01/10/2026
Autumn is when the bugs start doing the rounds, and the best time to build up your resilience is before they reach you, which is why this soup is on repeat in my kitchen right now.
Your immune system isn’t something to boost, it works best when it’s well supplied, and a large share of it sits right alongside your gut, so feeding your gut well is a very practical place to start.
What’s in my soup:
Homemade chicken bone broth and frozen chicken gyoza: protein for building antibodies and immune cells, plus some zinc.
Bok choy and carrot: fibre for your gut bacteria, and beta-carotene that your body turns into vitamin A to help maintain the lining of your nose, throat and gut, the surfaces most germs meet first.
Spring onion: more plant fibre for your gut bacteria, and plenty of flavour.
Unpasteurised miso, stirred in off the heat to keep its live cultures: a fermented food for your gut.
Two kiwis afterwards: vitamin C, which your immune cells rely on and your body doesn’t store much of, plus more fibre.
One of my children ate the soup with me and the other ate only the gyoza with some veg on the side, followed by kiwi, clementine and almonds.
If you or your child seem to catch everything going and take weeks to shake each bug, that can point towards things like low iron or vitamin D, a gut that needs some attention, or months of short sleep and high stress, and that’s exactly what I look into in clinic.
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