Supporting Your Immune System

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We are fully in autumn now, and going from summer to winter our bodies often need extra support for the immune system.

Especially now as we get less sunlight, and even the sunlight we do get isn’t how we need it for vitamin D production.

We’re also heading into sugar season, others call it the holiday season.

But with Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and Valentine, there is a lot of sugar that gets consumed.

Now, sugar does drop the immune system for the next 5-12 hours after consumption.

That’s worth keeping in mind when making decision about staying healthy.

A lack of sleep also diminishes the immune system, and the holidays often lead to altered sleep schedules.

As usual, I do need to point out that I don’t see the germ theory working out, I actively witness and experience the terrain theory being accurate.

What that means is, the germ theory dictates that the mere presence of a germ (bacteria, viruses) will cause illness.

You already know there’s something not right about that, because then all doctors should always be sick.

Meanwhile, terrain theory states that getting sick depends on how intact your internal environment is.

That does include everything from nutrient status, stress levels, microbiome health, lymph flow, structural integrity, sleep status, food choices, emotional upset, etc.

So I have to alter what I’ve said before, because I used to say I don’t get sick.

That gives the wrong impression…

… as my body does let me know if we could get sick, and then I thank my body for monitoring what’s going on and then I take the appropriate steps to support my body.

Broadly, the things I pretty much always have on hand at home for this includes:

– Solaris from Activation Products
– Goldenseal (preferably a tincture or glycerite (non-alcoholic tincture) from Hawaii Pharm 
– Grapefruit seed extract liquid from NutriBiotic
– Perfect Iodine from Activation Products (you can nebulize this without diluting, you can add it in your water, apply it to your skin)
– DV3 from Systemic Formulas
– Vitamin A always with zinc (it activates the vitamin A) from NOW Foods
– Oregano from Global Healing (it’s actually the right kind of oregano for this)
– Ginger glycerite from Hawaii Pharm
– Pico Silver from RnA ReSet (this can also be nebulizer or taken orally)
– Foreign Protein Cleanse from Global Healing
– Lots of vitamin C, from liquid liposomal to capsule or powder

This list does not mean that I take all of this at once or every time my body says something, but I do like having the options.

Zinc, for example, is great against viruses on it’s own and supports your body there as well.

Vitamin A, zinc, and DV3 is great to really dig in and support that immune system.

Perfect Iodine goes after a variety of pathogens, as does grapefruit seed extract and Solaris.
And if something is affecting your lungs, mullein tea is great for that (don’t forget nebulizing Perfect Iodine or Pico Silver, also for sinuses and back of throat).

Ginger covers a range from sore throat to stomach upset and immune support.

Vitamin C is a go to with feeling like getting sick, being sick, injuring a joint, this is just generally a supplement I take all the time.

I know this is when some people like to say they eat certain foods high in vitamin C.

That just doesn’t cut it anymore, the saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” …

… well, that would be more like 8 apples now, and most have been cultivated so much that it’s way too much sugar.

So make sure you have some things on hand to use as needed, generally support your immune system with DV3 and vitamin C, and make sure you:

– Don’t fall for the sugar traps
– Get your sleep
– And don’t ignore your inner emotional landscape.

A quick recap of Dr. K’s recommended products supporting your immune system

Solaris from Activation Products

Goldenseal from Hawaii Pharm

Grapefruit seed extract liquid from Nutribiotic

Perfect Iodine from Activation Products

DV3 from Systemic Formulas

Vitamin A from NOW Foods

Oregano from Global Healing

Ginger glycerite from Hawaii Pharm

Pico Silver from RnA ReSet

Foreign Protein Cleanse from Global Healing