Why don't we try to boost the immune system?

Question

The world is rushing the develop a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, spending billions of dollars in the process. This is for a virus that is dangerous or deadly to some people, mostly older but also younger. Many people's immune system (IS) is able to beat down the virus so effectively they are asymptomatic - the don't even know they have the disease.Does anyone else find it strange that there is virtually no discussion or promotion by the health authorities (that I've heard) to boost the immune system. At the end of the day, it's the body's immune system that will fight the virus and the vaccines are just try to teach it how to fight it (ala the Matrix - "Whoa - I know Kung Fu")Vitamins A, B, C, and D, in addition to some micronutrients like Selenium and Zinc, are all known to boost immune function (for medical references just google "Vitamin {X} immune system" - there are plenty).Wouldn't it make sense to recommend to people to supplement with safe dosages and, if possible, get blood work to see if there is a more serious deficiency which would call for higher doses?Am I missing something?

poormystic · Accepted Answer

Hi :) yes I think that you probably are missing something. All the immune system helpers you've mentioned mighf very well work just as advertised, but that doesn't mean that the combined effect of several immune system boosters will be the expected sum of the individual effects. Things interact, and stimulating the immune system is not best done through special dietary regimes. The best way to enhance the workings of the immune system is to laugh, to find wonder in the world around you and to wonder at Love. Make others happy, play music, spend quiet time.:)

PaulHoule · Answer

It may well be that people are not killed by COVID-19 but are killed by a disordered immune response to COVID-19, the same is possible true about "chronic lyme disease".
Generally autoimmune diseases are a big problem: this lady probably had one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Krupskaya
so did Issac Asimov.
Thus you don't want to "activate the immune system" in general, rather you want to activate good immune responses and deactivate bad immune responses and that is not so simple.