Protecting Yourself During the Flu Season

[WhiteFeather]

Just some info I thought I'd share, as the flu season is coming.

With flu season just around the corner, health agencies are telling Americans to just "get your flu shot," assuring everyone that it's safe and effective. Many, like MedicineNet.com,1 chalk up any and all safety concerns as "myths."

"It's the time of year when you should be thinking about flu vaccinations for yourself and your family," they write. "Some people, however, decide not to get the flu vaccine and put themselves and others at risk of getting sick just because they believe long-held myths about the vaccine."

Myths? I think not.


How to Protect Yourself During the Flu Season

Fortunately, avoiding a serious case of the flu doesn't require a flu vaccination. By following these simple guidelines, you can help keep your immune system in optimal working order so that you're far less likely to acquire the infection to begin with or, if you do get sick with the flu, you are better prepared to move through it without complications and soon return to good health.

•Optimize your vitamin D levels. As I've previously reported, optimizing your vitamin D levels is one of the absolute best strategies for avoiding infections of ALL kinds, and vitamin D deficiency may actually be the true culprit behind the seasonality of the flu – not the flu virus itself. This is probably the single most important and least expensive action you can take. Regularly monitor your vitamin D levels to confirm your levels are within the therapeutic range of 50-70 ng/ml.
Ideally, you'll want to get all your vitamin D from sun exposure or a safe tanning bed, but as a last resort you can take an oral vitamin D3 supplement. According to the latest review by Carole Baggerly (Grassrootshealth.org), adults need about 8,000 IU's a day.

•Avoid Sugar and Processed Foods. Sugar impairs the function of your immune system almost immediately, and as you likely know, a healthy immune system is one of the most important keys to fighting off viruses and other illness. Be aware that sugar (typically in the form of high fructose corn syrup) is present in foods you may not suspect, like ketchup and fruit juice.

•Optimize Your Gut Flora. The best way to do this is avoid apply the step above by avoiding sugars, processed foods and most grains, and replacing them with healthy fats and taking regular amounts of fermented foods which can radically improve the function of your immune system

•Get Enough Rest. Just like it becomes harder for you to get your daily tasks done if you're tired, if your body is overly fatigued it will be harder for it to fight the flu. Be sure to check out my article Guide to a Good Night's Sleep for some great tips to help you get quality rest.

•Have Effective Tools to Address Stress. We all face some stress every day, but if stress becomes overwhelming then your body will be less able to fight off the flu and other illness. If you feel that stress is taking a toll on your health, consider using an energy psychology tool such as the Emotional Freedom Technique, which is remarkably effective in relieving stress associated with all kinds of events, from work to family to trauma.

•Get Regular Exercise. When you exercise, you increase your circulation and your blood flow throughout your body. The components of your immune system are also better circulated, which means your immune system has a better chance of finding an illness before it spreads. Be sure to stay hydrated – drink plenty of fluids, especially water.

•Take a Good Source of Animal-Based Omega-3 Fats. Increase your intake of healthy and essential fats like the omega-3 found in krill oil, which is crucial for maintaining health. It is also vitally important to avoid damaged omega-6 oils that are trans fats and in processed foods as it will seriously damage your immune response.

•Wash Your Hands. Washing your hands will decrease your likelihood of spreading a virus to your nose, mouth or other people. Be sure you don't use antibacterial soap for this – antibacterial soaps are completely unnecessary, and they cause far more harm than good. Instead, identify a simple chemical-free soap that you can switch your family to.

•Tried and True Hygiene Measures. In addition to washing your hands regularly, cover your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze. If possible, avoid close contact with those, who are sick and, if you are sick, avoid close contact with those who are well.


•Use Natural Antibiotics. Examples include oil of oregano and garlic. These work like broad-spectrum antibiotics against bacteria, viruses, and protozoa in your body. And unlike pharmaceutical antibiotics, they do not appear to lead to resistance.

