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RE: Ways to boost my winter immunity
Great post, thanks for sharing!
The winter immune boosting rules I live by are: Eat a balanced diet with whole foods, get plenty of (high dose) vitamin C, use herbs and spices like Garlic and Turmeric, drink plenty of clean (non-fluoridated) water, get 7 to 8 hours of sleep a day, say hello to friendly bacteria (yogurt), I avoid antibiotics and the flu shot like the plague and try to get some exercise in! Although that is something I need to work on more :)
Yes, yes and yes! All of those things. The regular exercise is always harder in winter. And the unfluoridated water is going to get harder to come by, thanks to Peter Dunne :-(
Well, if our lovely 'political leaders' fluoridate the water, then I will find a way to get it out again! ;-)
Sadly Wellington is already fluoridated, even though a bunch of us repeatedly make submissions to the city council against it. I did a submission to the parliamentary select committee a few months back too. We used to be able to get unfluoridated water from a couple of public taps in the Hutt Valley. But they were closed for a while due to an e-coli scare. So we ended up buying a WatersCo water filter which is supposed to take up to 99% of the fluoride out. Given that we have three whole house filters as well (@sift666 likes long baths), we're fairly confident that the end result has very little fluoride.
Going back to your previous comment about probiotic foods, we make our own caspian sea yoghurt and kefir. And have you tried the new Urban Monk fermented Ginger Carrots? Yummo!