Healthy snack ideas to boost your immune system – Part 6

A snack to boost the immune system?

It depends on your age because by thirty there is not much you can change in your basic immunity.

When you were a child, you might have been fortunate to have lived in the countryside where you were exposed to all manner of pathogens in the soils and plants. The body has a natural immunity system, which is trained’ by childhood exposures. That’s why country folk almost never experience the allergies that plague city folk. For example, I could not believe hay fever was a real ailment when I first heard of it although I later found real sufferers. However, hay fever is as unreal as a myth to country folk.

My twin daughters are encouraged to play in the garden, dig in the soil and if they get soil in their mouths, that’s the best introduction to immunity enhancement that they can get. Later when they are older they’ll have the opportunity to play in open meadows and hayfields for exposure to all manner of pollens and seeds. Pollens and seeds play the same role in enhancing the immune system.

In fact, many primitive peoples in Africa and South America eat soils or mud as part of their diet. It’s called geophagy’ and animals (chimpanzees) as well as humans practice the habit. It’s a bit like taking an aspirin every day for not only do their immune systems get enhanced but they also have access to needed minerals.

People who have poor immune systems are usually those who have had too clean an upbringing. They have been protected from anything that might marginally harm them and, as a result, succumb to the first attack of some strange pathogen. It is really sad that many iof these people believe that they have to take pills to survive.

So the best snack you can take to boost your immune system is soil while you are sitting in a meadow full of flowers and grasses, especially when you are young. The worst snack that you can take is a concoction of pills and drugs that you buy in the GNC stores. Indeed, beware GNC offerings they have nothing to do with nutrition and should never be taken without the advice of a physician since they are, in general, more harmful than beneficial.