3 Essential Foods to Boost Immunity

Tis the season...✨

I have experienced it and am just recovering. My family, community + clients are also in the midst of it. 

What? Cold, Flus, runny noses, coughs, congestions, fevers and it goes on and on!

Sharing with 3 essential foods to boost your immunity so that you...

• Prevent sickness
• Reduce the length of time of feeling the symptoms
• Decrease the severity of symptoms

The 3 essential foods are

• Probiotics
• Prebiotics
• Fiber

These are the three nutrients that will support you in 

• Feeding the good flora/bacteria that make up your immunity
• Increase the good flora/bacteria in the body – arming your body with support to fight the virus and bacteria
• Removes toxins, bacteria all things that don’t belong in the body

Probiotics

• Foods that contain flora and good bacteria
• Food Sources: yogurt, kefir, kombucha, sauerkraut, pickles, miso, tempeh, kimchi, sourdough bread
• When you start to feel a tinkle in your throat or slight runny nose, up your intake of probiotic foods
• Also if you take any antibiotics - you need to up your intake of probiotics – they antibiotics wipe out your all your bacteria leaving you exposed after to all virus and bacteria

Prebiotics 

• Foods that feed the good bacteria/flora
• Food Sources: bananas, garlic, potatoes, oats, dandelion root

Fiber

• Is sourced from carbohydrates – carbohydrates are important in boosting your gut health
• Has two functions: 
  • feeds microbiome
  • creates bulk in stool 
• Food Sources: fruits with edible peel or seeds, vegetables, stone ground corn meal, cereals, bran, rolled oats, buckwheat and brown rice

Add these essential foods to boost your immune health and feel the difference!