With winter coming here is a list of top foods to eat to stay healthy and protected. Eat these and we challenge any virus to take you on.
Mushrooms: Full of immune boosting vitamin D, leave them out in the sun for ten min before cooking them to spike their levels.
Red peppers: Vitamin A, repairs mucosal barriers damaged by fighting illness
Pumpkin seeds: Eat them for magnesium, needed for the health of immune cells.
Shallots: They release the natural anti bacterial allicin.
Cucumber: Vitamin A and C and contains anti cancerous lignan compounds.
Broccoli: Disease killing sulforaphane. Most powerful when eaten three days old.
Salmon: Contains Astaxanthin which improves virus killing cells in your blood.
Lemon: Vitamin A and polyphenols team up together to reduce your risk of catching colds.
Butterbean: High in B vitamins. Eat them before a workout to prevent the breakdown of cells that guard against bacteria.
Parsley: Coumarin, boosts your white blood cell activity.
Raw garlic: Massively boosts the number of T cells in your body, strengthen immunity.