Boost your immune system with these 8 simple steps — some may surprise you

Although wintertime is coming to a close, cold and flu season is inactive threatening our immune systems.

Staying steadfast is simply a matrimony of respective elemental practices, according to Dr. Roger Seheult, a captious attraction physician, pulmonologist and subordinate objective prof astatine the University of California and Loma Linda University schools of medicine.

Following an quality connected the Huberman Lab podcast, hosted by neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman, Seheult joined Fox News Digital for an on-camera interrogation to sermon however to boost the immune system.

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Seheult offered an acronym to retrieve a fewer immune-boosting methods: NEWSTART.

Dr. Roger Seheult shared 8 things radical tin bash to debar getting sick during acold and flu season. (iStock)

"NEWSTART is not lone beneficial for not getting the flu this season," helium said. "It’s precisely the aforesaid reply for however to unrecorded a agelong and steadfast life, however to unrecorded without illness and chronic disease."

Here’s NEWSTART breached down.

N – Nutrition

You are what you eat, experts accidental — and what you devour tin dictate however you feel.

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Based connected research, Seheult recommends pursuing a plant-based fare debased successful processed foods to guarantee a steadfast gut and due intake of vitamins and nutrients.

Seheult recommends pursuing a plant-based fare debased successful processed foods to guarantee a steadfast gut and due intake of vitamins and nutrients. (iStock)

"[This] is the fare that gives you the microbiome gut flora, which is precise important," helium said. "It besides gives you fibre … and the nutrients and vitamins that are precise important."

E – Exercise

Practicing immoderate benignant of question connected a regular ground tin assistance support you healthy, according to Seheult.

Exercise does not person to see lifting dense weights and "being buff" successful a gym, but simply introducing question into your routine, the adept said.

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"When idiosyncratic is simply a sofa potato, arsenic soon arsenic they commencement doing exercise, they get contiguous benefits," helium noted.

"Once they commencement to spell into athletic-level contention exercise, they're really expanding the level of inflammation."

Exercise does not person to beryllium strenuous; it tin see a locomotion oregon airy jog, the adept said. (iStock)

The adept referenced a survey that recovered radical who practiced mean workout had the "best changes successful presumption of inflammatory markers."

Moderate workout tin see regular activities similar gardening, jogging oregon walking.

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"This is truly the benignant of workout that radical who are not funny successful breaking satellite records should beryllium doing to amended their overall health," helium added.

W – Water

The benefits of h2o travel from not lone drinking it, but besides done vulnerability to assorted hydrotherapies, Seheult noted.

This tin see steam saunas, which rise the body’s earthy somesthesia and tin assistance kill disconnected viruses that don’t fare good successful the heat.

Seheult discussed the benefits of hydrotherapy successful his occurrence of the Huberman Lab podcast. (iStock)

"Plenty of grounds shows that viruses bash not bash good successful environments with precocious temperatures, and that our immune strategy signals the innate immune strategy utilizing fever," helium said.

S – Sunlight

Getting vulnerability to sunlight is arsenic elemental arsenic stepping outside.

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Just 15 to 20 minutes of airy vulnerability per time tin benefit wide health, according to Seheult.

Not lone does sunlight assistance modulate slumber and boost mood, probe has shown that definite spectra of airy from the prima tin person "dramatic effects" connected the body's metabolism.

Sunlight vulnerability tin supply lasting benefits for the body, according to Seheult. (iStock)

T – Temperance

Temperance, besides known arsenic the signifier of moderation oregon self-restraint — particularly with drinking alcohol — tin assistance to enactment the immune system.

"Don't enactment toxins into your body," Seheult advised.

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"Whether it's alcohol, whether it's tobacco, whether it's smoking … these are things that wounded our body's quality to combat infections."

A – Air

Getting retired into the fresh air is "really important" for the body, Seheult said.

In summation to spending clip outdoors, the doc recommends often opening the windows successful your location to guarantee c dioxide levels are low.

The adept recommended getting retired into quality for a wellness boost. (iStock)

Toxins tin travel from substances successful the location that physique up, the adept cautioned. "Having that filtration is truly important," helium said.

Seheult besides referenced probe from Japan that analyzed the "aromatic compounds" fixed disconnected by trees called phytoncides, which tin person healing benefits for the body.

"Pick a time of the week, instrumentality a time off, get immoderate remainder and really get retired determination into nature."

"If you're surviving successful Manhattan [and] you were to spell to Central Park erstwhile a week, studies amusement that these substances that the trees springiness disconnected tin really person an interaction connected your innate immune strategy for up to 7 days," helium said. 

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"So, prime a time of the week, instrumentality a time off, get immoderate remainder and really get retired determination into nature."

R – Rest

As a slumber physician, Seheult emphasized the value of due rest, recommending 7 to 8 hours of slumber per night.

For the astir accordant and uninterrupted sleep, the lights should beryllium turned disconnected astatine the aforesaid clip each night, astir 9 p.m., helium advised.

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Rest tin besides mean taking clip disconnected from responsibilities and allowing yourself to disconnect, whether it’s conscionable for a time oregon a week away.

"You tin benignant of ideate that you're swimming nether the water and each erstwhile successful a portion you person to stop," helium said. "Come up, instrumentality a breath, look around, spot wherever you're going … and past spell backmost down for different six days."

Making clip for periods of remainder tin trim accent and cortisol levels, Seheult noted. (iStock)

"People who bash that and instrumentality a break, disconnect from email, disconnect from work, disconnect from each those things, get unneurotic with family, friends – this is truly beneficial for your immune system," helium went on. "It reduces accent and cortisol levels."

T – Trust

Seheult concluded that having religion oregon trust successful religion oregon a supportive assemblage tin assistance boost wellness from within.

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"When you're successful a assemblage of faith, a assemblage of content — with radical you tin beryllium on, radical who enactment you — and you spot successful a higher powerfulness that's guiding you, this tin besides dramatically trim cortisol."