Natural ways to boost your Immune system

[Guest FinalDL2021]

Does anyone have any natural remedies for boosting your Immune system? Through covid19. I have been taking a combination of herbs, and supplements, I heard where useful in boosting the immune system, I was wondering how effective this might be against catching HIV.

[BootmanLA]

Virtually anything used that way is likely ineffective over the long haul. HIV works by compromising otherwise healthy immune systems; most HIV-negative people have more or less healthy immune systems and yet can be infected, particularly if they have unprotected receptive sex with someone who's got a reasonably high viral load. That's what makes HIV so insidious - with the apparent exception of people who have a particular, very uncommon genetic variation, the virus is capable of infecting almost anyone, in the right circumstances. And once it's there, its very nature is to secrete itself in cells that the immune system normally can't touch. There it slowly replicates, wearing down the immune system over time, until the body's protections give out.

If you don't want to contract HIV, and you want to have unprotected sex, then use PrEP. There's no "natural" or "herbal" shit that's going to protect you.

[JakeTurner]

Nothing (other than PrEP) will prevent HIV.

In terms of just not getting sick so much, ever since I started taking zinc picolinate (50mg/day) I've pretty much stopped having serious illnesses. Now when I get sick (which is rare) it's pretty mild. I was getting nasty flus and colds pretty regularly previously. The other thing I do is a glass of non-frozen orange juice every day for vitamin C. But you gotta be careful with herbs and supplements – it's not hard to take toxic doses of them, and some of them have toxic impurities in them. If a little is good, more is NOT better.