The fastest secret to boosting immunity

The secret to improving immunity the fastest is never to follow the trend and buy thousands of immune globulin and spend two hours in the gym every day, but to accurately correct the small loopholes in the three core links of "stress-sleep-intestine". Ordinary people can feel obvious changes after 2 weeks of persistence - for example, you will not get a sore throat when the season changes, and you will not catch a cold immediately if you blow a cold breeze. The cost-effectiveness is much higher than spending tens of thousands on health supplements.

Don’t believe it, I used to have a friend who was an e-commerce operator. She stayed up late for 10 consecutive days during Double Eleven last year, caught three colds in a row, and got herpes zoster. She went to the nutrition department of a tertiary hospital to register. The doctor didn’t even prescribe supplements, so he asked her to adjust these three areas first. Within a month, she no longer had rhinitis, and she didn’t even have the oral ulcers that would occur every year before.

It’s also interesting to say that there is a lot of noise on the Internet about improving immunity. The evidence-based medicine school says that it is useless for ordinary healthy people to take vitamin C supplements exceeding the recommended daily dose. Overdosing may lead to kidney stones.； The traditional Chinese medicine health school says that it is indeed useful to eat some things that have the same origin as medicine and food, such as astragalus and Ganoderma lucidum. However, the two schools of medicine have a consensus: if you don’t adjust your basic living habits well, you will be stuck in whatever you eat.

Let’s talk about the stress issues that many people ignore. You must have had this experience: rushing for a project, being so stressed before an exam that you can’t eat, or catching a cold or fever at the slightest breeze. This is really not because you have a weak constitution. "Nature·Immunology" has previously published research. Under long-term chronic stress, the phagocytic capacity of human neutrophils will decrease by more than 40%, which is equivalent to immune cells being directly suppressed by excessive cortisol and "having no energy to work." When my friend first adjusted, she would walk around the neighborhood for 20 minutes after get off work every day. Instead of reading work news, she would just watch the old man playing chess and the old woman dancing in the square. Within a week, she herself said that the stone pressing on her chest seemed to be gone.

To put it counter-intuitively, regarding sleep, not everyone needs to sleep for 8 hours to be happy. Someone once said that he was energetic even if he slept only 4 hours a day. Many people accused him of bragging. In fact, as long as your deep sleep time accounts for more than 20% of your total sleep, your immune system can complete the complete repair work. There is really no need to stay up for 8 hours. My friend initially said that 6 hours of sleep a day was enough, but after wearing a sports bracelet, she discovered that her deep sleep duration was less than 1 hour, and she kept waking up at night to check work groups. Later, she put her mobile phone in the living room one hour before going to bed and read for half an hour. The duration of deep sleep gradually increased to 1.5 hours, and she no longer felt groggy when she woke up in the morning.

Many people don’t know that 70% of the human body’s immune cells are in the intestines. When you eat haisse, you are actually tearing down your own immune wall. The most controversial thing here is whether probiotics are an IQ tax. In fact, the current clinical consensus is: if you have just taken antibiotics or have a severely disturbed intestinal flora, it is indeed useful to supplement specific strains as prescribed by your doctor, but there is no need for ordinary healthy people to spend that money. If you eat enough 1 pound of green leafy vegetables and half coarse and fine grains every day, the beneficial bacteria in the intestines will grow well on their own. I once had a colleague who ate oil-free boiled vegetables every day in order to lose weight, but he always suffered from constipation and colds. Later, after listening to the doctor's advice, he added a fistful of steamed sweet potatoes and drank a small cup of sugar-free yogurt every day, and he was much better in half a month.

I used to catch a cold when the seasons changed. Last autumn, I followed this logic and adjusted it. I walked for 20 minutes after get off work every day to relax, didn’t touch my phone before going to bed, and ate a fistful of cereals at noon. I didn’t even have a nasal congestion all winter. I still have half a bottle of vitamin C tablets I stocked up on.

Of course, if you insist on asking if there is a faster way? There are also cases where people with severe immune deficiencies follow the doctor's advice and inject immune globulin, which does take effect quickly, but there is really no need for ordinary people to inject it randomly. Instead, they may have side effects such as allergies. Many people always want to find some unique secret recipe. In fact, the fastest way is to do those little things that make your ears tingling for two weeks - after all, immunity has always been "if you don't fool it, it won't fool you."