James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Flu is a perfect example: the peak of the flu season follows the summer solstice by six months, and its global spread alternates between the Northern and Southern hemispheres, in keeping with hemispheric seasonal changes.
Vitamin D levels reach their seasonal low in about February and into March and April as you move farther from the equator, which extends the flu season. Older people and children, who are most susceptible to severe influenza infection, often are the very people with vitamin D and dietary deficiencies.
Other major sources of serious infections in the United States? |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 Babies born during winter and spring (those exposed to influenza during the fall to winter flu season) are at greater risk of eventually developing schizophrenia.19
• Babies born in southern hemisphere locations where the flu season is opposite the flu season in the northern hemisphere also have increased risk patterns that are opposite those of the northern hemisphere.20
• Mothers who report having had influenza during their pregnancy are more likely to have children who will eventually develop schizophrenia. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Indeed flu season mortality for older people declined from the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Since then it has remained constant.21
Thus, what we expected was not what actually happened. Were a standard medical practice such as influenza vaccines to disappear, the effect on mortality among the elderly would be negligible. The example seemed to illustrate our thesis. Perhaps we actually could assess medicine's performance with a thought experiment.
THREE GIANTS
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, purportedly said Bernard d'Chartres, the twelfth-century French philosopher. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Step Recipe" to be used by the CDC in conjunction with vaccine makers to frame the flu season in terms that motivate behavior (e.g., very severe, more severe than last or past years, deadly). In other words, the CDC and vaccine manufacturers cooperate, with the primary stated purpose of boosting vaccination numbers by spreading fear. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Take two 30C-potency pellets twice daily for two weeks at the beginning of flu season (in early November). Take two pellets four times daily when exposed to people who have the flu or if you start to have symptoms. It is available at health-food stores and some pharmacies.
•Oscillococcinum is another great homeopathic remedy for flu, which is also available at health-food stores and pharmacies or by calling 800-672-4556 or visiting www.oscillo.com. It can be taken at the first sign of flu. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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| Babies born in southern hemisphere locations where the flu season is opposite the flu season in the northern hemisphere also have increased risk patterns that are opposite those of the northern hemisphere.20
• Mothers who report having had influenza during their pregnancy are more likely to have children who will eventually develop schizophrenia.21
This area of research points to a biological explanation for one of the most serious of brain disorders. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Flu vaccines are manufactured several months before flu season actually begins, so they may not be accurate at all for the incoming influenza strain. With a pandemic influenza virus, there is a sudden change in the structure of the virus, making the manufacture of a vaccine nearly impossible.
According to a Department of Health and Human Services press release, "Pandemic virus will likely be unaffected by currently available flu vaccines that are modified each year to match the strains of the virus that are known to be in circulation among humans around the world. |
| Every flu season, the government and much of the medical community promote flu vaccinations for millions of Americans. Should you get the vaccine? Here's what you need to know to make your decision... There are two types of vaccines... The flu shot contains inactive (killed) virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that it can be given to anyone older than six months of age, including healthy people, pregnant and nursing women and those who have chronic medical conditions.
The other form is a nasal-spray vaccine called FluMist. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The death rate in and out of the flu season is actually about the same. But then, as we have seen with AIDS, statistics can be manipulated in ways that support theories which have only one objective, to keep the medical business going. For instance, when a person who is about to die anyway also catches the flu, he will be listed as a flu victim.
Instead of giving the elderly population vaccines, in the misguided belief that this would take care of them, we could help them much more by improving their general resistance to disease through good diet, social engagements and exercise programs. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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| Babies born in southern hemisphere locations where the flu season is opposite the flu season in the northern hemisphere also have increased risk patterns that are opposite those of the northern hemisphere.20
• Mothers who report having had influenza during their pregnancy are more likely to have children who will eventually develop schizophrenia.21
This area of research points to a biological explanation for one of the most serious of brain disorders. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 This soup is especially useful during the transition from autumn to winter and during the flu season to prevent getting sick.
