Reduce Stress and Get Plenty of Sleep
Stress is can be both an outside thing and an inside thing. You have the opportunity to choose how you react to any situation. It is true that chronic stress reduces the capabilities of your immune system and makes you more vulnerable to disease. According to Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. and author of The Biology of Belief, your body cannot be in positive production mode and defense mode at the same time.
Quality sleep is important. Minimize your stress so that you sleep well. This will certainly make you reduce your vulnerability.
Improve the Function of Your Nervous System
Your nervous system is your body’s main communication highway, relaying nerve signals to every single, cell, tissue, and organ in the entire body, allowing the body to perform all vital functions in order to sustain life. It is ESSENTIAL to maintain the integrity of this communication highway in order to live a healthy lifestyle. More importantly, the nervous system supplies communication to the thymus, spleen, adrenal glands, and lymph glands, all of which play pivotal roles in the function of your immune system.
Chiropractic care improves posture, which can improve the health of your nervous system. In addition, correcting spinal imbalances can influence basic physiological processes affecting oxidative stress and DNA repair. Reducing oxidative stress is an important factor in immune function.
In a study by Ronald Pero Ph.D., subjects under chiropractic care demonstrated higher mean serum thiol levels than patients with active disease and produced some values that were higher than normal wellness values.
Social Interaction
Community equals immunity. The NCBI states that social relationships, both quantity and quality, affect mental health, health behavior, physical health, and mortality risk. Social isolation of otherwise healthy, well-functioning individuals eventually results in psychological and physical disintegration, and even death.
Good Nutrition
Make good nutrition your new lifestyle by choosing QCs over ECs (quality calories over empty calories) every time you’re faced with a food choice. A proper nutritional regimen consisting of organic or pasture fed quality proteins, organic green leafy vegetables, organic whole foods that include healthy sources of EFAs (essential fatty acids) in balance, and monounsaturated fats such as avocados, nuts, and seeds. (Editor’s note: Select according to your genetics/blood type)
· Choose quality calories over empty calories
· Supplement your diet
· Avoid processed foods
· Avoid canned foods
· Avoid white rice, sugar, flour, and pasta
· Avoid regular and diet soda
· Minimize caffeine and alcohol
· Avoid GMOs
· Avoid non-organic and processed foods
· Avoid damaged fats and oils
Technology
Limiting technology use can improve your health dramatically. Diagnoses of ADHD, autism, coordination disorder, developmental delays, unintelligible speech, learning difficulties, sensory processing disorder, anxiety, depression, and sleep disorders are associated with technology overuse, and are increasing at an alarming rate.
Raise a Least Vulnerable Family
Apply these principles to raising your family and everyone you love will be healthier for it, becoming less vulnerable to infections and experiencing better health now and for a lifetime.