Let's show our immune systems some love! This Immune Boosting Wellness Drink is made with fresh turmeric, ginger, orange, and lemon for a sip that helps protect you from anything icky going around.

This recipe makes two full glasses of wellness juice, or you can pour it into smaller containers and have 3-4 wellness "shot" style drinks. Making them at home is so much less expensive than buying them at the store! When colds and viruses are going around, I love to keep a couple of these in the refrigerator to give my immune system a boost first thing in the morning. To encourage my kids to drink this Immune Boosting Wellness Drink, I'll add more orange juice or coconut milk to sweeten the flavors and make them a bit more mild.

For more information on the immune system and for more recipes to help boost your immunity, be sure to see my article "Best Immunity Boosting Recipes."

Wellness Shot Ingredients

• Navel Orange (Valencia also works): The sweet orange balances the ginger and pepper, plus a vitamin C boost!
• Lemon: Lemon offers an additional boost of vitamin C and detoxifying health benefits.
• Turmeric root: This looks similar to fresh ginger and can be peeled with the back of a spoon and stored in the freezer to use whenever you want the incredible health benefits of fresh turmeric.
• Ginger root: Use fresh ginger root and prepare and store it just like your turmeric root!
• Unrefined coconut oil and freshly ground black pepper: Both of these ingredients aid in the absorption of the turmeric!

Citrus for Immunity

As we all know, oranges provide loads of immune-boosting vitamin C, and we can all use more of that! The lemon in this drink is also high in vitamin C.  Evidence suggests that for some people, high doses of vitamin C might actually shorten a cold by as much as one and a half days. In addition, vitamin C fights free radicals to prevent or delay certain cancers and heart disease. It is essential for the growth and repair of bodily tissues, helps heal wounds, and repairs and maintains healthy cartilage, bones, teeth and skin.

In terms of immunity, vitamin C stimulates the formation of antibodies, which is vital in fighting sickness (source). It also protects from organ infection due to its important role in immune health (source).

Deficiency of this vitamin makes your system more prone to various types of infections. Vitamin C supports the function of various immune cells and increases their ability to protect against infections. It is also necessary for cellular death which helps to keep the immune system healthy by flushing out old cells and replacing with new ones. Isn't that incredible?! Vitamin C also acts as a powerful antioxidant (source).

All About Turmeric

Turmeric is a plant that has a very long history of medicinal use, dating back nearly 4000 years. Turmeric urmeric, in particular, has a very long history of medicinal use (dating back nearly 4000 years!). In ancient cultures, medical practitioners focused on herbs for promoting the body’s immune system.  Turmeric has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for many conditions, including breathing problems, rheumatism, serious pain, and fatigue.  Modern medicine has begun to recognize its importance, mostly as a dietary supplement for inflammation, arthritis, and other conditions including stomach, skin, liver, and gallbladder problems (source). Curcumin (the orange-yellow component found in turmeric) has been shown to enhance antibody responses. This suggests that curcumin's reported beneficial effects in arthritis, allergy, asthma, atherosclerosis, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, and cancer might be due in part to its ability to modulate the immune system (source). Turmeric is rich in antioxidants and has antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal activity (source).

Ginger Immune Boosting Wellness Drink

Ginger root is really good for calming an upset stomach and often used to calm nausea, so it's great first thing in the morning. It also aids in digestion, so it helps your body absorb all of the other wonderful ingredients and nutrients in this immunity-boosting wellness drink!

In many countries ginger is used to raise the immune system. The health-promoting perspectives of ginger are well known. It can treat a wide range of diseases via immunonutrition and anti-inflammatory responses (source).

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