Two months without exercise, and now 1 week of exercise! Preparing body’s resilience against disease

I’m pretty proud I got back on the ball with the exercise. I had a cold for a few weeks and I wanted to be sure it was gone completely to avoid a situation where a sickness comes back, only worse, so I gave it a few more weeks. That way, I can avoid both the sick time and a doctors visit necessary at that point. Exercise is a pretty intense stressor to the system. However, light cardio isn’t a big problem which I did.

We hear about a disease spreading but I think in general, there are things that can be done to improve immunity against disease, these things are inexpensive and can be done by anybody. The following link shows the many things that can be done

Harvard Medical School – What you can do to improve your immune system

The ones that apply to the current infectious disease outbreak: hand washing, don’t smoke, Eat a diet high in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Restrict saturated fats and sugars to 10% of total calories. Minimize consumption of red and processed meats., maintain a healthy weight, maintain blood pressure, moderately drink or do not drink, get adequate sleep From what I have read, by far the best thing a person can do for their health if they smoke is to quit smoking. Also, there are studies that show a correlation between extremely strong resistance to the common cold virus and good amount of sleep regularly.

These things can be done very quickly to improve risk profile in the fact of a quickly spreading disease. They are not foolproof measures, but there really are no guarantees in life.

• Quit smoking
• Get blood pressure under control, even if from medication alone.
• Eat very healthy
• Get plenty of sleep

Some of the biggest risk factors for the coronavirus are: smoking, hypertension, diabetes. Go to the doctor for treatment of all of these. They have medicines that can aid in quitting smoking and they work rather quickly, as do the hypertension and diabetes.

Please don’t be scared of the disease but take action where you can, which is plenty of areas which make a huge impact.