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Flu season or sugar season? How to build a bulletproof immune system · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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Hey friends, welcome to the Looking for Healing Podcast.
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Today we are gonna talk about building a bulletproof immune system.
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This is a question I get asked about a lot.
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So this is kind of obviously these are recorded, so you might be listening to this in a less than timely uh part of the year.
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But we're doing this recording is happening at the beginning or middle of November.
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And if you're especially if you're in the US, this is considered quote unquote flu season.
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Um, but is it really?
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So it's considered flu season because more people get sick from October to January than any other time of the year in terms of flues and colds and these kinds of things.
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But if you think about this and kind of lay it against our good old healthy United States calendar, it actually aligns with sugar season.
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What do I mean by sugar season?
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Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's.
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So sugar season, even if you don't have little kids that are trick-or-treating, these little fun size, fun size, right?
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That's marketing, um, as if they're like less toxic because they're small.
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What do you do?
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You eat six of them instead of one.
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So it's pretty much the same as a regular size candy bar.
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But I digress.
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Even if you don't have little kids that you're taking trick-or-treating, so often these little snack size buckets and boxes and bags of candy creep into our break rooms and our um clubs and organizations and churches and uh family gatherings, and um end up increasing our sugar intake, even if we're not formally celebrating.
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Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's.
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Here's the thing: if Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's were just one day, it would it really wouldn't be a thing, would not be a huge problem for most.
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If you eat junk food all the time, that you know, what is that gonna like put you over the edge?
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Less likely.
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The problem is we celebrate Halloween, you know, five days before to five days after.
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Thanksgiving, oftentimes you have, you know, husband's side, wife's side, or mom's side and dad's side.
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Um, Christmas, a lot of times we have work parties, and then, you know, mom's side, stepmom's side, dad's, you know, you got all these different gatherings.
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Um, and then New Year's, which is known for um lots of wild parties, not always the best way to start off the new year, actually.
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So when you think about the flu season, consider is it really a flu season, or is this a result of a weakened immune system because the sugar intake is so high.
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So let's get on the same page with just a couple quick presuppositions when it comes to, you know, just talking through the immune system.
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So, number one, illness, and I don't care if we're talking about a common cold or cancer, is not random.
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It's either invited or resisted.
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Now, we're gonna talk more about this in a moment.
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But then the second thing is illness is not random, okay?
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And the second thing is you can avoid or reduce most, if not all illness and disease.
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Um, so with that in mind, let's think about if you absolutely hated your immune system and you wanted it to die so you can get sick all the time and miss work or school and have more catching up to do and have more distress because of it.
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Here would be what I would recommend.
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Of course, I'm being facetious, I don't recommend you do these things, but this is what the immune system hates.
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It hates lots of sugar.
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Now, I want to be really clear.
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This is a whole nother episode, so I'm not gonna spend a lot of time on sugar, but when we think of sugar in all in our culture, so often we think of just sweets, you know, the cakes, cookies, donuts, ice cream.
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But this is also gonna include alcohol, bread, pretzels, most of your cereals, even if they're not sweetened because white flour basically turns into a sugar-like substance.
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It's pretty much any refined carbohydrates.
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So we're not talking about an apple that's not refined, that's natural sugar.
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Um, not that you can have unlimited amounts of natural sugars, um, contrary to what some believe, but really that's a non-issue as compared to the refined carbohydrates.
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So your immune system hates sugar.
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Number two, your immune system like stress, it stay as stressed as possible if you want to annihilate the immune system.
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Your body is fighting for you.
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And if it's fighting, you're see, remember your stress response, that fight or flight, is meant to peak for a few minutes, you fight the bad guy, or you run from the bad guy, or you get killed by the bad guy.
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But there's in nature, you'll never see prolonged stress.
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You'll never see a deer or uh bear or any animal in nature that's stressed for weeks and months and years, right?
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It's peaks for a few minutes, they do the thing, and then they're like taking a nap, grazing in the grass, you know, chilled out.
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And third, um, if you hate your immune system, I would highly recommend staying up late, eating big meals before bed, aka, don't sleep much, don't sleep well.
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Um, that should take care of it if you really want to be sick more often.
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Um, teasing a little bit, nobody wants to be sick more often, but these are the things we do, you know, that we we get sick and we're like, uh, how did this happen?
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I've been doing so good with my diet.
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And yeah, I mean, that's part of it, but that's that's one of the three, that's one leg of the three-legged stool, right?
