To reinvigorate your immune system in this delicate period, no need for drugs or magic potions. Reinforced lifestyle rules can help us boost immunity. Here are simple gestures and wise advice to take care of yourself!
We have understood through the directives of the authorities and especially the alarming messages of doctors and virologists in the media that strict confinement is to date the only truly effective treatment. against the coronavirus epidemic. The examples of countries that have been able to contain the spread of the epidemic have proven it to us: containment works.
For stay in the best shape possible in this delicate period that we are going through, we wanted to take recommendations from Dr Yann Rougier, Medical specialist and enlightened connoisseur of neuroscience. We asked him for practical advice to follow to maintain, day after day, our immune system.
Take care of your immune system
Dr. Yann Rougier: It’s important to follow all government guidelinesit is a question of respect for everyone in relation to their neighbor in relation to this great therapeutic fraternity in the face of a common enemy, this virus.
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Then, on a personal level, there are many tools that can allow you to strengthen your immune defences, what I call this body medicine. The first thing is to realize that this virus is fragile in relation to heat, so we will see that drinking hot drinks on a regular basis will weaken it.
Sleep is essential for the immune system
Dr. Yann Rougier: As a priority, let’s be physically strong in the face of this epidemic. First, pay attention to your sleep. It is very simple : lack of sleep is the number one cause of weakened immune system.
If you used to party with your friends twice a week or go clubbing, if you like to share a little “happy hour” with your friends with beers and a little alcohol: this is not not a good idea. Stay at home, have a hot drink, ventilate your house well, go to bed early, get up early. You will have better cortisol, a better sleepbetter recovery, in short, a better immune system.
The effects of alcohol on immunity
Dr. Yann Rougier: At the nutritional level, cut out the alcohol and great food. Perhaps a good glass of Bordeaux wine in the middle of the meal… Alcohol, especially aperitifs, weakens the immune system: it is the equivalent of an extremely fast sugar. It hits the liver and the brain and then the immune system.
Same thing if you are a fan of these recreational drugs authorized in certain American states but prohibited in France (cannabis, hashish, etc.): abstain because you weaken your lungs and your immune system. Finally, if you smoke, try to reduce your consumption as much as possible to breathe new life into your lungs.
A diet focused on alkalizing foods
Dr. Yann Rougier: Then, inside the body, it is important to take care of what you are going to eat. Try to promote anything that will increase the bases in your body, alkalizing foods. Promote them seasonal fruits and vegetables, aromatics, condiments. Moderate red meats, fatty cold cuts and cheeses and, in general, all the bodies because they lead to acid digestion. Push your diet to the basifying side.
Eat mindfully: the better you chew, the better you protect yourself because you impregnate your food with saliva which itself is alkaline. Then you will need less blood at the level of the stomach to digest just as important to take care of your immune system it we will see in the tools that we are going to describe
Less stress and anxiety-provoking news
Dr. Yann Rougier: If you want to lower your stress level, check out any app on the internet to do some heart rate coherence two or three times a day for 5 minutes. You will gain in stress control and you will increase the strength of your immune system.
Our body health is based on the famous five factors of life neuroscience: everything that is alive and human breathes, feeds, protects itself, thinks and feels emotions. Everyone understands easily for food, breathing and detox with plants or food supplements, but few people think about stress and emotions. Yet they have an extremely powerful impact on your immune system.
Adopt three to four times a day 5 minutes of anti-stress breathing. Regularly switch off your social networks on the subject of the coronavirus for hours. The images come to your brain which receives them passively. The filter is not enough and this information goes directly to your limbic brain and in particular to an area called the hippocampus.
This area is sensitive and will vibrate with the global anxiety conveyed by these messages. And it’s directly related to your immune system. The more you know about the coronavirus, the less strong you are to fight against this virus. Of course you have to keep yourself informed about government directives but you can be aware simply by talking to your neighbors.
I insist on this point: neuroemotional health is just as powerful than nutrition or government safeguards to protect you personally from the coronavirus.
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