Strengthening Your Immune System

Strengthening Your Immune System

The immune system is spread throughout the body and incorporates many types of proteins, tissues, organs, and cells, it can distinguish our tissue from foreign tissue. It’s your immune system’s job to defend your body against illness and disease.

This multiple system is made up of cells in your skin, blood, bone marrow, tissues, and organs that when working the way they should protect your body against potentially harmful pathogens and limit damage from noninfectious agents.

Strengthening Your Immune System
Strengthening Your Immune System

Keep it healthy

To best preserve your body from harm, each component of your immune system needs to perform exactly according to plan. A good way you can ensure that happens is to practice healthy behaviors every day that your immune system runs on.

In all cases, the immune system is different but, as a general rule, it becomes vigorous during adulthood as, by this time, we have been developed more immunity and exposed to more pathogens. This is a reason why adults and teens tend to get sick less often than children.

The immune mechanisms

For example, once an antibody has been developed, a copy remains in the body so that if the same antigen appears again, it can be handle with more efficiency.

There are other infectious conditions, such as the common cold, influenza, pneumonia, and diarrheal diseases, that can be caught again and again; these seem to contradict the notion of specific immunity. But the reason such illnesses can recur is that many different infectious agents produce similar symptoms

Consequently, even though infection with a particular agent does protect against reinfection by that same pathogen, it does not confer protection from other pathogens that have not been encountered.

Exercise regularly

If you exercise regularly, this lowers your risk of developing chronic diseases like heart disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes, as well as bacterial infections and viral.

Exercise also increments the release of endorphins, which is a group of hormones in charge of reducing pain and create feelings of pleasure making it a good way to control stress. So definitely exercise can boost our immune system positively.

Good quality sleep

It is well known that your body heals and regenerates while you sleep, so producing adequate sleep is critical for a healthy immune response. Doctors agree that is a time when your body produces and distributes key immune cells like T cells, interleukin 12, and cytokines.

When you don’t get enough sleep, your immune system may not do these things as well, making it less able to defend your body against harmful invaders and making you more likely to get sick.

Avoid stress

Our body relies on hormones like cortisol during short-term bouts of stress. Specialists have shown that cortisol has a beneficial effect of actually preventing the immune system from responding before the stressful event is over so your body can respond to the immediate stressor.

But when cortisol levels are constantly high, it essentially stops the immune system from kicking into gear and doing its job to protect the body against potential threats from germs like viruses and bacteria.