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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ice baths, acupuncture, and colonics - the lengths Brits are going to for a healthy immune system

Dan Rowlands / SWNS.com

A poll of 2,000 adults found 34 per cent employ such tactics in the hope of building up their natural defences – with 37 per cent taking this ‘more seriously’ over the past two years.

Other popular immunity hacks include having more sex, listening to uplifting music, taking vitamin D, fasting, and gargling salt water.

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