22. Dr. Axe’s Top Tips & Tricks for Optimal Nutrition+Boosting Your Immune System- with Dr. Josh Axe

Immune Foods

Josh Axe emphasizes the importance of bone broth as a top immune-boosting food. He explains that ancient Chinese medicine recommends chicken bone broth, vegetable soup, and ginger herbal tea for cold and flu remedies. Additionally, he highlights the benefits of vitamin C-rich vegetables like broccoli, bok choy, and bell peppers, as well as fruits like citrus and kiwi 1.

Bone broth is the number one superfood for sure. Cooked vegetables like cauliflower and broccoli, like a lot of the cruciferous and green leafy vegetables, and then things like pumpkin and squash.

--- Josh Axe

These foods are ideal for supporting the immune system and providing essential nutrients.

   

Key Supplements

Key supplements for boosting immunity include soil-based probiotics and elderberry capsules. Josh Axe explains that soil-based probiotics are crucial for gut health, which houses 70% of our immune system 2. He also recommends elderberry capsules over syrups due to lower sugar content, which is beneficial for immune support 3.

Soil-based organisms act as natural immune boosters.

--- Josh Axe

These supplements, along with collagen and fiber-rich vegetables, are essential for maintaining a healthy immune system.

   

Natural Remedies

Natural remedies like raw local honey and soil-based probiotics play a significant role in boosting immunity. Josh Axe shares that local honey contains microbes that help build tolerance to local pollen, reducing allergy symptoms 4. He also recounts how natural remedies, including reishi mushroom and turmeric, helped his mother recover from serious health issues 5.

If we want to naturally boost our immune systems, we do it through connecting with nature and then also things like soil-based organisms.

--- Josh Axe

These traditional remedies offer a holistic approach to health and wellness.