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.
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What to do next?
1. Revise your expectations and expect resistance
If you’re familiar with The Optimised Health Formula, then you know that Step 1 of successfully pulling out a strategy to optimise your health is to shift your mindset. We’ve looked at a few things you can do to improve your health. The ball is in your court. Yes, we all know that it takes more than just knowing what to do to actually do it.
That’s why I want to invite you to revise your expectations. Know that there will be resistance along the way. You might say to yourself “I’ll have a look tomorrow again”, “that’s not so urgent”, “I’m not sure that’s for me”, “I don’t think this will work for me”, or many other things. Often when we’re stepping out of our comfort zone (a.k.a. what we’ve been doing until now) we’re finding excuses to keep on doing what we’ve always done. The first step in success is acknowledging that. So… acknowledge where you’re at. Then…
Revise your expectations bearing in mind your goals AND your life. Not everything that I’ve shared in this blog post will resonate with you. Not everything will be applicable to you either. And that’s alright! But you’ve got to start somewhere.
So, as long as you’re clear on your goals and on your vision (Step 2 of The Optimised Health Formula), take a conscious decision of what you want to apply starting from today.
2. Carve out time, and make a plan
That’s where carving out time, and making a plan comes in. You know yourself at that stage better than I do. Use that knowledge to implement a plan of action that will help you start making positive changes into your life, that will soon bring positive changes in your health.
3. Just start
There’s no tomorrow in success. Any successful path starts today, with a small change that you keep on building onto. Commit to starting today with ONE small thing, and share with me in the comments what it is. This commitment will help you start – and keep – taking action!
4. Get support
We tend to want to do things on our own. I’m not stranger to that either. But I’ve learnt over time, and I’ve seen both with my personal coaching clients and professional mentoring clients, as well as with myself, that getting support helps to really create the change we’re after. So, if you’re stuck wondering what’s next, and you know you need help, I invite you to check out the many online resources I have created to help you reach your best of health: free articles, online memberships, online books and courses. If you’d like private personal coaching guidance, you can also book a call with me to discuss the personal coaching options that are available for your special needs.