Transcript:

Episode 35: Fighting the Flu

Warren:

All right, health hunters. Welcome to kind of a sick episode that we’re going to talk about today, because I’m just getting over the influenza, H3N2, influenza A, I believe, and it’s –

Dr. Pompa:

It sounds scary.

Warren:

It is. Any time you say H1N1 or H2N2 or H3N2, I’m thinking of maybe battleship or something, but actually it’s just a different strain, and this is a bad year, so let’s talk about the flu, what you do when you’re doing it, after. As a health hunter, we don’t want to do Z-Paks and some of the things that disrupt our immune system. Again, if you’re immune-compromised, antibiotics could save your life. Again, I’m not an expert in the flu, but I’m an expert in going through the influenza A this year, because I just have a personal story coming through it. Dan, it was bad, bro. I never felt so bad in my life in a long time. It took me back to being a kid and just feeling helpless. It was really interesting. Just crazy thoughts. Your whole body is just crazy, so A is the one that’s killing people.

Then, ironically enough, my wife called me—I started getting sick on Friday. I thought it was just a cold, and by Sunday, when I landed back in Salt Lake, I was shivering and done, but I think she called me on Saturday, saying that [02:38] was up all night, puking till three in the morning, and then I don’t know when the gestation period—but then her whole family. She was there for a baby shower and connecting on some business with her brother, and all of a sudden, everyone started getting this flu, and it’s widespread this year, so there’s these different strains. I think the one in the stomach this year is the one that makes you puke. The one that’s killing people is the A. That’s the one I got. My question is—

Dr. Pompa:

You’re alive.

Warren:

Yeah, I’m alive, but what is it—when I’m doing this, it’s almost like any time I suffer through something or make a mistake, is it making me better? We can get into all of the semantics of the flu, and Dr. Pompa, you’ve been dealing with very sick people when you had your clinical practice. You had people come in for flu, and we’d adjust them, or you would, to help spike their immune system. There are some signs there with chiropractic adjustment elevating the immune system, but you have more experience with this, and I know you’ve been kind of out of the day-to-day with people with the flu, the common [03:52] challenges as you deal with more difficult cases these days.

What does it do, your immune system? Does it help to get the flu? Let’s look at the positives of the flu, and then we’ll kind of go through some of the science of the flu and what it does and what we can do to prevent it, if anything, and even give some of the strategies that I used to—I got through it better than most, I would say. I looked at the San Diego flu strain, and a lot of people are saying seven to ten days, they couldn’t even move. I only had probably two days where I was dysfunction, so anyway, the flu, did it help my immune system?

Dr. Pompa:

It does. Yeah. Obviously, you make something called T memory cells that remember these viruses, and the body’s so intelligent, it can even look at certain viruses, and if it’s something close to it, it can manufacture immediately white blood cells very quickly so you don’t even feel the symptoms of the flu. The fact is, every time you get sick and you allow your immune system to go through the sickness, and that’s a very important point, going through it healthy, your body builds up these T memory cells, and therefore you end up later, especially in life—that’s why kids, it’s very normal for them to get the flu, right? Later in life, then, you get less and less sicknesses. Your body actually has these T memory cells, so you get exposed. It’s virtually impossible not to get exposed. That’s why everyone’s running around, washing their hands like crazy. Avoidance, really it’s very impossible. You’re exposed. We’ve all been exposed to these strains, so it’s a matter of—

Warren:

You’ve been traveling like crazy, so we’re all getting exposed.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah, exactly, and your body builds up T memory cells, and when those T memory cells build up, as soon as the exposure comes in, it can rally up a response much quicker, and it doesn’t let the virus multiply through the body, and therefore you don’t manifest symptoms, or maybe you manifest a little bit. I think I’m getting sick, and then you kick it, so that’s a really healthy immune system. Really, the only way you get there is to be exposed to these things and get sick or not. Sometimes your body gets exposed, and the healthier you live your life, the less stressors that you’re around when you’re exposed, will determine if you get symptoms or not, meaning you can get—without even having T memory cells, you can  get a certain virus, and your body reacts quickly, because it’s not stressed with some other thing that it’s dealing with. It martials up an attack, and it bangs it right out, and you don’t get symptoms, so yeah. The nice thing about that is, now you’ve built T memory cells, so if you get a strain like that again, you knock it down.

