Are you Group 3 or 4 & Considering Covid-19 vaccinations?
Covid-19 vaccinations are opening up for Groups 3 and 4!
Are you considering getting your Covid-19 vaccinations?
If so, you may be interested in knowing what you can do for yourself to make the post-vaccination response a little smoother.
If you haven’t booked yet, try to pick a morning appointment – this is because our cortisol levels are higher in the morning and are more able to cope with the injections.
Assuming that you have to wait a couple of weeks or so, this is a great time to prepare your body to be in its best shape possible. All the stuff you know already about eating right – fresh fruit & vegetables, fibre, and little or no junk food or processed food – well, now is a good time to put this into practice! Don’t worry if it seems there is too much to clean up here, pick maybe one thing to start with, like sugar, for instance. Some foods are particularly recommended for their immune support, such as blueberries and pomegranates, and the seaweed Kombu has been shown to at least partially block the coronavirus spike protein. Nature has laced many plant-based foods with a variety of natural chemicals which help you be better placed to resist disease.
Many of us have quite sedentary lives, going from bed to car to office, back home to sofa and bed again. Start to lift your daily level of movement, even a walk to your mailbox is a start if you are beginning from a low level. If you have stairs at work or at home, go up & down them 5 more times a day. The fitter you are and more oxygenated you are, the better you will cope with the jab.
Get enough sleep, especially the 3 nights preceding vaccination.
If you take anti-inflammatories regularly, eg Nurofen, stop taking them 2 days pre and post vaccination. This will allow the vaccination to do its job better.
Ok, so what else?
Supplements have a place here, to support and lift your immune system so that you are in the best shape possible.
But what ones?
Here is a list of recommended researched nutrients.
Curcumin, Resveratrol, Quercetin, Green Tea, Probiotics, Beta Glucans, Medicinal Mushrooms, Echinacea, Zinc, and vitamins A, C & D.
If you are already taking some supplements, check to see if these are among the ingredients. I have trimmed this list down into 7 supplements, and I would suggest that if they still seem to be too many, to split them in half & take some in the morning and some at night. Remember these are for short-term use, not forever! Most of them need to be taken with food, which helps their absorption and helps buffer them in the stomach.
Medicinal Mushrooms can be taken on an empty stomach.
Choose the probiotic strains which target immunity.
You can mix the quercetin-containing supplement with kefir drinking yogurt, it makes it tasty!
So I recommend medicinal mushrooms tablets, vit D2 spray, Immunospore probiotic tablets and Repairase powder in the morning, and CytoQuel, Resveratrol and Vitamin C in the evening.
Some of these are available over the counter, like Sandersons Resveratrol and Vitamin C, and others are practitioner-only products. If you need help in sourcing these, I can get them for you.