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    Winter is coming. Prepare your immune system

    I have avoided 2x emerging colds since September with this brilliant bio-hack and a bit of immune system preparation. So can you…

    At some point, we sense that we are getting a cold. Perhaps a few sneezes. Different sensations in the respiratory tract. Act immediately, as soon as you feel the tell-tale symptoms. A cold virus is settling in your upper airways, it is begining to replicate rapidly. Your immune system responds, scrambling to contain and destroy the invaders. The battle has begun.

    We keep zinc acetate in our cupboard at home, and at work, for exactly this situation.

    Take one, at the first signs. It has to be zinc acetate. Not your normal zinc tablet, not “vitamin C with zinc”. Zinc acetate tablets are massive. You have to suck them and they last more than 30 min. In this form, the zinc ions are absorbed through your pallet, into the tissues of your upper airways, where they inhibit the virus from replicating.

    I use zinc acetate lozenges from Life Extension. You can find them online, but we buy in batches – to keep costs down – and have a limited number in stock at Mendip Chiropractic.

    Winter is coming. You are going to be exposed, so you ought to prepare your immune system. Have zinc acetate ready, but also ensure that the foundations are also in place: Vitamin D. The lower your blood level, the worse your immune response.

    Happy winter! (Drop us a message in the usual ways, if you’d like a pot of zinc acetate put aside for your next visit)