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So first I want to just say, because one of the things when the immune system got spotlighted a few years ago with COVID, right?
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So when you think about so again, when we talk about the immune system, we're talking about anything that impacts the immune system, but I'm gonna I'm gonna touch on COVID a little bit throughout this because um people lost their minds when they and I'm when I say people, I'm not just talking about society.
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I'm talking like medical doctors and researchers and scientists.
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It was like all of a sudden everything they had learned about the immune system was wrong.
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Like, um, yeah, that's just not how it works.
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Your immune system is your internal army.
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Its job is to discern what is you versus not you, what's safe versus what is harmful for you or to you.
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When it detects something is harmful or not you or some kind of a threat.
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Um, and by the way, we most often think of like um bacteria, virus, parasites, and that is all for sure, you know, true and a factor, but this could even be a food.
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If you're sensitive to a certain food, uh we've talked about this in other episodes.
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Certain food sensitive sensitivities will invoke an immune response.
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So when it detects something is harmful, it's game on, right?
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The immune system's gonna rise up.
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Sometimes you're gonna get vomiting, diarrhea, skin reactions, headaches, fever, but more often, the most common is this response is like this immune response is kind of going on in the background without us even being aware of it.
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Um now that's a really good thing.
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That's really great news.
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Um, you are fearfully and wonderfully made, so you don't have to necessarily feel sick every time you your body's you know wiping out some minor pathogen.
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So that's really great.
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Um the downside is when there's lots of stress on the system, and this stress could be in the form of too much sugar, it could actually literally be too much exercise.
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I've done this before where I've like driven myself into the ground to where I felt sick.
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Um, not smart, not a good idea, right?
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We need balance.
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So it's a problem if you exercise not enough, and it's a problem if you exercise too much.
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It's a strain on the body.
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Anything that strains the body, it's gonna like take from the immune energy, right?
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So let me ask you this.
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If your family were in danger and you had to hire a group.
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Of warriors to stand outside your home or their home to protect them.
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What would you expect of them?
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How would you want them to train?
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How would you want them to think?
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How would you want them to eat?
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Would you be okay if they stayed up late watching TV?
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Would you be comforted, comforted if they pulled up for their shift and there's beer cans and pizza boxes falling out of the car?
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Um, or would you love to know that they uh cheated on their detective exams or their, I don't know, shooting exams, their physical exams.
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Of course not, right?
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You would expect the best, you would want the best.
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You would expect the best training, the best diet.
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You, if you were gonna hire someone to protect somebody you loved, your precious family, nothing but the best would suffice for that job.
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So you are this treasure.
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Right?
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You are this treasure.
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So if there's one good thing that I would say came from the craziness that it that was COVID, perhaps it was the fact that people started realizing, hey, what we're doing, it's not working, right?
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It's not working.
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And I'm kind of a big fan of the trust in God, but tie up your camels, you know.
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Trust in God.
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Obviously, I believe in God's sovereignty, but also there is a little bit of God helps those who help themselves.
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Now, if that makes you cringe, I'm sorry.
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But if you're like, I want God to make me healthy, but I'm not gonna eat vegetables, drink water, or manage stress, come on.
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Like, that's that's really not about God at that point.
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Um we have to take responsibility for what's happening in our own system.
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And I use the example, of course, a little facetious, but I use the example about bringing someone in to protect your family.
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Because too often we would do things for other people we might not necessarily do for ourselves.
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Anybody else guilty on that?
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So if you wouldn't let your children stay up late and you know, party all night.
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I'm not talking about on their birthday or some special occasion, but if you if you wouldn't, as a rule, you look out for their health, right?
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So you want them to be able to like function and think clearly at school and behave well and do well in their extracurricular stuff.
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And so what do you do?
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You make sure they go to bed on time, you make sure they're hydrated, you give them a good breakfast before they leave.
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So this is this is the seriousness which with which we want to take um kind of supporting and building the immune system on the front end.
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So I'm never gonna say it's too late.
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So if you're in the middle, if you're listening to this right now and you just got diagnosed with some devastating disease, um, and I don't care if it's PMS, migraine headaches, uh, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, whatever they call it, it's not too late.
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I've seen the ship turn time and time again.
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This is what I do, this is why I do what I do.
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I love it when the medical doctors say there's nothing we can do, and then lo and behold, um, the the great creation of the human body says, uh, wait a minute, we're not done here.
