Maintaining Immune System Health

Essentially, the number one priority of a healthy immune system is DEFENSE. In other words, the immune system is a complex and dynamic defense system that is responsible for keeping you well, and it’s always working to protect your body from challenges and “foreign invaders”, which believe it or not, enter your body all the time.

It’s hard to believe that every minute of every day there is a battle raging inside of your body between your immunity defense—the GOOD GUYS—and the BAD GUYS, such as viruses, allergens, toxic substances and other foreign invaders (like pathogenic bacteria, parasites and fungi).

The stronger and more supported your immune system health is, the better able you are to remain healthy and happy.

Why It’s Crucial to Support Your Immune System

There are certain times and seasons when the immune system faces more challenges, has to combat more foreign invaders and is forced to overcome more hurdles. For example, there are many things in life that threaten our immunity defense, such as:

• Getting older
• Poor hygiene (aka, not washing hands as often as you should)
• Not moving your body as often or as much as you should
• Exercising too hard/too much
• Too much stress
• Not getting enough sleep
• Staying up too late
• Eating too much junk food
• Not eating enough micronutrient-rich whole foods
• Drinking too much alcohol
• Loneliness and isolation
• Poor gut health

While “bad bugs” are a threat year-round, their activity tends to rise in the fall, peak between December and February, and last well into the spring. During those times, as well as under circumstances like those mentioned above, supporting your immune system health become critically important.

11 Best Strategies to Support Immune Defense

The good news is there are multiple lifestyle and prevention strategies that can help support healthy immune system function to keep you healthy, including:

1. Wash your hands often, for at least 20 seconds, especially after you’ve been in public or after blowing your nose, coughing or sneezing.
2. Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands.
3. Avoid close contact with people who are sick, and if you are sick, stay home.
4. Clean and disinfect high-touch surfaces at least once daily.
5. Exercise moderately daily but don’t overdo it.
6. Clean up your diet, focusing on healthful foods while avoiding/limiting processed foods and alcohol. (It should go without saying, but don’t smoke.)
7. Get your gut health in order by choosing clean, healthy foods, eating mindfully and using digestive enzymes, probiotics, prebiotics, and gut-support nutrients when appropriate.
8. Stay connected, nourish your relationships and maintain healthy social support.
9. Get outdoors as often as possible. Not only is the air quality better outside, Mother Nature releases copious stress-relieving and immune-boosting compounds into the air for your consumption.
10. Manage stressful thoughts by judiciously practicing meditation, prayer, gratitude, forest bathing and activities like yoga.
11. Prioritize sleep and do whatever you can to get 7 - 9 hours of quality sleep per night, which you can foster by practicing healthy sleep hygiene, such as making sure your bedroom is dark, cool and quiet.

While those immune support strategies can go a long way toward keeping you healthy, the right immune support supplements can provide additional support for healthy immune system function. In fact, studies have shown that certain nutrients can provide support for immune challenges and even support healthy immune system function during cold and flu season.^{Footnote †}

How Ageless Immunity Works to Support a Healthy Immune System

You see, the immune system is not just one thing… it is an intricate network of specialized organs, tissues, cells and chemicals that protect the host (that’s YOU) from toxins and pathogens. Although immune defense mechanisms are very complex, they are typically organized into three main categories:

• Physical barriers, which work to keep foreign invaders out.
• Innate immunity, the body’s “first line of defense”, which includes many types of white blood cells that work to defend and protect the body from foreign invaders.
• Adaptive immunity, which includes lymphocytes that function to destroy invading pathogens and any toxic molecules they produce.

In addition to addressing and supporting those “branches” of the immune system, antioxidants promote immune support. In other words, immune system health depends on healthy antioxidant status.

Along those lines, Ageless Immunity is an advanced 4-in-1 immune support supplement that helps maintain the immune system function within a normal, healthy, balanced state by providing, support for 4 key areas of healthy immune system function. Here’s an overview of the key ingredients in Ageless Immunity and how they support immune system health:

• Echinacea purpurea supports immune health, as it is often used to because it may have antioxidant effects and may help support normal, healthy inflammatory responses.^{Footnote †}
• N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine (NAC) is an antioxidant that is traditionally used to support detoxification and respiratory health. NAC is a precursor to glutathione, the body’s master antioxidants and one of the body’s major detoxification factors.^{Footnote †}
• Zinc is perhaps the best-known immuno-nutrient, as it provides immune support properties and may help support a healthy, balanced immune response. While there are different forms of zinc, research suggests that zinc acetate may be particularly promising for supporting immune health.^{Footnote †}
• Vitamin C provides antioxidant support and is traditionally used to support the immune system. In fact, vitamin C has been used at higher doses to provide support for immune challenges since its discovery in the early 1900s.^{Footnote †}

Support healthy immune system function daily with Ageless Immunity!