I suppose I am preaching to the choir saying that the right way to protect yourself from the flu is to keep your immune system strong, and to keep other people's germs out of your life. I just can't help but think it is a cynical conspiracy pushed by the big pharma and their advertising medium, the television, that whips up public fear about a possible epidemic with a virus that has not even been found. That's almost as valid as saying that millions will die when the next asteroid hits this planet. Duh ...

So please do the obvious - wash your hands. Handwashing was statistically proven as the single most effective way to reduce transmission of infectious disease. We even have great non-toxic soap for that.

Here is an interesting statistic: people who have taken a flu shot five years in the row have a 10 times greater chance of getting Alzheimer's. It is not clear to me if that means that flu shots cause the illness, or that people with diminishing mental capacity have their flu shots regularly ... In any case, if you want to further challenge your immune system, go ahead and vaccinate. Just don't come here complaining that it did not work. We are quite sure that flu vaccination is a waste of your money ...

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD, Director International Medical Veritas Association, wrote this:

Various U.S. and U.N. agencies are spreading the word that the Avian Influenza, if it breaks out this fall or winter, could be as severe as the worldwide Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918, and they are predicting hundreds of millions of deaths worldwide. Of course this is what they do each and every year and it does sell a lot of vaccines to an easily frightened public.

According to health consultant Jonathan Campbell, "The influenza currently isolated in China is a hemorrhagic illness. It kills many of its victims by rapidly depleting ascorbate (vitamin C) stores in the body, inducing scurvy and collapse of the arterial blood supply, causing internal hemorrhaging of the lungs and sinus cavities. Most people today have barely enough vitamin C in their bodies (typically 60 mg per day) to prevent scurvy under normal living conditions, and are not prepared for this kind of illness." [ii]

Intestinal health is most commonly undermined by:

1. Antibiotic usage
2. Excessive Sugar Consumption
3. Stress
4. Drinking Chlorinated Water
5. Long term diet of Acid Foods

When the ecology of the human gastrointestinal tract becomes disrupted, beneficial microorganisms can no longer flourish in numbers necessary for proper balance. Furthermore, harmful toxin producing bacteria and fungi begin to take over, changing the ecology of the gastrointestinal tract.

Medical researchers have recently revealed that the #1 health complaint received by doctors worldwide is poor digestion, malabsorption and constipation, quickly followed by complaints of tiredness, lack of energy, slow recovery, etc.

Do not use laxatives to relieve constipation. When intestinal flora is out of balance, problems can quickly evolve beyond gas and bloating. Energy is radically reduced and the immune system is radically compromised. Along with the cases of chronic indigestion, the cases of chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, chronic muscle pain, candidiasis, arthritis, colon cancer and poor immune response are becoming more common.

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