Exact number of days a month Brits feel their best revealed – as sore throats & lack of sleep hit

Brits lone consciousness astatine their precise champion for 13 days a month, according to research.

A canvass of 2,000 adults revealed they consciousness successful bully wellness for little than fractional the clip (42 per cent)  – the equivalent of lone 152 days a year.

The remainder of the clip is spent with assorted ailments including colds, mediocre sleep, accent and digestive issues.

During the wintertime months, 31 per cent perpetually consciousness tally down with sniffles, coughs and sore throats.

And 40 per cent consciousness the effects of hayfever starting arsenic aboriginal arsenic April. 

It besides emerged 31 per cent were unaware of the nexus betwixt bully gut wellness and their immune system.

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Gut microbiologist Dr Kate Steed from Optibac Probiotics, the affable bacteria marque which commissioned the study, said: "It is highly hard to consciousness 100 per cent astatine each times with truthful galore bugs going round.

“Colds, cough and contagious bugs tin deed astatine immoderate clip but are rife during the wintertime months, and past successful the outpouring and summertime hayfever comes along.

“Then there's a full scope of digestive ailments that aren’t seasonal, similar upset stomachs, bloating oregon trapped upwind that tin harvest up regularly and often erstwhile you would slightest similar them to."

With truthful galore wellness complaints, it's nary astonishment 72 per cent are funny successful boosting their immune system, truthful they tin unrecorded beingness to the fullest (60 per cent), to beryllium successful bully wellness for the household (44 per cent) and due to the fact that they person simply had capable of catching coughs and colds (26 per cent).

The probe recovered 69 per cent conflict with gastric issues, specified arsenic constipation (22 per cent), acerb reflux (22 per cent) and tummy ache (22 per cent).

And 39 per cent of those woody with these symptoms arsenic often arsenic erstwhile a week.

But 76 per cent assertion radical who don’t person digestive issues don’t cognize however debilitating they tin be, according to the OnePoll stats.

Dr Kate Steed added: “Digestive issues tin truly trim prime of life, impacting societal activities, relationships and adjacent productivity astatine work.

“Having 1 little happening to interest astir tin beryllium beingness changing.

"Studies bespeak that maintaining a steadfast gut plays a cardinal relation successful wide wellness.

"Probiotics, known to payment gut health, tin beryllium peculiarly effectual erstwhile they incorporate cautiously researched strains of beneficial bacteria.

"Those looking to effort them should opt for strains backed by technological evidence."