Boulder Chiropractor Tips To Prevent The Flu Naturally

We concluded last week in the office with our Stay Well during the Flu Season Workshop.  One of the key topics was that this is the time of year that people need to stay consistent with their healthy lifestyle choices and their Chiropractic care the most.
Florida Atlantic university found that chiropractic lowered flu rate more than Flu shot. During the next 2 months people experience more physical, chemical and emotional stress than any other time of
year.  Please don’t let the hustle and bustle of the Holiday season take you away from your good habits.  This is a key to staying well through the holidays.

Below is some useful information about how you can both improve your health status and
improve your resistance to the flu and many other health problems easily and
naturally…

1-    Get Adjusted to keep your immune system strong

2-    Reduce Sugar consumption

3-    Keep Antioxidant consumption high, fresh fruits and vegetables

4-    Get plenty of rest

5-   Make healthier food choices

6-   Eat more organic vegetables and fruits

7-   Takenatural nutritional supplements especially Antioxidants, Omega 3′s and Multivitamins

8-   Don’t medicate unless absolutely necessary especially antibiotics

9-   Lower your stress levels

10-        Stop smoking

11-        Take steps to lessen toxin intake by drinking purified water and eating moreorganic, pesticide, hormone free foods

12-        Increase your exercise at this time of year

According to the Doctor’s Resource Center, the following approaches may be helpful once a person contracts the flu:

1.     Echinacea may help clear symptoms faster

2.     Black elderberry may also speed recovery

Additionally, when it comes to prevention of the flu, supplementing with Vitamin C may help and a study from Japan indicated that gargling with green tea extract reduced ones likelihood of contracting the flu.

An old study in the Journal of Family Practice from 1989 found that family stress increases the risk of flu and taking measures to relieve stress may be helpful.

Ultimately, preventing the flu and promoting good health are both associated with having a strong and healthy immune system.

Stress, poor dietary choices, sugar, excessive alcohol and tobacco all reduce immune function so common sense says to eat right and take care of your body.

Additionally, proper rest, adequate exercise, lots of pure water and a healthy nervous system are paramount in preventing disease and growing your health.  Feel free to consult with us for more
details…

Got C?

Vitamin C is a free radical scavenger and helps protect white blood cells. Research has shown that vitamin
C taken daily can prevent a cold or flu or shorten the duration.  A 1999 study published in the Journal
of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics found that daily doses of Vitamin C can effectively relieve or prevent flu symptoms

What the Experts Say about Antioxidants

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT ANTIOXIDANTS

“The amount of antioxidants that you maintain in your body is directly proportional to how long you will live.” -  Richard Cutler M.D., Director Anti-Aging Research, National Institute of Health (NIH)

“There’s a revolution happening out there right now.  People are bound and determined to take an active role in their health care.  I have long refereed to antioxidants as the revolution that would change the face of modern medicine, but without a reliable convenient and painless method of measuring antioxidant levels, I was afraid that the revolution would die before it even got started.  I am happy to report with the Antioxidant Laser Scanner the revolution is back on track!” – Dr. James Balch, author of the Antioxidant Revolution, and co-author of eight-million copy best seller Prescription for Nutritional Healing

“Scientists now believe that free radicals are causal factors in nearly every known disease, from heart disease to arthritis to cancer to cataracts.  In fact, free radicals are a major culprit in the aging process itself.  By controlling free radicals, antioxidants can make the difference between life and death, as well as influence how fast and how well we age.”- Lester Packer, Ph. D.- Head of the Packer labs at the University of California at Berkeley.  Dr. Packer, author of The Antioxidant Miracle, is regarded as the world’s foremost antioxidant research scientist.

“Scientists’ understanding of the benefits of vitamins has rapidly advanced, and it now appears that people who get enough vitamins may be able to prevent such common chronic illnesses as cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis.  All adults should take a multivitamin daily.” -Journal of American Medical Association, June 19, 2002

“Powerful antioxidants like lutein and xeaxanthin (from green vegetables) and lycopene (from tomatoes) may protect against coronary-artery disease, cataracts, macular degeneration and cancer.” – Time Magazine, October 20, 2003

“Antioxidants can cut your risk of heart disease up to 70%, diabetes 40%, lung cancer 30%, and breast cancer 20% studies show. Many leading authorities now urge all adults to take a daily supplement. USA Today, January 18^th, 2004