Preloading Your Immune System to Fight with Strength

One of the most important concepts we teach in our Health Coach Certification courses is what we call “preloading” – equipping your body and immune system with the tools it needs to do its job properly and prevent illness. Preloading helps your natural killer (NK) cells, which are a natural germ-fighting army inside each one of us. Your body contains trillions of these NK cells, which are constantly on the lookout for germs and viruses (and even cancer cells) within your body that may negatively affect your health. Like magnets, these NK cells attach themselves to foreign pathogens and destroy them by blasting them with biochemical “bullets”.

3 Tips to Preload

• Focus on healthy, whole foods, such as fruits, vegetables, and seafood like wild-caught salmon

• Limit your intake of sugar by avoiding “added sugar” on food labels and choosing fruit-infused water or plain sparkling water instead of sugary beverages.

• Move more, sit less – research shows that more movement kicks the immune system into gear and makes your NK cells better able to fight off invaders.