Be a part of the SOLUTION!
How are you taking care of yourself right now to improve your health, build your immune system up and become more relient?
I have said this weekly since March… self care is essential. Health is a choice… so let’s work on making the right choices to be healthy instead of the media just telling you to “stay healthy”!!!
Test and not guess here!
I do strongly believe everyone should be being apart of the SOLUTION by taking care of their own health building habits and creating new immune boosting routines.
I do believe we should be testing our gut health and microbiome divesity with a health practitioner with a functional lab test as with GI Map and Microbiome’s BiomeFx tests since 70-80% of your immune system is in your gut.
How is your SIgA?
How is your microbiome diversity?
Do you have any pathogens, bacteria and fungal infections?
You don’t know unless you test. You may look good on the outside but a mess on the inside!
You probably have NO idea that you are living with (and settling) HIDDEN internal chronic stressors– which is lowering your resiliency and immune system strength.
Are you fit and healthy on the outside… but unhealthy on the inside?
What is SIgA and how does it impact your immune health?
Through a process known as immune exclusion, SIgA promotes the clearance of antigens and pathogenic microorganisms from the intestinal lumen by blocking their access to epithelial receptors, entrapping them in mucus, and facilitating their removal by peristaltic and mucociliary activities.
https://www.nature.com/articles/mi201141
- SIgA promotes the clearance of antigens and pathogenic microorganisms from the intestinal lumen by blocking their access to epithelial receptors, entrapping them in mucus, and facilitating their removal by peristaltic and mucociliary activities.
- SIgA functions in mucosal immunity and intestinal homeostasis through mechanisms that have only recently been revealed.
- SIgA has been identified as having the capacity to directly quench bacterial virulence factors, influence composition of the intestinal microbiota by Fab-dependent and Fab-independent mechanisms, promote retro-transport of antigens across the intestinal epithelium to dendritic cell subsets in gut-associated lymphoid tissue
- SIgA downregulates proinflammatory responses normally associated with the uptake of highly pathogenic bacteria and potentially allergenic antigens.
- SIgA and their relationships with immunity and intestinal homeostasis.
- https://www.nature.com/articles/
Get starting on testing and stop guessing that you are healthy.
Be a part of the solution by taking ownership of you – as health is a choice and you are the only one who can help yourself.
Check under the hood as you would for your own car by scheduling a call here!
You do not know unless you run specific functional lab testing (all together) and assess the results with your health practitioner then get a specific health building protocol created for your needs, goals, lifestyle and personality!
Another article on SIga levels and our immune system- “Besides its well-documented capacity to protect the intestinal epithelium from toxins, viruses and pathogenic bacteria, SIgA demonstrates an array of other activities that are integral to the maintenance of mucosal homeostasis (Figure 3). SIgA influences the composition of the intestinal microbiota, down-regulates pro-inflammatory responses normally associated with the uptake of highly pathogenic bacteria and potentially allergenic antigens, and promotes the retro-transport of antigens across the intestinal epithelium to dendritic cell (DC) subsets in the GALT.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3774538/
We do hear a lot about the importance of taking Vitamin C and Vitamin D each day for our immune system.
Why?
Here are some of the benefits of Vitamin C from Seeking Health:
Key Benefits and Actions* of Vitamin C
- With natural supportive bioflavonoids
- May help support a healthy immune system
- May help support healthy eyes and skin
- May help support cardiovascular health
Optimal Vitamin C Powder by Seeking Health provides over 2,500 mg of buffered vitamin C in a great-tasting effervescent powder.
This important antioxidant may help support the immune system, healthy connective tissue and skin and normal levels of glutathione within the body.
As an antioxidant, vitamin C may protect cells from the damage caused by free radicals.
Free radicals are compounds formed as normal products of metabolism and in response to environmental exposures. We are exposed to free radicals each day in the environment from cigarette smoke, air pollution, and ultraviolet light from the sun. In addition to supporting the body’s healthy response to these exposures, the body also needs vitamin C to make collagen, a protein required to help wounds heal.*
Seeking Health
Optimal Vitamin C features antioxidant- and immune-supportive bioflavonoids quercetin, rutin and hesperidin. These are all naturally occurring bioflavonoids found in citrus fruits. Quercetin is also found in red wine and tea.
Our vitamin C is buffered with calcium and magnesium, making this product a gentler vitamin C option than other powders on the market. It is sweetened with stevia extract, without fructose or other undesirable sweeteners.
When added to water, the powder turns into a delicious fizzy drink, making it easy for kids or others with finicky palates to use.*
Also try our Optimal Liposomal Vitamin C, providing 1000 mg of vitamin C per serving with an advanced liposomal delivery format to facilitate optimal absorption.*
Let me know if you want to learn more by schedule a call with me to discover more here
May help support respiratory health
May help support liver health
May help support the body’s natural free-radical defenses
May help support a healthy immune system
- Vitamin C
- Zinc
- Quercetine
- NAC
- Vitamin D
- Glutathione
- SLEEP
- EXERCISE
- Hot/Cold Showers or cold immersion- cold thermogenesis (Vagal Tone)
- Get outside for sunlight exposure – Vitamin D
- Nasal breathing exercises- NOS3 Gene learn more here
More in supplement immune boosting tips on Mercola’s video…
Do you want to get your body and vibrant self back again? Transform the WHOLE you with “The WHOLESTIC Method” health coaching & the LOW CARB ATHLETE Podcast.
Debbie helps driven and ambitious people, who are trying to do all the “right” things, investigate what is actually going on “under the hood” to get their body and vibrant self back.
Perhaps you have seen multiple doctors and experts but they tell you everything is “normal” and there is nothing wrong with you. That was my experience. I refused to believe that “nothing is wrong with me” and this is part of “getting older”. This was not going to be the new me and stop me from investigating what was really going on from the inside out – under the hood.
You have a choice to take care of the WHOLE you and even transform the WHOLE you from the inside out. Please don’t give up and settle, as the struggle is real and you are not alone. If you feel exhausted trying to do all the “right” things and still can’t feel, move or look better then we need to take a different approach.
Remember- the definition of Insanity is …
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
If you are stuck in the “cycle of trial and error” then it is time to take a different approach and look at the WHOLE person with “The WHOLESTIC Method” investigation coaching program if you want to REPAIR-REBUILD-RESTORE the WHOLE you to be a fat burner, health optimizer and reach peak athletic performance gains.
Contact me to schedule a call to discovery more. Click here.
Tips for Performance & Longevity…(Opens in a new browser tab)