Health Hotline Magazine | September 2024

Immune COMPETENCE

Key to a Long Healthspan

By Lindsay Wilson

Do you always seem to get hit hard with whatever bug is going around? Or maybe you’re the lucky one who never gets sick, even when everyone around you is. Or, when you do get sick, you’re able to recover quickly. This is immune competence, the ability (or inability) to avoid illness and bounce back quickly when you do get sick. Having good immune competence means your immune system responds quickly and efficiently to any kind of attack, rather than over- or under-reacting. And researchers are learning that people who have good immune competence tend to stay healthier overall and live longer. Even better: Immune competence is something you can naturally improve.

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