Earlier in our article, we already talked about immunity. Today we will consider this issue in more detail.
If colds have become too common to prevent you from living, it is necessary to take measures to increase your body’s immunity as soon as possible. Otherwise, along with a cold will come much more serious diseases, when the infection weakens your defenses. It is immunodeficiency that usually leads to difficult-to-treat bacterial, viral or fungal diseases.
If you want to increase the immunity of your body, first it will be useful to find out why its defenses failed. The elimination of this very cause will lead to an increase in immunity.
What usually weakens our immune system? This:
- unbalanced, monotonous or insufficient nutrition;
- lack of vitamins and minerals in the body;
- long-term infections;
- chronic diarrhea;
- helminthiasis;
- lack of protein in the diet, poor assimilation due to insufficient external secretory function of the pancreas;
- previous injuries or surgical interventions;
- loss of protein in the urine resulting from kidney disease;
- poisoning with poisons;
- burns;
- radiation exposure;
- pregnancy;
- severe bleeding or small but permanent blood loss;
- diseases of the endocrine system (hypothyroidism, diabetes mellitus);
- the use of drugs that inhibit the immune system (most often-glucocorticoids);
- elderly age;
- autoimmune diseases;
- oncological diseases;
- allergic diseases.
How to increase immunity without taking medication? Not all of these reasons can be so easily eliminated, which is why it is necessary to know and apply universal methods to increase the body’s defense. There are many methods to increase non-specific immunity, but none gives an instant result. You will have to be patient, it is quite possible that at the very beginning of the path there will be no effect. So, here are the methods themselves.
The method of hardening. It allows the body to adapt to the conditions that surround us, to have resistance to overheating and to hypothermia. Hardening also helps to reduce the incidence of diseases, in general, it has a positive, restorative effect on the human body. But it should be remembered: hardening can not start abruptly. You can’t go out in your underwear and immediately pour a bucket of ice water on yourself. You should start gradually, otherwise you can reduce immunity, but not increase it.
Enhanced nutrition. Your diet should contain a large amount of protein products, as well as plant foods. Dress vegetable salads with vegetable oil, because some vitamins are dissolved exclusively in fats, and are not absorbed at all in their absence. If you have a body weight deficit, eat more often to eliminate it faster. Meat, eggs, and dairy products should be in your diet every day. Take multivitamin complexes. Use enzymes for poor digestion (such as Mezim or other similar drugs, we recommend that you consult a doctor before using them).
Active lifestyle. Walk in the fresh air as often as possible, walk, drive less, play sports. It is noticed that the one who constantly sits at home, moves a little, is more often ill. Movement is life. Regular physical activity significantly strengthens the immune system, which is why doctors recommend sitting less at the computer.
As for medical methods of treatment of immunodeficiency, for its recovery, drugs of the immunostimulant group are used. There are quite a lot of them, they differ in the type of impact on the immune system, as well as in price. Plant-based immunostimulants are considered the cheapest and, at the same time, more effective. Each pharmacy sells them, these are: echinacea extract, lemongrass tincture, ginseng, combined preparations that have several tonic and tonic herbs in their composition at once.
Immunologists, as a rule, do not prescribe such drugs, since there are more effective drugs that have effectiveness. They must be used strictly under the supervision of a doctor in order not to spoil your health. In addition, immunostimulants affect various parts of the immune system, which also needs to be taken into account when you select medications.
Thus, we have considered the most popular methods of increasing immunity, both non-drug (hardening, enhanced nutrition, active lifestyle) and medication. The result is guaranteed if you use everything in a complex.