Do you know that some habits you exhibit actually weaken your immune system? A Weak immune system cannot work effectively to protect the body from illnesses.
A healthy immune system is very crucial for your body’s ability to ward off viruses, bad bacteria, parasites, and other infections. When your immune system is compromised, you are more susceptible to getting sick.
Sometimes, we ignore some habits thinking they don’t affect us, forgetting that in the long run we are harming ourselves, rather than wait before it’s too late to strengthen our immunity, you can take matters into your own hands with preventative care.
This article will list a few habits that affect/ weaken our immune system.
1.) Excessive Alcohol Consumption
Drinking too much alcohol is a very big NO for your immune system.
Whenever you consume lots of alcohol, it throws off the balance of the two bacterial types. It also kills off healthy bacteria in the process, resulting in the overgrowth of bad bacteria.
Thus, excessive alcohol consumption increases the level of bad bacteria that enters your bloodstream, which often leads to an inflamed liver. Inflammation in your liver further makes it harder for the liver to cleanse environmental toxins from the body–that includes virally-infected antigens.
2.) Lack Of Sleep
Getting proper sleep is very essential for the body. However, not getting adequate sleep is very harmful to the body and that why it is advised to get at least 7-9hiurs of sleep daily.
3.) Lack Of Exercise
To keep body and mental health fit, we need to exercise once in a while.
It also helps keep the body in shape. When you don’t exercise the body, you are probably exposing your body to diseases. It is advisable that you exercise your body at least three times a week in order to boost your immune system.
4.) Smoking
The immune system is the body’s way of protecting itself from infection and disease; it works to fight everything from cold and flu viruses to serious conditions such as cancer.
However, Smoking harms the immune system and can make the body less successful at fighting disease. Within the lungs, smoking triggers a cascade of inflammatory agents in which macrophages lead to tissue destruction and further release of inflammatory agents that lead to persistent chronic inflammatory syndrome.
5.) Lonliness
According to researchers, anxiety caused by loneliness actually suppresses the immune system and triggers more oxidative stress, or damage caused by free radicals.
People who feel lonely have less immunity and more inflammation than people who don’t.
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