Most people are disconnected from the fact that lifestyle habits play a role in our immunity.

Irregular meals, high refined sugar intake, poor sleep patterns & large intakes of alcohol all supress and negatively effect the immune system.

So we wanted to outline from a food & supplement perspective what is proven to help you with strengthening your immunity.

Most supplement companies pedal vitamin C, Vitamin D and such like and its well-intentioned but it is like being in a sinking boat, taking on water and only having a small cup to bail out the excess water.

Important to understand is what’s going to unlock the strongest possible immune system, that is your cells.

A single cell is the first form of recognised life, when you get a collection of cells together you make tissue.

There are 4 types of tissue and when you combine various forms you can create an organ, multiple organs together create a system.

Then many systems together create us, the human organism.

Sadly conventional medicine and supplement companies treat you as a system all the time which doesn’t consider that all the systems of the body are constantly in communication via the cells.

Moreover, you have trillions of cells of which many are the same, they help you produce enzymes, hormones (think sex hormones), signal to other cells to warn them of issues etc.

Thus when we get a dysfunction of the cell, we have dysfunction of the human organism.

In essence if you want the strongest immune system you have to ensure the health of the cell, specifically the membrane which acts as a guard for the cell. Letting only very certain things in or out.

Essential for good cell health are things like B vitamins, manganese, selenium, magnesium, zinc, choline, glutathione, Vit A,D,E & K to name just a FEW.

That would be a LOT of supplements and a big bill each month.

What we always do within the A.R.A. Method is screen someone and optimise their diet based on their unique past and biochemistry.

But for now, here are the essentials for you to optimise your cells and total body function.

• Dark green leafy vegetables (think spinach, kale etc) are packed with micro nutrients, specially B vits that are important for literally hundreds of processes within the human body.

• Coloured veggies. If tolerated by eating a broad range of colourful veggies you will get access to all nutrient needed. Not to mention these veggies will provide a powerful punch of fibre which feeds the bacteria of the gut to keep the immune system healthy

• Nuts can be a great source of healthy fats and important cofactors like selenium (brazil nuts).

• Grass fed, organic (where possible) animal protein – If morally you are ok with eating meat, it provides many important amino acids (for build proteins in the body), things like B12 and other important cofactors.

• Wild Fish can be full of healthy fats that have been shown to combat inflammation in your body which would lower immunity.

• Organic Eggs. More than enough studies have debunked the egg-cholesterol connection, yet sadly conventional medicine hasn’t caught on. One essential nutrient in eggs is choline which is needed to help build phospholipids (part of the cell wall).

• Healthy oils. Think unrefined olive oil, coconut oil, ghee to name a few.

We could write a much longer list than this but the more of the above that I see people consume the better there markers are on the testing that we do with them.

What are your TOP healthy foods to consume on a day to day basis?

It’s no surprise we are seeing things like studies done on Herbalife and their products with scary findings.

The most recent, linked the use of Herbalife to liver failure and found traces of heavy metals, toxic compounds and pathogenic bacteria.

Now, I don’t think the ‘original’ idea of the founder was for it to end up this way.

Yet, it has.

When I consider the health industry, I actually right now see it as a ‘reactive’ industry.

A study (whether good or rubbish) is released implicating a certain food – then the next week there are ‘supplements’ to help.

It’s a crazy scenario in my brain!!

Yet with all this reactivity, things are getting worse.

Lifetime expectancy went DOWN for the first time in our modern world.

With all this money we spend on ‘research’ for things like heart disease, cancer and such like…

You would think we are getting closer.

Truth is, we are not as the answer is very much under our own noses.

Yes, you are born with genes, you inherit many things from parents.

Ladies can thank mothers for their little cellular batteries (mitochondria) which dictate your energy and so on.

Yet this is a TINY piece of the puzzle.

You could argue I got the dregs of the gene pool.

Born with spinal deformation, HLA genes that triggered to set off an autoimmune disease…

A brain tumour.

You’d think I’d have a right to moan, right?!

Yet, here I am 10 years free of ANY and all illness.

How so? Firstly.

I spent 10 years, studying, researching and applying changes to my life.

From my mind to my body.

I pride myself on going pretty deep.

Those that get me speaking on health can attest!

But I haven’t to date found a ‘quick’ way to restore years of poor choices and believe me I’ve tried them all.

From shake diets to apple diets to cabbage soup diets to fasting etc

Yet let’s be honest NONE of them are set up to be long term.

What I teach is not a ‘fix’ it’s the fundamentals of health at a biochemical and cellular level.

Do all the ‘lymphatic drainage’ you want or ‘fix’ the digestive system or try to balance hormones…

Yet understand this…

A system is made up of organs, organs are made up of tissues and tissues are made up of cells.

Trillions of cells.

If we do not know what is creating imbalance in the cells, it’s all reactive work.T

ake bruising easily – we can easily point to Vit C deficiency.

So you take a few grams a day over a month.

What if it doesn’t get better?

Or what if it does but when you come off the supplement, it comes back.

Have you learnt anything? No.

My view is to understand why a deficient pathways would occur.

That’s where

• Environment
• Food
• Deficiencies
• Genetics
• Sleep
• Stress
• Radiation

To name a few have to be assessed!

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If an approach is sold to you to involve no active learning or challenging what you currently believe to be true, how will you know what to do when results slow or stop.

I like the ‘keep it simple’ approach but are we over doing it.

I mean, if it was working surely mental health numbers would be better, chronic disease lower.

Right?

Now, I am a science and spiritual dude and I love the geekery associated with it yet you don’t need a biochemistry textbook or some spiritual texts from 3000 years ago lodged in your brain.

I truly believe to have a better quality of life…

You get to practice the following and improve the following.

• Mindfulness

• Eat food that serves you (no pain / discomfort)

• Unbroken sleep

• Move your body

• Hydration

• Stress

There are a million ways to Rome and it’s important you pick METHODS that you feel serve you long term and can sustain.

Sure, I’ve helped people with things varying from colds to cancer but we always start with the above!

Note: If you have chronic illness and someone sells you a cure, be careful, very.

There are many things that reduce symptoms quickly like correcting the above, that doesn’t mean healed. It means improvement.

The body over time adapts and changes and what was a positive change to start can end up causing issues longer term.

That’s why I’m a fan of YEARLY testing to ensure we are not missing early signs.

It’s also why I never put all my energy in one approach whether it be dietary or otherwise.

Critical thinking is required in this day in age.

I’m doing my best personally to continue the learning journey from advanced biochemistry to more eastern medicine.

(I’m a geek for answers.)

If you would like to understand yourself and health better then get in touch!

if you have had testing done that you don’t understand or have started to action but see little to no results, I can help make that clear too