So many of us have our Christmas or New Year ruined by not being well over during this festive time. Two years ago, it was Covid-19 which caused the entire nation to have a ruined Christmas, but even though that seems to be consigned to history now, we are still all very susceptible to illness when the days are short, the weather is cold and damp, and we are over-indulging at the same time. So here are a few strategies that can drastically improve your chances of staying well over this period, and will reduce your down-time if you do get ill.
- Keep Your Colon Clean.
Use Oxy-Powder or Mag 07 to clean your colon and to stay ‘regular’. - Deter Candida
If you think you won’t be able to resist the temptation to indulge on candida forming foods take a good probiotic. Some of my favourites include Threelac, Fivelac. Latero-Flora, Ultimate Probiotic and Sporebiotics. There is a lot more to preventing candida than just taking a probiotic, as discussed in countless previous newsletters. But a high end probiotic is a good start and will improve the microbiome generally. - Take Digestive Enzymes
Have Active Digestive Enzymes or Ultimate Enzymes on hand to help with all the overeating, and to calm fermentation from eating starches and sugars. You can increase your active digestive enzymes to two capsules with each meal, rather than one as suggested on the label for large meals. Digestive enzymes are wonderful aids for digestion, especially of cooked foods and will help reduce bloating, gas indigestion etc. You cannot overdose on plant based digestive enzymes on ANY dosage.
4. Prevent Viruses
In no specific order, here are some of the main things to consider…
1. Use Oxygen Elements Max or Oxylift, which oxygenate the body by a complex proess described in previous newsletters and are powerful fighters of all viremia in the blood, lymph and respiratory system.
2. Use anti viral herbs such as Olive Leaf Extract, Pau d’Arco or our own polyherbal immune booster and anti-viral remedy, Galangal Formula are extremely effective in preventing colds and flu’s. Another excellent natural anti-viral I can highly recommend is Global Healing’s Oregano Oil. Here is a more comprehensive list of herbal anti-virals for those who want to see all their options.
3. Take Vitamin D. A worthwhile dosage is about 5,000iu per day. My favourite vitamin D products are Vitamin D 5,000iu with Vitamin K2 (this is the one I normally take) or if you prefer liquids to tablets Plant Based Vitamin D, or Liposomal Vitamin D3 / K2 (in theory, you can take a lower dosage of the Liposomal, due to the superior absorption). A healthy vitamin D level is critical for minimising cold’s and flu’s, no matter whether it’s the covid virus, or the common cold virus.
4. Take zinc. Pretty much everyone is zinc deficient these days (I won’t go into detail on this point here) and adequate zinc levels are vital for helping to prevent viral replication. Any of these will do.
5. Take a good Vitamin C product
Which Vitamin C?
I could not say which Vitamin C product we provide is “the best one”, and I do recommend viewing the full range to decide which one is best for you. But if it’s of any use to know, the top selling Vitamin C product is our own Vitamin C 1000mg 90 caps. We have had tremendous feedback on this inexpensive, understated Vitamin C product going back many years, which you can see if you read the reviews on our web site, and it has a very high repeat order rate.
The next most popular are Liposomal Vitamin C unflavouredand the almost identical Liposomal Vitamin C SF unflavoured. The only difference between these two is that the first contains lecithin derived from non GMO soya and he second “SF” one contains lecithin derived from sunflower. Since neither actually contain any detectable proteins from either soya or sunflower, I do not believe that it makes any difference whatsoever which one is consumed.
The next most popular is Plant Based Vitamin C.
A few words about Vitamin C
The most vociferous early advocate of Vitamin C for the common cold was two time Nobel prize winner Dr Linus Pauling, author of the book Vitamin C and the Common Cold first published in 1970. Pauling himself took very high dosages of Vitamin C every day (6g per day when he was well, and up to18g per day if he though he had a cold or flu coming on), never got ill, lived to the age of 95, and worked until right up to the time of his passing. His peers sneered at him, and mostly died in their 60’s and 70’s. The dosages that Pauling took were perhaps somewhat over the top, and few people take 6g per day, 365 days per year, but the strategy seemed to work for him.
Part II – How NOT to keep healthy over Christmas
The above suggestions will help prevent illness and make you healthier generally. Now for some strategies that I guarantee do NOT make you healthier and will do nothing to prevent illness.
1. Wearing rags over our faces, aka “face masks”. A virus will go through a cotton “face mask” as easily as a fly will fly through a tennis court net. The last time I checked, trapping bacteria and germs on your face for at least 8 hours a day, and inhibiting your intake of oxygen, meant you were more rather than less likely to get a viral illness. A recent meta analysis, reported in several UK newspapers, suggested about 75% more likely in fact, but I won’t go into that in detail here.
2. Standing six feet apart from people
3. One way systems in supermarkets
4. Experimental vaccines, which the manufacturers openly admit do not prevent the catching or passing on of a virus (which rather brings in to question what they do accomplish), but they do admit can cause myocarditis, pericarditis, bells palsy, various other temporary and in some cases permanent side effects, oh and in the less fortunate, death.
5. Blaming the failure of a vaccine to work in those who took it, on the people who refused to take it. That is an admission that it doesn’t actually work, since those who took it were supposed to be protected while those that refused it, were supposed to have burnt in hell. Or something like that
5. Being kept under house arrest in your home, and staying indoors.
6. Weird rules, like “rules of six” and “covid support bubbles”. Do you remember this?
12. Attacking and insulting everyone who disagrees with the above.
Doubtless some who read this will not agree with me, and that’s OK. However, a massive number of people who do like my ethos have asked me to continue to press home the points I was trying to make during the height of the Covid pandemic, or what I regarded as the Covid insanity, given the damage that has been done to countless people’s mental and physical health as a result of policies which I and many others simply did not agree with. On that note, I would like to wish everyone, those who agree, and those who do not agree with my views a very Happy Christmas and New Year from myself and my small but hard working team.
Best wishes
Mark G. Lester
Director – The Finchley Clinic Ltd
www.thefinchleyclinic.com