•Avoid Hospitals. I'd recommend you stay away from hospitals unless you're having an emergency and need expert medical care, as hospitals are prime breeding grounds for infections of all kinds. The best place to get plenty of rest and recover from illness that is not life-threatening is usually in the comfort of your own home.

Protect Your Right to Informed Consent and Vaccine Exemptions With all the uncertainty surrounding the safety and efficacy of vaccines, it's critical to protect your right to informed consent to vaccination and fight to protect and expand vaccine exemptions in state public health laws. The best way to do this is to get personally involved with your state legislators and the leaders in your community.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/11/06/flu-vaccine-efficacy.aspx

Good Read Here:Oil Of Oregano, a natural antibiotic..
http://www.naturalnews.com/024685_oregano_oil_of.html

[WhiteFeather]

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too late... i am riding it off

[WhiteFeather]

too late... i am riding it off

Feel Better : )

[Arrowwind]

This was written during that time period of the bird flu scare.
All of these are good ideas but the Herbal remedy, garlic, beta glucan. MMS and colloidal Silver and Vitamin C will be the best and can be done at the same time, (except vitamin c and MMS) The treatments for flu in general are the same, whether swine flu, common flu, or bird flu. You want to use the most powerful and effective treatment that you can find. None of this has been studied, except for maybe vitamin c. Studies on these protocols are far and few between, ha! Ditto for flu vaccine and tamaflu.

If/When the flu Epidemic comes:
I recommend that you prepare well in advance for the flu because if you wait till the last minute these products will be gone. Many people know about these alternative treatments and the stores will be rushed upon. Deciding which protocol to use comes from personal knowledge, personal preference and past experience.

Vitamin c
1 to 2000 mg every hour until diarrhea occurs then back off.
This is called reaching bowel tolerance. When the body has all the Vitamin C it can use diarrhea occurs. After diarrhea happens wait a few hours and start again.
In major emergency just start out with 10 grams (People with chronic health conditions like cancer, COPD, who are on a number of drugs, who have immune diseases should start with 20 grams) that may be repeated every 2 hours through the day and if you awaken at night take it then also. One should test what their bowel tolerance is before they get sick so they will have knowledge of a starting point. But be aware that your bowel tolerance may increase if you are sick due to the increased need for vitamin C. There is wide difference in the opinions on how to get to bowel tolerance. The most important thing is to get there and fast.
Vist the www.VitaminCfoundation.org (http://www.VitaminCfoundation.org) for details.

Or if you are familiar with the newer liposomal formulas and applications us this. You can take up to one quart a day, in divided dosages.

Zinc Zinx™ lozenges (zinc acetate it the most preferred form and used in the studies) are available through a few natural food stores and compounding pharmacies, and the Tahoma Clinic Dispensary (see Resources, page 8). (I have no business connection with George Eby or the company which manufactures and sells Zinx™.) To get the germ-killing effects you should let the lozenge dissolve completely under your tongue. After that, you might gargle the resulting liquid or otherwise “swoosh it around” your mouth to try to contact as many infected surfaces as possible. If there’s any liquid left after doing all this, it won’t hurt to swallow it—after all, it’s a low quantity of zinc—but it does the most good against the “common cold” by contacting the lining of your mouth and throat. JVW

Garlic
Eat 2 to 4 cloves of raw garlic a day
Increase the dosage as the flu
Comes closer into your area
Lugol’s Iodine
10 drops in water or juice 3 x day during acute flu.
To prevent the flu use 6 drops 1 x day just before or after contact with a carrier.
This can be done daily to prevent catching the flu.
DMSO with olive leaf extract rubbed on chest for viral infection. If it burns the skin use some vitamin E oil with it.

