Prevention – Don’t Let the Cold or Flu Catch You

The moment a cold or flu virus enters the body, the immune system goes into action to eliminate it. When the immune system is weakened our body is more prone to infections. Maintaining a powerful immune system is essential to addressing bacteria and virus infections. The best way to stave of illness is to support your immune system with better diet and lifestyle choices.

• Avoid immune weakening substances by reducing sugar as it suppresses immune function for up to 4 hours!
• Eliminate the highly refined and packaged junk foods that contain many hidden sugars and bad fats.
• Reduce caffeine, soda, and alcohol.  Best to cut them out totally!
• Nourish yourself with whole foods and stay hydrated with pure water.
• Include foods rich in vitamin D: oily fish such as sardines, cod liver oil, and animal fats. Studies have shown that low levels of vitamin D contribute to higher rates of the flu.
• Wash your hands! Most infections occur via hand-to-mouth, hand-to-nose, and hand-to-eye transmission.  Wash frequently with plain old soap and water for at least as long as it takes to sing Happy Birthday.  Do NOT use anti-bacterial soaps with triclosan, which is not only toxic to you and our environment, it also creates antibiotic-resistant germs.
• Soaking your toothbrush in 3% hydrogen peroxide is a good inexpensive and safe way to kill germs on a toothbrush.
• Avoid the flu vaccine. Not only is the effectiveness exaggerated, the vaccines also have toxins such as thimerosal (a preservative with mercury), formaldehyde, and polysorbate 80 both of which are potential carcinogens.