welcome back to my channel today I'm sharing with you guys some natural
remedies for when you get a cold because let's face it being sick is not fun but
there's lots of natural things that you can do in order to get yourself a better
really fast and quick so the first one is garlic and garlic is it great for
your immune system it has a natural compound called allicin in it which
really helps your immune cells fight off infection but the key is to chop up some
raw garlic and leave it for about 10-15 minutes so that the Alison can activate
its threes like the chopping or if you want to crush a clove of garlic that
works too that it gets activated until you need to let that sit and get
activated before you consume it and then you can just swallow the spoonful and
you don't have to chew it or anything because chewing raw garlic will be very
spicy and intense so I would suggest just swallowing the spoonful following
it with some water and you can do that two or three times a day and that's
really going to help your immune system
number two is probiotics now if you don't know that it's half of our immune
system is actually in our gut which means taking care of our gut is actually
going to really help our immune system and they've actually done studies to
find that probiotics can be beneficial when you have things like a cold
specifically you're looking for lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium which
are two of the major probiotics that are in most of the probiotics you'll find on
the market they're very common so that's good so you don't have to find like a
special type it's a common one that's in most of them so loading up on probiotics
it's gonna help your gut and help your immune system fight off that infection
if you don't want to take a probiotic capsule you can use yogurt you can use
kimchi sauerkraut those types of things but you will need to consume quite a lot
of those foods I would suggest like having those foods
after you get better while you're sick kind of boost yourself up with a good
amount of probiotics and then kind of use foods to maintain it afterwards
next up is bone broth so bone broth is made from cooking bones and and extract
all the really good amino acids that help to fortify your immune system
that's why sometimes you see bone broth and when it's cold it's kind of like
jelly it's not quite liquid and it's not only gonna be good for your gut like we
discussed your gut health is connected to your immune health but like I said
those amino acids are really good for your lymphocytes it's really good to
drink something warm too when you're sick and if your throat is sore it's
also gonna be nice to have something warm so this can be a really great
option you can make it at home yourself or you can buy it out I also really like
the kettle and Fire Brand when you definitely want to make sure that your
bones are organic because when we're cooking them out and all that stuff is
getting extracted from the bones if there's lots of harmful stuff in those
bones then you're gonna consume it a lot with that so just make sure that your
bones are organic and bones can be very inexpensive at your local grocery store
you can even ask the butcher for leftover bones they're usually only like
three four dollars so next up is coconut oil and the great
thing about coconut oil is it's actually an antimicrobial antibacterial
antifungal and antiviral so no matter what type of a sickness you have it's
going to help you you can put this in your coffee you can just cook with it
you can consume spoonfuls of it any way you can want to get it in general it is
going to be good but it definitely is something that covers all your bases and
it's something really easy to incorporate into lots of different foods
and then the next one is more to stay away from and that is to stay away from
sugars so basically sure's while you're sick feed the viruses in the bacteria
it's literally fuel for them because sugar gets broken down into glucose and
that glucose is fuel so you're basically feeding your cold or
your flu if you're consuming lots of sugary things and this also includes
like sugary candies or eating lots of like high sugar foods you definitely
want to stay away less away from sugar
next up is ginger and ginger is great because it has a compound called ginger
all and it's a great anti-inflammatory it's great at fighting infection and
being good for your immune system you can put ginger in your tea it's also
super affordable you can just go to the grocery store and pick up some ginger
root you can also make your own ginger shot so what I like to do is I'd simply
like grate up some ginger really easy and then I run it through a nut milk bag
you can also run it through cheesecloth I've even done a through paper towel and
that works although the paper towel does absorb some of the liquid but it will
drip still this is an easy way to make ginger shots at home if you're nauseous
also if it's more like a flu than a cold the ginger is gonna help with that
ginger helps with headaches as well as well as any paints or any kind of muscle
aches or anything like that you're experiencing ginger is gonna be super
super helpful
next up is manuka honey and manuka honey is a special type of honey that has
medicinal qualities so normal honey still has antibacterial properties but
manuka honey is kind of like one step further it's one step up and manuka
honey you definitely want to consume both manuka or if you're just having
regular honey raw if you do put the honey into skulls and caught tea which i
see a lot of people do you're actually killing all of the benefits from the
honey so it's better to take a spoonful and even by taking a spoonful it kind of
coats your throat so if you have a cough if you have a sore throat it can be
really good for that as well but it's also an antibacterial and antimicrobial
so honey is really good and if you can do manuka honey i supposed to a normal
honey that's even better next up is apple cider vinegar another really great
inexpensive thing to do and what it does is it helps to thin the mucus so if you
have a lot of phlegm and everything is congested in your head and your throat
it can help thin it out so that you can get it out because essentially you want
to get all that mucus and gunk out of your system so it's not staying there
and breeding and multiplying so that helps to get it out and they've also
shown that consuming apple cider vinegar actually shortens the duration of your
cold so you can consume a couple tablespoons two or three times a day
whether in water you can put a little bit and tea and sip it like in your tea
kind of up to you I prefer shots because I don't like the taste so much sipping
it constantly so ice to shots but it's really great and especially a lot of us
already have apple cider vinegar on hand it's a great thing to do if you need to
thin that mucus
next up our mushroom cities are your normal kind of mushrooms that you would
use and cooking and the great thing about mushrooms is that they are loaded
with something called beta glucans which actually up regulate IgA and IgG which
are two antibodies in our body that help to fight off infection so consuming
these whether you're in a stir-fry or in a salad
mushrooms are a great thing to add when you're trying to boost your immune
system and really help support it to help fight off infections and lastly our
good old lemons lemons are loaded with vitamin C in fact half a lemon has 1/3
of your vitamin C for the day and it's low sugar so remember before I talked
about we don't want to bombard our system with too much sugar and oranges
tend to have a lot of sugar so you're getting that vitamin C but you do also
get a lot of sugar which kind of feeds the bacteria lemons they're low sugar
and you get that vitamin C they taste great and tea or just in
room-temperature water either way loading up on lemons it's going to be a
great way to support your immune system so I hope you guys found this video
helpful if you have any other topics like this like you'd like me to do
videos on just comment that down below and I can definitely do that but I love
things like this because a lot of these foods are easily accessible they're
inexpensive and they're gonna make a world of difference when you're trying
to get better so that's what I love about them I hope you guys are all
having a great day and I will see you in my next video bye guys