Seven Ways to Boost Your Immune System
- Manage your stress. Learn and practice a meditation or relaxation technique on a daily basis.
- Eat well. Favor fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Limit your intake of red meat, processed foods, and refined carbohydrates.
- Get to bed no later than 10:30 pm. Awaken with the sun.
- Exercise. Integrate flexibility, strength building, and cardiovascular activities into your daily routine.
- Laugh. Studies have shown that one good belly laugh improves immune function for 24 hours.
- Get touched. Massage awakens immune function and feels good.
- Look at things that inspire you. Limit your exposure to violent images. A Harvard study showed that watching violent scenes weakens immunity, whereas watching loving images stimulates immune function.
