Health Tips, Anyone?

Hi Sarah,
First of all feel well quickly.

If you are not vegetarian you need to try the Jewish antibiotics with is the chicken soup, or better yet try the yamanite bone soup in one of the nearest Yamany restaurants you can find.

Enjoy the rest of your stay in Israel
Best regards,
Ilan

Most of us want to live long, productive, pain free lives. Hope you find interesting here which I came across better health news site through internet search.

Might sounds a little weird, but a neti pot is great for cleansing - or "irrigating" - your sinuses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8sDIbRAXlg

It's not you - it's the flight. Aeroplanes are disease incubators and it's very hard to escape. My advice - some additional vitamin C 2-3 days after every flight. If you find you are running to the toilets - you took too much ;-)

Hi Sarah,

Ever since I started making and drinking the green juice for breakfast that Mary references in a TMIWeekly video, I have been super healthy... not a sniffle, not a cough... I swear by it. It's harder to do when you're traveling but worth trying at home.

http://www.tmiweekly.com/mary/episode/TMI_20090122

Feel better!
Stephanie

Hey Sarah, I am a father of six and school teacher and used to get colds chronically. 8 months ago I started drinkining Monavie (www.monavie.com) they sell it in Israel, and I not only feel unbelievable but I don't even come close to getting sick. If you are interested I can find a distributor in Israel who can get some to you. Cheers,

Dan Kenney
danielkenney43@gmail.com

Eating organically means nothing. What do you actually eat?

Fruits and vegetables are probably the answer. Make sure you're getting all the right vitamins and ignore the gimmicks and magic cures.

Airborne and Emergen-C are a waste of your time. The only benefit you'll get from drinking them comes from the fluids themselves. Stay very, very hydrated during your flights - that's the key to keeping your body's natural defenses (mainly protective mucosa) in peak fighting condition. Super-dosing with vitamin C just gives you c-packed pee. Your immune system isn't like a big storage closet that you can just stock with extra goodness; there's no value to megadoses of vitamins.

And honestly, the cleanse probably hurt you more than it helped. Your body already has a very skilled cleansing process - run by your liver. No matter how much juju the Blueprint people told you was in the juice, you just can't get sufficient caloric or mineral nutrition from juice...and the deficits cleanses create *weaken* your immune system.

Drink lots of water, always. It's really the best thing you can do to keep yourself healthy. And hey, it helps your liver do its best work, so free cleansing!

Couple things: eating organically really doesn't mean anything; cleansing your body is oftentimes irrelevant (like vacuuming the car when you're out of gas).
If you're working hard, you need to keep your immune system strong, keep all your vitamin and macronutrient levels up. Plenty of Vitamin C, and B complex. Flying also effects your diet - new country, meetings, etc, means different diet, missed meals, etc. Easy enough to handle once, but on a regular basis can set you up for diet induced deficiencies.
It's all inter-related and incredibly interesting - good luck.

I agree with Hadas, in that it could very well likely be the plane that's causing you to get sick. When you said that you always get sick when you travel that far, the cause being the plane is a very likely candidate as it seems to be the only common factor.

This is going to sound crazy, but I've seen reports about the mind being in control over so much of our bodies- could the possibility exist that (since this happens *every* time, and let's assume you take different planes) you actually believe you will be sick by the end of the flight and all through your trip? You might consider talking to someone, because I think it's quite possible if we will ourselves to believe something, then we eventually believe it and in some form it becomes true... then, there's also some belief that the brain tricks your body into being sick since the brain believes it is sick... food for thought. I'm no doctor, but I believe in brainpower...

Best of luck with your flights.

I try to make a point to never touch my eyes or the inside of my nose (yes the dreaded pick) with my fingers/ hands. If I have an itch I use the back side of my wrist.

The reason is, the eyes and nose are the primary areas where viruses enter the body. You can pick up a virus on your hands by touching this or that, then you touch your eyes and/ or nose and there you have it. Sick once again.

Once I started doing this I rarely got sick.

Also, (this might be snake oil but it does seem to work for me) at the first sign of any kind of cold...even if I think just maybe, I immediately hit the Cold-Ez.

Interesting, for someone who writes about tech and business one would think you were not into mumbo jumbo alternative medicine crap. After all there is absolutely no scientific evidence of any positive effects (except placebo ones) from stuff such as airborne, despite many evidence based clinical and blind trials.

However there is a lot of money being made selling worthless sugar pills to uneducated customers. Unfortunately not even trained, professional researchers such as yourself seem to take the time to do your research before you waste your money on the stuff.

Please, look into it, stop spreading the word and face the facts. There is no cure for the common cold. It is an ever changing virus, there are no vaccines, no antidotes. The only way to avoid catching a cold is to keep clean, wash your hands and not touch your face after touching stuff around you and as a last resort to not breath in the air around you which, especially on an airplane, is kind of hard...