The flu season tends to coincide with the holiday season. When we overindulge in the “holiday spirit,” we tend to follow that up with an enforced rest due to illness. Try some of the following tips the next time you feel a cold or the flu coming on. And if you’re already sick, then do them all!
1. Drink plenty of water. Your weight divided by two is how many ounces of water you should be drinking on a daily basis (two to three liters for most people). Get a fun water bottle and don’t go anywhere without it.
2. Eat lightly. Focus on fresh fruits, vegetables, and soups. Fresh fruit and vegetable juices are a great option. Give your body extra vitamins and nutrients in their natural form and free up digestive energy for recovery. Avoid cream based soups because they tend to be mucous forming.
3. Avoid mucous forming foods including dairy, sugar, fast food and processed food. These foods contribute to congestion and are harder to digest which takes energy away from the body’s ability to fight off bacteria and viruses.
4. Get some exercise, even though it’s the last thing you feel like doing. A 30-minute walk will help to stimulate your circulation and your lymphatic flow, which will instantly affect how you feel.
5. Have a massage to improve circulation and stimulate the release of stored up toxins or congested lymph.
6. Sweat. The skin is the body’s largest eliminatory organ. Use dry saunas, especially infrared, to move toxins out through the skin.
7. Have a colonic. Cleanse the colon and open the path of elimination in the body. Improving colon health helps to relieve stress on the liver, kidneys and lungs. Swollen glands noticeably reduce in size after a colonic.
8. Sleep. Get some rest. The body needs rest to recover. Slow down, relax, put your feet up.
9. Supplement. Add 1,000 to 5,000 mg Vitamin C, 6,000 mg garlic and Nucleotides daily to boost the immune system and fight the flu.
10. Stop the stomach flu with probiotic! A high quality, high dose probiotic (15 to 60 billion organisms) is known to immediately stop vomiting and diarrhea. Open a capsule into a tiny piece of mashed banana for kids.
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