Here's What We Take For Lung Health

How To Bulletproof Your Lungs

It goes without saying, you want strong lungs.

When your lungs are ‘weak’, you’re at a higher risk of not only catching a virus, but also experiencing more severe symptoms.

Why Weak Lungs are Prevalent Today

There are 3 common lung killers you need to protect against.  Any one of them can cause your lungs to be at risk.

High Blood Sugar - The First Lung Killer

You may be shocked to learn — High blood sugar targets your lungs.

High blood sugar levels RAPIDLY ages your lungs and leads to a significant decline in respiratory function (There’s even a term used in research called a “diabetic lung”).  

Research shows the lungs of a person with high blood sugar declines 2-3 times faster than a normal non-smoking person.

You don’t even have to be a diabetic to experience a rapid decrease in lung function.  People with high blood sugar levels who aren’t yet diabetic also experienced premature lung aging.

But there’s more.  Not only does high blood sugar levels rapidly age your lungs, decrease respiratory functions…

It also puts you at risk for higher complications from pneumonia, longer hospital stays — and even death.

A study published in the British Journal of Medicine found high blood sugar levels were “an independent risk factor for increased death from pneumonia’.

One of the most important things you can do to protect your lungs…

And make them stronger is to keep your blood sugar levels healthy.

Leaky Gut Syndrome - The Second Lung Killer

It wasn’t long ago that doctors thought lungs were sterile.

It turns out — they aren’t.

Lungs have their own microbiome, just like your gut.

And, the microbiome of the lungs impacts immunity.

You need a healthy and diverse good bacteria in your lungs to keep them healthy (again, just like your gut).

Any changes to your lung’s microbiome can lead to COPD, asthma, infections, and even cancer.

There’s also a DIRECT connection between your gut and lungs.

Researchers call it the GUT-LUNG AXIS.  It means the bacteria in your gut is directly communicating with the bacteria in your lung.

Any change of your gut microbiome will directly alter your lung bacteria.  It also means any change in your gut microbiome will directly alter your gut bacteria.

A major reason why many have weak lungs and get more lung infections, or suffer from asthma is because of Leaky Gut Syndrome.

If you want to have strong healthy lungs you need a diverse microbiome of your lungs and gut.

Free Radical Damage - The Third Lung Killer

The very same oxygen we need to live can also be transformed into lung damaging free radicals. 

Under normal circumstances, free radical damage is minimized by antioxidants.  But, when your antioxidants are overwhelmed or depleted due to pollution, stress, disease, or inflammation…

It can lead to asthma, COPD, cancers, and weak lungs.

The bad news is, your lungs are prone to free radical damage since they are constantly exposed to oxygen…

Which means in order to have strong lungs, you need to drastically increase your antioxidant capabilities.