Flu Prevention

From Natural News:

Prepare your body: The single most important step as it will prevent illness in the first place.

• Remove all sugar and processed foods from your diet. Sugar feeds infection and it decreases the function of your immune system almost immediately. If you must sweeten, go lightly and use honey.


• Get enough vitamin D3. It is one of the absolute best strategies for avoiding infections of ALL kinds, and vitamin D deficiency is likely the true culprit behind the seasonality of the flu -- not the flu virus itself. If you are coming down with flu like symptoms and have not been on vitamin D you can take doses of 50,000 units a day for three days to treat the acute infection. Some researchers like Dr. Cannell, believe the dose could even be as high as 1000 units per pound of body weight for three days. Even better? 15 minutes of sunshine every day on bare skin. However, please read my post on D3 in order to get and maintain a safe amount of D3 from the sun. It's important to understand d3 & the sun.
  


• Probiotics Even the NIH agrees...the generation of immunophysiologic regulation in the gut depends on the establishment of indigenous microflora.


• Wash your hands.

I believe the following are also extremely helpful in the prevention of the spreading of any disease:

• Other immune-building supplements: Thieves Essential Oil Blend, Immupower Essential Oil Blend, from Young Living. I also think Nature's Sunshine offers the highest quality supplements. Their Seasonal Defense is genius.
  

• Diffuse high quality essential oils to combat airborne illnesses. I use Thieves, Purification,
  

• Remove negative energy. Perform self Ki daily to balance your meridian energy.