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Um, I've seen it many times.
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So it's never too late.
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However, it is much easier on the front end to be looking out for yourself on the front end, to not wait for the scary diagnosis.
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So that being said, I mentioned earlier that disease or illness is not random.
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It is either I it I I said it's either invited or it's resisted.
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So this is the idea of the germ versus the terrain theory.
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The germ theory is the idea that illness comes from some bug or pathogen or germ.
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The goal, if you believe this, would be to avoid contact with all germs or anyone who has them, which is not only not possible, but it also wouldn't create a very enjoyable life.
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You basically couldn't be with anybody because a lot of times people are sick in some small way and you don't even know it.
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You'd have to live in a bubble at the extreme.
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Um, no thanks.
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Um, not to mention if this were true or accurate, then everyone who came in contact with a given pathogen would get sick, not just some.
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And we see that, like when you send your little kid to can't, you know, kindergarten and half the class gets sick.
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Yeah, half the class gets sick.
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Not everybody, right?
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Why is that?
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Well, some people have a stronger immune system than others.
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Why is that?
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Has a lot to do with their diet, the environment they live in.
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Um, if you or a loved one is getting sick all the time, we don't need to stress about this, but we can take some prudent precautions and look at the big picture, like what's happening here?
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Um the germ theory really falls short on several levels because for one, what we just talked about, the you couldn't come in contact with any disease.
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Well, let's be honest.
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If you touch door handles, and I know some people are like, I use my sleeve to go into the bathroom, and like every single time, everywhere you go, even in your own house, unless you live alone and sterilize it daily, like I'm not saying it would be impossible to do that, but it'd be pretty difficult.
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Do you ever pump gas?
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Do you ever, I mean, all the gross things we do?
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Like, do you ever find money and pick it up?
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I mean, if you pick up the quarter or the dollar that you find on in the parking lot, like you can't avoid germs and they're on everything.
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The problem isn't that there's germs, the problem is our terrain.
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And today we're talking about building a bulletproof immune system.
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So we talked about the germ theory and how it falls short.
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Now I'd like to talk about the terrain theory, which recognizes that we either welcome or resist disease of any kind by the terrain or environment of our body.
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A well-cared for body practicing natural, natural principles, um, will resist pathogens way more effectively and efficiently than a sick, tired, worn-out body.
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So when you think about your immune system in the terrain of your immune system, sort of the microbiome or the environment of not just your gut, but your entire system.
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How are you training your troops, right?
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Are you giving them adequate rest, or are you stressing them all the time, right?
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A strong immune system is ready and able to fight and it's good at it.
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That's what it was created for.
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So these are the people that either don't get sick, you know, they hardly ever get sick, or when they do, everybody else is sick for you know, four weeks and they're like, oh yeah, I felt awful for 24 hours and then I was fine, right?
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That's the that's a good sign.
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Um, you know, getting sick less, of course, is great.
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But if you do get sick, it's a really good sign when it hits your heart and leaves like right away, or it responds really quickly when you take some antiviral or antifungal or antibacterial supplements, things like that.
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Um, another great way to illustrate this.
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I've had this so many times where I'm at some outdoor event, and these little obnoxious mosquitoes are buzzing around and driving everybody crazy, and they're like just ignoring me, right?
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What's happening there?
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They don't like me.
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Mosquitoes are parasites, and they're looking for an easy uh an easy and a free ride, right?
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They want to suck the blood of someone that's full of sugar, foreign protein, and just has an out-of-balance pH.
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My blood is gross to them.
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You want to make your blood really gross to them, right?
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You want to make it an environment that they can't thrive because there's not a lot of garbage in there for them to eat.
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Okay, so you know, I predicted this early on with COVID, and it was indeed proven true.
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And please, this is I'm definitely speaking in general.
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I'm not saying there weren't some anomalies to this, but generally speaking, who got sick during COVID?
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Well, the answer to this question, it was typically the people who are gonna get sick were the people who were had had a lifestyle that welcomed illness.
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So these were people that were quickest to get anything going.
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They're they're the ones that are quickest to get anything going around, whether it's flu, colds, strep.
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Um, these are people with a poor diet, people who don't sleep enough, people who don't exercise or exercise too much, people who maintain high stress lifestyles and generally are out of hell out of, you know, out of balance and unhealthy.
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Um, I just describe a good share of our population.
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I do get that.
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People who are overweight, that's a comorbidity for almost all disease.
