Sniffles and sneezes are inevitable during the winter season. Due to the low temperature, you might easily attack viral infections. But if you can maintain some effective tricks of traditional practice, you may be able to stave off colds and flu. Here are some tips to stay healthy in the winter season.
Build strong gut
Traditional Chinese Medicine said that immunity and gut health have a strong connection. By strengthening your gut health you will be able to improve your digestion and decrease inflammation. It will give you more strength to fight against external bacteria, viruses which can cause disease. Thus it can improve your immunity and save you from viral infections.
Take cooked food
We need to cook our food properly. Cooked foods are good to absorb nutrients. It ensures maximum nutrition for our bodies. Cooked foods support smooth digestion and improve our immune system too. So we need to eat cooked foods to stay healthy in this cold weather.
Choose fermented foods
You can add some fermented foods like kefir, sauerkraut, pickles, and tempeh into your meal plan. These foods are the foundation of Asian cooking which has a good impact on digestion. Fermented foods contain probiotics that can boost your immune system. This type of food consumption will help you to fight against viral infections.
Limit carbs consumption
Traditional Chinese medicine advises us to take less sweet food to protect the digestive function of our body. It believes that sweets can hinder our immune system. So limiting excessive dairy, sugar, and carbs is a good practice to follow for our health. You can cook your foods with garlic, ginger onions, and other healing herbs that can help you to maintain a balance of our body.
Manage your stress
All of us have to face some kind of stress in our daily life. But if the stress destroys our thinking process and we are overwhelming with the excessive pressure of stress, then it may weaken our balance of body and decrease our immunity by damaging the digestion process. That’s why we need to learn to relax and enjoy our life. Now many stress reduction and management techniques are available and we easily can practice those.
In sum, we need to maintain a healthy lifestyle that can refine our minds and body. We all need to avoid overuse of the internet and take deep breathe in the fresh natural air. Focusing more on things that we love and living fully in the present moments are important for our ultimate well-being.