As we get older, what are we to do to protect ourselves? Most of us cannot afford to get full body MRIs as insurance will not cover the procedure if done voluntarily, so we rely on our body knowledge and get cholesterol checks as our primary markers for heart disease.

We already know that tea has tremendous health benefits, however, we saw this article published in Nature, a health care publication. This study was conducted in Japan where various tea catechins at different concentrations from green and black teas were mixed with the Omicron sub-variants and were shown to significantly reduce the viral load of the sub-variants.

The human body needs sleep to repair itself. As with any living organism, your body must have time to go through cellular and tissue repair, toxin removal, etc. When you are asleep you can’t eat or drink, and therefore, the digestive system can do its thing which may help improve gut performance and other organ functions. By allowing your body to rest, your immune system has time to reset and become stronger to fight against illness and disease.

At 50Cups, October is immunity month and it’s also the traditional start of the “cold, cough and allergy season” in North America and therefore, I thought we could learn a little more about the immune system and what it does.