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Post-bag-work sauna sessions to keep heart rate elevated, and deep stretching

"God, that should be a daily for you... I do heavy bag rounds and then after the rounds, I jump right into the sauna... I go in 196 degrees and I sit in there for 20, 25 minutes... I find that you can do stretches when you're in that 195-, 196-degree heat th..."

Joe Rogan

Immune modulation during cold and flu season; optimizing levels to 45-70 ng/mL

"Vitamin D is probably the single most important immune modulating nutrient that you can take and probably sixty to eighty percent are insufficient or deficient in vitamin D. So it's an easy hack and it's cheap, it's pennies a day."

Mark Hyman, MD

Paired with collagen before training to support connective tissue in the fingers

"Collagen peptides from Momentous plus vitamin C. You don't need very much. 500 mg or 1,000 mg. I think it was as low as 50 in the research."

Tim Ferriss

Early cold support and regular immune maintenance

"You mentioned zinc, very important... There is some data on zinc lozenges which is helping in early cold."

Mark Hyman, MD

Immune support during travel and when feeling like getting sick

"I use thymosin alpha-1. Often when I travel, I don't get sick. If I'm getting sick, I use that."

Mark Hyman, MD

"I take five grams on a daily basis, but if my son's sick, if there's any exposure, I go up to 15, I go up to 20"

Rhonda Patrick

Winter immune support; combined with the vitamin A/D onset protocol

"There's also herbal formulas like Chinese mushrooms that I'll use for people to sort of support their health during the winter season."

Mark Hyman, MD

Added to homemade chicken soup for immune support

"I might even put astragalus in there... and you can buy these in the Chinese herbal store. They look like tongue depressors and they're big yellow things, and astragalus we know has a huge, huge effect on the immune system and improving immune response."

Mark Hyman, MD

Natural anti-inflammatory, as a safer alternative to NSAIDs

"Turmeric and curcumin and there's a bunch of different anti-inflammatories that don't cause any sort of gut disturbance and they're much better for you and healthy."

Joe Rogan

Taken at the first onset of cold symptoms

"Often when people are starting to feel sick, I'll recommend they do a couple of really key things which sound kind of unusual but they really seem to work, which is fifty thousand of vitamin A and fifty thousand of vitamin D for three to five days right at ..."

Mark Hyman, MD

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Part of his emergency travel supplement pack, taken at the first sign of illness

"I put in fifty thousand of A, fifty thousand of D. I put in something called Host Defense. I put in an herbal formula that has a lot of different adaptogenic mushrooms and I also put in some echinacea... And if I have those traveling with me and I start to ..."

Mark Hyman, MD

"More and more I'm recommending peptides to my patients. So TB500, BPC-157, thymus and alpha. We have a little peptide protocol"

Dr. Jonathan Kanevsky

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Transfer Factor MultiImmune

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Gut and immune support

"There are gut supportive things that are really helpful that are like colostrum based products that I use. One's called Transfer Factor MultiImmune, which I use."

Mark Hyman, MD

"I take zinc with quercetin. Quercetin aids in the zinc absorption in your body."

Joe Rogan