How To Strengthen Your Immune System

Our immune system is constantly working and fighting to keep us healthy.  When we get sick or injured, we know that our immune system is working in overdrive to bring us back to "homestasis" or back to good health.  We often don't think about our immune system when we feel good.  However, taking precautions to prevent illness is often overlooked until its too late.  Your immune system needs proper care so that your best defenses can be sent in when illness sets in.  You want your immune "soldiers" to be so well equipped that the virus or bacteria that enters your body doesn't stand a chance to make you sick!  Like many of our body's functions and processes, our immune system is controlled, governed, and regulated by our nervous system.  To optimize our immune response, we need to optimize our function of the nervous systems.
What are some things to consider to strengthen your immune system?  Neurologically-based chiropractic care will help the nervous system function better.  Think of it like your car; your nervous system is the gas pedal that sends the signal to the engine to make the car move.  If you don't have a gas pedal, getting the car to move is not likely to happen!  Chiropractic adjustments trigger an activation within the neuro-immuno-endocrine systems (see diagram above).  One chiropractic adjustment boosts the body's immune response by 200%!  Other things that are just as important as regular chiropractic adjustments to help build our immune response are eating fruits and vegetables (getting vitamin C), sunshine (getting vitamin D), drinking plenty of water, relaxing the mind (meditation), washing your hands (just plain hygiene), and exercising.  Move your body daily to promote a healthy immune response, even if its getting out for a 20 minute walk over lunch.  Keep sugar intake down as sugar depletes the immune cells' response to bacteria and viruses.  We also suggest to support gut health by taking superfoods to maintain proper gut function (we suggest an algae like chlorella and spirulina).
Our body works hard for us daily, so we need to make sure we work hard to equip it with the proper tools it needs to keep us healthy and happy!
Yours in Health,

Dr. Nicholas J. Knutson, DC

Owner/Doctor

MOUNTAIN ISLAND CHIROPRACTIC

10917 Black Dog Ln., Suite 101 

Charlotte, NC 28214

Tel (704) 394-8556

Fax (704) 395-8556

mtnislandchiro.com

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