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COMP CLOSED | Book Giveaway | Build Your Immunity for Life

Build Your Immunity
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We are very pleased to be giving away one of two copies of Dr Roderick Mulgan’s book ‘Build Your Immunity for Life’, to our GrownUps members.

All you need to do to enter the draw is be a GrownUps member, make sure you’re signed up to our newsletter and fill in your details near the bottom of the page!

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About Build Your Immunity for Life

The optimal way to combat infection is to develop and maintain a robust natural immune system.

The global health emergency of COVID-19 brought into sharp focus the damaging effects of living with harmful micro- organisms. While vaccines and antibiotics are used to treat infections, these work only by assisting your existing immune system. No matter what level of medical support you choose, the optimal way to combat infection is to develop and maintain a robust natural immune system.

Based on scientific research, this book will help anyone wanting to build their immunity and optimise their resistance to disease. It explains how the immune system works, and how it relies on key minerals, vitamins and lifestyle choices for maximum effect. Many people, including those who try to eat well, do not consume all the essential micronutrients their immunity needs.

Packed with valuable information and practical strategies, Build Your Immunity for Life explains how to enhance the body’s natural defences. It is an empowering resource for anyone wanting to improve their immunity and their overall health.

Written by a New Zealand doctor with a long-held interest in preventative medicine and nutrition, Build Your Immunity for Life is thoroughly researched, drawing on hundreds of recent journal articles. Written in an accessible, reader-friendly style, it includes explanatory diagrams and glossary. There is comprehensive coverage of the major micronutrients (minerals and vitamins) required for optimal immunity.

Content includes:

  • Why the immune system matters. Immunity is not just for pandemics.
  • The immune engine room. How the immune system works.
  • Hunger for the well-fed. We eat calories; we do not always eat goodness.
  • Measure for measure. How do you know what you lack and what the world lacks?
  • Major Micronutrients for Maximum Immunity, including copper, zinc, selenium, Iron, Vitamins.
  • Lifestyle Choices for Maximum Immunity

About the Author

Dr Roderick Mulgan MB, ChB, MPP, LLB (Hons) is a community doctor who specialises in aged-care in Auckland. He has long held an interest in the impact of lifestyle choices, particularly diet, on long-term health. When the pandemic arrived, he turned his attention to the lifestyle choices that underpin immunity. In Build Your Immunity for Life he sets out the science that shows many of us do not consume the micronutrients our immune system needs. He also traverses the immune implications of body weight, fasting and sleep. Although the worst of this pandemic is behind us adequate immunity is a topic for the ages.

Several years ago Dr Mulgan published The Internal Flame, a study of ageing and lifestyle choices. He is a wellness columnist for Life and Leisure magazine and recently published Eat Yourself Healthy with them.

Dr Mulgan is also a practising barrister who divides his working week between the two professions. He regularly appears in the Courts, usually on criminal matters. He obtained the first discretionary order under the Clean Slate Act in the High Court for historical offending. He also writes the occasional opinion piece for Stuff and The Herald. He is the Chairman of the Free Speech Union.

He is married with two adult daughters.

Click here to read an extract from the book

 

 

Terms and conditions

    1. You must be a GrownUps member and receive our newsletter to be eligible to win.
    2. Competition closes on the 18th July 2023, winners will be notified via email by 20th July 2023.
    3. It is your responsibility to ensure you correctly enter a New Zealand postal address where the prize can be couriered. GrownUps will not take responsibility for prizes sent to incorrect addresses.
    4. Winners are drawn at random by the GrownUps administration team.
    5. GrownUps employees and family are not eligible to enter.
    6. By entering the giveaway, you approve for GrownUps to use your name on social media as winner of the competition.
    7. One entry per household.
    8. Prize is non transferrable.
    9. You must reside in New Zealand – the prize will only be posted within New Zealand.
    10. You must be over 50 years of age to enter, check your details are correct in your membership dashboard.