How To Never Get Sick Again - Dr Ekberg

We are heading into the time of year called cold and flu season.

I'm going to tell you the two things that are the true cause and how you can avoid it.

We are coming up on the end of October.

We are about a week away from Halloween which is often called the beginning of the cold and flu season.

But what's really going on?

Is it just that as the birds head south the flu virus and the cold virus head north?

Is it just their time to come and attack us?

Or is there something else going on?

Well traditionally disease, colds, fevers, were blamed on pathogens called virus, bacteria, yeast, fungus, etc.

But what we know about these pathogens today is that they are called opportunistic.

That means that it's not so much about the pathogen, the virus, the bacteria, but more

about the resistance of the host.

So if you have a really strong immune system then the bugs can't touch you.

But if you have a little bit of a lessened, a little bit weaken immune system then you

are a susceptible host.

And the pathogen will take the opportunity and it will set up shop and it will proliferate

and give you a cold or flu.

Everybody knows about the immune system and everyone wants a strong immune system, right?

So I'm going to tell you the two things that more than anything else screw up your immune system.

And it just so happens that right about this time of year we start getting more of both of those.

And the first one is called stress.

So stress is something that inhibits it dampens it depresses your immune system.

And any student knows this because around time of midterms around finals when all the

students have more stress then all the students start getting more colds and flus and they

start coughing and sniffling.

And I am sure that you can relate anyone who has had a lot of stress can testify.

In my office almost anytime someone comes in and is sick they can also tell me what

was the stress that happened just before.

So what can we do for stress?

Well we are coming up on a season with all the parties and the dinners and the shopping

and all these events.

And people constantly tell me that this is the most stressful time of year, but it doesn't

have to be that way.

You can decide how much stress you want.

You don't absolutely have to participate in all those events.

And if you do well keep it simple and in between you learn some relaxation exercises.

There is some simple breathing exercises you can look them up on the website.

Five minutes of breathing can reset a whole day of stress.

So that is number one.

Stress is a huge huge suppressor of your immune system.

And what's the other one?

Well if you have been watching this channel for awhile I think you might be able to guess it.

The other number two factor or the other huge factor is called sugar.

Two teaspoons of sugar will suppress your immune system for at least four hours.

A can of coke will shut down your immune system for a day.

And what happens on Halloween?

Do you have maybe more than two teaspoons of sugar?

Possibly ? And do your kids have a little more than two teaspoons of sugar?

Halloween is kinda of the starting gun for the sugar explosion to follow all the way

up to New Year.

And all the parties and everything, so we load up our systems with sugar and we suppress

our immune systems.

And of course we become more susceptible to colds and flus.

So start learning more about sugar.

Start learning more about how you can reduce the amount.

And when we talk about sugar we are not just talking about the white crystalline stuff

that you get in a bag.

We are talking about all carbohydrates.

Because all carbohydrates stimulate the insulin response.

Anything that increases your blood sugar is going to stimulate and insulin response.

So rice, bread, pasta, cookies, waffles, you name it... if it is, especially if it is refined.

So if it is white, sugar or bread that is the worst, but even brown rice and all these

other things also increase your blood sugar they trigger an insulin response and therefore

create inflammation and suppress your immune system.

The mechanism for getting, for activating your immune system depends on a little shuttle

and sugar competes with that shuttle it competes with vitamin C for that shuttle to get and

go and activate your white blood cells.

I used to have, when I was younger I didn't understand it.

My birthday was on Christmas day and I would every time 10 years in a row I would get sick

on my birthday.

And it took me awhile before I realized that maybe that is because we ate like a pound

of candy on Christmas?

Maybe?

So don't let it happen to you and learn to plan ahead so you just might avoid the flu

and the cold this season.

If you have any experiences let me know comment down below, subscribe to our channel, to stayed

tuned for more information on health.Let me know if you had other experiences.

Have you also noticed how you eat a bunch of sugar and you have a stressful event and

then bam you get sick.

Don't hesitate have some fun let us know and let others know how works.

Thank you so much.