Our TOP 5 ALL NATURAL and DRUG FREE choices that you need to keep your immune system happy, healthy, and strong!
CHIROPRACTIC
The Central or Autonomic Nervous System is the main connection between chiropractic and a strong immune system. It’s a simple 3-step framework:
- Excessive STRESS (Emotional, Chemical, and Physical) stacks up and build up in our lives, and creates a “shift” in our nervous system that often leads it to be STUCK in what’s called fight-or-flight sympathetic overdrive (subluxation)
- Excessive sympathetic stress then SUPPRESSES the immune system (as well as the gut and other major systems)
- This then leaves us more SUSCEPTIBLE to illness of all sorts, and makes it harder to overcome and get through an illness, prolonging the SICKNESS
Chiropractic can also help improve the Nervous System’s function, which in turn can help other vital systems like the immune system!
- The adjustment RELEASES and REDUCES that built up stress
- The Nervous System then achieves better BALANCE, aka less sympathetic stress
- The Immune System can then function better, helping fight off illness and get through them faster, and overall STAY HEALTHY
EXERCISE
GET MOVING – exercise is an essential “nutrient” to reduce stress and detox the body! Pick your favorite kind, and get after it 3-5x per week!
NUTRITION
Eat a well-balanced diet consisting mostly of unprocessed whole foods.
- Buy whole foods and cook/bake your own meals, breads, snacks, desserts (limited), etc.
Eliminated (or do your best to reduce) sugar, partially hydrogenated fats/trans fats, and heavily processed foods.
- Watch sugar intake, including natural sugars
- Avoid margarine, vegetable shortening, canola oil, etc. Eat and cook with olive oil, butter/ghee, coconut oil, and lard
- Avoid frozen foods, processed foods, and foods with long ingredient lists. Instead choose real foods, such as high-quality meat and fish, eggs, colorful, fruits and vegetables, whole fat dairy, nuts, beans, and whole grains (as your diet permits). *Choose organic, pasture-raised, grass-fed, antibiotic- and hormone-free, and non-GMO when possible
Drink plenty of water and limit beverages high in sugar and caffeine.
SUPPLEMENTS
- Vitamin C – Thorne Vitamin C with Flavonoids
- Vitamin D – Thorne Vitamin D/K2
- Curcumin – Meriva 500-SF
- Fish Oil – Carlson’s Wild Caught Elite Omegas
- Probiotics – Protocol Chewable Probiotic
At the first signs of illness:
- Immune Support by Oxygen
- Zinc
- Higher doses of vitamin C
- Higher doses of vitamin D
- Raw local honey
- Activated charcoal
- Shop online: www.hansonfamilychiro.store
SLEEP
GET YOUR ZZZ’S – sleep is also beyond critical to a healthy body and healthy immune system. It’s when our body reboots, repairs, and gets to work on clearing out all the stress we incurred during the day.