First, get to know your immune system
Your immune system is a network of tissues, proteins and leukocytes (i.e. white blood cells). When it’s not warding off infections, it’s helping detox your body by clearing out cellular debris and draining excess fluids.
This isn’t a recap of your AP Bio class. Just a brief look at understanding the obvious: how your immune system protects you from pathogens like viruses and bacteria.
There’s a lot to get into. And we won’t bore you with specifics of how leukocytes, lymphocytes and phagocytes, neutrophils, eosinophils, monocytes and basophils work together (you’re welcome).
But, what you need to know is that in order for your well-oiled, finely tuned immune machine to hum along, you’ll need to make sure you’re well-stocked on the proper vitamins, minerals and nutrition it needs so that it’s well-regulated and ready to go.
Staying hydrated is the foundation to a healthy immune system
Whether you’re staying hydrated with Buoy + Immunity or elsewhere, make sure you’re getting what you need.
Stay properly hydrated, people!
Be in the know before choosing an immune supplement
Some immune supplements focus on just one specific vitamin, mineral, or herb. Others tend to throw everything under the sun in one capsule, including artificial fillers. And when you do find a clean, responsibly sourced ingredient you’re excited about, the price tag makes you shiver.
Popular products tout large amounts of just one vitamin, mineral or herb
- Although it’s often better than no supplement at all, overloading your body with more than enough nutrition just means you’ll pass it before you can use it.
- Sure, Vitamin C is great. But a robust immune system needs more.
Many throw everything under the sun in one capsule, including artificial fillers
- Artificial ingredients like maltodextrin are cheap ingredients that manufacturers use to produce their vitamins.
- Many suppliers we’ve talked to don’t disclose that their products contain these ingredients.
When you do find a clean, responsibly sourced ingredient you’re excited about, the price tag makes you shiver
- Buying ingredient-specific supplements from health-food stores can get expensive. Popular retailers can charge a week’s worth of iced lattes for an elderberry supplement.
- Getting clean, diverse immune-boosting nutrition shouldn’t cost an arm and a leg.
Hold 40 servings of clean, comprehensive immune support in your hand.
Whether you’re feeling fresh as a peach or not up to par, now, more than ever isn’t the time to skimp on immune support.
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Vitamin A
The famed anti-inflammatory vitamin that plays quarterback when it comes to dictating your cellular and humoral immune responses. It really earns its stripes by boosting your immune tolerance across your entire gut lining, which is the first place people start to lose it.
Vitamin C
Perhaps the most well-known immune booster, Vitamin C gets its rep for protecting our bodies from all those free radicals we’re exposed to on a daily basis: air pollution, UV sunlight and other environmental toxins. One of the best things we can have when it comes to fighting off infections.
Vitamin D3
The great equalizer of your immune system. With an overactive immune system, you can get auto-immune responses; with too little, you’re more vulnerable to infections. In people with low levels of D3, you see both happening.
Vitamin E
A primary defense for oxidative damage in cell membranes, Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant that wards off infection and stress from free radicals. Think of it as the Robin to Vitamin C’s Batman.
Zinc
Zinc lives up to the hype. It’s our body's first responder at the onset of injury or infection. We need it to generate neutrophils and macrophages to clear out foreign substances and cellular debris. It signals what type of immune cells to produce to support injury and infection specific healing processes. It reduces the severity of the common cold, fortifies our immune system and plays an important role in cell division and growth.
Echinacea
Echinacea gets its claim to fame by increasing white blood cells in our body, which we need to fight infections. It’s main active components--alkylamides, caffeic acid derivatives and polysaccharides--give Echinacea its antiviral, antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties.
Ginger Root
A many millennium’s old antidote for boosting our immune system. Our immune systems crave its first-class antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties and has also been studied as an effective treatment for some drug-resistant bacteria. It can even stimulate your immune system to kill viruses. All this on top of its world-class digestion aid, tendency to lower cholesterol levels and manage hypertension, include this in your diet.
Elderberry
A natural cold and flu buster. Elderberries are packed to the brim with antioxidants that reduce inflammation, decrease stress and can even protect your heart.
