Boosting YOUR Immune System with Chicken Soup

Post CoVid how can we prepare our bodies to heal in this new world. Food is a building block for our bodies. Certain foods and lifestyle practices can unlock immense self-regenerative energetic resources within your cells, optimising DNA expression and making them more important in affecting your health than any other single factor.

Once written off as a mere comfort food, chicken soup is the archetypal traditional home recipe that is an ideal and easy starting point to boost your gut health.

Chicken soup is an example of a time tested medicinal home recipe in all senses of the word. It helps support, optimise and elevate our genetic expression. Research has shown that chicken soup may elicit therapeutic effects in people with pneumococcal pneumonia and chicken soup has also shown to thin mucus secretions and relieve the inflammation in the upper respiratory tract that can precipitate fever, chills, muscle aches and fatigue.

Chicken soup, like virtually all food based medicine doesn’t generally have side effects – only side benefits. Adding ginger to the cooking process, which is one of the reigning champions in the arsenal of anti-inflammatory home remedies, which inhibits production of prostaglandins, leukotrienes, and tumour necrosis factor – A, biomolecules behind the cardinal signs of inflammation such as pain, redness, heat and swelling. Ginger also contains microRNAs that stimulate the growth of beneficial Lactobacillus bacteria in the gut and metabolism and reduces inflammation.

Chicken soup contains easily assimilated protein found in the tendons, ligaments, and other flexible tissues that are often degraded during the cooking process, and it is a good source of easily absorbed minerals including magnesium, calcium, potassium, silicon, sulphur and phosphorous. Additionally, it is rich in collagen and glycosaminoglycan’s like hydraluronic acid, glucosamine and chondrotoitin sulphate, all of which elicit regenerative effects in joints, tendons, ligaments, and other connective tissues.

Chicken soup is full of glutamine, the preferred fuel source of the cells lining the gastrointestinal tract, it helps to heal leaky gut syndrome.

In the case of acute disease, the humble chicken soup can support our bodies in their endeavour to heal – promoting resolution of acute illness and setting the stage for reversal pathogenesis of chronic illness. Chicken soup has the ability to send your genes the equivalent of healing ‘text messages’, providing a schematic and guide map your body has always known how to do – HEAL.

Armed with this information, taking charge of your body with the amazing power of the humble homemade chicken soup.

Note: This writer has over 30 years’ experience on how food can fuel our bodies, to most recently healing my body from trauma and stage 4 cancer.