What kinds of foods help to boost the bodies natural immune system?!

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Boosting the immune system is meaningless statement made up by quacks as a gimmick. The immune system is just that; a system. It’s not a single entity but an extremely complex series of interactions on many levels. It's made up of special cells, proteins, tissues, and organs, and is not something you can just ‘boost’.

In any case, boosting would be bad – for example if you have a cold the symptoms are due to your immune response to the virus. Would you really want to boost that response and get increased fever, mucus, congestion and sneezing? Or produce an inflammatory response which can lead to things like heart attacks?

If you are run down or have not looking after yourself, your immune function can be improved, by healthy diet and lifestyle; but you cannot improve it past its optimal baseline.

Zero. There are no foods that do what you suggest.

The closest thing would be if you had a food allergy, but even then, the food in question wouldn't be *boosting* your immune system as *triggering a reaction* from it.

Any product claiming to "boost" your immune system beyond its baseline is a sham designed to steal your money. Further, were a product to actually succeed in "boosting" your immune system, you'd wind up with anything from new allergies to Type 1 Diabetes.

Immune system support products boost energy naturally; cleanse the colon and other organs in the body. While the best form of these is in dark green, leafy organic vegetables, you can also find herbal supplements containing chlorophyll and other antioxidants to help strengthen the immune system naturally.

In order to understand how antioxidants help the immune system and why you should choose immune system boosters as an addition to your food intake, you may want to first take stock of how you are feeling right now. If your energy level is low, these supplements can help boost your energy naturally.

This doesn't necessarily mean you are tired after a hard days work; it is about being tired most of the time, not feeling like participating in life, or choosing to take naps during the day when you could be out in the garden. If this is the case, it could be an indication of too many toxins in the body, resulting in an overall feeling of fatigue.

If you are prone to catching colds, or have digestive problems, this could be another indication of toxins causing poor immune system response. You need to normalize your immune system response naturally. Your body's natural protection against allergies, for example, maybe compromised by processed foods resulting in allergies where you might not have had them before.

Natural supplements can help detoxify and strengthen the immune system. These super food supplements contain digestive aids such as barley grass--no more constipation--which is high in iron and contains live enzymes. This is taken much easier in powdered supplement form, as barley grass is chewy.

Flax seed is another great supplement as it enriches the blood and contains the good kind of fatty acids. (Most people shy away from anything that contain the word "fatty," but some "fats" are goods for you.) You can take flax seed included in supplements or take it directly as flax seed oil--it tastes much better than cod liver oil, too! Or buy ground flax seeds and use when baking, or even sprinkle a little in your cereal or yogurt.

Sea vegetation, such as kelp, is a wonderful source of antioxidant. This green powdered supplement, along with algae, is sold as green super food and contains all of the super natural nutrients and antioxidants to restore your natural energy and help in building immune systems.

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For immune system support, eat foods that contain Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Zince, and Selenium. In addition, you supplement your diet to make sure you are getting enough of these nutrients - particularly during the winter months.

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There is a natural supplement that is extremely effective in improving immune system function. In fact, it is the ONLY supplement scientifically and clinically PROVEN to do so. It is called Immunocal.

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