When school starts and especially when the cold arrives, a time of colds and colds that sometimes seem difficult to make disappear. Beyond the virus itself and even if one tries to prevent it, leaving the house with wet hair, not being sufficiently prepared for changes in temperature or being overheated and then not covering up can also end up taking their toll.
For this reason, at this time of year, it is more important than ever to protect yourself with good nutrition and habits that help you have the strengthened defenses. Some take vitamin supplements to be strengthened but the truth is that we have many much easier and more applicable resources to help us.
The pharmacist and nutritionist María de los Ángeles Garcíapopularly known as ‘Garcia Apothecary’wanted to talk precisely about it. The ‘influencer’, a very common face on television programs, participated this week in ‘And now Sonsoles’ and took the opportunity to give her recommendations and highlight “the star foods” to raise the defenses.
Like the walls of a castle
García came to the set with a toy castle with a wall to represent precisely that the defenses are these walls. «A virus attacks your body. When it reaches our walls, the defenses of our body, it first encounters our mucous membranes that retain it, the castle doors», she exemplifies.
Thus, outside the wall, in the moat, there are dolls and toy animals that simulate cells that defend against the attack of a virus and García warns that for “attack dogs, cannons and walls” to work, “vitamin Cwith C for collagen. Although she remembers that there may be supplements that help with the issue, foods like “peppers, kiwis, oranges, strawberries…” are great for this action, as are parsley, tomatoes or broccoli.
“The pepper has vitamin C in a tube, more than the orange,” García highlights to the surprise of the presenter. The pharmacist then talks about the vitamin Dwhich also act as warriors who defend the castle and which “helps the antibodies work well.” “Vitamin D helps in the strategy” since it regulates the body’s immune cells, she emphasizes, emphasizing that it is found in the sun, but also in milk, eggs or fish.
The communicator also highlights the importance of zinc because without it “our antibodies fall off and do not work.” “We have it in oysters but since they are a bit expensive, we also have it in lentils, beans…” or with brown rice, he remarks. In this defense of the castle, García mentions probiotics, which are in fermented ones and “that help train warriors” and that, as if they were ‘coaches’, warn of viruses.
“When I get home I take a pepper and my children’s toys…”, ironically says a collaborator of the program, to which García interrupts by remembering another essential factor, the vaccineslike the flu or Covid, which are “an army of fighters.” “We go crazy with defense supplements but the most important thing is to get vaccinated because it fills us with the warriors who are going to defend us,” she says, before warning that “Christmas will come and we will fall like bedbugs. “Now we have time to prevent it.”
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