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Don’t let stress compromise your immune system

Stress can weaken your immune system and invite illness, whether it's a simple cold, shingles or something far worse like cancer.

Stressed? Toxic people in your life? No sleep? Got traumatic experiences happening like job loss, loss of a family member, or divorce?

Boost your immune system or these types of stressors could be a trigger and open the door to illness like cancer.

I feel so compelled to share this information to protect you or your loved one from cancer after a few fascinating meetings with top cancer researchers:

This journey has been long and tough for me and I can’t help but continue to put my reporter hat on and dig for answers.

I have had the honor  to speak with world renowned oncologists and researchers. Their message to everyone:

Keep your immune system strong.

Why? When your body is weak — illness is invited in and they say that is often the connection they make to someone’s diagnosis. It isn’t immediate but usually they will ask a patient, “so what happened in your life ? You had the marker, you were doing fine, so what changed?”

OR to someone once in remission they ask the same thing…. “you were in remission for so long what has happened in your life?” And these researchers tell me the answer is usually it is a traumatic life change or simply a lot of drama and toxic situations in their lives.

I was told that for those who already eat healthy (like I did my entire life) if you don’t rest and you are not restoring cells and you are stressed out then that’s all you need to trigger the cancer.

Clean eating and exercise can delay the onset but push your body enough and it will give in. They feel strongly that’s what happened to me.

If you weaken your immune system, you’re inviting trouble. Whether it’s a simple cold, shingles or something far worse like cancer.

Three researchers shared with me that the cure is really within us and it is all about boosting our immune system that’s why doctors are using immunotherapies to treat many forms of cancers.

So how do you boost your immune system?

  • Clean up your diet and eat anti-inflammatory foods, not processed junk. The weight loss will eventually follow but what matters is eating real food and worrying about total body health.
  • Exercise daily if you are prone you can delay or fend off bad things happening.
  • Limit the amount of stress you allow into your life and give yourself enough time to rest and restore. Take a vacation, meditate, prioritize your own wellbeing.

My plea to you is to boost your immune system.

Stay STRONG.

Disconnect from toxic people and toxic moments.

#ArmorUpforLIFE

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