Healthy ways to strengthen your immune system
Healthy lifestyle.
Maintain a healthy weight
Wash your hands frequently and cook meats thoroughly.
Keep current with all recommended vaccines.
Counterarguments
Increase immunity
Boosting the cells of your immune system is complicated, there are so many different kinds of cells in the immune system that respond to so many different microbes.
The body is continually generating immune cells, more lymphocytes than it can possibly use.
No one knows how many cells immune system needs to function at its optimum level.
Age
As we age, our immune response capability becomes reduced.
Drop in T cells or whether other changes play a role is not fully understood.
The bone marrow becomes less efficient at producing the stem cells.
A reduction in immune response to infections
Improve immunity with herbs and supplements?
There is no evidence that they actually bolster immunity to the point where you are better protected against infection and disease.
Stress and immune function
In an experiment, scientist can change one factor such as the amount of a particular chemical, and measure the effect of it, such as the amount of antibodies produced by a particular type of immune system cell.
Despite these inevitable difficulties in measuring the relationship of stress to immunity, scientists are making progress.
