Building Immunity - Fighting Viruses
There are many natural ingredients that work specifically to build (not stimulate) your immune system. Take these products while you are well.
These include Astragalus, Reishi, Shiitake & Maitake mushrooms, and also the nutrients Zinc, Vitamin A, as found in Cod Liver Oil, Family C Powder.
Consider taking these products now, while you are well, either singularly or in combination with other ingredients, to build up immunity. These can be taken to build up a deficient immune system and can be taken long term, if needed.
We also have these immune building combinations, such as Astraforte, Myco Defence and System Well.
If you get sick use these products to fight the virus.
If you start to develop any viral symptoms, then you should stop your immune building herbs and swap to an immune stimulating herb or combination such as Olive Leaf, Triplex, Sambucol Elderberry Extract or Andrographis.
These herbs are antiviral and will help to stimulate your immune system to fight a virus specifically. You can find these in combination or singularly.
Here are some anti viral combinations Superior Olive Leaf, Bio Attack, Echinacea with Golden Seal, Olive Leaf Echinacea & Vitamin C
When you are unwell you use these products as follows: The moment you develop the 1st viral symptom, you should consider taking one or a combination of these herbs and take it intensively to quickly stimulate your immune system to fight the virus. Most of the time an intensive dosage is taken each 2 hours for the first day or so and then, once improvement is noticed, then reduce down to two or three times a day. This should be taken for up until 3 days after all symptoms go. If at any stage while on the reduced dosage, your symptoms increase, go back to the intensive dosage again and take for another 24-36 hours before considering reducing again.
Other considerations
Zinc is a mineral that is deficient in NZ soils and vial for a healthy immune system, as well as the absorption of other nutrients in the body. At Ideal Health we offer a free Zinc taste test, to help determine your existing zinc stasis. This enables you to take the correct dosage to support immunity, rather than just covering daily nutritional zinc needs. We have found that most people who are unwell have virtually non existent zinc levels in their body, so their need for this increases dramatically when their immune system is challenged.
As well as this, a good quality multivitamin, such as MultiVite should be taken, to boost up your energy levels and to provide a general assortment of nutrients.
Your Vitamin C levels should also be increased, using a product such as Mega C, to approximately 1000mg 3-5 times a day. If taking the contraceptive pill, another form of birth control needs to be used, as high levels of Vitamin C can affect the way the pill works.
Other important things to consider Your own personal hygiene needs to be very high, ensuring your hands are washed before any food preparation, after toileting and after sneezing or blowing your nose. I always wash my hands after shaking hands with other people, as their hygiene may not be as good as yours is. A recent study showed that it was not how powerful your hand cleaner is to kill viruses and bacteria; it is the length of time you wash your hands for that is the most relevant. The study showed that simple soap and water were adequate to rid the hands of these “greeblies”, so long as the hands were washed under running water for approximately 2 minutes.
Remember that viruses are transmitted by the transfer of body fluids, so if you are sneezing or coughing, make sure you cover your mouth, so as to not spread this to other people.
Other things that affect your immune system are a lack of sleep or poor sleep quality, a lack of exercise, an over load of toxins in your body and excessive consumption of alcohol or from taking drugs.
Stress also affects our immune system, so learning about the triggers for you and trying to avoid these can also help.
My conclusion to the Bird flu threat is Be Proactive and build up your immune system now, so it is strong enough to fight anything. In ALL cases of ill health, seek professional advice.
