Immunity Improvement Menu in Omicron Epidemic

The recent outbreak of the new covid epidemic in the world is mainly caused by Omicron virus strains. Although the probability of infected people being asymptomatic and mildly ill is as high as 99.7%, it has the characteristics of a high R0 value (basic infection number), and the transmission capacity is high. As high as 1 person can spread to 50 people, even if you only take off the mask for a few minutes in the face of confirmed cases, it may make the risk of infection soar.

Get more knowledge about How Cistanche Improves Immune System

Because of Omicron's high infectivity, everyone is worried that it will happen to him/herself" In this regard, taking a famous physician's daily life as an example, first in early April, the restaurant where he was eating overlapped with the confirmed patient for 15 minutes and diagnosed negative, later in early May because her husband was diagnosed, she was again, she even revealed that the night before her husband was not positive for the quick test, the two had close contact, but she was quick screening and PCR. Up to 9 times, they were all negative, which made her playfully call herself "negative queen".

In fact, in addition to wearing masks, maintaining social distance, and washing hands frequently, a lot of nutritional supplements can also improve immunity and have the opportunity to reduce the risk of infection. A patient in our company just happened to share her secret recipe to replenish good anti-epidemic ingredients. As long as good living habits are combined, even close contacts can have good immunity against the virus.

Staying up late and drinking more water are very important! These 6 nutrients are indispensable in to fight against the epidemic

Nutritionists remind us that drinking plenty of water and getting enough rest is an integral part of epidemic prevention. At the same time, avoid eating too oily or too spicy in the diet, and at the same time ensure sufficient calorie intake, especially protein as the basic nutrition of immune cells.  'Supplement a lot of needed vitamins.'

She suggested that friends who are implementing weight loss or eating diet meals can take a break recently, and don't stay up late to watch dramas because feel bored at home isolation, develop good physical strength, and improve the best immune state and Stay healthy!

Vitamin A: Protects epithelial cells and helps repair throat mucosa

Recommended ingredients: carrot, sweet potato, pumpkin, papaya, egg yolk, pork liver

Vitamin C: The Best Choice for Boosting Immunity

Recommended ingredients: Most of them can be supplemented with vegetables and fruits. The fruit part recommends seasonal guava, and vegetables can only get more vitamin C when they are eaten raw. It is recommended to clean them before eating raw to avoid gastrointestinal discomfort.

Vitamin D: regulate calcium balance, and improve immunity, and cardiopulmonary function

Recommended ingredients: milk, black fungus, various mushrooms, pork liver, saury and other fatty fish

If you do not need to be isolated at home and can move around freely, you can also let the body synthesize vitamin D by itself by basking in the sun.

Vitamin E: Anti-Aging, Your Immune System's Best Friend

Recommended ingredients: a variety of nuts, vegetable oils and avocados

Zinc: Aids in protein synthesis and maintains normal taste.

Recommended ingredients: shelled seafood such as clams and oysters, corn, pumpkin seeds, fermented bread, dried shiitake mushrooms

Traditinal Chinese Medicine-Cistanche: 

Cistanche is a parasitic plant parasitic on the roots of the desert tree Haloxylon, and absorbs nutrients and water from the Haloxylon host. Known as "desert ginseng", it has high medicinal value and is a traditional Chinese precious herbal medicine. It has been recorded in ancient medical writings, saying that "this is a calming and tonic agent. It is warm but not hot, tonic but not severe, warm but not dry, slippery but not leaking, and has a calm and relaxing appearance, hence the name Cistanche."

Cistanche contains phenely glycosides, polysaccharides, trace elements and crystalline neutral substances. It can be used to make tea or cook porridge to invigorate the kidneys and help yang, soothe the intestines and relieve constipation and lower blood pressure. Clinically, it is mostly used in the treatment of low immunity, infertility, cold pain in the waist and knees or weakness of muscles and bones, constipation caused by dry intestines and dryness, postpartum blood deficiency, and insufficient body fluids. Cistanche has hemostatic and antihypertensive effects, and has certain curative effects on nephritis, renal hemorrhage, chronic fatigue syndrome, cystitis, bladder hemorrhage and hypertension.

Should vitamin supplements be used? Exercise more and eat fruits and vegetables

Since you can rely on the nutrients you get from fruits and vegetables to boost your immunity, isn't it better to just eat high-dose nutritional supplements? During the epidemic, advertisements for nutritional products were prevalent, claiming that there are a lot of vitamins and minerals, which can effectively boost the immune system. Nutrient support is required, but evidence does not show that "higher nutrient doses make the immune system function better." Maybe we can still supplement from natural foods first.

In addition, Carla Rosenbrough, a registered dietitian and president of Words to Eat By, also reminded that as long as you exercise at least 150 minutes a week, try to reduce stress and maintain adequate sleep, and eat more fruits and vegetables in your daily diet, you can actually It can supplement the nutrients the human body needs, and there is no need to buy additional nutritional supplements. If you really want to take extra supplements, you should consult with a professional first, so as to avoid excessive intake and adverse reactions in the body.