Your immune system is the major defense of your body against the external pathogen’s attacks that can make you fall ill. A good and healthy life style is the best choice to aid it against external attacks. In this article you can find some advice:

• Choose healthy food: your body needs to receive always vitamins, mineral salts and antioxidants, for this it is very important to eat every day seasonal and raw fruit and vegetable.

• Make physical activities: a correct physical activity (regularly practiced 2-3 times a week ) is not only important to improve your physical aspect and the tonicity of your muscles but also to keep strong and active your immune system.

• Reduce the stress: the stressful people fall ill more than the other people, in fact, a recent research says that in presence of nervous tension your body produces some hormones that can reduce the immune defenses, if they are present for a long time in your organism. For this choose relaxing activities as listening to music, reading a book or watching a good film.

• Sleep a sufficient number of hours every night: it is demonstrated that sleeping rises your immune reply besides improving your concentration and your happiness.

• Cover up yourself well but without exaggerating: in order to fight the seasonal cold avoid to put on too many warm cloths but decide to cover yourself with different layers of cloths; in this way you can adapt yourself to the climate of the place without sweating too much and catching a nasty cold.

• Influenza vaccine: the vaccination is advised in particular for children, cardiopathic, diabetic people and for all people that suffer from chronic diseases.

You don’t forget to frequently make a good laugh, in fact, the happiness stimulate the production of endorphin by the brain, this substance has a high analgesic effect and strengthened your immune system.

Published 20 January 2017