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50 Evidence-Based, Immune-Boosting Activities

Getting-back-in-control-in-nature-image-by-Andrey-Volokhatiuk

Getting-back-in-control-in-nature-image-by-Andrey-Volokhatiuk

As the pandemic forces the world to go into ‘lockdown’, many people are wondering what they’ll do, how they’ll survive,  and how they’ll avoid going stir crazy.

Whether or not you are in lockdown, the best thing you can possibly do is focus on being ‘Positively Well’.

Here is a poem with 50 evidence-based, immunity-boosting, anxiety-relieving wellness activities that can be done during the current global slowdown with minimal cost, skills or equipment. These activities include some of the most potent ways to defend against a virus, deal with chronic disease and alleviate the anxiety associated with the current global uncertainty.

Click on each activity to see a sample of the scientific evidence behind it. This short ‘Poetic Prescription’ will help you stay ‘Positively Well’ and go:

“From Wired and Tired to Chilled and Fulfilled”

Hold someone’s handgaze into their eyes

Go barefoot in naturebask in sunrise

Choose a dance partnergo find your groove

Do tai chi or yogamindfully move

Share a massageenjoy healing touch


Focus on one thing and don’t think too much

Make time for a hobbyplay chessfly a kite

Make use of your handsdraw, paint, sew or write

Help someone in needdonate to a cause

Play gamesmeditateread stuff from bookstores

Turn off your screensget a good sleep


De-clutterspark joy, love what you keep

Dig around in a gardenpick up a guitar

Slip into a bathtubsauna, or spa

Care for a pettake up a sport


Go on vacationmake your home a resort

Lie in a hammockrelease pent-up stress

Relax and do nothing, then do even less

Laugh out loudshare a jokegive someone a kiss

Say a prayerchant a mantrafollow your bliss

Each of the 50 activities listed above is linked to the scientific evidence to support it. One document has been linked to each activity with a preference given to more recent articles, systematic reviews and articles that discuss improvements in mental health, immunity and general wellbeing. Please share.

Author Dr Marc Cohen is a medical doctor, university professor and wellness expert with 2 PhDs. He has spent more than 40 years studying medicine and researching holistic health and has published more than 100 scientific papers and a dozen books on wellness and natural medicine. You can find him at www.drmarc.co and www.facebook.com/drmarc.co

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© This article was first published in Apr 2020 – World Travel Magazine.

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