How you exercise has a direct effect on your immunity and plays a role in how you can fight of infections like covid-19. Dr. Barker reviews the right dosage of exercise to boost immunity in this video.
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Give our current situation with the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s important for people to understand that there’s a lot more we can do to take action against this terrible illness – more than we’re being told. And that is, we can exercise to support our immunity!
Moderate levels of exercise (30-60 minutes a day, most days of the week) are well known to boost immune function. In fact, regOnular exercisers have about half the risk that sedentary people do, for catching all types of respiratory illnesses.
On the other hand, people who exercise to excessive levels (90-120 or more minutes a day, most days of the week) are 2-4x more susceptible to catching respiratory and GI-related illnesses!
So, exercising at moderate intensity is important, and there are 5 basic lifestyle and nutrient factors you can use to keep your immune system strong:
1. Lower stress! – high stress raises the hormone cortisol, which after an extended period of time can supress immune function.
2. Fix you sleep! Similarly, broken or fractured sleep can also lead to elevated cortisol levels and a negative, immune-lowering effect.
3. Vitamin C – Studies have shown marathon runners that take vitamin C through their training season end up with half the respiratory infections than those that took no vitamin C.
4. Vitamin D – a very powerful immune system booster – supplement with vitamin D if you don’t get regular, mid-day sun exposure.
5. Zinc – zinc is a mineral that’s been show to slow down how viruses reproduce in our bodies – supplementing with zinc may be a good idea as well.
We cover it all, in more detail in this video about how exercise and fitness can boost immunity against covid-19!
