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How to improve your immunity?
How to enhance human immunity/resistance? Human immunity/resistance is the first line of defense against diseases. With strong immunity, it is not a problem to avoid all diseases. But now everyone is busy with work and study, and the pressure of life is great, which leads to the decline of immunity. How to improve immunity? 1, high-quality sleep can promote the human body to produce more sleep factors, which can promote the increase of white blood cells and strengthen the detoxification ability of the liver, thus eliminating bacteria and viruses that invade the human body. Therefore, high-quality sleep is helpful to improve human immunity and to preserve health in autumn. 2. Optimism Now people's life and work are under great pressure, which will cause the human body to produce an inhibitory factor, which will directly affect the normal work of immune cells. Therefore, people should learn to adjust their emotions, work and study happily, and use this optimism to improve their immunity. 3. Restricting excessive drinking will directly harm the liver and spleen. When the alcohol content in blood is too high, it will definitely affect the normal physiological function of immune cells. So I suggest you drink less, even if it's alcohol, 1 cup a day. 4. Moderate exercise research shows that exercise can not only enhance the function of the immune system, but also increase the number of immune cells, thus enhancing immunity. Exercise doesn't have to do some particularly strenuous activities, such as climbing stairs and taking a walk after dinner. 5. Supplementing vitamins and minerals can affect the number and vitality of various immune cells. Therefore, it is recommended that you eat more healthy foods such as fresh vegetables and fruits to supplement the vitamins and minerals needed by the human body. 6. Learn to use probiotics Probiotics is a microecological preparation, which has a good effect on improving immunity. For example, the common intestinal Bifidobacterium can stimulate the division and proliferation of lymphocytes in the body, produce a variety of antibodies, enhance human immunity, and eliminate various foreign pathogenic microorganisms. 7. Keep your body temperature above 36.5 degrees. Studies have shown that when the body temperature drops 1 degree, the immunity will drop by 30%. Especially in autumn and winter, many people catch a cold. Officials say that due to the drop in temperature, the human body becomes cold, causing various abnormal diseases. Therefore, maintaining normal body temperature is an important prerequisite for autumn health preservation. 8. Ensure balanced nutrition, enhance the body's immunity, and the most important thing is to eat healthily. Many people only think about eating well, but few people can calm down and think about whether this diet is reasonable. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that you can eat some fruits and vegetables at every meal and ensure a diversified diet. Don't eat some food often, which will lead to neglect of nutrition. Ginseng, a kind of food that can improve immunity, has been known as the "king of herbs" since ancient times, and has been praised as a good product of "nourishing yin and nourishing life, strengthening the body resistance and consolidating the foundation" by the eastern medical community. Ginseng contains many kinds of saponins and polysaccharides. Ginseng extract can be slowly absorbed by the skin without any adverse stimulation to the skin. It can dilate skin capillaries, promote skin blood circulation, increase skin nutrition, adjust skin water-oil balance, and prevent skin from dehydration, hardening and wrinkling. Long-term use of products containing ginseng can enhance skin elasticity and rejuvenate cells. Human experiments show that ginseng can improve working ability and reduce fatigue, which is considered to be the result of its excitement center. Taking ginseng can improve thinking ability and labor efficiency. Vitamins can enhance human immunity. Healthy people had better absorb vitamins by eating fruits and vegetables. At present, tomatoes, strawberries, carrots and oranges, which are widely sold in the market, contain a lot of vitamins. Fresh radish is rich in interferon inducer and has immune function. Eat more foods rich in vitamin C. Vitamin C is indispensable to human body, which can reduce capillary permeability, make it a barrier to prevent viruses from entering human tissues and protect organs. Foods with high vitamin C content include green leafy vegetables, tomatoes, cauliflower, green peppers, oranges, strawberries, kiwifruit, watermelons and grapes. Vitamin C will be lost during heating, so these foods are best eaten raw. Drinking chicken soup can prevent upper respiratory tract infectious diseases such as colds and flu. Chicken contains a variety of essential amino acids, which are rich in nutrition, especially cysteine, and can enhance human immunity. In addition, drinking chicken soup also has a positive effect on accelerating recovery after infection. Garlic, scallion and onion are all hot foods, which have a good effect on improving physical fitness. Garlic has the function of sterilization and antivirus, and it is best to eat it raw, because it has the function of antivirus and improving immunity. Allicin, an effective component in garlic that can enhance immunity, will lose its efficacy during heating. Onion is also a natural bactericidal and antiviral food, which can effectively resist viruses and bacteria. Zinc-containing food zinc is an indispensable trace element in human body, and many enzymes in human body can only play a role together with zinc, which is very important for regulating immune function. In addition, it has another function, that is, anti-infection. Taking 50 ~ 100 mg of zinc every day can prevent influenza. Seafood, lean meat, coarse grains and beans are all rich in zinc. Mushrooms, Hericium erinaceus, Volvariella volvacea, Auricularia auricula, Tremella fuciformis, Cheyang, Lily, etc. Both have obvious effects of enhancing immunity; Lentinus edodes contains lentinan, which can enhance human immunity. Seaweed British researchers discovered in the 1990s that seaweed can kill cancer cells and enhance immunity. Phycobiliprotein contained in seaweed has the application prospect of lowering blood sugar and anti-tumor, and polysaccharide has many biological activities such as anti-aging, reducing blood fat and anti-tumor. Alguronic acid contained in seaweed also helps to remove toxic metals such as strontium and cadmium from the human body. Medical staff have also developed marine drugs and health foods with unique activities from seaweed, which can effectively prevent nerve aging and regulate the body's metabolism. In addition, seaweed can prevent and treat peptic ulcer, delay aging, and help women keep their skin smooth and healthy. Royal jelly can improve immunity and endocrine regulation, and contains melittic acid (10-hda) with anticancer effect. Propolis Propolis is a natural product of newborn axillary bud secretion collected by bees from gum plants and their own secretions (such as beeswax), which contains the most abundant bioactive components such as flavonoids. Pharmacology and clinic have proved that propolis can effectively improve the immune function of the body and overcome the magical effect of cancer. In addition, long-term use of propolis can reduce the incidence of chronic diseases in adults and improve diabetes and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Papaya juice Papaya juice contains some substances that can improve immunity and antioxidant capacity.