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Um, people who are on lots and lots of medications.
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Um, you know, of course, there are a few exceptions, but for the most part, um, these are things that we pretty much most of us have almost full control over.
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So let's jump into some sort of prudent precautions for creating a bulletproof immune system.
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There's a couple here, this first one especially, like I almost don't want to even say I it's almost insulting, but I'm gonna talk about it because most people still don't do it.
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But wash your hands.
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Yes, you should be doing this anyway.
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This, like, this is like really is this part, but I I couldn't leave it out because we know we should be doing this anyway, but still many people don't.
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Um, wash your hands regularly, especially after you use the bathroom.
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If you are, you know, at a public event, let's say you're at a fair or um, you know, anything where you're like around lots of people.
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Um, this is not about being germophobic.
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That's definitely not my game.
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But there are a lot of pathogens that can simply be transferred from one person to another through the door handle, through the gas pump, through um, you know, the cart at the grocery store.
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It's just a good habit to do and to teach your children to do.
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So you don't have to be paranoid about it.
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But before you eat a meal, after you use the restroom, when you're in public places, um things like that, really important.
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So we won't belabor that point.
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But if that's something that you have made not a habit, um, that's something you'll want to put in.
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Um, and you know, there's no shame there.
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You start where you're at.
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And so often we skip things like that because the same reason we skip anything else, exercise, you know, taking time to make food instead, we just grab something quick.
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It's like we're busy.
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But use it as your time to take a couple deep breaths to relax your jaw, your shoulder, like reduce stress.
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That can be like sort of a uh 20-second meditation for you 10 times a day or however often you need to do that.
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Um, sleep, number two, sleep.
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Sleep is probably if I had to pick one thing that I would say is most supportive of the immune system, it's really hard to pick, but this would definitely be in the top one or two.
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Um, one of the most powerful things you can do for your immune system is to get regular good quality sleep.
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Your body does its best healing, restoring, repairing from about 6 a.m.
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to 10, excuse me, from about 10 p.m.
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to 6 a.m.
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So you want to be sleeping during these hours as much and as often as possible.
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Um, if you have a life where you're like, I have to get up early, or like for me, I just do get up early, I wake up earlier than that, it's okay.
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You don't have to stress about that, but just compensate for it.
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If you have to wake up earlier, then go to bed a little earlier.
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And um, if you're, you know, we've talked about this before, but if you're somebody who you go to bed on time and you just can't fall asleep, for sure, reach out.
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You definitely want to get help with that.
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That's not normal.
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That's a symptom, something's wrong.
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Um, no need to panic, but definitely reason to get going at, you know, kind of get busy about finding out what's going on.
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Um, if you're somebody who just has lots to do and you just can't turn it off at night.
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This is one of the things that I've found.
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I have several clients that I have doing this is set, like, let's say you want to be in bed by 10 p.m.
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at whatever you, whatever time you need, however much lead time you need, set your alarm to go off at night, like if you want to be in bed at 10, set it to go off at 9 or 8.30, maybe 8:30 is your reminder to wind it down, finish up what you're doing, and then maybe at nine you start kind of a bedtime routine.
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So maybe you take a hot bath or shower, maybe you do some journaling, maybe you shut off the electronics.
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Um, maybe it's a little meditation, you know, some deep breathing, something like that to just kind of settle things down.
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So when you do lay down, you can drift off quickly.
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Staying hydrated, this is huge.
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You need to drink at least half your weight in ounces of pure clean water daily, starting first thing in the morning when you wake up.
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Half your weight in ounces is kind of the agreed upon by most uh health officials, I guess I would say.
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Um, I tend to not quite align with that.
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I think most people need more.
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Um, but it does depend a great deal on how you live.
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So if you eat a lot of whole fresh, raw fruits and vegetables, they're all loaded with water.
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So you might be able to get away with a little bit less.
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Um, but typically water is really important to life because it's an easy and gentle way to cleanse toxins from your body.
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More toxins means more stress and more stress means it's taking, it's depleting energy away from the immune system, using it to always, it's like almost like it's always stressed.
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It would be like if you had to work 24 hours a day, it's like, man, by by hour 12, by hour 15, by hour 18, how effective are you, right?
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You're tired.
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You're not gonna do your best work at those times.
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Daily exercise and breathing exercises as well to build up your lung capacity.
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This was especially true in COVID, or if you're dealing with any kind of respiratory situation.
