It's Flu Season! How's Your Motor Running?

This is the time of year when most people are being told to get flu shots, stay away from hospitals because of winter vomiting bugs, kids come down with chicken pox and nearly everyone seems to have a runny nose...

I don't know about you but - as a Medical Intuitive, Nutritionist, parent and human being living on this planet for a number of years... all of this seems to be quite normal to me. I mean, this takes place every year, we get colds, we get bugs and this should be usual, right? 

So, why all the running around and fuss being made about how to avoid a cold? Get a flu shot? Not wanting our bodies to experience anything close to a 'sick' day has gotten to be a bigger epidemic then the so called Swine flu that never was... (I got it by the way, and now I have natural antibodies).

I guess my point here would be to say, why would we go out of our way to fight the flu, prevent colds (so we won't miss work or school?), run away from bugs and what not... This is the winter season, this is the perfect time of year to take your immune system out for a test run.

What I like to tell people is this: it's as if you have a fancy car sitting in your garage, perhaps a Porsche. It sits there week after week, month after month and you never take it out for a spin. Not once in all that time. How would you know, when you are ready to use it, that all is in working order?

Your immune system is exactly like that car. You have the most amazing machine, it is a work of art - that has taken millions of years on this earth co-evolving with bacteria and viruses, to get to a state where your body can detect and respond to millions of different organisms. 

Each year you get a chance to take this incredible magical system out for a test - to ensure all is in order and to iron out any problems. Perhaps to give it a tuneup along the way... You get a cold, you might have a 24 hour bug or (shudders) you get a flu that puts you down for a week. 

This only makes perfect sense to me - how else do we test these bodily functions? Your body needs to be clean, be able to respond appropriately and know that it can heal and repair itself when any of this is necessary. 

To shut down your immune function with vaccines, medications, poor food choices, lack of exercise - and then to think  to yourself "I'm perfectly healthy, I never get a cold or flu" - is the biggest lie being told on the earth today. 

If your immune system hasn't kicked in for a while, it's time to make some serious changes to your life...

April

Corn growing in the garden...