Hi, Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...
I just got over a nasty bout of flu which struck over the Christmas
and New Year's holidays and left me bedridden for a good week. Very severe.
And missing Christmas and New Year’s was a real bummer.
And of course, the news media is now rife with reports that
this flu bug is sweeping the nation, with some sources calling it an
“epidemic.”
So I thought I’d document what I did in order to deal with
the symptoms of this nasty flu bug and get back on the road to recovery inside
of one week.
What Did and Didn’t Work…
First, I tried the red wine, lemon juice and colloidal
silver trick for beating flu viruses, which I documented in my previous article
Beating the Winter Cold and Flu Season With
Colloidal Silver.
The gist of this “trick” is that if you take a small amount
of red wine mixed with colloidal silver and lemon juice, the alcohol and lemon
juice help dissolve the lipid coating of the flu virus, and allows the
colloidal silver to penetrate and exterminate the virus.
But I found I couldn’t tolerate the alcohol with the
colloidal silver due to the waves of nausea that accompanied this particular flu
bug during the first few days. Maybe the
nausea was a defense mechanism of the virus.
So the red wine, lemon juice and colloidal silver trick didn’t work for me, in this case, though
it’s worked previously in other cases.
Instead, I just sipped on my colloidal silver
"straight" throughout the day, from time-to-time as needed – which
actually helped relieve the nausea tremendously. I took between two ounces and four ounces a
day of 10 ppm, depending upon how I felt.
What’s more, thanks to the colloidal silver I didn't end
with some of the more severe symptoms that others here locally have suffered,
such as sudden projectile vomiting and uncontrollable diarrhea. Blecch!
So in my case I do credit the colloidal silver with
prevention of some of the more severe symptoms of this particular flu virus.
But for other symptoms, it didn’t seem to help at all until
I began really taking note of my symptoms, and adding other nutrients to my
regimen to counteract them.
The Worst Symptoms
For example, the worst symptom I had from this particular
flu virus was overwhelming fatigue and extremely cold body temperature,
combined with 101 degree fever at the same time.
Plus, I had some pretty painful joint aches, particularly in
the knees and hips and between my shoulder blades.
The body chills were so bad I couldn't even feel the fever
on my forehead with my own hand. Only
with the aid of a thermometer did I come to discover I had a 101 degree fever
the same time I was having these intense body chills.
The flu bug also dropped my blood pressure uncommonly low,
to about 100 over 70, which is very abnormal for me (I've been at 140/90 for 20
years).
This told me that the virus was disrupting my cellular
mitochondrial functioning in an attempt to lower my metabolism and thereby
circumvent my immune system.
Nutritional
Intervention
So to compensate and aid my body nutritionally, I added 400
mg. twice a day of Vitamin D-3 (not regular Vitamin D, but Vitamin D-3), which
has been shown to be more antiviral
than prescription drugs like Tamiflu or flu vaccinations.
And I added about 75 micrograms of iodine from sea kelp
daily (I used Physician's Formulas brand Iodine from sea kelp; just took
one-half of a 150 microgram tablet per day) to help my thyroid regulate my
metabolism, body temperature and immune system function better. This got rid of the horrific cold chills by
day two. Yay!
And once every other day I took a 20 mg. tablet of Adenosine
Triphosphate (I used Douglas Laboratories brand "ATP-20") in order to
get my cellular mitochondria back functioning at peak levels, and eliminate the
extreme fatigue that accompanied this flu virus.
That’s important, because mitochondrial function, which
governs your body’s energy stores, is absolutely vital to peak immune system
function, which in turn is needed to defeat the virus.
And finally, for the fever and body aches, I took 400 mg. of
Motrin at night, with food.
The first night I took the Motrin I woke up sopping wet from
sweating after about four hours in bed, which is the result of the Motrin
breaking the fever. I literally had to
change the T-shirt I was sleeping in, plus my pillow case and sheets that first
night. But the fever was gone directly
afterwards.
I did all of this, in addition to continuing to sip my
homemade colloidal silver throughout the day whenever I felt the need for
it. If I felt nausea coming on, for
example, I’d take a little extra colloidal silver. If I didn’t have the stomach symptoms, I’d
cut back a bit on my colloidal silver intake.
I don’t think I took more than four ounces of my homemade
colloidal silver on any single day, or less than two ounces on any single day.
Just Reporting…
Naturally, I'm not prescribing here. I’m not a doctor. I’m a natural health journalist. And I'm just reporting on what worked for me,
nutritionally, to help get this particularly nasty flu bug under control.
Even with all of this, it still took a full week for me to
get back on my feet. And there are still
some mild upper respiratory symptoms remaining (coughing and slight congestion,
particularly at night), so I'm continuing the colloidal silver at a reduced
rate, plus the Vitamin D-3 and low-dose iodine from kelp for a few more
days.
Of course, because of biological individuality, this very
nasty flu virus might affect other people differently. And a completely different supplement regimen
might be necessary.
But I thought I'd document what’s worked for me,
nutritionally, in case others with this very nasty flu bug that’s sweeping the
nation might want to try it.