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Um, but exercise is really important, and I have mentioned this a couple times in the last few podcasts.
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Um you you can exercise too much.
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It's not the route that most people need to worry about, but it it can, it's possible.
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I've done it.
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I'm definitely one of these.
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I like to exercise and I feel good when I exercise.
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And so sometimes I kind of have to learn the hard way that I overdid it.
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And that's when you have to like, okay, time to reel it back, maybe take it.
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Day or two off, um, or three.
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That's like really hard for some people, um, including me.
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Um, but really making sure that you're balanced in your exercise.
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And then number five, when it comes to just bulletproof immune system um tasks here.
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Consume a mostly organic whole food plant diet.
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Specifically include more lemons and lime water, um, fresh garlic and onions are great.
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There's caprylic acid in organic coconut oil.
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Um, you know, there's things like fresh ginger, um, oranges, consuming a bit of the orange peel.
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That's super easy to do, by the way, if you put a little bit of it in your smoothie.
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Um, and when you're using things like orange peel or lemon peel, I would definitely make sure you get organic.
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Um, but those are super easy to add to your green smoothies.
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Um, beans can be really helpful, like black pinto, kidney beans, chickpeas, whatever you like.
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Um, these are all like generally speaking, a healthy whole food diet, but these are a few foods that can be really good at supporting the immune response.
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Um, medicinal mushrooms can be really good too.
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So we're talking about like cordyceps, shiitake, um, some of these.
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And these are all the this is the cool thing.
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Most of you, most of these things, you might be listening to this and going, okay, aren't these just like general health practices?
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Yeah, exactly.
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Right?
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Exactly.
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We're trying to, the idea here is to build a bulletproof immune system.
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It's it's not, yes, if you're in the deep water already, not too late.
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We can still work with that.
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But let's do these.
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Look at these, look how simple these are.
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I mean, these five things, wash your hands.
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That's 20% of it.
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Sleep.
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Most of us love that.
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If we can just make ourselves do it.
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Drink water, super easy.
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Exercise, breathing exercises, and then a whole food healthy diet.
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Now, I'm not saying these are all easy, but they're simple.
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And if you do these things, I guarantee you're gonna have dramatically less illness, if any at all.
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Now, um, those are some things to do.
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There's a few things to stop doing to support what we're trying to do in building a bulletproof immune system.
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So, um, as you may be guessing is coming.
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Stop stressing.
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Stress is so depleting.
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It literally depletes many micronutrients.
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Stress is gonna deplete your magnesium, your vitamin C, your B5, your B6, um, serine, uh, B3, um, and things like selenium and B6 and some of those nutrients also um create serotonin.
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Serotonin makes you feel good.
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So you can see like the interconnectedness of all this and how you know having a stressful day, you think it's no big deal.
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And in fairness, probably not a huge deal on occasion, but a stressful lifestyle, major issue, right?
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So laugh, journal, go for a walk, pray, breathe, rest.
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Over 80% of our worries, they say never actually occur.
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It's gonna be okay.
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Do your best and forget the rest.
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Okay.
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So that's one thing to stop.
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Stop listening to the news.
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Now, this is especially true during like COVID times.
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This was the homework I gave to countless clients that were coming in after sp, you know, some of these clients I had been with for years, and they were overall pretty balanced and healthy, and all of a sudden they've got all kinds of depression, anxiety, um, trouble sleeping.
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And I start asking.
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I just kind of start polling people.
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Like, how how often, like, do you watch the news every day?
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Yeah, oh yeah, I've been watching it two, three times.
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Like, you know, they're they're like giving death tolls and stuff.
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Most of them aren't even accurate.
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Um, so much of what we're what was reported three days later, three weeks later, three months later, they're like, oh, we had it wrong.
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It really wasn't this.
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And so I'm not trying to get into you know the political side of this, although I'm willing to.
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It's just not the purpose of this particular podcast.
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But talking constantly about how bad it is and what's being canceled and what happens if you get the flu and the um, you know, number of people dying in nursing homes because they didn't get their flu shot, or like this is not helpful.
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This is not prudent, helpful activity.
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It's anxiety causing, and you have to be very grounded to do this to listen to the news.
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Um, however, the iron the irony is if you're super grounded, you probably don't want to listen to the news.
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So stop listening to the news, stop stressing.
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Number three, eliminate or avoid alcohol, caffeine, animal products, and processed foods.
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Now, if you're on a standard American diet and you think I just basically asked you to cut off your arm, stay with me.
