Can anyone help with a diet/exercise/lifestyle programme to get me back to Heath after illness?

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For the past 4 months I’ve had one Illness after another requiring anti fungals, 3 courses of antibiotics, antivirals, ultrasounds and MRI scan. I feel like my immune system is all over the place and I want to do all I can to help get back to health. What foods should I be eating? What exercise? any thing else I can do to help myself? Before this I had a pretty normal diet, not overweight. But lazy when it came to exercise. Thank you!

I’d focus on your gut health and making this is optimised plus ensuring you’re eating a range of vitamins and minerals.

Whole foods. I was quite pleased I already eat a lot of foods recommended; Berries, avocado, nuts/seeds, cucumber, celery, lemon water, leafy greens, garlic, onions, coconut water. All good for inflammation.

Light exercise I now do half the weekly exercise then I use to pre April, again pleased to see the overriding recommendation of getting into water!

I feel I’ve had the whole next decades dose of antibiotics for sure. 🙈

I always find switching to more beans and lentils ad my carb bases is good for my gut- feel very clear headed . Plus cutting sugar.

Commiserations … Have the medical investigations identified an exact issue? Because obviously whatever treatment you receive might also impact your ‘healing process’. But assuming you can eat and move about as normal:

1. Weekly veg box. You may need to significantly increase your intake. Riverford is excellent - you can choose individual items if you prefer, and skip weeks whenever you want.

2. Wholefoods, as mentioned above. This is an absolute lifeline: Hodmedod’s

3. If you don’t already own one, get yourself a yoga mat. (I’d highly recommend Liforme - unbelievably grippy, wonderful colours and alignment designs. Well worth the price.)

4. I’m sure it’s obvious but as much fresh air as you can manage. Doesn’t have to be strenuous, but the Vitamin D will really support your recovery.

5. Not obvious but - read. Books, not the Internet! Illness can make one feel a bit rubbish and useless; reading makes one feel clever and optimistic.

Hope you’ll be better soon.