Nutritionist & Naturopath

The Immune Booster Program can be done throughout the influenza season for both prevention, and for speeding up recovery from common colds and flus.  Supporting your immune system may also help with Swine Flu.  As with most natural medicinal treatments, it is the combination of the treatments that creates the healing effects, rather than one therapy on it’s own.

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Quick Facts

• HINI influenza pandemic = swine flu = new strain of Influenza A virus
• Transmitted from person to person in the same way as common flu viruses.
• The Spanish Flu of 1918 was also an H1N1 virus (possibly of avian origin), and targeted young people with healthy immune systems. Similarly, the 2009 H1N1 pandemic flu occurs primarily in younger, healthy people.
• The main theory about why the virus targets younger and healthier people, is because the immune system of young people overreacts to the virus (called a “cytokine storm”), and causes more damage than the virus itself.  This may happen because the younger person has had less exposures with similar viruses, and so this may allow the virus to modify itself and become stronger.

Prevention

The common sense approach: H1N1 flu prevention starts with the same prevention basics you would use for avoiding any flu: Continue Reading »

Healthy Sugar Alternatives

This page is a collection of the health tips and health trivia I post weekly on the website…..

• After pregnancy you can still get pregnant even though your periods have not yet returned. This is because a woman ovulates (releases an egg) about two weeks before she has her period.
• Serotonin is a biological chemical that plays a big part in our emotions, yet 95% of serotonin is found in the bowel.
• Uncooked olive oil eaten with food, reduces levels of harmful LDL cholesterol.
• You can significantly influence the hormones estrogen and testosterone through your diet.