Boosting Your Immunity For Dummies
1st Edition
Published on 14. January 2021
192 pages
978-1-119-81025-4 (ISBN)
Description
Charge up your immune system with powerful and simple tactics
Your immune system stands between you and all the world's colds, flus, bugs, infections, and other illnesses. So why not keep it supercharged and ready to go? Boosting Your Immunity For Dummies, Portable Edition, shows you how to use nutrition and superfoods, detoxification, and other lifestyle changes to power up your immune system and keep it in tip-top shape.
Doctors Wendy Warner and Kellyann Petrucci-experts and specialists in holistic strategies for wellness-demonstrate how you can use commonsense solutions and strategies to minimize illnesses, increase your well-being, and maximize your health. You'll learn:
- Why your immune system is your ticket to a stronger, longer, and healthier life
- What happens when your immune system doesn't perform as it should
- How to tap into the immune properties of superfoods
- How to benefit from detoxification to refresh your immunity
Whether you're new to a healthy lifestyle or a seasoned pro, Boosting Your Immunity For Dummies, Portable Edition, will set you on a solid path to understanding and supporting your immune system.
Drs. Wendy Warner and Kellyann Petrucci are medical doctors specializing in holistic strategies for wellness. Together, they've dedicated their professional lives to helping patients achieve healthy balance and overall well-being.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Chapter 1 Immunity: Your Ticket to a Stronger, Longer, and Healthier Life
- Super Immunity 101
- Starting with your immune system
- Boosting your immunity with nutritional excellence
- Considering super immunity and modern medicine
- Living Longer, Stronger, and Healthier
- Focusing on healthy cells
- Turning on your "super immunity" genes
- Choosing health
- Boosting Your Immunity to Look and Feel Amazing
- Looking younger
- Increasing vitality
- Getting a good night's sleep
- Clearing up skin and digestive issues
- Chapter 2 Strengthening Your Allergy Defense System
- Battling Sneezes, Sniffles, and Itchy Eyes
- Getting to the root of the allergic reaction
- Pinpointing causes of allergic rhinitis
- Diagnosing allergic rhinitis
- Using conventional medicine treatment for allergies
- Choosing natural medicine treatment for allergies
- Catching Your Breath Again: Asthma
- Diagnosing asthma
- Using conventional medical treatment for asthma
- Choosing natural medicine treatments for asthma
- Soothing Scaly, Itchy Skin: Eczema
- Diagnosing eczema
- Using conventional medical treatment for eczema
- Choosing natural medical treatment for eczema
- Distinguishing between Food Allergies and Food Sensitivities
- Immediate/acute food allergies
- Delayed food-allergy reactions and food sensitivities
- Chapter 3 Cancer: When the Immune System Takes a Vacation
- Understanding the Changes in Cells that Lead to Cancer
- Tracking dangerous cell mutations
- Skipping apoptosis: Planned cell death and how it relates to cancer
- Weeding out cancer cells
- Realizing that even a good immune system can't always keep up
- Reducing Your Chances of Recurrence after Chemotherapy or Radiation
- Making dietary interventions specific to cancer
- Managing stress: Cortisol and cancer prevention
- Cleaning up your environment
- Chapter 4 Uncovering the Influence of Immunity in Other Conditions
- Chronic Inflammation: From Achy Joints to Alzheimer's
- The inflammatory process
- Achy joints
- Heart disease
- Diabetes
- Alzheimer's disease
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), or Leaky Gut Syndrome
- Diagnosing IBS
- Treating IBS
- Acne and Chronic Skin Conditions
- Acne
- Psoriasis
- Eczema
- Contact dermatitis
- Chapter 5 Improving Your Immunity with Nutrition
- Calling in Nutrition's Big Guns
- Powerful Protein: Making You Healthy (and Thin!)
- Traditional sources of protein: Meat, fish, and eggs
- Vegetarian protein options
- Healthy Fats: Protecting Your Body
- Saturated fats
- Monounsaturated fats (MUFAs)
- Polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs)
- Refined fats and oils to avoid
- Carbs Your Body Will Love: Getting Your Charge Back
- Healthy carbohydrates: Vegetables
- Healthy carbohydrates: Fruits
- Chapter 6 Choosing Good Foods, Avoiding Bad Foods
- Building Your Plate for Everyday Wellness and Robust Immunity
- Finding the right portion sizes
- Satisfying your thirst
- Staying Away from Foods on the Proceed-with-Caution List
- Unhealthy grains
- Beans and legumes
- Dairy and stuff
- Avoiding Certain Foods at All Cost
- "Frankenfoods"
- Sneaky food additives
- Sugar: The monkey on your back
- Having to Say Goodbye to Foods You Love, or Do You?
- Salt: Friend or foe?
- Are desserts on the menu?
- How about happy hour?
- Restarting Your Health and Nutrition with the "Boosting 30"
- Chapter 7 Tapping the Immune Properties of Superfoods
- Getting the Scoop on Superfoods
- Separating superfoods from the rest of the pack
- Tacking on a superfood bonus: Weight loss
- Robust, Everyday Superfoods with the "It" Factor
- Dark chocolate
- Fruits
- Nuts and seeds
- Spices and herbs
- Teas
- Vegetables
- Chapter 8 Planning and Stocking an Immunity-Friendly Kitchen
- Getting Started: Cleaning Out Your Kitchen
- Restocking Your Kitchen for a Boosting Future
- Picking proteins your body will love
- Choosing produce with boosting power
- Selecting fabulous fats for a nourishing kitchen
- Adding in kitchen staples for eating well
- Shopping for Healthy Foods
- Getting food straight from the farm
- Exploring traditional grocers and health food stores
- Buying organic: Do's and don'ts
- Chapter 9 Living an Immunity-Friendly Lifestyle
- Getting More from Your Daily Routine
- Sleep
- Sunshine
- Water
- Exercise
- Exploring Ways to Reduce Stress
- Massage
- Yoga and meditation
- The HeartMath solution
- Chiropractic
- Naturopathy
- Energy work
- Chapter 10 Considering Vaccinations and How They Work
- Teaching Your Immune System to Remember and Fight
- Weighing Pros and Cons of Vaccination
- Making an Informed Decision about Flu Shots
- Chapter 11 Exploring Detoxification to Refresh Your Immunity
- Deciding to Detox
- What is a detox, and is it right for you?
- Weighing the pros and cons of detoxing
- Meeting the Key Players in Detoxification
- Our Immune-Boosting Detox Strategy
- Setting yourself up for detoxing success
- Detoxing with supplement powder and medical foods
- Detoxing with foods and drinks alone
- Adding supplements to support detoxification
- Detoxifying Your Environment
- Starting with self-care products
- Improving your surroundings at home and work
- Chapter 12 Ten Breathing Exercises for a Better Immune System
- Breath Awareness Exercise
- Three-Part Breath
- Rhythmic Breathing
- Ujjayi Breath
- Breath of Fire
- Lion's Breath
- Alternate Nostril Breathing
- Yogi Nerve Revitalizing Breath
- Sitali Breath
- Breath Retention
- Chapter 13 Ten Tips to Avoid Colds and Flu
- Wash Your Hands
- Clean Your Phones and Keyboards
- Air Out Your Workspace
- Get a Good Night's Sleep
- Take a Walk
- Eat an Orange Every Day
- Take Oscillococcinum
- Supplement with Herbal Andrographis
- Take Echinacea in Root Extract or Tea Form
- Up Your Vitamin D Intake
- Index
- EULA