1 large onion, diced
4-6 cloves garlic, minced
2 large carrots, peeled and sliced into rounds
2-3 boneless chicken breasts cut into Vi inch chunks olive or sesame oil
8 cups water or stock
1 large sweet potato, peeled and cubed
12-16 dried shiitake mushrooms (black mushroom). |
| For those who catch every cold going around and when simple colds tend to become bronchitis, sinusitis, or other more serious complications that can linger for many weeks, I use adaptogens for three to six months, especially prior to the winter cold and flu season.
For those who find it hard to concentrate, complain of a loss of mental focus, and are easily flustered by everyday little stressors, I use adaptogens for several months, expecting to see improvements in under a month. |
Marshall Editions
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 Herbs: Some herbs with natural viral suppression properties can be taken during the flu season. One that has had some success is larch (found in a Thorne product called Larix®). Elderberry extract can be used in the same way. These herbs can also be used at the onset of flu symptoms.
Tamiflu®: Upon exposure to flu, high-risk patients (the elderly, debilitated, immune compromised, asthmatics, and chemotherapy patients) are encouraged to take the drug Tamiflu® within the first 72 hours. It can sometimes lessen the severity and duration of symptoms if taken on the day of exposure. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| Vitamin D levels reach their seasonal low in about February and into March and April as you move farther from the equator, which extends the flu season. Older people and children, who are most susceptible to severe influenza infection, often are the very people with vitamin D and dietary deficiencies.
Other major sources of serious infections in the United States?hospitals and nursing homes—are responsible for most complications, costs, and deaths due to hospitalization. We know that institutionalized people are at very high risk for vitamin D deficiency due to lack of sun exposure. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 So reach for zinc lozenges during cold and flu season.
Nixing the Naysayers
Of course, like most natural treatments, zinc has its naysayers. One study in particular is widely touted by the antisupplement brigade as evidence that zinc has no effect on the common cold. But let's go to the videotape. Three dosages of zinc were given to subjects with colds—5 mg, 11.5 mg, and 13.3 mg. These amounts are pretty paltry; 5 mg isn't even 65 percent of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for women, and it's less than half of what's recommended for healthy men. |
Jack Challem
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 Double this amount during the cold and flu season.
• When fighting infections you may need to take 2,000 to 3,000 mg of NAC daily. These higher dosages work best when started on the first day of the cold or flu.
Alpha-Lipoic Acid
Alpha-lipoic acid, which plays key roles in the production of cellular energy (see chapter 4), is also a potent and versatile antioxidant. Like NAC, it contains sulfur and is a precursor to glutathione compounds. |
| Silvio De Flora of the University of Genoa asked 262 elderly subjects to take either 600 mg of NAC or a placebo daily for six months over the wintertime cold and flu season. Although NAC did not prevent them from contracting the flu, it had a striking effect on symptoms. Of the subjects who had a laboratory-confirmed flu, only 25 percent of those taking NAC developed symptoms. In contrast, 79 percent of those taking the placebo had obvious and uncomfortable flu symptoms, according to De Flora's article in the European Respiratory Journal. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 A couple of months ago, Jon was considering introducing an improved antiviral tincture product, due to increasing demand from customers concerned about the coming flu season (as well as the bird flu pandemic threat). He recently decided to green light the production of Super Viragon, and the product is launching today. This new product (ingredients are listed below) now joins my list of the TOP TWO broad-spectrum anti-viral products on the market. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We're also seeing research on ginseng and how ginseng extracts prevent colds and flus during the flu season. The list goes on and on.
Research is finally starting to show that diseases are not only prevented, but in many cases reversed, by consuming foods as medicine. And that's good news, because that's the kind of research that empowers people. It gives people options to taking prescription drugs and undergoing radical therapies such as chemotherapy.
