You're gonna try to not prevent the cold per se,
but reduce the symptoms, reduce the longevity of the cold
so first thing is, let's say you get up in the morning
at eight o'clock, your mother and grandmother,
they were always right, gargling water with salt, okay.
It's very important to gargle water with salt
because the salt is very important.
What the salt will do is it will draw out
some excess fluids that's in your tissues.
We have a graphic up so you can see,
when someone has a sore throat, what it may look like.
So on the left hand side, is a sore throat,
you see how the tissues are swollen,
it's called oedema or swelling.
And what the salt water will do is
one, it will draw some of the fluids out
to make those tissues reduce their swelling.
The second thing is it'll help to flesh out
some of the bad bacteria.
So sometimes there's an imbalance
between good bacteria and bad bacteria.
Then at nine o'clock, you have to drink fluids guys.
Drink water, try about eight glasses or more a day.
It's important because it will help you replace the fluids,
we lose fluids all day long by the way.
Particularly when you're sick.
You become dehydrated and don't realize it.
Ten o'clock, put on your shoes, go to the drug store, okay.
So this is our little drug store here, okay.
Dr. Ian's drug store, okay.
And so you wanna get some pain reliever.
Look for something that has acetaminophen in it, okay.
But here's the trick, always look
at the different ingredients.
Too much acetaminophen, is not good for your liver.
Next thing is, believe it or not, take an allergy medication
First of all, when you get a cold,
it may actually trigger your allergies
and also, that's when you take your decongestant.
So your decongestant can help thin those mucous membranes,
open up those passages.
12:30. Okay.
It's time to go eat, chicken soup,
nothing like chicken soup.
Now a lot of people thought that the chicken soup
was just kind of an old wives' tale,
but that's not the case.
Chicken soup is great for lots of things,
first of all, you will need to have fluids,
as I said before, you end up having not enough fluids
when you are dehydrated or having an infection,
a viral infection, so we put some chicken stock in there.
Then we also put in, we have celery, onions, and carrots.
The onions are full of antioxidants, which are very good,
help you fight, once again.
The celery is great for you.
The carrots are full of beta carotene.
There's some vitamin C in there, which is also wonderful.
So this is very good.
We can see in our graphic here
what all these different ingredients will do for you.
Want me to finish this up for you?
Yeah, yeah.
Then we have our chicken, our chicken's important because
it has good protein, it helps support
and boost the immune system.
And then lastly we have our carbs.
Carbs are good, they make you feel full,
they give you a shot of energy.
They're comforting.
They're very comforting, so chicken soup actually
is very good for you.
Next is our saline spray, so now it's two o'clock,
you need to clean your nose.
Here's the important part, people do it wrong.
The first thing you should do, I'm not gonna do it now,
is to blow your nose, really blow your nose,
to clear out the secretions,
so that the saline or medication spray,
Gets absorbed will get absorbed exactly.
So you do that number one.
The second thing you have to do is
make sure that you follow directions of the saline spray.
Now, saline spray does not have medication,
it's the same alkalinity in basic nature of your blood,
so it's fine, but some of these are medicated,
they have steroids.
In that instance, if it's a medicated nasal spray,
you only take it the amount that it says
because it can really damage the,
the lining inside of your membranes.
Next thing is Elderberry Syrup.
This I've never heard of.
I mean, I know what elderberries are.
Yeah, well um, so it comes from plant,
sambucus plant, it's very healthy or you can have the honey.
It's three o'clock in the afternoon now
that we're gonna do this, okay?
Why am I doing this?
Because it has it has anti-viral properties,
it can boost your immune system.
It's not bad, right, for medicine, yeah!
It's not bad.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
When people say should I use sugar or honey,
I say, "Well, if you want the sweetness
and get some added value to it, use the honey
because it has great healthy promoting properties, okay."
I didn't know that.
Yeah, okay, let's go.
Okay now, come over here, it's four o'clock,
you are tired, it's been a long day, okay.
You're natural inclination is not to do anything, wrong.
Move a little bit because exercise does two things,
one, it can actually stimulate your immune system,
and two it can actually release what are called endorphins.
Those are the body's happy chemicals
that go around your body for hours
after you're done exercising.
And just doing this like this, standing in place,
like so, do it for about 30 seconds,
take a rest, do it again.
Simple exercises like that will get your heart rate up,
will give you some tone, boost your immune system,
and release those endorphins.
And lastly, it's seven o'clock at night,
You're not gonna send me to bed, are you?
Well not, you and I won't go to bed,
but the average person should start winding down their day
at seven o'clock and go to sleep a little early.
Why?
Because when you are awake, you're still being stimulated,
you're immune system's being stimulated,
we want to let our body rest.
Sleep is about restoration, so go to sleep a little early,
allow your body to catch up, live to fight another day.
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