There are so many ways that we can support the immune system naturally, especially during cold and flu season. So today, I want to give you some holistic, nutritional therapy tips that you can use to help support your body with food and supplements when you’re sick.
First, here two key things to understand about illness and your body:
1. When the body is sick, it uses up nutrients in your body very quickly, so it’s important to replenish those nutrients while you’re not feeling well so that your immune system has what it needs it needs to fight and recover.
For example: when we have a fever, the body uses up Vitamin A (aka retinol) very quickly, so replenishing with supplementation like cod liver oil can be very helpful.
2. Symptoms such as a cough, drainage, feeling achy, a fever, etc. are all ways the body is going through he process of fighting and getting rid of whatever…
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