A 30-year-old member asked:
besides healthy foods and vitamins, any other way to build immunity?
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Dr. Randy Bakeranswered
Holistic Medicine 40 years experience
Herbs, reduce stress: Many herbs can build immunity, such as astragalus, arabinogalactin, garlic, green tea & medicinal mushrooms like maitake. Minerals like zinc help. Adequate rest & exercise help. Stress impairs immunity, so stress reduction techniques like meditation hep build immunity. Thymus extracts like proboost can help. See the road to immunity by kenneth bock md for more ideas.
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