Flu Prevention

If you have watched the news, then you've heard about all the flu concerns. Many people are concerned about the vaccination, and often people are getting sick from the so-called treatment. Your best defense is really prevention. While nothing is 100% guaranteed, including the vaccination, you can substantially reduce your risk of getting sick by taking a few supplements. Wash your hands several times a day, get plenty of rest and be careful about needlessly stressing yourself. If you keep the germs minimized and your immune system maximized, you have a much greater chance of  NOT contracting a flu virus this winter.

Amherst Family Chiropractic Center will be offering special wellness “kits” designed to help boost your immunity and ward off colds and flu, including the H1N1 virus. We will offer 4 different wellness kits selling for $25, $35, $45, and $65. Our introductory kit will contain a vitamin D supplement and a homeopathic spray designed to target flu virus ($25). The second kit will include vitamin D supplement, homeopathic flu spray and a CoQ-10 supplement ($45). The third kit will have the vitamin D supplement, flu spray, CoQ-10, and an herbal anti viral called Virex ($65).  Children’s kits include the homeopathic flu spray and a liquid vitamin C and will sell for $35. Everyone is encouraged to purchase a wellness kit for preventive measures.

Scientists have recently discovered one way in which our body fights off the infectious virus: natural anti-infectious agents known as antimicrobial peptides. Levels of this peptide are found to increase in the presence of an adequate concentration of vitamin D. Since vitamin D is produced in the skin as a result of exposure to the sun’s UVB radiation, some researchers hypothesize that a relative vitamin D deficiency in the winter months causes a greater incidence of influenza during this season.
Investigators in one scientific study showed that vitamin D prevented colds and flu significantly better than a placebo. In fact, researchers observed that when subjects were given a daily dose of 2000IU of vitamin D, it “virtually eradicated all reports of cold or flu.”