While taking a supplement is not going to cure you if you get coronavirus or stop it in its tracks, it's never been more important to have your immune system at its peak strenght.

There are nutrients that will fast-track healing, boost our health and strengthen our immune system and ability to fight off illness.

According to research scientist Sara Palmer Hussey, PhD, the creator of health supplement brand Lumity, in order to heal well and stay healthy and strong and fight off colds and flu, the body needs increased amounts of energy, amino acids, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins A, C, D and E and the minerals zinc, magnesium and selenium.

Lumity’s comprehensive supplements strengthen immunity, improve energy and tiredness as well as skin, hair and nails.

And speaking about the importance of taking the right supplements, Sara tells us: "When we are ill, we may not feel like eating, but it is vital to sustain our energy levels. For this to happen, the fuel from the food we eat or from our reserves must be transported into our cells and turned into energy."

"A few key nutrients optimise cellular energy production and ensure our energy levels are high enough to stay healthy. They are magnesium, carnitine and coenzyme q10" she explains.

"Together these three nutrients can boost energy levels through ensuring more efficient energy production and transportation, so the body can heal well and maintain optimum functionality."

Here she details the other key nutrients we need to ensure we are getting if not through diet through supplementation at this time.

Amino Acids

Amino acids play a vital role in maintaining a healthy immune system – the complex

system of organs and cells operational throughout the body that finds and destroys

disease, infection, viruses and any other dangerous elements.  For example, the amino acid glutamine improves immune function and results in a lower level of infection and a shorter hospital stay following surgery, radiation treatment, transplants and injury, all without any side effects.

The body is also called upon to repair damage from factors such as free radicals,glycation, injury, disease and inflammation. Amino acids are critical to this process.


Omega-3 fatty acids contained in flaxseed oil, for example, can greatly increase the number and activation of white blood cells, responsible for fighting off disease and infection.

Omega-3 fatty acids have anti-inflammatory properties and protect all cell membranes, keeping them efficient at admitting healthy substances while barring damaging ones.

Vitamin A

Vitamin A is essential for immune system efficiency by promoting the production of white blood cells and helping regulate the inflammatory response. Vitamin A also carries out an antioxidant role, thus reducing the damage caused by free radicals.

Vitamin A stimulates growth of the base layer of the skin and so is crucial in wound healing, whether of the external skin or of the body’s inner skin, made up of mucous linings.

By moisturising and maintaining the structural integrity of mucous linings, which support healthy secretion, vitamin A helps the body fight off infectious agents and environmental pollutants.

Vitamin C

Vitamin C, as an antioxidant, is important in protecting the body against the damage caused by free radicals. It is also vital in the production and maintenance of collagen.Collagen production is a key element in wound-healing.

Vitamin C has also been shown to stimulate the immune system, by boosting the activity of white blood cells.

Vitamin D

Vitamin D is essential for the absorption and metabolism of calcium and phosphorus – a key function in repairing fractures and breakages of bones as well as for normal blood clotting and heart function.

Vitamins A and D taken together reduce the incidence of colds, reduce muscle spasms, especially when related to anxiety states, and ease asthma and arthritis.

Vitamin D also supports healthy neuromuscular and immune function and reduces inflammation.

Vitamin E

Vitamin E protects cell membranes against oxidation, supports immune function, inhibits coagulation of blood and aids healthy red blood cell formation.

In order to assist with healing and to minimise clotting, vitamin E is a useful nutrient before and after surgery. It significantly assists in the repair of skin lesions, ulcers, burns, abrasions and dry skin, and diminishes the scars caused by injury or surgery.


Zinc is an important nutrient in healing mechanisms, healthy growth and development, muscle repair, immune function and protection from free radical damage.

Zinc helps the body utilise and maintain levels of vitamin A. Through this action, zinc helps maintain healthy skin cells and generate new skin after injury or surgery. This function is strengthened by zinc’s role in collagen formation.

Zinc improves immune resilience by regulating the function of white blood cells. Zinc can help curtail the progression of viral flu and cold symptoms, as well as the herpes virus; it also lessens allergies and environmental sensitivities.


Selenium has a vital role in boosting antioxidant activity in the body. Selenium and vitamin E work together synergistically in that they carry out antioxidant and immunostimulatory functions better together than individually.

 They both protect cell membranes and intracellular structural membranes from lipid oxidation. The presence of these two nutrients can also increase antibody formation 20-30 fold.