Grapefruit seed extract.
purchased at any healthfood store
Gargle with it. 4 gtts in about 4 ounces of water 3 to 4 times a day
Drink it. 1 drop per 10lbs body weight. 4xday
You may also purchase this in pills. Take at least 3 pills 4x day.
With pills increase or decrease dosage according to size of person.
GSE is nontoxic in even the largest dosages

Olive leaf extract
standardized to at least 15 percent but use any you can find if you can't find this.
Average adults 3 caps 3 x day
Increase or decrease dosage according to size of person and seriousness of disease.
You can make an olive leaf poultice to apply to the chest if the lungs and bronchials are involved. Cover with a warm wrap, hotwater bottle or heating pad to facilitate transference through the skin. A small amount of DMSO can be applied first to the chest.
This is a nontoxic product

Betaglucan from NOW products
Search - betaglucans - iHerb.com
Start taking this as soon as you hear about the first case or better yet start in October and keep at it till flu season is past. With the immune boosting properties of betaglucan you may never get sick.

Colloidal silver
purchase at the healthfood store
but the product I recommend most is www.nutrasilver.com (http://www.nutrasilver.com)
1 ounce every hour if condition is severe or half an ounce
every 30 minutes. (dosage is different for nutrasilver. See below)
otherwise 1 ounce 3 x day
gargle with it and hold it in your mouth up to one minute before drinking it
This is a nontoxic product
Or learn how to make your own
With the Silvergen
Or Silverpuppy machine
A brand I like is called NutraSilver - Skin Disease & Infection | Morgellons & Lyme Treatments 3600 ppm.
And A Herbal Healer Academy - natural medicine, herbs, vitamins, correspondence courses drherbs , and internet company that sells a
Variation and good product, about 500 ppm

Hydrogen peroxide
Purchase at any drug store or supermarket
several drops in the ear 3 x day
do one ear then the other
only effective as a preventative
upon the first hours of suspected contamination.
This is not a cure but a possible preventative according to
Dr William Douglas. I have not used it for preventing the flu but I found it very effective for ear aches.

Herbal Formula
Will probably treat 5 or 6 people. I purchased 1/4 ounce each in coarse ground form (not powdered) of these, except the mushroom blend where I purchased 1/2 lb. Mix all ingredients and soak in glass jar covered with vodka for 6 weeks. Strain. put into dropper bottles. Start using as soon as flu hits the state, I mean the very first minute. Carry it with you. It will build immunity and attack virus and it has anti inflammatory properties. You can purchase these ingredients here:

Herbal Advantage www.herbaladvantage.com (http://www.herbaladvantage.com)

Product Name Product # Price X Qty = Total
Astragalus Root Powder 11-035P1 $4.50 1@ $4.50
Echinacea Ang. Root Pwd 11-187P1 $21.95 1 @ $21.95
Ginger Ground 11-260P1 $3.42 1 @ $3.42
Licorice Root Powder 11-395P1 $4.56 1 @ $4.56
Mushroom Blend of 4 Powder 11-6105X2 $31.56 1 @ $31.56
Olive Leaf - Powder 11-4905P1 $3.86 1 @ $3.86
Cat's Claw Bark Powder 11-100P1 $4.89 1 @ $4.89
Total about $74 dollars with about $5 for shipping.

Vitamin D3
Make sure your serum vitamin d3 levels are at least 60. If you have chronic disease between 80 and 100. It may not prevent or cure the flu but it may help you to survive it if it is a killer strain.
During acute illness take 50,000 IU 3 x day for 3 to 4 days.
MMS : go to www.genesis2church.org (http://www.genesis2church.org) to understand its use. This should be in your first line of defense. Have it on hand because you will not be able to get it if a severe flu strikes. I guarantee, it will be almost impossible to get. This cannot be used with vitamin c therapy as they will counter act each other.
20 drops of MMS in a spray bottle with 2 ounces of water can be used to disinfect sinks, door knobs, etc. Be careful for it can bleach fabrics.

Phenocaine
http://www.donsbach.com/arthritis.htm (http://www.donsbach.com/arthritis.htm)
may help with pain and inflammation associated with flu
1 or 2 caps 2 to 3 times a day
If it is a dangerous flu Tylenol and aspirin may
Weaken your defenses.

