Has the Covid-19 Pandemic made you worry about your immune system and wondering what you can do to bolster it?
Well don't search for the answer in an expensive bottles of supplements.
To some extent, immune systems vary from person-to-person because of genetics, and, of course, some people are immuno-compromised due to underlying health issues or medications. The best things you can do for your immune system are:
1. Do not smoke or drink
2. Get enough sleep/manage stress
3. Exercise
4. Eat a nutritious diet that includes lots of fruits and veggies
Unfortunately, the pandemic has created the perfect opportunity for companies to exploit people's fears and convince them to spend large sums of money on unnecessary products.
A good example of this is the immune shot package from BodyBio. For $69.99USD you get:
1. Vitamin C crystals
2. Liquid zinc
3. Liposomal (a gel like substance that is the same material as your cells which increases 'bioavailability' of the vitamin C and zinc)
You blend it all together with 1/2 cup water and drink it down.
I was pretty skeptical of the whole thing especially the brown gel stuff, so being the wonderful wife that I am, I mixed it all together and gave it to my husband to drink. I could not get the liposomal stuff to dissolve stirring it so it requires blending in a blender. What did Adam think? He gagged it down. Did he feel like Superman afterwards? No. I don't know how you measure your immunity but I suspect it would take at least a few weeks to have any effect.
What is bioavailability anyways? Here is what BodyBio has to say:
It's all about better bioavailability - when combining our Vitamin C Crystals and Zinc with BodyBio PC, the PC encapsulates these key nutrients into a liposome for improved cellular delivery into the body.
Liposomes are tiny bubbles that shuttle valuable materials from your cells to targeted areas of the body; and sometimes, from supplements to your cells. Our PC is the same material as your cells so anything you mix with it, will be absorbed into the cell. The result is better bioavailability of the key nutrients to be delivered to the body.
How to make your Liposomal C + Zinc shot:
1 tsp PC Liquid
¼ tsp of Vit C Crystals
½ cup H20
7 drops of Zinc
Blend together until all the PC is dissolved. Mixture should be maple brown in color with a gel-like consistency. Drink immediately!
Your body can only absorb so much Vitamin C and much of it is lost in digestion. When encapsulated in a liposome with the help of BodyBio PC, the nutrients pass through digestion and increase the circulation of Vitamin C in the bloodstream to improve cellular delivery. We then add zinc to modulate immunity*. Zinc inhibits the replication of viral DNA, causing oxidative stress in infected cells and eventual cell death*.
Is this the best way to get these nutrients? No, the best way to get them is from real food. But could this product be useful for someone? Yeah...I am thinking astronauts and people wandering in the wilderness. Or, if you want me to be more charitable, than perhaps really picky people that refuse to eat a balanced diet or with severe health issues limiting what foods they can eat.
Disclosure: I was sent the product to review, but all opinions on this blog are my own.
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