So the big news in all of this is that it's all coming out, but it's just taking time. |
Greg Critser
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 For reasons never stated, and with no response to Elashoff's damning analysis, the FDA approved Relenza in time for flu season in 1999. Almost immediately Elashoff's FDA career plunged. "I was told I wouldn't be doing any more advisory committee meetings, I wouldn't be working on any drugs that were quote unquote controversial. And there was the suggestion, it's probably better if you leave the division." A few months later he left the FDA for a position in a genetic research company. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 When called on the truth of their statements concerning vaccines, CDC officials have admitted (in their "sworn" testimony before Washington State and Delaware legislators) that they knowingly lie about various aspects of vaccines because their "job" is to promote vaccination at all costs, and count the people who die of pneumonia during the "flu season" as "flu-related" deaths even though most are not confirmed to be infected with the "flu" virus. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 Nutritional value As one of the richest known sources of vitamin C (70-180 mg per 100 g), the fruit or juice may serve as a dietary supplement during the cold and flu season. The seed oil is rich in gamma-linolenic acid (15%) and is an alternative to evening primrose oil.
Ribes rubrum redcurrant
Redcurrant (pale form)
Redcurrants
Description Redcurrant is a deciduous shrub with woody branches bearing broad, three-lobed, toothed leaves. The small, greenish flowers are borne in pendulous clusters. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 It was sold to treat coughs, congestion, colds, and croup and became extremely popular during the deadly 1918 flu season.
A foot-care nurse in Richmond, Massachusetts, alerted us to the potential of using Vicks to treat nail fungus. Many years ago, when
Jane Kelley, RN, first told us about using a dilute vinegar soak for nail fungus, she also mentioned that she'd heard about applying Vicks to the affected nails and the cuticle around them twice daily. If Vicks is used, it must be applied consistently, every day, until the infection clears. This may take 6 months or even longer. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Bovine colostrum, taken in the cold and flu season, may help to ward off infection.
Q There are many over-the-counter cold medications available. None of them can actually cure a cold, although they can be helpful for alleviating symptoms.
Q It is unlikely that a vaccine will ever be developed to prevent the common cold because the viruses responsible have the ability to change in size and shape, and have hundreds of different forms. However, research being conducted in Britain may provide hope for cold sufferers. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| If you can stop the virus from entering cells, it can't get to the DNA to replicate
Every fall Americans are put through the annual flu season vaccination ritual. The ritual goes like this: You go to your physician, he or she tells you that the flu can be deadly and that a flu shot will prevent it. You get the shot, feel terrible for a week, and a couple of months later, you get the flu along with everyone else. The next year rolls around and you ask yourself, should I or shouldn't I get a flu shot? |
Stephen Cummings and Dana Ullman
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 HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES
One of the great success stories of homeopathic medicine concerns its superb treatment of epidemic influenza during the 1917-18 flu season. Records maintained by government medical officers at the time show that proportionally, far fewer patients treated homeopathically died from the flu or its complications than those who received conventional medical treatment.
To decide on a homeopathic medicine when flu symptoms strike, review the remedies described in this chapter as well as those discussed in chapter 4 on colds and coughs. |
Gina Kolata
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 Here we were at the end of one flu season with time to try to do something before the next flu season. The obvious thing to do was to immunize everybody. But if we tried to do that, guide it, help it along, we might have to interrupt a hell of a lot of work on other diseases."
Suppose there was an influenza pandemic, the meeting participant said. An immunization program was an almost certain invitation to disaster. Those who had been unable to get the flu shots in time would be angry because they would be vulnerable. |
Jack Challem
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 University of Genoa, Italy, gave 262 elderly subjects either 1,200 mg of NAC or placebos daily during the winter flu season. Although NAC did not prevent flu infections, it had a "striking" effect on symptoms. Of the subjects with laboratory-confirmed flus, only 25 percent of those taking NAC developed flu symptoms, and they were generally mild and of short duration. In contrast, 79 percent of the people taking placebos had more severe flu symptoms, according to De Flora's article in the European Respiratory
Journal. |
Ray Strand, M.D.
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 And when flu season rolls around we stock up on cough syrups, decongestants, or sinus-flu medications.
The pharmaceutical industry has provided us with an abundance of effective medications, and the use of these drugs saves and significantly changes many lives. In tandem with physicians who are willing to readily prescribe drugs to their patients, however, we have developed an exaggerated dependence on the use of medications. Pharmaceuticals are a booming industry, and our reliance on their medications guarantees repeat business—it's the name of the game. |
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