious, perhaps even harder to find, but well worth your efforts. These exotic superfoods have been used in other parts of the world for their powerful healing punch successfully. Get to know some of these unusual superfoods and figure out how to implement them into your overall superfood regimen.
How does sugar affect your immunity anyway? Sugar is an immune suppressor. As little as 3.5 ounces can suppress your immune system up to 50 percent. Most sugar is void of nutrients, and get this: It actually requires nutrients to metabolize sugar and, therefore, pulls minerals from your body. So sugar can actually deplete your body of vitamins and minerals.
Your immune system is something you can manage: When you begin to eat the right foods and live in a way that boosts your immunity, you look and feel better. Whether you’ve been diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder or just want to take control of your health and increase your energy level, you can take simple steps in the areas of nutrition and detoxification to keep your immune system healthy and happy.
If you have to treat your allergy symptoms, you can choose one of the typical over-the-counter medications or even stronger prescription drugs, but a better solution might be one of several natural substances that have similar medicinal qualities. Another option is to avoid the allergen all together. Sometimes avoiding allergens simply isn’t possible.
You already know the healthiest foods, but some kitchen equipment and gadgets makes eating well even easier. The following lists include things a cook who wants to boost immunity will find himself using often as well as a healthy cook's wish list (some nice gadgets to have, but not requirements for healthy cooking).
If you're on a detox plan, you can help your body's detoxification by increasing elimination and improving lymphatic flow. Proper fiber and fluid intake will aid your body in eliminating waste from your GI tract and kidneys. Also remember that lymphatics carry waste products back from the extremities, so making your lymph nodes are functioning well supports your detox.
HPV (human papilloma virus) causes cervical, vulvar, vaginal, anal, penile, and oral warts and cancer. At least 100 strains of HPV exist, many of which are rare and could be insignificant. However, four strains of human papilloma virus cause most cases of cervical cancer and genital warts. The virus is transferred by sexual contact, and condoms don’t always protect against infection.
The presence of allergic rhinitis isn’t hard to determine — the clinical symptoms are pretty self-explanatory. However, knowing what the triggers of those symptoms are, which you can determine by various testing methods, may be important. Here are a few common tests that your care provider can administer: Skin testing: For this test, your doctor places an extract of a common allergen on your skin and then scratches or pricks under the skin with a needle, exposing the skin mast cells to the allergen, and a wheal-and-flare reaction occurs.
Autoimmune disorders, like lupus, multiple sclerosis, and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, are much more prevalent in women than in men and tend to run in families. Although these conditions all look different, what they have in common is an overactive immune system that can no longer distinguish “self” from “non-self.
You can approach a detox in many ways. Ideally, you’d do a detox over weeks of rest, healthful eating, massage, accelerated elimination protocols, and supportive herbs — the way it’s done in traditional ayurvedic practice. But who has time to do that in real life? To be successful detoxing, you need to know what to expect and how to prepare.
The health benefits of immune-boosting fruits come from the vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals they contain, all of which help the body fight and prevent disease. Fruits also contain fiber, which is great for digestive health, as well as lutein, which is healthy for your vision. Although fruits contain many healthful elements, keeping your serving size low is important.
The immune system works hard all the time to keep an eye out for “dangerous strangers” to the body, which gets harder to do when the body is also busy dealing with toxic chemicals, hormone overload, and a sluggish system. Here are some strategies for assisting your body’s detoxification systems; the reward is a healthier immune system.
Protein builds you up. Growth and repair are protein’s major roles: Your body uses the protein you take in as food to build cells, synthesize new proteins, and keep your tissues healthy. Eating adequate protein supports your physique and satisfies your appetite. Protein is a nutritional powerhouse in that it provides important immune-boosting nutrients — essential fatty acids (good fats), vitamins, and minerals.
If you feel as though your immune system or overall health needs some support or if you feel a cold or illness coming on, these six supplements do show benefits. When using supplements to support your immune system, you need to answer two important questions: Do you need that supplement? and Is your supplement the highest possible quality?
Nothing perks up your food like the personality of spices and herbs. The wonderful bonus prize is that many of these spices also keep you well. Spices and herbs are great for boosting the nervous system, respiratory system, and your glands.Cinnamon’s active ingredient cinnamaldehyde enables it to decrease blood sugar, total cholesterol, and triglycerides as well as increase good cholesterol.
Certain foods should never touch your lips. They cause such havoc, inflammation, and damage to your system, that they shouldn’t even be on your radar — ever. Damaging foods, such as artificial sugars, food additives, and some others make your body run about as good as a car runs on dirt. You’re only as good as the food you digest.
Although quite a few medications are available to treat allergies, avoidance is actually a pretty smart way to start treatment for allergic rhinitis — if you’re not around an allergen, you won’t react to it. For seasonal allergies, this means staying indoors when possible during high pollen days (usually hot, dry, and windy days).
Nutrition is really the basis for a good immune-boosting plan. Your immune system is complex and needs a variety of components to make it work optimally; you can get most of those components through food by following these tips: Eat whole foods. Eating whole foods means you don’t have to figure out how to read an ingredient label, because whole foods don’t really have ingredient labels.
Adding immune-boosting vegetables to your diet is one of the most critical lifestyle changes you can make. The difference veggies make in your health is worth any effort. They reduce your risk of chronic diseases, such as heart disease and some cancers. Veggies help you not only get well and stay well but also look good!
Runny nose, itchy eyes, sneezing that won't stop . . . Do you suffer with allergies that either come on seasonally or plague you year-round? You're not alone in your misery. Many people experience allergic reactions to their environments — from mildly annoying nasal congestion to full-blown inflammation that affects their ability to function.
The key to immune-building meals is to eat the foods that give you the nutrients you need without too many calories or blood sugar swings. You have to get enough food to feel satisfied in between meals and not feel deprived. Eating the right foods in the right amount will normalize your weight and give you more energy.
Detoxification is the job of a whole team of bodily organs. The main work is done by the liver with some help from the kidneys. The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is important in elimination of the breakdown products, and elimination via the skin and lungs also occurs.The liver filters blood, removing toxins found there.
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