How to Strengthen Your Immunity

Have you been slouching around the house lately? Turning into a couch potato? Becoming lazy? If so, this blog is the right tool for you to start strengthening your immunity once again.

There are four major parts in immunity. Healthy diet, sleep, exercise, and mental health. If you don’t keep track of these, then you might start getting an illness or disease. If you do keep track, nothing bad will happen!

Now, if you want to start keeping track of your immunity, then let’s get going!

1. Healthy diet

Before you start eating junk food, think about what it’ll do to your body. . You can become obese, get cavities, have cravings, become a couch potato, and many other things that you want the last thing to happen for you.

Ever heard your parents saying, “Eat healthy food, not junk”? You might not like the sound of that, but it’s because they don’t want bad things to happen to you, like the things I listed above. Here are some food options to help you stay on a healthy diet so that you won’t need your parents to constantly remind you.

• Eating vegetables and fruits – trust me, they have a lot of protein in them
• Drinking only water, fruit juice, and lemonade homemade – it’s better to save rather than buy
• Having junk food once a week, every now and then, every month, occasionally, or only at parties – this will help you to be a healthy person much faster if you’re more of a health nut
• Trying not to eat meat all the time – eating meat is okay, but not the best because it might be processed or you might be at risk for a disease
• Not drinking alcohol or sodas – drinking these beverages at a young age can affect you a lot and put you at a high risk

2. Sleep

Sleeping takes up a whole chunk of your day. It’s a time to relax, a time for your brain to recharge and reset, to collect all what has been lost in your mind. It’s important you keep track of this because if not, you’ll be sleep deprived, hyperactive, less motivated, and cranky.

Sometimes you won’t want to sleep because you want to stay up late, but your parents don’t want you to. And that’s normal. I feel that way too. Your parents have a point though. If you don’t sleep well, bad things can happen, and that’ll make your parents concern. It can get serious at times and you might want to see a doctor if things worsen out.

Below are some tips for you to sleep better.

• Have some calming music before sleeping – sometimes all you need is to stay calm, and music does the trick perfectly
• Get out and do some exercise 30 minutes – 1 hour before – that way once you get on your bed, you’ll fall asleep faster because you’re tired from your exercise, and when you’re tired, it’ll help you sleep faster
• Read a book – reading clears out your mind and helps you focus on other things, other nice and happy things
• Sleep early and wake up early – it helps me when I wake up early because I can do things earlier, I’ll be more motivated to do stuff, and I won’t have to rush
• Have a sleep schedule – that way you’ll know when you have to sleep, so that you won’t have to complain when your parents say you gotta go to bed
• Reduce your daily screen time – going on the screen strains your eyes, which affects you when you sleep because it might hurt

3. Exercise

Exercise is really helpful when it comes to being a couch potato and becoming less motivated. When you work out, it might be tiring and painful, but trust me, it will help your body a lot! Especially for sleep, because one of the tips for sleeping is exercising.

Exercising doesn’t have to be overworked or underworked. It should be just in the middle. Take small baby steps, and start small. Read these methods to help with that.

• Go on daily walks by yourself or with someone accompanying you – if you’re not much of a workout person, this is the best for you because walks get you moving a bit.
• Start stretching more often – exercising doesn’t have to be all out, like pulling weights or going out to the gym, it can just be small like stretching every now and then
• Do sports more often – sports really help you get exercised
• Start a daily routine of exercising and stretching – that way you’ll be as fit and strong as you can ever be

4. Mental Health

Last but not least, there’s mental health. Mental health is the most important because in there, depending on what you’re thinking affects how you react to it. And sometimes when you’re feeling angry or sad, that’s the time you should check on your mental health, and breathe.

It takes a while to have a good mental health statics. And if you don’t keep track of this, you might have anxiety, which is having a lot of pressure and being nervous. So if you don’t want that to happen to you, check out these tricks to help you with that, my friend.

• Think about how grateful you are when you’re feeling down – this way it’ll make you feel lucky, and feeling lucky makes you feel happy
• Take deep breaths when you can’t handle things – I do these in class every day and it really helps me feel better
• Write down your feeling in a journal or talk to someone about it – bottling your feeling up will just make it worse
• Think positive thoughts and don’t use put-downs on yourself – doing that will make you feel hatred on yourself, which isn’t good because you are the only person who you know better than anyone else does
• Love who you are as a person, and forgive yourself when you do a mistake – nobody’s perfect, and accepting who you are feels like you are the best