Tricky Little
Bastards
As I’ve mentioned in the past, flu viruses are tricky little
bastards.
Over the years I’ve had cases of the flu that have responded
splendidly to colloidal silver usage alone,
alleviating even the most severe flu symptoms virtually overnight. And I’ve had cases of the flu that have not
responded to colloidal silver usage at
all.
It all seems to depend upon the specific type of virus
causing the flu symptoms.
For example, one year, about a decade ago, the Hong Kong
strain of flu hit this country like a ton of bricks. And colloidal silver seemed to have no effect
on it whatsoever. People were calling and
emailing me in total frustration because no matter how much colloidal silver
they ingested, there was no relief from this devastating flu.
But the very next year the Sydney strain of flu hit, and even though this very nasty strain of flu was killing elderly people and young children throughout the southern U.S. and the Midwest, and hospitals were overflowing with patients throughout the country, just about everyone who took colloidal silver reported almost instantaneously phenomenal results, with flu symptoms dissipating within a matter of days.
But the very next year the Sydney strain of flu hit, and even though this very nasty strain of flu was killing elderly people and young children throughout the southern U.S. and the Midwest, and hospitals were overflowing with patients throughout the country, just about everyone who took colloidal silver reported almost instantaneously phenomenal results, with flu symptoms dissipating within a matter of days.
Indeed, I got more calls that year from people thanking me
for telling them about colloidal silver than any year since I’d published the
first edition of The
Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual.
So again, viruses are tricky. And while colloidal silver can be remarkably
effective against some viral strains, there are also some viruses that
colloidal silver doesn’t seem to touch.
What I learned from this new bout with the flu, however, is that
watching my specific flu symptoms very carefully and taking appropriate
compensatory nutrients to counteract those symptoms can really help turn the
tide against the virus, and even help make the colloidal silver work
better. Here’s what I mean…
Compensatory Nutrients…
I’ve said all along that colloidal silver is not God. It’s not a “cure-all.”
It is indeed the most broad-spectrum natural antibacterial,
antifungal and antiviral substance on the face of the earth. And without fail it’s the very first thing I
reach for whenever I have even the slightest hint of an infection.
And it almost always works for me, oftentimes miraculously.
But it can’t cure everything. Nothing on the face of this old earth
can. There’s always going to be a bug or
two that can figure out how to circumvent your body’s defenses as well as just
about anything you can throw at it.
The truly good news
is that if colloidal silver alone is not helping, and you watch your symptoms
carefully, you can often determine what the virus is doing to your body and add
compensatory nutrients, like I’ve described in the beginning of this article.
For example, the colloidal silver was not helping me much at
all the first few days of this nasty flu, except to help control the nausea and
eliminate the vomiting and diarrhea other people I knew of were experiencing.
But once I added the Vitamin D-3 and the low-dose iodine
from kelp to help boost my metabolism, the colloidal silver started working
dramatically better. Day-by-day I could
tell the difference as my recovery speeded up noticeably.
Why did boosting my metabolism, nutritionally, seem to help?
In my layman’s opinion, based upon my symptoms of cold
chills and excessively low blood pressure, I believe it was because this particular
virus had attacked my cellular metabolism as a means of disrupting immune
system function.
And when your metabolism is crippled, colloidal silver is
not processed as well throughout the body.
Once I got my metabolism operating closer to normal levels
with the help of the Vitamin D-3 and the low-dose iodine from kelp (and a few
days afterwards with addition of the Adenosine Triphosphate), the colloidal silver
really began to kick in.
And from that day forward the viral symptoms gradually but quite
noticeably began to dissipate.
One Final
Thought:
In hindsight I realize I was really pushing my exercise
regimen to excessively high levels (for my personal tolerance) just before this
flu bug hit.
And at the same time, I was working 12 and 15 hour day,
trying to get a number of projects caught up.
I do tend to exercise harder and longer during the winter
months when the weather is colder, because my aging body can generally tolerate
the exercise better in the cold weather than it can in the summer heat.
And I tend to work longer hours in the office, because
there’s not as much to do outside when it’s colder than hell.
My problem is that sometimes I tend to get over-excited about
exercising during the winter months, trying to compensate for the lack of
exercise during the hotter summer months.
And as a result I sometimes push my body to unsustainable levels in the
winter time.
Combine that with not getting enough rest from long work
hours, and you have a “type A” personality prescription for a stressed out body
during winter months.
The point being, with this nasty flu bug going around it's
probably best not to stress out your
body too much. After all, excessive stress,
coupled with lack of good, sound rest can temporarily weaken immunity and give a
nasty virus a real foothold.
So just a word to the wise during this growing flu epidemic: Take it easy.
And make sure you get plenty of rest.
Keep stress levels at a minimum wherever possible.
Lord willing and the creek don’t rise, I’ll be back next
week with another great article on making and using colloidal silver.
Meanwhile, take extra good care of yourself with this nasty
flu virus going around!
Yours for the safe, sane and responsible
use of colloidal silver,
Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
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