The DNA of Christmas

I hope Santa has been good to you, and you’re not too frazzled and stressed. It happens every year around this time… right after the holidays, I get quite a few patients who come to my Wellness Center who have gotten sick. Stress can make an illness that you might have fought off with very few symptoms much worse. I read a study from Carnegie Mellon University about this. They put subjects through a stress test, and then infected them with influenza. They found those who had the most stress actually got sicker, and had more intense symptoms.1 By simply boosting your immune system, you can protect yourself. And of course there are the usual immune boosters like vitamin C or echinacea… But there is another nutrient that can help your immune system that you might not realize is a very powerful immunity booster. If you had visited my wellness center years ago, you would have seen many jars of herb and plant mixtures and extracts in jars lining the shelves. Many of the plants I had discovered, researched and used in my practice just weren’t available like some are now. So I would compound them for my patients myself. One of these was astragalus. It’s one of my favorite anti-viral and immune-boosting herbs. Astragalus is a unique herb because it helps you face that double threat. A number of clinical studies give us evidence that it has the power to regulate immune response.2,3 But it also fights fatigue and helps you adapt to stress – whether it’s physical, menta...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Anti-Aging Nutrition DNA herbs nutrients telomerase Source Type: news