Protect Yourself From This Winter’s Rounds of Colds, Flu, and Bronchitis
Your best bet against colds, flu, and other infections is to keep your immune system in good working order. But there are quite a few factors out there working against your immune system, and it’s up to you to guard yourself against them.
Sugar intake directly affects the ability of the immune system’s white blood cells to fight off infection. There’s also significant evidence that chlorinated water and water containing fluoride weaken the immune system. The National Cancer Institute has published articles showing an increase in cancer risk from chlorinated water. If cancers are increased, that means that the immune system must be weakened. And there are many studies showing that fluoride, at levels found in our drinking water (and in our tissues if we drink that water), interferes with both the mobility of our white blood cells and their ability to engulf and kill germs. So in addition to keeping refined sugar intake to a minimum, try to stick to bottled or distilled water.
Vitamin and mineral supplementation is also an important factor in preventing infections like colds, flu, and bronchitis. Adults should take 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C at least three times daily, and 40,000 units of vitamin A, 50 milligrams of zinc, and 2 milligrams of copper per day.
And there are also a wide variety of botanical remedies that can help boost the immune system as well, such as goldenseal (500 milligrams twice a day) and garlic (two pure garlic-oil capsules a day).
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. has degrees from both Harvard University (cum laude) and the University of Michigan. More than any other doctor, he practically invented the modern science of applied nutritional biochemistry and he has advanced nutritional medicine for nearly three decades.
As of today, Dr. Wright has received over 35,000 patient visits at his now-famous Tahoma Clinic in Washington State.
To learn more about Dr. Wright, and to sign up for his free Health e-Tips eLetter, please visit www.wrightnewsletter.com.
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Anonymous
Taking 4000 IUs of vitamin D3 has shown to reduce -- can you believe all of this (you should) -- colds, flues, cancers, cardiovascular diseses, obesity, depression, diabetes, and a host of other human conditions.
Take the vitamins and minerals Dr Wright mentions. They are very good. But you'd also better start taking sufficient vitamin D.
--John of Ohio
Anonymous
True. I was vitamin D deficient, felt low in mood for months - now i call vit D my happy pills!!!
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