{"id":180335,"date":"2020-11-10T11:58:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T11:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=180335"},"modified":"2020-11-10T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T12:00:21","slug":"autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Immunity Boost \u2013 5 Good Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sleep might be the most important thing to get right when it comes to immunity, as we discussed in the previous article. But there are other important factors that might be a lot easier to improve. Let\u2019s look at a few tips on how to use physical activity, hydration, and stress management to your advantage.<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nTake a few deep breaths<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Research shows<\/a> that chronic stress can suppress protective immune responses and make pathological immune responses much worse. Short-term acute stress is ok, that can make you stronger, but don\u2019t let it out of control. Physical exercise like cycling helps manage stress. So do meditation, listening to music, petting your dog or cat, spending time outdoors, getting a massage or going to a sauna. If you need to get your stress level under control<\/a> quickly, you can try an exercise in which you observe your body and breath. We described this in a previous article.<\/p>\n

\"Downward<\/a>
Based on the fluid connection of movement and breath, yoga gives you the tools you need to take control of your breathing, get your heart rate under control, and ultimately access more power on the bike.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stay hydrated<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Hydration is key to maintaining a healthy immune system. Make sure to drink enough fluid daily to make your urine pale yellow. Stick to water, unsweetened tea, or soups. Sugary drinks can be a problem for the immune system, but more on that in the next article. As a general guideline, drink when you\u2019re thirsty and stop when you\u2019re no longer thirsty. And remember to drink more when you go cycling or do other intense physical activity.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t stop cycling<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Regular moderate exercise can stimulate your immune system. Research shows it reduces inflammation<\/a> and helps your immune cells regenerate regularly. A shorter intense ride or moderate spinning is ideal. Try to always have a few sessions a week to accumulate at least 150 active minutes. But don\u2019t overdo it with intensity. Long intense exercise has been shown to temporarily suppress the immune system.<\/p>\n

\"Autumn<\/a>
Keep on cycling. \u00a9 Profimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stay in touch with your loved ones<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This one might seem to have hardly anything to do with your autumn immunity, but in fact it can be a powerful tool. Maintaining close relationships with people that are important to you is a powerful way to keep chronic stress away. Sharing wins and losses and having someone to talk to and hug is good for your emotional health, and what\u2019s more, research links it to improved physical health outcomes.<\/p>\n

Wash your hands<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Autumn is a time when infectious diseases are on the rise and the best precaution, apart from having a robust immune system, is washing your hands. You don\u2019t need to be obsessive and overuse hand sanitizers multiple times a day. But washing your hands with soap every time you return home will keep your chances of infection low and maintain your autumn immunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sleep might be the most important thing to get right when it comes to immunity, as we discussed in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":180339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[332],"tags":[4537,4565,1201,4567,4566],"global-categories":[3366],"class_list":["post-180335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-and-training","tag-autumn-immunity-boost","tag-good-habits","tag-hydration","tag-hygiene","tag-stress-control","global-categories-cycling"],"yoast_head":"\nAutumn Immunity Boost \u2013 5 Good Habits - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sleep might be the most important thing to get right when it comes to immunity, as we discussed in the previous article. But there are other important\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Autumn Immunity Boost \u2013 5 Good Habits\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sleep might be the most important thing to get right when it comes to immunity, as we discussed in the previous article. But there are other important\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"\u0160koda We Love Cycling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-10T11:58:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-11-10T12:00:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2020\/11\/Autumn-cycling-profimedia-0564963178-CVR.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"tereza\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jiri Kaloc\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/\",\"name\":\"Autumn Immunity Boost \u2013 5 Good Habits - \u0160koda We Love Cycling\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2020\/11\/Autumn-cycling-profimedia-0564963178-CVR.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-10T11:58:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-11-10T12:00:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#\/schema\/person\/50f01ecd18718d2333cf72e823c4f926\"},\"description\":\"Sleep might be the most important thing to get right when it comes to immunity, as we discussed in the previous article. But there are other important\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2020\/11\/Autumn-cycling-profimedia-0564963178-CVR.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2020\/11\/Autumn-cycling-profimedia-0564963178-CVR.webp\",\"width\":900,\"height\":600,\"caption\":\"Cycling in autumn\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Autumn Immunity Boost \u2013 5 Good Habits\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/\",\"name\":\"\u0160koda We Love Cycling\",\"description\":\"\u0160koda We Love Cycling magazine\",\"alternateName\":\"\u0160koda WLC\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#\/schema\/person\/50f01ecd18718d2333cf72e823c4f926\",\"name\":\"tereza\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1f9eb71be33845f0afabce3791bc1c58ecdb0a25c62964987e5dbcf7a20d2ec7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1f9eb71be33845f0afabce3791bc1c58ecdb0a25c62964987e5dbcf7a20d2ec7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"tereza\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/author\/tereza\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Autumn Immunity Boost \u2013 5 Good Habits - \u0160koda We Love Cycling","description":"Sleep might be the most important thing to get right when it comes to immunity, as we discussed in the previous article. But there are other important","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Autumn Immunity Boost \u2013 5 Good Habits","og_description":"Sleep might be the most important thing to get right when it comes to immunity, as we discussed in the previous article. But there are other important","og_url":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/","og_site_name":"\u0160koda We Love Cycling","article_published_time":"2020-11-10T11:58:12+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-11-10T12:00:21+00:00","og_image":[{"width":900,"height":600,"url":"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2020\/11\/Autumn-cycling-profimedia-0564963178-CVR.webp","type":"image\/webp"}],"author":"tereza","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jiri Kaloc","Est. reading time":"5"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/","url":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/","name":"Autumn Immunity Boost \u2013 5 Good Habits - \u0160koda We Love Cycling","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2020\/11\/Autumn-cycling-profimedia-0564963178-CVR.webp","datePublished":"2020-11-10T11:58:12+00:00","dateModified":"2020-11-10T12:00:21+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#\/schema\/person\/50f01ecd18718d2333cf72e823c4f926"},"description":"Sleep might be the most important thing to get right when it comes to immunity, as we discussed in the previous article. But there are other important","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2020\/11\/Autumn-cycling-profimedia-0564963178-CVR.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2020\/11\/Autumn-cycling-profimedia-0564963178-CVR.webp","width":900,"height":600,"caption":"Cycling in autumn"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/11\/10\/autumn-immunity-boost-5-good-habits\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Autumn Immunity Boost \u2013 5 Good Habits"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/","name":"\u0160koda We Love Cycling","description":"\u0160koda We Love Cycling magazine","alternateName":"\u0160koda WLC","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#\/schema\/person\/50f01ecd18718d2333cf72e823c4f926","name":"tereza","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1f9eb71be33845f0afabce3791bc1c58ecdb0a25c62964987e5dbcf7a20d2ec7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1f9eb71be33845f0afabce3791bc1c58ecdb0a25c62964987e5dbcf7a20d2ec7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"tereza"},"url":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/author\/tereza\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180342,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180335\/revisions\/180342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180335"},{"taxonomy":"global-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/global-categories?post=180335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}