Must-Know Ingredients To Support Your Immune System This Winter

We all want our families to keep kicking goals over winter, and one of the best ways to make sure we don’t have to pause life is to support our hard-working immune systems.

And we only need to look at nature to find some not-so-secret ingredients that may work wonders in keeping our immune systems supported and functioning.

Ingredients like echinacea and vitamin C have long been credited with giving immune system support. Here’s a closer look at why these ingredients are key this winter.

Echinacea

Mother Nature provides some of the best ingredients to support a healthy immune system, including the little purple flower known as echinacea. It’s been famed for its health benefits since the 18th century, and we now know that taking echinacea may help reduce the duration of common cold symptoms.

Our immune system is our body’s defence against nasty germs, and the way echinacea works is to increase the number of white blood cells, which is what fights infections.

Vitamin C

The other ingredient for immune system support is vitamin C, a heavy lifter when it comes to maintaining immune function health this winter. It’s an immune system supporter that’s also an antioxidant.

Our bodies need vitamin C, but we can’t produce it. So it comes into our system either through the foods we eat or a supplement. Vitamin C is found in citrus fruits and as well as vegetables like broccoli, brussels sprouts and kale.

And it’s well worth making sure your body is getting enough of this ingredient, because taking a dose of vitamin C as soon as you feel cold symptoms start may decrease the length of your cold.

Cenovis Echinacea, Garlic, Zinc + C

Now you know why these ingredients are key in supporting your immune system in winter, it’s time to get the family on board!

The simplest and no-fuss way to help get each of these ingredients into your daily intake is Cenovis Echinacea, Garlic, Zinc + C. In one simple tablet you have help to keep these nutritional bases covered.

Cenovis Echinacea, Garlic, Zinc + C is specially formulated to reduce the duration and severity of common cold symptoms. It also relieves symptoms of mild upper respiratory tract infections and supports healthy immune system function.

Finally, it acts as an antioxidant, helping to reduce free radical damage to body cells.

Always read the label and follow the directions for use.

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64 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 26 Sep 2024
    11:22 am
Being given a shock health diagnosis the other week from my Doctor now has me thinking big time about how to strengthen my immune system which at times is going to be a challenge in the job that I do. My Doc suggested that I give up work but that would break my heart.

- - ChiWren said
  - 30 Jun 2024
    8:44 pm
Good thing hubs loves garlic like I do because I always up it at winter. There are some nasty flus going around right now, thankfully it’s been a good orange season so far so we’ve all been having more.

- - Mad Bean said
  - 28 Aug 2022
    9:42 am
I’m big on ginger and garlic and lemons for fight off a cold.

- - Zmijka86 said
  - 27 Aug 2022
    8:12 am
Its good to add some natural ingredients to meals to boost bodyimmunity.

- - mom461384 said
  - 18 Aug 2022
    6:18 pm
I always load garlic into our meals when every one of my family starts becoming unwell

- - Rubymareee said
  - 16 Aug 2022
    11:04 pm
Natural remedies are so good

- - mom111059 said
  - 05 Aug 2022
    8:23 pm
I’m a big believe in Vitamin C. Plenty of oranges to help your cold.

- - mom450498 said
  - 02 Aug 2022
    9:45 pm
I take these in winter to try to boost my immunity and it’s probably more placebo but whatever works!

- - MummaKez said
  - 02 Aug 2022
    9:20 pm
Essential for great health!!!

- - Lovesthecuddles said
  - 30 Jul 2022
    8:39 am
Natural remedies are always better for prevention

- - Kimeeja said
  - 25 Jul 2022
    11:35 am
We’re all going to need a boost this winter by the look of how quickly the flu & covid is spreading. I try and get my vitamins from the foods I eat but sometimes you just need a supplement to assist

- - curlytops said
  - 22 Jul 2022
    2:14 pm
honey and lemon with boiling water is a lovely calming and soothing drink

- - mum1 said
  - 19 Jul 2022
    2:36 pm
Great idea. I think we’re all going to need an extra boost of immunity this winter after the last few years of lockdowns

- - Stace said
  - 18 Jul 2022
    6:15 pm
Just reading about these ingredients sooth me. They instantly make me think of being cozy, resting and keeping healthy.
- mom111059 replied
  
  15 Aug 2022 , 10:25 am
  and just by relaxing your body is probably looking after your immunity as well.
- - tessie said
  - 18 Jul 2022
    11:23 am
I really want to try this but I can’t have anything that contains citrus otherwise I’d end up in hospital.

- - Lovesthecuddles said
  - 13 Jul 2022
    9:11 pm
Worth a try.

- - Lividanke said
  - 12 Jul 2022
    11:09 am
Some great ideas here. I’ve been trying to add garlic into lots of things I cook in the hope of helping a bit.

- - rovermum said
  - 11 Jul 2022
    11:06 am
I’m taking Vitamin C tablets, drinking lots of water, and will add lemon to it. I’m on quite a few tablets already for medical issues, so it’s getting ridiculous.

- - mom75388 said
  - 10 Jul 2022
    10:11 am
My main winter immune system support is ginger,lemon & honey drink in hot water which help cold & flu symptoms of coughing and also support my gut.

- - mom321189 said
  - 08 Jul 2022
    9:01 am
Oh garlic despite the side effects one may get, its powerful so we must add to our dishes.