The world's best immunity boosters
Woman's World|December 18, 2023
For centuries, people around the world have relied on home remedies to fend off colds and the flu. Now, research finds their time-honored tricks really do boost immunity
Ann Green
The world's best immunity boosters

Up germ fighters

the French way 

Women in France start their day with a creamy café latte. The sip, which is equal parts milk and coffee, doubles immune cells’ ability to fight off infection, found a study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Fats in milk bind with coffee’s inflammation-fighting chlorogenic acid and caffeic acid, raising the body’s ability to absorb them and fight infection.

Rev ‘killer cells’

the Japanese way 

Light a pine-scented candle for 1 hour and Japanese research shows you’ll boost your body’s ability to fight off infection for seven days. Pine scent compounds called alpha-pinene and betapinene hike up the body’s levels of natural killer cells, which target infected cells.

Block viruses from breeding

the Icelandic way 

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