Traveling - Traveling can present significant challenges to your health. Jet lag, poor diet, and sleep deprivation all negatively impact the immune system. Re-circulating air dries mucous membranes, reducing the efficacy of our first line of defense.

Starting A Diet - A change in nutrition and intake places stress on your body and can interfere with your immune function. Both healthy and poor eating habits affect digestion, which in turn disrupts immunity.

Athletic Training - Exercise yields numerous health benefits. Heavy exertion for prolonged periods, however, can actually weaken the immune system. “Oxidative stress” due to increased metabolism and minor muscle injuries, as well as competition between muscles and immune cells for key amino acids, can impair the immune system.

Quitting Smoking - While quitting smoking strengthens your immune health in the long term, the initial phase can exert stress on all the body’s functions, including the immune system. An inflammatory response coupled with a reduction in protective secretory IgA antibodies has also been observed.