5 ways to take care of it

The immune system is a wonderfully well-oiled machine. Composed of different organs and cells, the body’s surveillance and defense system plays a role that could not be more essential in the face of viral but also bacterial attacks.

Why boost your immune system?

Sensitive to external attacks, the immune system can quickly weaken if care is not taken to strengthen it. Indeed, the body is not always able to defend itself when a foreign agent takes place in the body: the defense antibodies naturally secreted by the immune system to eradicate the foreign body are sometimes not sufficient.

And the reasons for a weakened immune system can be various:

• Age: aging is a major factor. Immune defenses tend to weaken over the years, due to a reduction in production of B cellsone of the major constituents of immune system
• Pregnancy : in many cases, immune defenses weaken when a woman becomes pregnant. The reason lies in the development of the embryo, which requires a large amount of energy and puts the organism to the test.
• Cold : in the fall and winter seasons, regardless of the general outside temperatures, the cold will never have the power to intensify the virulence of a virus. Also, if we fall ill more often in winter, it is because the immune system is already weakened and no longer manages to renew its production of antibodies quickly enough to cope with the large number of viruses.

The intestinal microbiota at the heart of concerns

While scientific research has revealed, over time and work, that more than 70% of immune cells were on the gut side, and particularly within the intestinal flora, it is no longer a question of dissociating the intestinal system from the immune system. To strengthen its immune defenses, it is therefore necessary to strengthen its microbiota. Trace elements, nutrients, vitamins and food compliments may be necessary to boost your immune system.

But boosting one’s defenses is one thing, truly taking care of one’s immune system is one… To avoid having to strengthen it, it is much more useful not to weaken it. Medisite shares with you, in this slideshow below, 5 ways to take care of your immune system.