Please be responsible for your health and wellbeing and make sure that you always take advice and guidance from an NHS Health Care Professional like your GP if you start to show signs of cold or flu type viruses..
The below are just a few excerpts from an article written by Dr Michael Murray who is a leading authority on natural medicine for the past thirty-five years.
Iherb.com Coronavirus, Precautions, and Strengthening the Immune System ; 29/01/2020 https://uk.iherb.com/blog/coronavirus-precautions-and-strengthening-the-immune-system/897
As we are all in the midst of this Corona Virus scare, I thought I’d share some excerpts from the above website on how we can all boost our immunity to support us against contracting any virus. I do hope that you find this helpful. It’s just a couple of hints and tips that I felt were important to share with you. For further information, please go to the weblink article.
According to Dr Michael Murray, it’s really important to boost our immunity to prevent the Coronavirus or any other cold or flu viruses.
“Simple Steps to Boosting Your Immune System”
“The principals involved in boosting your immune system are quite simple. The first goal is to make sure that you provide the immune system with vital nutrients by consuming a health-promoting diet and utilizing proper nutritional supplementation. A deficiency of virtually any single nutrient can significantly impair immunity. The next step is following a healthy lifestyle that includes getting enough sleep and engaging in a regular exercise program. Supplying optimal nutrition and learning to effectively deal with stress go a long way in supporting central control mechanisms to keep the immune system functioning in a peak state. Boosting your immune system not only increases your resistance to colds and flu and other infections but also can help protect yourself against chronic diseases”.
“Key Steps to Boosting Your Immune System”
- A healthy lifestyle is essential for immunity. Be sure to eat a healthy diet, exercise, avoid toxins, maintain appropriate body weight, and get enough sleep.
- Stress lowers immunity. Take steps to manage stress. Practice techniques to activate the relaxation response, such as breathing exercises, visualization, or meditation.
- Avoid refined sugars and saturated fats, but make sure you get plenty of quality protein and essential fatty acids.
- Take a high-quality multivitamin and mineral supplements Vitamins C and E, B vitamins, zinc, and selenium are especially important.”
- Take extra vitamin C, 500 to 1,000 mg up to three times per day or consider taking liposomal vitamin C at a dosage of 1,000 mg once or twice daily.
- Boost your vitamin D levels. Take 2,000 to 5,000 IU daily.
“If you develop a fever or any of these symptoms below, it is important to be evaluated by your healthcare provider right away”
- Fever. Take your temperature twice a day.
- Coughing.
- Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing.
- Chills, body aches, sore throat, headache, diarrhoea, nausea/vomiting, and runny nose.
Dr Michael Murray mentions about breathing exercises and visualisations to curb stress., I think this is so important to help with stress and anxiety and it is something that I teach in all of my classes.
I think it is important for us all to keep aware and informed, however I think it is also important to keep perspective and enjoy your life to the full. Try not to stress too much, stress is one of the biggest killers there are. Be calm and keep wise..