Look, I think that, when we look at the flu—you can understand, this is big business. This is Big Pharma big business. They say that 30 thousand people die every year, but the problem with those numbers—you can do this search yourself. The actual statistics are much, much different than that, because what happens is most of these people end up dying of pneumonia and other conditions, but the flu ends up being that one other stressor. The flu ends up somewhere on the death certificate, but really, when they actually—when you just consider just the flu, it’s under four thousand on average. You can pull up the statistics. I think there’s statistics there. My dog. Holy cow, my dog just came in, just whacking things with his tail. Anyway, you pull up the statistics there for 2003 or 2013.

Warren:

The CDC estimates that anywhere from 12 thousand to 56 thousand could die from the virus in any given year from this thing.

Dr. Pompa:

When you look at people who actually die, typically it’s infants who don’t nurse, because they don’t have their mother’s immunity, or has other compromised immune status, and then you look at older folks who have already compromised immune status. Those are the people who die. Of course, if they get a 30-year-old who’s quote healthy, they’ll report that one for sure, because they know that people have heard, okay, really only the compromised really will die from the flu, which is really true, but that 30-year-old, when you dig deeper, had some immune-compromised status, so you have to be careful when you hold up the one. Yeah, and even so, it can be even—there was recently somebody who died. They had Lyme disease, and they were diagnosed with chronic fatigue, but they had Lyme, and they said they died from the flu, but what had happened was the Lyme really ended up in the brain, etcetera, so it allowed some other pathogens to cross into some tissues like the brain where it shouldn’t. It’s very complicated, but look, the flu—I hate the flu, man. I don’t ever want the flu, and you need to avoid the flu, because it’s just so nasty. Who wants it, right? You want to keep yourself healthy enough that you get exposed to the virus, but you need it to be—

Warren:

Wait a minute. I got it. Dr. Pompa, I’m going to tell you. I’m just going to get a flu shot, and we’ll talk about the flu shot—

Dr. Pompa:

Ah, we’ll talk about that.

Warren:

—right after this.

Yeah, so Dan, I’m not going to eat healthy. I’m not going to take care of my body, which some of us don’t even know what that means in this world, unfortunately, what it is to be healthy, because they’re plugged into the system or never been educated otherwise. They’re not quite a health hunter yet, but they’re on the way, so they get vaccinated with the flu vaccine, and I’ve never seen it pushed harder than it has been, using fear tactics, skeletons, you name it. I don’t know if it was [10:15] or CVS got bought out by a pharmaceutical company. I know CVS has been a huge proponent of the flu vaccine. It’s just rampant use this year, and I think, when I looked it up—because I was sick, and I was looking at—I was in San Diego, and there’s a huge outbreak there, right? I think it was an H1N1 something is the one I got, not the H3N2, but I think the one that I got is the exact one, based on the symptomatology that I got, but anyway, it was like 19 percent effective, supposedly, for that particular strain that most people are getting in that area, when I was reading a San Diego report. If you look over the history of the flu vaccine, it’s usually right around the 19 to 20, 15 to 20 percent effective, because it’s a crapshoot. You never know what variation you’re going to get, so this goes back to your big business thing.

I was talking to a friend the other day, and he was like—it wasn’t even—no, it was just kind of a common person who’s not really, truly enlightened, and I don’t say that—they’re not a health hunter. I’m not trying to—they just don’t think like I think or think like you think. That’s why we’re doing this radio show, so it has nothing—there’s no judgment there, but even this individual said, man, it’s—he’s the one that actually looks up statistics, because his daughter got the flu, so here it comes now. This is where I got the data from. This wasn’t even me. He said it was 19—he took his daughter to the hospital, and there’s two topics here that you can help us with, Dr. Pompa.

