Exercise and Immunity
Exercising regularly may mean enhancing your immunity and catching less colds in a year. You look better, keep in shape, feel better, your skin starts to glow and you become healthier.
Your lungs, your heart, your immune system and every cell in your body will thank you when you exercise regularly. You will be less likely to develop cancer, diabetes , cardiovascular or other chronic diseases. You will get stronger overall, but remember that everything should be in moderation in life. If you don’t allow your body rest properly in between your exercise sessions, you will experience more harm than good- a weaker immune system too. So you need to allow your body and muscles to recover properly.
Walk as much as you can, use your bicycle to get to work and back or walk half an hour daily in the park, fill your lungs with fresh air or go to gym three to four times a week. Although your immune system goes back to normal after a few hours after the exercise, if you do it regularly it becomes more durable and more part of you- cumulative impact of consistent and regular exercise.
Consistent exercise can help you clear away bacteria, viruses and carcinogens that cause flu, cold and cancers by way of sweat and urine. T-cells- part of white blood cells that protect your body move around more freely in your blood. You are actually eliminating T-cells that are not useful to you and replacing them with the helpful T-cells. The temperature of your body increases during the exercise and this is quite similar to what happens when you have a fever when your body is fighting off an infection.
Depression increases the chance of illnesses and exercise reduces it, but be careful with the intensity of the exercise as it may make your situation worse. When you catch a bug, it is best that you listen to your body and have some time off, rest at home especially if you have fever, you have muscle pains or feeling too tired to do anything. Your immune system is already burdened with fighting off that infection, additional pressure will do you no good, so be careful.
Eating badly, putting on weight or being too weak and slim, not sleeping enough, smoking and drinking alcohol, old age, daily stress all contribute to catching a cold easily. When you make a habit of exercising regularly at a moderate pace, you are also making an effort to live a healthier life, sleeping properly, eating good nutritious foods to get results from your exercise, perhaps quit smoking and drink less. Your body starts to release happy hormones and you feel better and energised after the exercise, so you are less likely to be stressed and depressed. So it is good overall!
You’ll feel less lonely and angry when you exercise, you’ll be less stressed and less likely to be depressed and anxious. Your body is capable of healing itself, as long as you’re relaxed and happy and you keep away from negativities. Eat well, meditate, make an effort to achieve inner peace, keep away from smoking, alcohol, drugs and exercise regularly.. then you probably won’t even need medication as much to overcome chronic diseases.
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