Pandemic Conundrum: How To Boost Your Immunity

We’re writing this on the 10th of April and as of today, things are looking grim. We take solace in the fact that researchers across the world are racing the clock to come up with a cure or vaccination of the dreaded coronavirus induced COVID-19 or SARS CoV-2. It is interesting to note that something mere nanometers in size, has us all scrambling to lock ourselves indoors in an attempt to avoid getting the infection. 

Amidst all the media noise, some important facts seem to have gone unnoticed. Healthcare professionals seem to agree that in a majority of the cases, assuming the individual is healthy and has no underlying conditions, your innate immunity alone may help you fight the disease off with minimal medical intervention. So far, a big chunk of the positive cases only got a mild infection and some even managed to stay at home and fight it out themselves.

This means that if your immune system is in top shape, you have excellent chances of beating COVID. And that brings us to the most abundantly Googled question in present times. HOW DO WE BOOST OUR IMMUNITY?

What is immunity?

Immunity is any system’s or organism’s ability to identify, resist and react to infections and toxins. In the human body, Your white blood cells are the most important part of your immunity system, and out of them, the Leukocytes are the most vital. Each type of WBC has a specific function from remembering the pathogen or toxin to attacking the pathogen and then empowering the body to produce the same reaction each time in the future. 

In general, our immunity is of three types.

Innate immunity – This is the basic immunity that you’re born with. Often your innate immunity is what protects you from everyday pathogens and even new pathogens.

Adaptive immunity – This is the immunity you develop in the course of life. As you grow, you come into contact with more and more pathogens/toxins and that teaches the immune system to react a certain way.

Passive immunity – Passive immunity is often short term and is a sort of borrowed immunity. A good example of this is a mother passing on some antibodies to her infant through breastmilk. Until such time as the infant’s body is capable of fighting for itself, the antibodies in his mother’s milk will do the job for him.

Immunity Against Coronavirus

This isn’t just a coronavirus, this is a Novel Coronavirus, which means that it is new to us.  It just got its genes sequenced and we’re still in the process of understanding and researching this new coronavirus strain. As of now, we have enough clinical evidence to say that like SARS and MERS, to other severe infections caused by other strains of coronaviruses, COVID too is something that affects your lungs. 

As per studies conducted on COVID patients, it has become known that your body produces two a bi-phased immune response to the novel Coronavirus. During the initial or the incubation or non-severe phase, a kind of adaptive immune response to prevent the disease from progressing into a worse stage is seen. This is where your immunity will be tested. For most healthy individuals, this will be the stage where your body starts presenting flu-like symptoms, accompanied by distinctive COVID symptoms like dry cough, difficulty to breathe, loss of sense of taste and smell, etc.

If at this phase, your immune system is impaired and thereby, fails to prevent progression into a more severe stage, much damage will happen. Your lung tissues will be hit first, subsequently, other organs too will be affected. Affected cells then get inflamed and lung inflammation is what turns the infection fatal in most cases.

So what most doctors understand is that if the body is able to put up a good immune response during the early stages of the infection, it is highly unlikely that the infection will progress to a life-threatening case. And that’s why boosting your immunity is probably your best chance to fight the SARS-CoV-2. With the number of positive cases rising as we speak, it could reach a point where healthcare systems are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of patients. If you start working towards improving your immunity, you could be lucky enough to fight this off at home with minimal medical support.

Easy Ways To Boost Your Immunity

We could write an entire book on how to boost immunity but let’s begin with a simple fact – Too much immunity may not be good. Immunity helps you best when maintained at an optimal level. Too much or too little is not good for any system. So, let’s look at some ways to improve your immunity, especially to fight off the novel coronavirus that’s wreaking havoc across the globe. 

Here we go – 

• Practice good personal hygiene. Stop touching your face, wash your hands regularly with soap for at least 20 seconds. Wear clean clothes, wear appropriate protective clothing if you have to step out. And try to stay away from sick people. 

• Quit smoking. That’s the best thing you can do right now. 

• Exercise regularly. You don’t need to hit the gym. There are enough tutorials available online for easy home workouts.

• Get enough sleep. With everyone locked indoors, this should not be difficult to do. Try to reduce screen time and get quality sleep instead.

• Alcohol should be avoided as much as possible. If you still want to have some, make sure you do it in moderation.

• Reduce stress. It’s hard not to get stressed when there’s a pandemic happening but stay away from the news and media if it negatively affects you. Stress helps nobody.

• Get supplements. Liposomal Vitamin C has been known to help improve your immune system. Order yourself some if you don’t have them already.

• Eat a balanced diet. Nutrition is paramount. Plenty of fresh fruits, lean meats, and leafy vegetables should be part of your daily diet.

• Keep your respiratory system in good shape. Steam inhalation helps. 

Why Vitamin C Should Be Your Best Friend Right Now

For decades now, researchers have found that Vitamin C plays an important role in the body’s immune response. And that’s why we have several kinds of Vitamin C products in the health supplement markets today. Liposomal Vitamin C, in particular, has shown higher absorbency, which is because Vitamin C is delivered in fat globules, also known as liposomes, which make it easier for the body to use it up. 

Simply Potent has a revolutionary and safe formulation for Liposomal Vitamin C which you can order right away and have delivered to your doorstep. Taking this pill regularly has shown significant improvement in overall health. 

Stay Indoors. Stay Safe

Yes, things are looking grim. There are even talks about stopping the lockdown to change the strategy and aim for “herd immunity” based approaches instead. This means that world Governments would just prevent doing anything to stop the spread and just equip themselves to help infected people instead. When this is done, a lot of people would contract the disease, most will recover and some will face major challenges. But in the end, our human race as a whole develops what researchers call herd immunity and we can put this pandemic behind us.

We’re not saying that this is what’s going to happen. It may. And if it does, your immunity has to be in top shape to fight your way out of this infection. We wish you the very best. Stay safe!