Effective Cold and Flu Prevention
If you’re older than 65 or have a chronic illness such as diabetes or heart disease, you’re considered at high-risk of developing life-threatening complications from the flu. You may have more control than you realize over whether this happens to you this winter.
Our general public health approach to cold and flu prevention is “attack or be attacked”. Regular use of antibacterial soaps, antibiotics, and flu vaccines that target the “bad guys” are common. However, our lives actually depend on trillions of good bacteria that live inside us and teach our immune system to kill harmful microbes. War strategies that simply target the “bad guy” not only initiate collateral damage against our “good guys”, but may also harm us by neglecting to directly support our immune function.
A healthy digestive tract is critical for immune health.