7 Tips For a Healthy Immune System During Cold and Flu Season

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“As the hustle and bustle of the holidays ensues, it’s common for us to reach for pre-packaged snacks and convenience foods more often then we normally would. Clearly, these types of foods are not as high in essential vitamins and minerals as is freshly prepared fare,” Dr. Reeves explains. Make taking a multivitamin part of your daily routine. Consider adding other types of beneficial daily supplements, such as Vitamin D, fish oil, an optimized juice concentrate – like grape or the exotic mangosteen.

As the weather cools down and people retreat indoors for the fall and winter seasons, a combination of factors can have a negative health impact. The cooler months bring with them the hectic holiday season, where people typically eat less healthfully, experience higher levels of stress, exercise less, get fewer hours of sleep and are in contact with more people (and germs!). All these things can lead to a run-down immune system and cause an influx in the incidence of colds and flu. Stuart Reeves, Ph.D., author, researcher and biotechnology scientist, shares his tips for keeping your immune system healthy during the colder months and hectic holidays.