Ozone Protocol
If you have ozone equipment follow the ozone protocol.
but vitamin c will inactivate ozone so do not use them together.
At the end of the day after all ozone treatments, give Vit c 10gms then go to bed.
Separate ozone treatments by several hours from vitamin C or other drug therapies.
It is unknown if ozone affects drugs.
Stop all unnecessary drugs you may be taking while combating the flu. You will have to determine the risk of stopping drugs for a few days.
It you decide to take a drug just for the flu I cannot predict the effects that ozone may have on it.
Keep a room air ozonator running at all times to keep the air and surfaces clean of bacteria and virus.
In Germany they give ozone in intramuscular injections to fight flu.

Disinfecting your environment
Grapeseed extract, 50 drops to a quart spray bottle.
spray all surfaces a contaminated person is in contact with
keep a bottle each bathroom, kitchen and near front door
after washing your hands spray your hands or put about 10 drops of GSE in your liquid hand soap or dish soap
Add 10 drops to your dishwasher
50 drops to your laundry

I recommed that you purchase ozonators. They are about $60 each from this site. http://www.enaly.com/category/product/ (http://www.enaly.com/category/product/)
You will need 1 medical grade and 2 room air ozonators.
Use one ozonator for the room of an infected person
Use the other ozonator near the entry door and use it to make ozonated water also.
The medical grade is for respiratory treatments and insuffalation.
See the next page for more details.

A note on Using Elderberry
A warning on Dr D'Adamo's forum [www.dadamo.com] (http://www.dadamo.com])
quote:

Elderberry should be used only by people under 15 or over 35 during anactive infection. It can be used by others as a preventive.
Yes, it has to do with it having the potential to ramp up cytokines, which increased the inflammatory reaction. This is more of a problem with people in that age group (older and younger people have a more moderated immune response)
end quote
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[M6*]

Thanks a lot, Whitefeather, you're a Peach!:-) You are also quite right about the danger of getting the flu in a hospital.
I went to see somebody in the hospital one time, got the flu, and thought I never would get over it!! Take care. M6*

[M6*]

Thank you too, Arrowwind!
This is a wonderful list, and I am going to go over it again tomorrow, just after I get my rest!:-)
Who needs a doctor, when we've got Avalon! Sweet Dreams;-) M6*

[sdv]

[QUOTE=Arrowwind;583010]This was written during that time period of the bird flu scare.
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Vitamin c
1 to 2000 mg every hour until diarrhea occurs then back off.
This is called reaching bowel tolerance. When the body has all the Vitamin C it can use diarrhea occurs. After diarrhea happens wait a few hours and start again.
In major emergency just start out with 10 grams (People with chronic health conditions like cancer, COPD, who are on a number of drugs, who have immune diseases should start with 20 grams) that may be repeated every 2 hours through the day and if you awaken at night take it then also. One should test what their bowel tolerance is before they get sick so they will have knowledge of a starting point. But be aware that your bowel tolerance may increase if you are sick due to the increased need for vitamin C. There is wide difference in the opinions on how to get to bowel tolerance. The most important thing is to get there and fast.
Vist the www.VitaminCfoundation.org (http://www.VitaminCfoundation.org) for details.

I have often used this Vitamin C cure (very effective for dermatitis) BUT it is important to continue taking Vitamin C afterwards (starting with 75% the amount you needed to reach bowel tolerance and then reducing) otherwise you end up with rebound scurvy.

[Shade]

I have been taking 2-3000mg of Vitamin C a day for the last 18 months and haven't got the flu once, and I would usually have gotten it about 3 times during this period. It doesn't have to be in massive doses to protect you from flu. I get the feeling that pushing your body to diarrhea point is just taking it to unnecessary extremes. You don't need to go that far and the stress of it may cause more damage than it fixes.

