Published September 26, 2025.
There’s never ending colds and flus that go around at the start of the school year, so I wanted to share five effective ways to proactively strengthen your immune system and avoid getting sick altogether.
1. Sleep at least 7-8 hours a night. A lack of rest can interfere with healthy immune responses and increase pro-inflammatory signaling. Even if you are eating healthy and exercising, a lack of sleep will cause you to crash.
2. Focus on eating whole foods like fruits and vegetables to meet all your nutrient requirements and for antioxidants.
3. Add nutrient dense Bone Broth like Kettle & Fire into your routine. Kettle & Fire’s 100% grass fed bone broth provides the micronutrients and amino acids that play a vital role in gut immune homeostasis and healing intestinal permeability.
4 Keep getting direct sunlight on your face and skin because it serves an irreplaceable role in vitamin D production and cell function.
5. Get your hands dirty in soil because the beneficial microbes can actually improve your immune system and mood!
If you are looking to incorporate more bone broth into your routine, my go to is Kettle & Fire’s grass fed and finished beef bone broth. Kettle & Fire slow simmers the knuckle, patella, and foot marrow bones for over 14 hours to extract as much of the amino acids as possible!
You can find Kettle & Fire at your local grocery retailer, and they also provided me with the 20% off code MYHEALTHFORWARD for their website.
As part of their commitment to create a healthier and more transparent food supply, Kettle & Fire’s bone broths are certified glyphosate residue free. The certification means that the bone broth on grocery shelves is tested to contain zero residue of the herbicide and pre harvest desiccant glyphosate. The certification is so important because it ensures that the land the chickens and cattle graze on and eat from hasn't been sprayed with glyphosate. The certification also ensures that there isn’t any cross contamination from herbicide drift.
