need immunity support -badly

**Tarkana** · 12-03-2005, 03:52 PM

for some reason it seems like i am very suceptible to illness. wrestling season has only been going on for a little over a month now, and i've ben sick 3 times, plus once ealier in the year- i had to drop out of today's tournament because my fever and headache was so bad. i know the whole cutting weight and lots of conditioning isn't the best thing in the world, but most of the team cuts a lot more than i do (i weigh bout 127 and wrestle 125) and none of them seem to get sick like i do. im already upping my vitamin C dose. what else can i take to strengthen my immune system? this getting sick so much is making school work difficult and screwing up my season.

**Dosquito** · 12-03-2005, 03:52 PM

Originally Posted by Tarkana

for some reason it seems like i am very suceptible to illness. wrestling season has only been going on for a little over a month now, and i've ben sick 3 times, plus once ealier in the year- i had to drop out of today's tournament because my fever and headache was so bad. i know the whole cutting weight and lots of conditioning isn't the best thing in the world, but most of the team cuts a lot more than i do (i weigh bout 127 and wrestle 125) and none of them seem to get sick like i do. im already upping my vitamin C dose. what else can i take to strengthen my immune system? this getting sick so much is making school work difficult and screwing up my season.

Vitamin C
Yerba Mate
Anti-oxidants

**OULexicon** · 12-03-2005, 03:58 PM

DanActive. It rocks. Search google, and read their web page.

**NumberTwentyTwo** · 12-03-2005, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by Dosquito

Vitamin C
Yerba Mate
Anti-oxidants

definately need a multi
plus
-zinc
-arginine

vit c and multi are the most important

**bbuild528** · 12-03-2005, 04:01 PM

Eat healthy + multivitamin.

**Madevilz** · 12-03-2005, 04:03 PM

Green Tea, Honey, Apples

**bbuild528** · 12-03-2005, 04:04 PM

Post up your diet.

**BiggJohn** · 12-03-2005, 05:03 PM

Originally Posted by Tarkana

for some reason it seems like i am very suceptible to illness. wrestling season has only been going on for a little over a month now, and i've ben sick 3 times, plus once ealier in the year- i had to drop out of today's tournament because my fever and headache was so bad. i know the whole cutting weight and lots of conditioning isn't the best thing in the world, but most of the team cuts a lot more than i do (i weigh bout 127 and wrestle 125) and none of them seem to get sick like i do. im already upping my vitamin C dose. what else can i take to strengthen my immune system? this getting sick so much is making school work difficult and screwing up my season.

Sesathin - I found it impossible to get sick while on it.

**Tarkana** · 12-03-2005, 05:36 PM

i already take multi and C, and my diet's pretty healthy since i need to keep fat off. lean meats, eggs, oats, vegetables. Sesathin is a bit on the expensive side and DanActive isn't sold by me. i'll try adding in some green tea though, and more fruit

**nni** · 12-03-2005, 05:38 PM

echinacea is also widely used to avoid the common cold and flu.

**richer44** · 12-03-2005, 06:07 PM

Try out Mushroom Optimizer (caps or powder) by Jarrow Formulas which runs about $12/month or Host Defense (caps or liquid) by New Chapter which runs about $30/month. Medicinal mushrooms how strong immuno-modulating effects.

**WIGuy** · 12-03-2005, 06:13 PM

Sleep.

**Lonny** · 12-03-2005, 06:27 PM

I find i hardly ever get sick when using R-ALA, or K-R-ALA alongside Vitamins E and C.

Ginger is good for the immune system. Numerous different teas work well for their anti-oxidant and polyphenol content.

Zinc as mentioned above

**BringnIt** · 12-03-2005, 06:27 PM

Echinacea when ill. Ashwaghanda, andrographis, EFAs, whey protein, selenium, green tea, grapeseed, probiotics, multivitamin/mineral.

Also, various mushroom extracts and most antioxidants.

**Quinn77** · 12-03-2005, 06:38 PM

the local nutritionist told me to take colostrum

**Tarkana** · 12-03-2005, 06:43 PM

how much zinc exactly? i know there's some in my multi. i was taking zma b4 to help me get to sleep, but im not taking it right now. should i start using that again? would that be a good amount? and im gona pick up some echinacea

**BringnIt** · 12-03-2005, 06:49 PM

Btw, Madevilz, what are you basing your recommendation of honey on?

**laz** · 12-03-2005, 06:53 PM

Glutamine is also good for the immunity.

**Madevilz** · 12-03-2005, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by BringnIt

Btw, Madevilz, what are you basing your recommendation of honey on?

http://www.cyberbee.net/antiox.htm
http://www.aaccnet.org/FuncFood/cont...ntioxidant.htm
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?t...dspice&dbid=96
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/seta/2...1800030300.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0708085352.htm
A simple little google search does great huh?

**cxm** · 12-03-2005, 07:22 PM

Vitamin C and Grapeseed Extract is what I like for me. This is some info on Grapeseed extract.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract

Oxygen free radical scavenging abilities of vitamins C and E, and a grape seed proanthocyanidin extract in vitro.

Bagchi D, Garg A, Krohn RL, Bagchi M, Tran MX, Stohs SJ.

School of Pharmacy, Creighton University, Omaha, NE 68178, USA.

Proanthocyanidins, a group of polyphenolic bioflavonoids, have been reported to exhibit a wide range of biological, pharmacological and chemoprotective properties against oxygen free radicals. We have assessed the concentration-dependent oxygen free radical scavenging abilities of a grape seed proanthocyanidin extract (GSPE), vitamin C and vitamin E succinate (VES) as well as superoxide dismutase, catalase and mannitol against biochemically generated superoxide anion and hydroxyl radical using a chemiluminescence assay and cytochrome c reduction. A concentration-dependent inhibition was demonstrated by GSPE. At a 100 mg/l concentration, GSPE exhibited 78-81% inhibition of superoxide anion and hydroxyl radical. Under similar conditions, vitamin C inhibited these two oxygen free radicals by approximately 12-19%, while VES inhibited the two radicals by 36-44%. The combination of superoxide dismutase and catalase inhibited superoxide anion by approximately 83%, while mannitol resulted in an 87% inhibition of hydroxyl radical. The results demonstrate that GSPE is a more potent scavenger of oxygen free radicals as compared to vitamin C and VES.

PMID: 9090754 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

**BringnIt** · 12-03-2005, 07:32 PM

Yeah, except for all of those links focus on antioxidant capacity and not immune function.

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abst...urnalcode=ajcn

"Oral 100-g portions of carbohydrate from glucose, fructose, sucrose, honey, or orange juice all significantly decreased the capacity of neutrophils to engulf bacteria as measured by the slide technique."

Which means it impairs white blood cells' ability to attack bacteria.

**chainsaw** · 12-04-2005, 01:52 PM

http://anabolicminds.com/forum/suppl...ick-stack.html

Check this out, this makes a great addition to your basis of Vit C, E, antioxidants and ALA.

**Metalcarnage** · 12-04-2005, 02:00 PM

Originally Posted by laz

Glutamine is also good for the immunity.

I'll put that as my suggestion too, started taking glutamine before i even started working out (been working out a little over a year, started glutamine 3 1/2 years ago) and literally have not been sick once since, nothing at all period

**DRP7** · 12-04-2005, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by nni

echinacea is also widely used to avoid the common cold and flu.

it is widely advertised, but some recent studies show that it has no advantage over placebo in order to prevent or shorten illness.

best regards

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