
Many people have been forced to take greater responsibility for their health by Covid. Unsurprisingly, online searches for ‘how to boost your immune system’ have rocketed during the pandemic.
What can we do? Well, all the experts that Positive News spoke to stressed one thing: the importance of getting jabbed. “The obvious thing we can do to improve immune response is to get vaccinated,” says Charles Bangham, a professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Imperial College London.
Other than that, there are simple lifestyle adjustments that can be made to support our immune systems. “They make a massive difference, no doubt about it,” says Lafina Diamandis, a GP and lifestyle doctor at Deia Health.
Here’s what the experts had to say.