I would definitely say that D3 is important as well, most people have levels too low and it is one of the most important things to be up on in that it is so necessary for cell functioning. However reading the above post saying that 50,000 IU 3 x day for 3 to 4 days is appropriate for acute illness.... that is far too much. 4000IU a day for severe serum level D3 depletion is more than adequate. Taking that much of a thing; 150x the usual daily dosage on the highest strength D3 capsules for 3 to 4 days - may be harmful.

[WhiteFeather]

Great Information Arrowwind, Thanks for your knowledge and participation on this thread!!!!! ;)

[Arrowwind]

I have been taking 2-3000mg of Vitamin C a day for the last 18 months and haven't got the flu once, and I would usually have gotten it about 3 times during this period. It doesn't have to be in massive doses to protect you from flu. I get the feeling that pushing your body to diarrhea point is just taking it to unnecessary extremes. You don't need to go that far and the stress of it may cause more damage than it fixes.

I would definitely say that D3 is important as well, most people have levels too low and it is one of the most important things to be up on in that it is so necessary for cell functioning. However reading the above post saying that 50,000 IU 3 x day for 3 to 4 days is appropriate for acute illness.... that is far too much. 4000IU a day for severe serum level D3 depletion is more than adequate. Taking that much of a thing; 150x the usual daily dosage on the highest strength D3 capsules for 3 to 4 days - may be harmful.

2 to 3,000mg of c a day may be helpful in preventing a flu but it will do little to cure a flu once it is already established. And 18 months without a flu is not a long time to be flu free and since you got the flu 3 times a year it is clear that you have been signficantly depleted. I would guess that you are probably still walking a thin line if that is all you have done to change your health reality.. I have not had a flu since 1994... 18 years, even though I have worked intensively around flu cases over the years.

I have given the recommendations of Linus Pauling, the master of vitamin c. If serious disease has already struck, and flu can be very serious for some people, optimal levels of c are required to cure. The sicker you are the more vitamin c is requried for the body burns it very fast and it has a very short half life once injested. The man who was dying of swine flu in New Zealand required 25,000 and 100,000 mg a day IV to save his life. Going to bowel tolerace is the way to know how much you need and can tolerate with an oral application. Ultimately lipsomal c is the answer to get very high blood levels without any diarrhea at all as it never reaches the lower intestines. Its readily absorbed and I have been encouraging everyone I know to use it and to make it, and it is the answer for small children.

Always if you or someone you know is in serious trouble from a virus, even to the point of not being able to eat, pack them up, pull them out of the hopsita and take them to a naturopath who can do IV vitamin c.

this is the protocol used in that New Zealand case:
Dosage Guidelines


According to Dr. Levy's case report, the vitamin C doses administered to achieve this astonishing turn-around were:

25 grams were given intravenously on the first day
Followed by two 25 gram infusions the next day. At this point, the chest x-ray suddenly showed air pockets in Allan's lungs -- a dramatic improvement!
On the third day, Allan received 75 grams intravenously
Followed by 100 grams IV daily for another 4 to 6 days
To the Smith family's shock, a new hospital consultant decided to discontinue the vitamin C treatment at this point, which led to further battles with the hospital administration.
One week later, the intravenous vitamin C (IVC) was restarted, but only at one measly gram, twice daily. Still, despite this tiny dose, his recovery slowly continued. Once Allan regained consciousness, he started taking 6 grams of oral Lypospheric vitamin C a day, at which point he began to rapidly improve.
The family firmly believes that had the hospital continued administering IVC at the recommended high dosage, Allan's recovery may have been far more swift.
From Dr. Mercola's article on vitamin c.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/10/29/high-dose-iv-vitamin-c-found-useful-for-near-terminal-swine-flu.aspx

http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v01n12.shtml
Vitamin C expert Robert Cathcart, M.D., specifies very high therapeutic doses of vitamin C. For a severe cold: 60,000 to 100,000 milligrams/day. [4] For most influenza (flu), 100,000 to 150,000 mg/day. [5] For Avian (Bird) Flu, 150,000 to 300,000 mg/day.[6]





Regarding vitamin D3. I have done the above protocol several times and had my blood levels tested as I did so. It is not too much for severe illness and this protocol is recommended by cutting edge alternative medical doctors. It is what was required to cure my psoriasis and it may be very helpful with a severe flu.