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We can still be friends.
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You don't have to do this all overnight.
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But the idea here is just turn to things that are gonna support your health and healing rather than things that are gonna degrade it slow and steadily.
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And then number four, stop doing anything that hinders your sleep.
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So I don't care if we're talking about electronics late at night, late night meetings, late night eating, anything that hinders your sleep, no go, right?
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We protect in my clinic, sleep is protected at all costs, right?
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If somebody tells me like they they were trying to get their water in and they didn't do it, and so at the end of the night, they just slugged 32 ounces.
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I'm like, oh no, no, no, no.
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Start again the next day.
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Take a drink if you're thirsty, but start again the next day.
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Sleep is king or queen.
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Leanne Fritz.
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We're going to continue our conversation on building a bulletproof immune system.
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We've talked about what to do, some basics, what not to do.
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Now, in this last segment, we're going to get into supplements.
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And oh, supplements.
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Supplements are so sexy.
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Everybody loves them.
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Everybody wants them.
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We all want them to be magical.
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But I want to make really clear.
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I can't even talk about supplements without this long disclaimer.
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So I'm going to try to keep it short.
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But the bottom line is this supplements are just that.
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They are a supplement.
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That means they complement something.
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They don't make it up.
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So they are a supplement to a healthy diet and lifestyle.
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In practicing naturopathic medicine, I always remind people, I I care.
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I mean, I use supplements.
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I recommend them, but there is not a supplement I could recommend that will take the place of good hydration, of proper breathing, of good sleep habits, of exercise, you know, of course, of a good diet.
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If you're looking for a magic magic bullet that you can just take and not make any changes, I'll just save you the time and tell you there isn't one.
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And if somebody tells you otherwise, I would run for the hills.
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Assuming you're eating a whole mostly organic whole food plant-based diet, I've laid out some recommendations, but you know, for my clients, if assuming your lifestyle is good.
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Now, this is not to say if you if your lifestyle isn't perfect, you can't take supplements.
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If stress is high, there's certain supplements I would take.
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If you're exercising a lot, if you're training hard, maybe you're an athlete, or maybe you're just like me, you just like to train really hard.
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Um, yeah, there's certain supplements you should take.
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But that again, it's still complementing the lifestyle.
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It's not like, oh, I don't want to exercise, so I'm gonna take these fat burners.
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Doesn't work that way.
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At least not with a price that I don't think you want to pay.
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So for my clients, we're able to test and see exactly what they need.
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But generally speaking, I'm gonna give some sort of a good place to start.
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So if you're interested in knowing specifically what I use, you can go to my website at newhopehealth.com.
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Um, this is the website for my clinic, and you can go to the store and just poke around, see what we have.
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Um, but really these recommendations will vary from person to person.
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And if I could test you, I would test you, and then you'd know exactly.
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But in general, um, based on your lifestyle, your body size, your age, et cetera, that's how we kind of do the dosaging for supplements.
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Um, but for the sake of time here, I'm not gonna go into great detail about each one, but I want to mention a few supplements that will be helpful.
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Um, and for the most part, this first few that I'm gonna talk about are um mostly safe for most people.
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I'm always gonna give the disclaimer of talk to your healthcare provider, whoever that might be.
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So prophylactically, in other words, from a preventative standpoint, there's a handful of supplements I'm gonna recommend, generally speaking, all the time.
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So this is gonna be things like vitamin D plus vitamin K.
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They're usually together.
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It's usually uh, I think it's about 5,000 IU of vitamin D with somewhere around 180 um milligrams of vitamin K.
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Um, I've tested so many people.
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We've done intracellular micronutrient testing.
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This is not the same as what you get from conventional labs.
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I mean, I would say 80% of the adults I test, even many of them who are taking vitamin D are low in vitamin D.
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So that would be one thing I would recommend.
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Now, what is vitamin D have to do with the immune system?
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Well, in this case, vitamin D specifically is actually very supportive of the immune system.
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Vitamin D is um, vitamin D kind of got famous for um during COVID because it was found in some clinical trials to uh reduce your likelihood of getting COVID, and then if you got it, it was found to uh reduce the number of days you were actually ill.
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Um, but vitamin D is gonna be really important for all the mucous membranes in the body.
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So that's gonna include the gut support that so many of us need.
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Um HCl stands for hydroclakic hydrochloric acid.
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Um at first thought, you're this is stomach acid, right?
