When you feel sick, what’s the first thing you do? Do you research about organic and natural solutions, or do you just pop a pill right away?

If you answered the second one, you’re not alone. For the majority of us, it almost seems like standard measure to have all kinds of pills at the ready when we’re sick. It’s a habit we picked up from our own health care system. What we usually fail to ask is, why are we even sick in the first place? Is there a natural alternative for sickness prevention, one that could potentially replace medicines or shots?


Luckily, there are natural remedies that can actually prevent us from getting sick often. We just spend too much time concentrating on sickness rather than focusing on what healthy individuals are doing to make their bodies more efficient at fighting similar diseases.

There’s that one ingredient to a disease-proof immune system that we don’t tend to talk about as much as we talk about drugs: holistic nutrition.

Good Nutrition Is The First Step To Strong

Immunity

Your immune system is naturally equipped with fighter cells – the white blood cells or WBCs—that keep you guarded against all kinds of infections – viral, bacterial and toxins.

All five types of WBCs serve a unique protective purpose. They work together to fight off any foreign substance or organism like harmful bacteria, which divide every half-hour of the day. At the rate bacteria replicates, WBCs have a lot on their hands. Millions of WBCs need fuel to recharge and keep those harmful organisms at bay.


The more well-balanced and nutrient-dense your diet is, the stronger your immune system is. A stronger immune system means your soldier cells can protect you better against disease.

But…

Let’s be honest. No matter how we try, it can be difficult, if not downright impossible to achieve 100 percent balanced and vitamin-rich nutrition. In fact, studies show that 70 percent of the entire world doesn’t get sufficient nutrition at all! To complicate things, not all vitamins can be produced by the body, like for instance, vitamins C and D.You can fill in those gaps by consuming natural supplements that provide what’s lacking in our everyday diet.

7 Immunity-fortifying supplements that

help build your immunity bank


When choosing supplements, consider science-backed supplements that contain these amazing natural ingredients in their live form. This helps activate bodily processes essential for your soldier cells to work properly.

1. Probiotics

Probiotics are what you might call friendly bacteria. These microorganisms protect the colon and strengthen the immune system by preparing it to accept good bacteria. They thrive in various places in the body, helping keep the natural balance of good and opportunistic microorganisms.
However, there are situations when this balance is destroyed, such as illnesses,
stress, or when you take strong broad-spectrum antibiotics repeatedly for long
periods, which also tends to destroy good bacteria in the process.

Immune cells need to thrive in a well-balanced environment. Over 70 percent of them need millions of these good bacteria to perform well. Sadly, very few supplements integrate probiotics.

Those that do often don’t contain probiotics in a protective barrier that shields it from live enzymes and acids in the mouth and stomach. There’s no point in consuming good bacteria if they’ll just get destroyed en route to the colon!

You want a supplement that encapsulates probiotics so that they’re kept alive until they reach their final destination. It’s the only way they can ever be effective.
This is why I recommend Shaklee’s Optiflora. It delivers important nutrients that healthy intestinal bacteria need to go and thrive.

2. Garlic

Not only does it help reduce bad cholesterol and regulate blood pressure, it also has the unique ability to fight fungi, bacteria, and viruses – all thanks to its active ingredient, allicin.

I wouldn’t presume anyone will eat raw garlic though, so a coated supplement will definitely come in handy.


Shaklee’s Garlic Complex keeps the strong alicin odor nicely contained until it reaches the stomach and goes to work.

3. Alfalfa

Well-known in the world, alfalfa is a power-packed herb that contains cell-building vitamins like vitamins A, C, E, and K; plus energy-releasing minerals like calcium and potassium.

Shaklee’s Alfalfa Complex provides a wide variety of nutrients including calcium, phosphorus, vitamins, chlorophyll. It’s also a rich source of bioflavonoids, a natural anti-allergy compound, an antioxidant that boosts circulation and decongests stuffy nose when you have flu,colds, allergies, or rhinitis.

4. Zinc

Zinc is a trace mineral that has been found in studies to provide the highest immunity-strengthening attributes among all minerals to fight off disease.
It’s an important activator of T-cells, a type of WBC that scans, remember and directly destroys infected or cancerous cells in the body. Zinc helps eradicate a wide array of infections, from diarrhea to pneumonia to cancer. It’s proven to lessen the severity of flu and colds too!

I highly recommend Shaklee’s Zinc Complex as it’s formulated with highly bioavailable zinc gluconate in a base of alfalfa that helps support normal thyroid function and helps
maintain normal immune function.

5. Echinacea

Part of the daisy family, Echinacea was first used by North American Indian tribes in the 1800s as medicine for several non-respiratory illnesses. Soon it was found out in studies that Echinacea also encourages the immune system to produce more WBCs, which keeps the body better protected from the first sign of illness. Echinacea is effective against many bacterial and viral strains, including cold and flu.

Shaklee’s Defend and Resist Complex has Echinacea as well as other key ingredients that have been shown in laboratory studies to:

  • enhance immune support
  • help stimulate the body’s natural resistance
  • help to maintain a healthy immune response

6. Vitamin C

Vitamin C is a staple in every home and can be safely used by both adults and
children. However, the body doesn’t have the capacity to create it naturally,
so it’s crucial to get it from external preparations. The antioxidants in Vitamin C help support your immune system by combating free radicals that cause cell destruction. They also help build new tissues and cells.

Doctors recommend up to 1000mg of vitamin C a day – or the equivalent of over 10 oranges – when your body has massive requirements for repair and recovery, such as sickness, prolonged stress, or when you had little sleep for extended periods of time.

Shaklee’s Sustained Release Vita-C uses a proprietary sustained-release system that delivers the vitamin C equivalent of
one-and-a-half oranges every hour for five
hours.

7. Interferon-stimulating plant extracts

Interferons are naturally occurring components of the immune system that Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Yasuhiko Kojima discovered in the 1950s. Interferons are crucial for immunity because they provide the body signals in case of opportunistic invasions like viruses, bacteria, and malignant growths. They also play a part in mediating the release of killer cells in the immune system, which travel to an infected area and literally eat harmful material and microorganisms!

Certain plant extracts have been known to encourage interferon production naturally. They include pumpkin seed, safflower, Asian plantain seed, and Japanese honeysuckle flower extract.

All these are found in Shaklee’s Immune-Boosting Botanical Blend called Nutriferon.

Here’s to your health, and a healthy immune system!

If you have any questions, or would like more information, please don’t hesitate to contact me!

Jerry, Your Wellness Guide
+1 703-626-0774 / Jerry@Fit4LifeLLC.com
https://www.fit4lifellc.com