Wrap Up

Dear Clients

With very warm wishes for Christmas and the New Year.   Personally, I can’t believe how quickly the time has passed this year, even though we have been through Lockdowns.     Looking after our health at this time is paramount and, as I have mentioned before, every Bowen treatment boosts the immune system.      I sincerely wish you a very healthy 2022 and I have some more little gems of information to help you: –

Wrap Up

Keeping your throat warm is an effective way to keep bugs at bay.

A few years ago, Professor Ron Eccles, who set up and ran the Common Cold Centre at Cardiff University, reported that when it gets colder, one of the first things he does is reach for his scarf.

That’s because most of the viruses that cause colds and the flu replicate better in a cooler environment, like inside your nose and throat.   Not only does keeping your neck and face warm reduce the change that viruses will replicate, but recent studies from Yale University in the US show that interferons (proteins that form a key part of your initial immune response) are less active at a cooler temperature, allowing more viruses to spread.

Walks

Walking briskly outdoors, particularly in woods, is a great way to keep your immune system in good shape.  You get the benefits of exercise in boosting the immune system as well as exposure to light, which helps reset your body clock and should help sleep, itself an essential immune booster.   We know this thanks to several studies, including one published in the American Journal of Medicine in 2020 when a group of 115 post-menopausal women were randomly allocated to either 45 minutes of brisk walking five days a week, or stretching.   At the end of a year, the walkers reported three times fewer colds than the stretchers.   This is because aerobic exercise increases immunoglobulin.

Also, if you are able to go for daily walks in a wood, then even better.   Trees produce a range of gas-like compounds, including phytoncides (wood essential oils) which are anti-microbial and have also been shown to boost levels of our natural killer cells, white cells in the immune system that seek out and destroy viruses.