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Batane hydrochloride.
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At first thought, you're gonna go, wait a minute, why are we talking about digestion?
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But HCL, see the pH of your stomach is very acidic.
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It's like at the pH level, it's like I think it's two.
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Um, so when you swallow a pathogen, and this could be something like you're eating a healthy salad, maybe, but it didn't get washed perfectly, and there's some nanobacteria or some little microscopic bug or something.
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You can't see it, of course.
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Um, but if you have adequate HCL, which many people over the age of about 20 do not, but if you have adequate HCL, it will not make it past the stomach.
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It'll go into the stomach and it'll pretty much be neutralized there.
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So, yes, it is helpful for digestion, but also really important for immunity as kind of a first level of defense.
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Um iodine, we use a product called xenostat, but iodine is really important.
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Um, it's actually a really good antiviral.
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Um, and iodine is supportive of the thyroid, and then also in women, the breasts and the uterus.
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Um the thyroid gets on is is under attack, especially by radiation of any kind.
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Um, vitamin C, we know many people have known for a long time when you're coming down with something, take some vitamin C.
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Um, that can be really helpful.
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Vitamin C has like a couple hundred rolls in the body, just that we know of.
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Um, I have a fermented mushroom product that I love.
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This is a powder, really good for supporting the immune system.
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I mentioned before the medicinal mushrooms are really good for this, and this is a combination, it's like cordyceps, lion's mane, uh raishi, um, which is also good for the liver.
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Um, and then one of my favorites, um, silver.
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So colloidal silver um has been found to be really good at um helping with bacterial issues.
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I like it because it's an almost tasteless, it's it looks like water, it's clear.
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Um, you can buy this just about anywhere.
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You can look at it on my website, but um it's really good because it's easy to get into kids.
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You can put it in water, juice, or anything.
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Kids will take it pretty well.
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Um, I will say, and this maybe is uh content for a whole nother show, but I've used silver on cuts and scrapes.
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I've dropped it into my nose.
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If I was having like sinus kind of issues, which I haven't had for a long time, but I used to get like sinus infections many years ago.
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I I've dropped it into my eyes.
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I have dropped it into ears.
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Um, it's just like really powerful antibacterial.
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Um, some other things that are really helpful.
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Um, digestive enzymes can be helpful.
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Now, again, you might think, what why are we talking about digestion?
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I thought we were talking about the immune system.
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Well, if you can't break down and assimilate the food, the nutrients from the food you eat, your your um your immune system needs certain nutrients to be healthy and robust.
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And so it's kind of an indirect thing, but again, sort of prophylactically, if you're regularly eating good food, but your digestion isn't good, so you can't break it down and assimilate it, it's gonna be hard to get the, it's gonna be difficult to get the nutrition from that food.
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Um, so I recommend taking some digestive enzyme with most meals.
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Now, again, these are super in general.
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Um good quality greens powder.
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There's not a lot of good quality greens powders, there's lots of greens powders.
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Um, but I do recommend that again, same thing.
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It's just flooding your body with lots of nutrition.
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Um, DHA, DHA stands for docasa hexanoic acid, which is a big word for omega-3s.
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The ones that we use are from um, it's actually from algae rather than fish.
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So it's a much cleaner source.
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You don't have to worry about the contamination of the toxins and the fish and the mercury and um, you know, the motor boy boat oil and all that good stuff that you get from the fish oils.
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Um, so those are some like basics.
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Um, then in terms of things that I would always have on hand for um like if I were to get sick, these are the things I have in my own cabinet.
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Silver, I mentioned vitamin C, I mentioned.
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Vitamin C, by the way, um I've taken up to 10,000 milligrams a day, which is 10 grams, um, and even more if you're not feeling well.
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Um, the key with vitamin C is to to bowel tolerance.
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So I would creep it up slowly.
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If you're not feeling well, take a little bit, take a little more, go up very slowly.
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If you get to the where you have loose stool, back down to where you just were before that happened.
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So if you're like at 5,000, I was good at 6,000, it got loose, then go back down to 5,000.
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Um, and it kind of depends on what's going on, you know.
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If if your issue is a minor cold, you might be able to do that just for a week or so and then be done.
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If you're using it because I at one point had some dental work done and I was like, you know, when you when you are healing, that takes more vitamin C.
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So using it that way, I I think I took it for six months or so.
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Umcleotides, we have a brilliant product called nucleoimmune.
