A study at a respectable Canadian hospital recently found that almost half of the women undergoing caesarean sections developed post-surgical infections. Your immune system is your first line of defense against these and other infections, and the biochemicals that constitute your immunity do not come out of thin air. Their source is ultimately your diet, a fact that is often forgotten. Just as nutritional deficiencies impair the immune system, you can boost your immunity by increasing your intake of these nutritional building blocks. Start with a good overall diet that emphasizes fresh natural foods.
Freshness translates into higher vitamin levels, whereas processing reduces vitamin levels.
Organic foods are particularly worthwhile because they do not contain immune-toxic pesticides. Two recent studies have confirmed that organically grown foods actually contain higher levels of vitamins and minerals than do supermarket foods - providing more of the nutritional building blocks needed for immunity. There's nothing unusual about organic foods - until modern pesticides were developed during World War II, that's everyone ate. Eating plenty of garlic helps as well. Garlic contains a number of well-documented antibacterial substances.