Actually most people who get the flu are already depeted in D3. Taking 4,000 IU a day may take weeks to bring them up to an optimal blood level, which would be too little too late.

You have bought into some of the vitamin D3 myths.

[soleil]

Thank you too, Arrowwind!
This is a wonderful list, and I am going to go over it again tomorrow, just after I get my rest!:-)
Who needs a doctor, when we've got Avalon! Sweet Dreams;-) M6*

agreed! thanks for the list, i'm definitely going to make adjustments!

AND!
apple cider vinegar! anyone? i just had a tiny bout with a flu/cold, and my throat was very very sore, and scratchy. one shot of that, (with a chaser of apple juice) and i no longer had a sore throat. was still a bit sick, but no more sore throat. ;):hail:

[Shade]

2 to 3,000mg of c a day may be helpful in preventing a flu but it will do little to cure a flu once it is already established. And 18 months without a flu is not a long time to be flu free and since you got the flu 3 times a year it is clear that you have been signficantly depleted. I would guess that you are probably still walking a thin line if that is all you have done to change your health reality.. I have not had a flu since 1994... 18 years, even though I have worked intensively around flu cases over the years.



about 3 flus per 18 months is not 3 flus a year. 18 months is not a year - it is one and a half years. This equals approx 2 flus a year and by that I mean anything from a cold to a flu. I would usually get one or two a year hence the use of the word 'about' [meaning approximately]. And it is quite an assumption to think that that may be all I have done to change my health reality [assuming I was unhealthy before I was taking daily vitamin c, which I wasn't] - In a post where I am just talking specifically about taking vitamin c and having gotten no flu. You don't know anything else about my health regime because I have not talked about it - I have no idea who in fact you are talking about with your fine line, but if you infer that it may refer to myself, it would be an assumptive jump about my lifestyle that you have absolutely no warrant to make.

[norman]

I'm taking 10,000 IU of D3 and 1000mg of C, daily.

Are they defeating each others effects?

[onawah]

I had not had the flu for many years, but a couple of years ago I was exposed to something that was "going around", from a friend who works in a nursing home.
I suspect it may have been bio-engineered because it was so virulent, and I had not been lax in doing my usual prevention regime.
It was really awful, and made me feel like staying away from my friend permanently.

Something I think no one has mentioned so far are the homeopathic remedies for flu and colds.
Oscillococcinum is probably the one most often recommended, but there are others.
There is a good list here, along with identifying symptoms which help tell which one is appropriate for what ails you:
http://www.holisticonline.com/remedies/flu/flu_homeopathy.htm

[Mike]

great lists whitefeather and arrowwind!

i pop those zinc/echinacea/vit-c Halls suckers like candy and also drink herbal echinacea tea. always does the trick. you really have to stay on top of it and it takes a little discipline...but it's never let me down.

[conk]

No where the bottom of the list for effective remedies is Oil of Oregano. Viruses hate it, but not for long. ;)

And Shade, calm down and be more respectful of Arrowwind. She was sent here by God itself!

[WhiteFeather]

No where the bottom of the list for effective remedies is Oil of Oregano. Viruses hate it, but not for long. ;)

And Shade, calm down and be more respectful of Arrowwind. She was sent here by God itself!

Im using The Oil of Oregano that i purchased from www.gaiaherbs.com A great website and some great herbs there. Highly recommend this company. My healthfood store stocks this Manufacturers products. This site is worth a bookmark.

