Contents:
- Medical Video: Nutritional Health : How to Clean Your Colon by Fasting
- How to increase immunity when fasting?
- 1. Get enough sleep
- 2. Fulfill important nutrients during fasting
- 3. Regular exercise
- 4. Manage stress
Medical Video: Nutritional Health : How to Clean Your Colon by Fasting
When fasting, maybe the immune system will decrease due to lack of food and drink intake, so that the body will feel weak and lackluster. But weakness during fasting is not an excuse for inactivity. You can do a few of these tips to increase your body's immunity to keep up the spirit of daily activities while fasting.
How to increase immunity when fasting?
1. Get enough sleep
Sleep deprivation can increase the hormone cortisol, which is a stress hormone. Increasing the hormone cortisol can trigger an inflammatory reaction in the body and suppress the body's immune function to fight infection so that your body will fall ill more easily.
Recommended sleep duration for adults not less than seven hours. But when fasting, you may find it difficult to do so, because you have to get up to dawn. To overcome this, you need to sleep and wake up at the same time every day.
Try to set a sleep schedule and wake up while fasting, so that sleep becomes more organized and can maintain your immune system.
If you choose to take a nap, you should limit your nap time to 30 minutes and avoid doing it at the end of the day. Because it can interfere with your sleep at night.
2. Fulfill important nutrients during fasting
When fasting you only eat a day twice, which is when you are dawn and breaking. This might make the body lack the usual nutritional intake, so it can weaken your immune system.
In addition to carbohydrates, other nutrients that are important for boosting immunity during fasting are vitamin C and zinc. Both are the right combination to keep the body's immune system healthy.
Vitamin C is a vitamin that is important for endurance. Foods that contain lots of vitamin C such as berries, oranges, kiwi, apples, papaya, mango, broccoli, tomatoes, cauliflower, and spinach.
While zinc is one of the minerals that plays an important role in building the immune system. Food sources containing zinc such as chicken, beef, various kinds of shellfish, and green leafy vegetables.
If necessary, at dawn and breaking fast you can take supplements that are rich in zinc or vitamin C, so that both intakes are well maintained.
3. Regular exercise
Even though you're fasting, that doesn't mean you have to stop sports. Fasting is not an obstacle for you to do any activity.
When fasting, you can do exercise in the afternoon before breaking time or after breaking the fast. When you choose this sport you can choose according to the sport you want.
Try regular and light exercise during fasting, like walking every day for about 30 minutes. This can help maintain your immune system.
If you don't exercise regularly, your immune system is easily weakened, resulting in you getting sick more easily. Exercise can also help you sleep better, both of which are good for your immune system.
4. Manage stress
Similarly, lack of sleep, stress can also increase the hormone cortisol which can inhibit the work of the immune system.
Stress is a natural thing, but you have to be able to manage it well and not to drag on so you don't get sick easily when fasting. That way, your fasting will also run well without obstacles.
