Maintaining Body Endurance in the Transition Season: Tips for Boosting Immune System

KOMPAS.com – Maintain body endurance in the transition season can help us stay healthy through our daily routines.

Transition season can be described as the transition of one season to another. During this period, viruses and bacteria reproduce more quickly and have the ability to survive longer.

This also makes the human body more susceptible to various diseases such as dengue fever, typhus, diarrhea and flu.

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How to maintain your immune system in the transition season

There are several effective ways that we can do to ward off “subscription” diseases in the transition season.

Some steps can be started routinely washing hands before touching your face and eating, implementing clean and healthy living habits, consuming nutritious food, getting enough rest, managing stress and getting vaccinated if necessary.

“During the transition season, the body is forced to adapt to extreme changes in temperature, and because of this force the body becomes more susceptible to disease.”

That’s what Dr. Elizabeth Angelina, Medical Officer of PT Kalbe Farma Tbk in a press statement received by Kompas.com.

Managing stress

Doctor Elizabeth also added, managing stress It is also included in efforts to increase body endurance.

Because, when the body and mind feel stress, the hormone cortisol is produced and if left for a long period of time it will suppress the body’s immune system’s ability to fight viruses or bacteria.

“Reading books, hanging out with family, meditating or doing hobbies are one way to manage stress,” he said.

SMART healthy lifestyle

Apart from implementing healthy lifestyles and managing stress, the government also recommends a CERDIK-style healthy lifestyle.

CERDIK is an invitation from the Indonesian Ministry of Health (Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia).

This is an abbreviation for regular health checks, getting rid of cigarette smoke, regular physical activity or exercise, a healthy and balanced diet, as well as getting enough rest and managing stress.

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Consume red ginger

Red ginger has been known as a herbal plant that is useful in improving immune system.

In general, red ginger has a number of compounds that act as immunomodulators, anti-bacterials, antioxidants, which play an important role in maintaining the body’s immune system in the transition season.

In red ginger itself, there is a content that other types of ginger do not have, namely beta-carotene which acts as an antioxidant or antidote to free radicals.

Red ginger is also a rhizome that is easy to process. Many people enjoy it by making warm drinks from red ginger to consume regularly.

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2023-12-19 14:37:00
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