{"id":51489,"date":"2021-12-26T09:24:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T14:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=51489"},"modified":"2022-02-24T18:16:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T23:16:35","slug":"boost-your-immunity-with-elderberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/boost-your-immunity-with-elderberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Boost Your Immunity With Elderberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Newsmax:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cheers to your good health! \u2018Tis the season to be drinking and feasting, but also for winter ailments. So why not have your favorite beverage double as a thirst quencher and an immune booster to ward off illness. By sipping on elderberry extract mixed into a delicious mocktail \u2014 or adult cocktail if you wish \u2014 you can help your body battle disease-causing pathogens. Just remember if you are mixing elderberry with liquor, too much alcohol can reverse the immune-boosting effect, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/boost-immunity-this-holiday-with-6-elderberry-mocktail-recipes\" rel=\"noindex noskim\">Healthline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elderberries have been used for centuries for their medicinal qualities. In fact, Hippocrates, known as the \u201cFather of Medicine,\u201d way back in 400 BC called the elder tree his \u201cmedicine chest.\u201d A recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1756464619300313\" rel=\"noindex noskim\">study<\/a>\u00a0published in 2019 in the Journal of Functional Foods, highlighted the benefits of elderberry extract in fighting the flu. The extract inhibits inflammatory cytokines to mitigate disease.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"health\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1640510682\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Boost Your Immunity With Elderberry\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Newsmax: Cheers to your good health! \u2018Tis the season to be drinking and feasting, but also for winter ailments..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}