Help me boost my immune system!

[Slowhand]

Everyone I know and speak to has some Flu (I can't remember the name of it) and I refuse to get sick this year....

so far I have:
Multi-Vitamin
Vitamin C
L-Lysine
Milk Thistle
Green Tea Extract
Niacin
Zinc

what else should I throw in my arsenal?

[Bojangles69]

Everyone I know and speak to has some Flu (I can't remember the name of it) and I refuse to get sick this year....

so far I have:
Multi-Vitamin
Vitamin C
L-Lysine
Milk Thistle
Green Tea Extract
Niacin
Zinc

what else should I throw in my arsenal?

you could throw NAC in there too, and i think a high enough dose of vitamin c may be the cure for aids too, i take like 8 gms a day.

[24labor]

Man hat must suck I haven't been sick in years I think people are more mentally sick in the sense that they get a running nose their mind plays tricks and they get sick mentally. I just rough it out if I get a sore throat I just go along suffering out and in a few days gone. As for you question lots of water and rest

[Bojangles69]

4got AIRBORNE too, thats the cure for cancer i heard.. =]

[notanormalgent]

OSCILLOCOCCINUM!! It's the best flu remedy I've ever used. I'm a big believer in holistic remedies, and although I haven't tried it myself, I heard that a shot of apple cider vinegar is great for the immune system. One of the things that I do to make sure I don't get sick is to take cold showers, it helps flush your blood and boost your immune system.

[dabularach]

Echinacea-Thats what I take because I have no spleen.

[Slowhand]

you could throw NAC in there too, and i think a high enough dose of vitamin c may be the cure for aids too, i take like 8 gms a day.

thanks, i actually do have some NAC around here somewhere...yeah I prob have like 5+ grams of vit c a day... maybe that's why I havn't gotten sick

[Psychotron]

Vitamin C was never shown to help with a cold or to boost your immune system functions. It was all a false story made up by some guy in the 70s

[Lavinco]

Throw in a good workout plan too.

Don't overtrain though. I have gotten flu like symptoms in the past from overtraining. The nervous system crashes if its ****ed with too much.

Remember that the nervous system is what controls every muscle fiber in your body. When you train, the nervous system works a little more to repair muscles worked out and not normally used. Workout too much and the nervous system becomes overwhelmed with repairs so naturally the body reacts by feeling sick.

[Lavinco]

Vitamin C was never shown to help with a cold or to boost your immune system functions. It was all a false story made up by some guy in the 70s

It was a marketing scheme just like the soap company's did in the 1800's by creating words like B.O. (body odor) and bacteria to get people to buy more of there product. People used to only bath once a week until one soap company advertised the risks of "getting bacteria" on you. There solution was to bath with their soap daily (which was a brilliant marketing plan) Most recently "antibacterial soap" was coined to be better than regular soap which was proven a couple years ago that there is no difference between the 2.

Nabisco first claimed that they sanitized their baking pans for the best cookies you can eat. Well every cookie company used clean baking pans but Nabisco was the first to mention it so people automatically thought the other companies must not do it.

Smoking used to be something only women did. That's why a filter was put on the cigarette, because lipstick on a non filter cigarette became something you ate instead of smoked. Marlboro increased there sales by over 500% the year they introduced the world to the Marlboro Man, making it cool for men to smoke too.

think of y2k. Wasn't the world supposed to come to an end that year? Funny how it didn't but at the same time, Companies of all types cashed in on that scare yielding the highest profits ever, yet to be matched.

Back to vitamin C. I don't know if more vitamin c will ever help you, (like juice companies want you to believe) but I do know that vitamin c deficiency leads to scurvy or inadequate production of collagen, an extracellular substance that binds the cells of the teeth, bones, and capillaries. It’s essential for wound healing and burn recovery.

Sailors used to get scurvy all the time from having a fish diet only for too long while out to sea until in 1747 the Scottish naval surgeon James Lind treated scurvy-ridden sailors with lemons and oranges and obtained dramatic cures. In 1795 the British navy began to distribute regular rations of lime juice during long sea voyages (hence the name limeys for British sailors), a measure that was largely successful in preventing scurvy. It was probably the first disease to be definitely associated with a dietary deficiency..

[Psychotron]

Werking out at all while sick is not a good idea, your immune system is shutdown not only during the workout but also during the time your body is in fullforce to rebuild the tissue your just tore up.

[Rye_guy]

4got AIRBORNE too, thats the cure for cancer i heard.. =]

yeah man, airborne works wonders! I havent been able to find it in ages though... might have to look harder online to find it i suppose... helps bump yer emune system... start feelin ill, take em, good to go!

[Panzerfaust]

^^^^That avatar is downright bad ass, she is smokin^^^^

I don't have a clue what your post say's, i just stared at your avatar for the last few minutes.

[Rye_guy]

ha, nice bro... she's god damn sexy man. Id do thing to her I wouldnt do to a farm animal

[RuhlFreak55]

get some garlic.......works wonders.....comes in pills.....i get all my vitamins from Shaklee.....there's no substitute