Immunologist Dr Jenna Macciochi shares her top tips to stay fighting fit Now is the time to start picking up habits that can keep your immune system fighting fit. Feeding the bugs living in your gut is one of the best ways to do this. Unlike your digestive or respiratory systems, which are made up of organs, the immune system is made up of cells located throughout the body.
Around 70% of these cells are in the gut, while the rest are congregated at the body’s barriers, like the airways and skin, as well as the circulatory and lymphatic systems. Their job is to perform constant surveillance for bacteria and viruses that could harm our health and fight these off. But, when functioning properly, they also let harmless substances pass through our system and calm inflammation in the body at the end of an infection.
Most of these processes occur in the gut, so we need it to be really well fortified. This is what I advise all of my patients to do..
