The Immune Advantage by Ellen Mazo and Dr Keith Berndtson

This is a great book for anyone with immune system challenges who is looking to kick their immune system into better shape. It covers nutritional, lifestyle, and psychological approaches to improving your body's immune response.

• Part 1 looks at the immune system, how it works, and at balance. 
• Part 2 looks at strengthening your immune system through healthy eating, avoiding environmental hazards, and it looks at immune boosters, and immune busters. 
• Part 3 looks at the prevention and treatment of immune-related diseases, including allergies and asthma, autoimmune diseases, and infections. 
• Part 4 covers The Max Immunity Plan, which includes actions to improve your diet, supplements to support the immune system, essential exercise, stress relief, the importance of sleep and emotional wellbeing. 
• Part 5 provides healthy recipes for an optimal immune system, as well as outlining foods to eat and foods to avoid. It also lists other resources that might be helpful.

Even though the book is nearly 500 pages in length, making it a bit of a brick, it's not a heavy read. It's stuffed full of really useful information and is surprisingly easy to read and understand. You don't need special knowledge, and it's easy to dip into if you wish.

Anyone who wants to optimise their immune system could probably pick up a thing or two from this book, whether it's the benefits of laughter on immunity, treatment options for specific diseases, a look at the toxins in your home and how to minimise them, or discussions about cancer. It's all there.

This book provides a pretty comprehensive look at things that affect your immune system and how you can work to improve balance and avoid the symptoms of disease in the body. Recommended.