Oil Of Oregano http://www.gaiaherbs.com/products/detail/53/Oil-Of-Oregano-
Supports a healthy immune response*

A natural antioxidant source, Oil of Oregano contains phytochemicals which support the body’s natural resistance.* Gaia Herbs’ supercritical CO2 extract of Oregano volatile oils contains phenols, including Carvacrol and Thymol. These oils help support a healthy microbial environment in the intestines and a healthy immune response.*

Supports healthy digestive flora*Oregano leaf extract: 460 mg Natural anitoxidant source*
Cavacrol & Thymol: 64 mg

[Spiral]

Wild Oregano oil is incredible !

I take mine in capsules that can be bought on the internet very cheaply.

Colloidal silver is also great, kills flu & colds stone dead !

This is a simple set up that works, I know it does, I use it !

Silver strips can be bought on line, they have to be pure silver, connect to a 6v battery as shown for 20-30 minutes using pure water (I use a bottled water that has a neutral ph and barely any minerals)

http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m508/VaguelyReticent/20111009_5.jpg

[WhiteFeather]

Eldeberry and Echinacea - very powerful for boosting up the immune system.....Cant go wrong with those 2 E's....

[conk]

...Oil Of Oregano http://www.gaiaherbs.com/products/detail/53/Oil-Of-Oregano-
Supports a healthy immune response*

That's where I buy mine. Good site for sure WF.

In the last two weeks myself, my daughter, and a friend at work have absolutely slayed cold/flu viruses by using MMS, colloidal silver, and oil of oregano. Toss in super doses of vitamins A, D, and C and the pathogens are pitifully over powered. Major symptoms manifested that normally result in a few days of misery, only to evaporate within 12 hours. Mother Nature rules, colds and viruses drool (in the parlance of 3rd graders). ;)

[MistahMojoRisin]

I always love your well thought out, logical and thoughtfull posts White feather. THis is great advise that while 30% is common sence, is not thought of often. Thanks for posting it, your a huge gift to people like me in the forums.
-Mojo-

[CeltMan]

Thanks Whitefeather, excellent post, & very timely!

Can you say if taking 'Oregano herbs' would be as effective as taking the oil?

I have the herbs, & strangely felt inclined to use them last night in my cooking (which is unusual for me to use them at all)

I do take Echinachea regularly,(would recommend the ticture immediately is a cold starts-kills it stone dead!)- and D3 (to top up on 'sunshine depravation'- which we have suffered this year here in UK!!)

+ I do also have some Colloidal Silver in stock.

Agree with everthing else you recommended!

[Arrowwind]

2 to 3,000mg of c a day may be helpful in preventing a flu but it will do little to cure a flu once it is already established. And 18 months without a flu is not a long time to be flu free and since you got the flu 3 times a year it is clear that you have been signficantly depleted. I would guess that you are probably still walking a thin line if that is all you have done to change your health reality.. I have not had a flu since 1994... 18 years, even though I have worked intensively around flu cases over the years.



about 3 flus per 18 months is not 3 flus a year. 18 months is not a year - it is one and a half years. This equals approx 2 flus a year and by that I mean anything from a cold to a flu. I would usually get one or two a year hence the use of the word 'about' [meaning approximately]. And it is quite an assumption to think that that may be all I have done to change my health reality [assuming I was unhealthy before I was taking daily vitamin c, which I wasn't] - In a post where I am just talking specifically about taking vitamin c and having gotten no flu. You don't know anything else about my health regime because I have not talked about it - I have no idea who in fact you are talking about with your fine line, but if you infer that it may refer to myself, it would be an assumptive jump about my lifestyle that you have absolutely no warrant to make.

Excuse me for my error. Apparrently you have a flu or cold, averaging once every 6 months, (which is actually about 2 a year) but your the one who said flu, not cold, which is much worse than a cold.
Actually you did tell us about your healh regimen. You said -


I have been taking 2-3000mg of Vitamin C a day for the last 18 months and haven't got the flu once, and I would usually have gotten it about 3 times during this period. It doesn't have to be in massive doses to protect you from flu.

if you did more to alter your bad state of health you should have told us rather than implying 2-3000mg of c did it all. It is misleading.