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Traveling can be really hard on your health. There are lots of factors that can work against you when you are on the road. The increased stress, changing time zones and not being able to find healthy food can all hurt your health. If you travel by air you have the added problems of exposure to airborne germs, fragrance chemicals, and other pollutants you may be exposed to by unhealthy people around you. Additionally, there’s the difficulty of bringing all your supplements with you.

So how can you protect yourself from sickness and environmental stress and keep to your healthy diet while traveling? This begins a multi-part series containing some great healthful tips for staying healthy when traveling.

Tip #1:

Boost your immune system before you go.

Don’t even think about walking into an airport, train station or other public place like this without protecting your immune system first. How you may ask? For at least three days before leaving start drinking lots of vegetable juice and taking immune-boosting herbal supplements. This works even better if you’re already drinking fresh juices every day as a regular habit. But even if you’re not do this before you travel.

For supplements, try garlic supplements, Echinacea, goldenseal, ginger and other similar immune herbs.

It’s also important to get plenty of zinc in your diet by eating pumpkin seeds or taking high-quality zinc supplements. Taking lots of vitamin C and vitamin D3 is also beneficial. Be sure to you get high-quality supplements.

Part 2 Coming Next Time!

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Supplementation

Now that many of the health benefits of vitamin D have been shown, I next want to describe where to find this vitamin and who needs it the most.

The best source of vitamin D is the sun. Spending time in the sun daily is not deadly. Obviously, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing, but never spending any time in the sun is certainly not the better alternative. Lighter complected people need less time in the sun than darker complected people, about 15 minutes in the sun daily. For darker individuals, approximately 30 minutes should be strived for.

Another source of vitamin D is diet. Raw milk naturally contains vitamin D, but the largest dietary source is cod liver oil.

Everyone needs vitamin D! It has been recently shown that young children and infants tend to be deficient, even though they appear otherwise healthy. New info on vitamin D has prompted many to deem the RDA to be far too low — the highest amount suggested being 600 IU. The Vitamin D Council recommends at least 1,000 IU per day.

In summary, if people get plenty of sunshine, raw milk, and cod liver oil, many would definitely benefit from this vitamin. Vitamin D has been underestimated in its abilities and its health benefits for years. The future only holds more data on how important this vitamin is.