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Um, again, if you're interested, um, go to new helphealth.com, you can read more about this.
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But nucleotides help your body um heal and repair cells.
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So this is great, both if you're sick or if you're like um post surgery or broken bone, after you have stitches, anything like that for healing.
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Um, hyssop, we have a product called Hysinol, and the main ingredient is hyssop, which is a great antiviral.
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Um, there's a product called immuniven.
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One of my very favorites is allicidin.
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Alicin is the active ingredient in garlic.
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And you may know that garlic is good for blood pressure.
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Garlic is also good for the immune system.
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And garlic is actually referred to as Russian penicillin.
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So there are some countries where they treat people who have like bacterial issues or whatever with garlic.
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Garlic is actually really good for any kind of like yeast or candida as well.
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Of course, you can eat it, um, like just eat cloves of garlic, but garlic um, garlic is um in order for it to be most potent, you want to crush it and let it sit in the air, like just open for at least a few minutes.
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That that kind of like activates it.
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Um, what I I like both.
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I like I love the taste of garlic.
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So putting it in soups and salads and dressings and you know, sautes, whatever you're making is great.
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Um, but the encapsulated um product that we use is super concentrated.
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So you're getting the amount of alicin in, I think each capsule's like, or each serving, it might be each serving, which I think is two capsules, um, is like the equivalent of like 20 cloves of garlic or something crazy like that.
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So that can be really helpful.
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And then also olive leaf immune.
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Olive oliopin is the active ingredient, excuse me, an olive leaf.
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Excellent for the immune system.
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Now, with a few minutes left, I want to talk about when you do have what I call immune stress.
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This is like something's activated.
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Um, there's a couple principles that can be really helpful.
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So, one, stop eating.
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Now, I'm not saying starve yourself, but too often the body's getting overwhelmed, right?
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If the body's getting overwhelmed, we don't want when the body's sick, we want it to devote most of its energy to healing as opposed to digesting food.
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So eat light, eat simple, eat healthy foods, drink tons of water.
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If you don't feel like eating, don't eat.
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Or, like I said, if you if you're like, I feel like I need something, but I don't want something big, make a smoothie or something really simple.
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Um, and then this is really huge.
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Work with the body.
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So, for example, it's been a very long time since I've been sick or had a fever, but if I get a fever, I'm going to probably take some capsicum, which is the active ingredient in hot peppers that make them hot, one of the acting active ingredients.
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So I'm gonna heat the body up internally.
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I might take a sweat bath, in other words, basically get the water as hot as you can stand and stay in it as long as you can stand.
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Um, I have been known to get in my sauna and burn that puppy up, right?
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Um, also uh I know you guys will love to know that I highly recommend doing garlic enemas if you have a fever.
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Um basically you make almost like a garlic tea.
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So you take a few cloves of garlic.
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If you've never done these before, I would start with like one or two cloves because they can be pretty strong, and pour a couple cups of hot water over it, let it sit till it's warm but not hot for obvious reasons.
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Strain out the chunks of garlic, and you'll have like some warm garlic juice basically, garlic water, garlic tea, however you want to think of it, and put that in your enema bag, do that, and most of the time that will break a fever right away.
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But the idea here is when you have a fever, it's like you don't want to stop it, you want to you want to get rid of it by getting it out.
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So help it come out.
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Okay, this let's say there's a pathogen in your body that's wreaking havoc and it can't survive over a hundred degrees.
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So let's crank this puppy up.
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Now, if you're if your fever is 106, I'm I'm like, I'm not saying you shouldn't go to the emergency room, but I'm like generally speaking for a low grade fever, um, that works really well.
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So the big thing is doing a lot of these things preventatively and then having things on hand, because so often when clients reach out, my my clients that have been with me for a while, I just I can tell them what to take and and things to do, and they already have this little arsenal in you know built into their life.
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So I'm like, do you have this?
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Yeah, got it.
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Do you have some silver?
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Yeah, I already have that.
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Okay, cool.
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Take this, do this, you know.
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Like if you have that stuff around, as opposed to waiting until you're sick, you feel horrible, you have to stumble into the health food store, you don't know what quality you're getting, you can't find what you want, you know, all that.
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So it is always an honor and privilege to be with you all.
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Thank you for your time.
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If you're sick, you don't have to stay sick.
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So please reach out if you need help.
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And remember, if you ignore your health, it will go away.
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Take good care, and I look forward to seeing you next time.