I don’t have H1N1 and I certainly don’t plan on getting it.

And, I’m not vaccinated and will most certainly NOT get my vaccination. It’s scary to see how much hype has gone into prompting people of walks to get their H1N1 virus vaccination.

Considering the nasty consequences of vaccines (after all, many of them have “stabilizers” such as body-decaying mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde added to them) I choose to protect my body naturally by building and supporting my immune system.

This is a continuation to my previous post on boosting your immune system, and you can follow these recommendations to help your body out so that you don’t have to fall prey to H1N1 or any other flu that comes a knocking.

1. Sleep and Rest

Especially if you haven’t been feeling great or have busy, stressed days.  Your body regenerates when it enters stage 4 (deep) sleep. Thus, depriving yourself of sleep is not what you want to do.

2. Hydrate

Drink plenty of fluids:  filtered water, herbal teas (ginger, peppermint).  Remember: coffee and alcohol dehydrate and weaken your system.

3. Eat as Healthy as You Can

Be sure to eat plenty of raw fruit and fresh vegetables for their powerful antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and thousands of phytonutrients that help you fend off foreign invaders.

4. Use Garlic

Cook with it AND use it raw: toss steamed/cooked veggies with butter and crushed garlic cloves (1-3 cloves, raw!).  Garlic has anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal properties.

5. Think Healthy to Be Healthy

Focus your thinking on creating health and strength, and recognize your body’s natural ability to defend itself. Remember, where attention goes, energy flows. Focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want.

6. Be Realistic and Keep Things in Perspective

Please remember that even with all the media hype, more people will die from the regular flu than from H1N1.  A healthy body is able to fight flu virus proliferation.

The only portals of entry for the flu virus are the mucous membranes (mainly nostrils and mouth/throat). It’s almost impossible to avoid coming into contact with a flu virus (including H1N1) in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not so much of a problem as is its proliferation.

While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1 infection, in order to prevent proliferation, you can follow these simple “hygienic practices”:

1. Frequent hand-washing (well highlighted in all official communications).

2. ‘Hands-off-the-face’ approach. Resist all temptations to touch any part of face.

3. Gargle twice a day with warm salt water. H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. Don’t underestimate this simple, inexpensive, age-old yet powerful preventative method.

4. Similar to 3 above, clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water (try a ‘nasal irrigation device’ such as a neti pot, found at drug and health food stores, but also, blowing your nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with Q-Tips dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.

5. Drink warm or hot liquids. Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm.

One Final Note…

Remember that sugar paralyzes the immune system.  Sugar actively competes with vitamin C for entry into your cells.  Your cells need vitamin C!  Let them have it!  Avoid (or strictly limit) sugar, candies, chocolate – especially during cold and flu season.  (Vitamin C is a potent anti-oxidant, is used in detoxification and destruction of ‘bad cells’ and waste, and is essential during times of stress and anxiety.)

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