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Which Vitamins Are Good for Your Immune System?
Vitamins are an incredibly important part of keeping your body healthy and well maintained. Whether you take them in the form of pills and gummies or get them from various food sources, you need to get enough of them to stay healthy.
Certain vitamins are key components of your immune system, so be sure to get enough of them in order to stave off any diseases or illnesses that your body might encounter. Hands-down the most important immune system vitamin your body needs is vitamin C.
Unfortunately, you do not naturally produce vitamin C, so you have to get it from food or from pills. Vitamin C helps your body delay and shorten the symptoms of illness, essentially making diseases less effective.
Sailors used to experience a disease known as scurvy as a direct result of a vitamin C deficiency, so you need to be sure to get an ample amount of it. By eating plenty of citrus and taking multivitamins, you can get enough to keep your body healthy.
Vitamin B6 is another incredibly important vitamin. It’s a major component that your body uses in order to create red blood cells, which are vital to your survival as they carry oxygen throughout the body and keep everything working as it should.
When it comes to chronic diseases, as in those that continuously affect you over a long period of time, vitamin B6 can help seriously reduce the symptoms and can even prevent them from occurring in the first place.
In order to get ample amounts of vitamin B6, you should be sure to eat chicken, bananas, or tofu. When it comes to antioxidants, vitamin E is very important. It acts as an antioxidant itself, meaning that it will help directly attack foreign bodies such as diseases.
Chances are that you might already get an ample amount from your diet, but if you want to be sure, you can increase your consumption of salads, spinach, and nuts, all of which contain a good amount of vitamin E.
Finally, vitamin A is another good antioxidant. Like vitamin E, it helps your immune system by assisting in the fight against disease and illnesses, and can be found in plenty of foods. For the most part, you’ll find it in vegetables, such as carrots and squash, which can easily be worked into your diet and are fairly cheap and common.
