1. Wash Your Hands…Frequently
The one defense you have against accidental sneeze contact: frequent hand-washing. This primer will help you brush up on how to do it right, so you can lower your risk of exposure to this and other viruses. Follow these tips from Arbogast:
—Place both hands under running water (the temperature doesn’t matter), and then coat them with liquid soap. One pump of the dispenser should be enough.
—For about 20 seconds (roughly the time it takes to sing the alphabet), create a lather that coats both hands, especially fingernails and fingertips. “This is the part of the hand where the most touching and germ transferring takes place,” says Arbogast.
—Rinse off the suds completely, and then dry your hands thoroughly. There’s some evidence that wet hands are more likely to transfer or pick up germs than dry ones.
2. Consume immune strengthening foods, herbs, and nutrients
Consider those things that help solidify a strong immune system, such as:
- Adaptogenic herbs (reishi, siberian ginseng, astragalus, gynostemma, una de gato, pau d’arco)
- Liver supporting herbs (milk thistle, dandelion root, yellow dock root, burdock root, artichoke, turmeric)
- Vitamin C (camu camu, acerola cherry, guava, peppers, kale, oranges)
- Vitamin D (sunlight and/or fermented cod liver oil)
- Zinc (supplement or pumpkin seeds)
- Probiotics (supplement or consider sauerkraut, coconut kefir, apple cider vinegar, and kombucha)
The foods, herbs, and ingestible nutrients listed will provide your immune system with exceptional benefits, and can be consumed in whole food, capsules, tinctures, and tea.
3. Ditch foods and behaviors that suppress the immune system
Another very important factor to unleash your immune system is to stop consuming foods and engaging in behaviors that depress it. The biggest culprits in immune suppression are:
- Sugar (especially refined)
- Alcohol
- Dairy
- Corn, soy, and wheat (gluten)
- Hydrogenated foods
- Excess animal protein
- Excess flour intake
- Highly processed foods
- Chronic stress
- Excessive EMF exposure
- Limited sunshine or vitamin D supplementation
3 Ways To Really Protect Yourself From Ebola was originally published on blackdoctor.org