One, he took her in, and she got diagnosed with—she had A as well, and he said that the flu shot, if you were to give it to her, or if you would’ve had it, it was like 19 percent effective this year. Of course, he’s a good ole boy. He doesn’t do flu vaccines. That’s not on his radar, which is great, and then, too, though, what he did—and you can speak to this—is that he used some sort of medication to knock her temperature below normal. She was measuring her temperatures. She was at 102, and he knocked it down to 97.5 to help her feel better, because I know that, when I broke my fever, my appetite came back. Life was back on, right? My sweat and blah, blah, blah, and now I feel like a normal human again. Those fevers really make you nuts, so let’s talk about this flu vaccine. Let’s talk about—your body’s naturally raising its own temperature to kill off the virus and why it’s important to kind of walk that line if you’re confident enough to do that, especially with a normal high temperature that’s not dangerous.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah, the temperature is the body’s natural way of obviously beating back the virus, so when you spike a virus, especially over 102, now you’re really knocking these viruses back. I think that most people think that the temperature is a bad thing, because it does make you feel bad. Of course, we hear the horror stories of high temperature creating brain damage, etcetera, but those are some really great exceptions. The temperature is your body’s friend. If the temperature—my son used to get 105s all the time, and he was my healthy one. He would knock these things out in 24 hours all the time. My other son, he would not get those high temperatures. He would stay around 101, kind of the low-grade thing, and it would go on for days until he mustered up a higher temperature, so a good immune system musters a really nice, high temperature.

Look, if you’re pushing above—if you push above 106, 107, could someone dehydrate? Yeah, they could. Could that be a toxic issue? Yeah, so I always tell parents, don’t ever make a decision to bring down a fever yourself. If a temperature gets that high, take them to the doctor. There’s a time and a place, because fevers are a strange thing when they get up that high, but I can tell you that 104s, 105s are very typically with certain strains of flu in certain people who have very strong immune systems, so the fever is a friend. By lowering the fever, you’re working against the body, and then these viruses can actually run deeper and actually create other problems, which complicates later in life, so we have to be very careful going against the fever. There’s a time and a place, and by giving your child Advil, Tylenol, whatever it is, you’re really going against what the body is trying to do. If you want comfort from the fever, a cold washcloth on the head, some peppermint oil on the bottom of the feet. That just can make you more comfortable, because the fever, no doubt, makes you feel bad, but remember, it is the body doing its thing.

Look, when we look at—I would love for people to go to the CDC website itself, because they say right there that—basically, a quote is, we don’t actually know how many people die of the flu each year. They’re covering their ass here, because they don’t. When they come up with these numbers, they’re not actually testing. They’re basically looking at people’s symptoms that they have and going, oh, that’s the flu, so everything gets lumped into it, and then they say flu. Of course, if it has flu—oh, and pneumonia, of course, it’s the flu. It’s characterized in one of those numbers, so these numbers are really deceptive. The actual numbers, when you look at them, are very low. Again, these are fear tactics, because they are selling vaccines, and look, I’m not telling anyone to vaccinate, not vaccinate. I’m just telling you that there’s another side to this story when we talk about vaccines, and there’s another side to this story when we talk about lowering flus and temperatures with medication. I believe that’s a doctor’s job and not a parent.

Warren:

Yeah, I’m on the CDC’s website, and all they’re doing—most of what they’re saying for this year’s flu information, everything to do with not getting vaccinated. It’s a big, high proponent of when you should vaccinate, why you should vaccinate, how many weeks you should vaccinate, just all vaccines, so—

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah, look, for them to talk about the actual number, they actually have to test the person for the virus and say, okay, here’s a strain of the flu, which that’s not what’s happening all the time. Just because somebody grabs their chest, and it looks like a heart attack doesn’t mean they died of a heart attack. You’d actually have to do an autopsy and see what happened, right? It’s a really crazy thing, but it does sell. It does sell a lot of the vaccines, and again, this is big, big business. When you’re looking at it, there’s over two hundred different strains of the flu, and in any given year, you can have 18 different strains. Even if you argue that the flu vaccine works, which I argue it doesn’t, but let’s say that it does. It’s still a crapshoot, as Warren pointed out, and to nail those—I don’t even believe the 15 to 18 percent. The way they look at it and actually come up with that percent isn’t even accurate.

Warren:

Yeah, well, what I’m going to—okay, I lost what I was going to say, but I had a point.

Dr. Pompa:

Wow, we’ve got to go.

Warren:

Yeah, we’ve got to get back, so I’ll find my brain once we get back after these announcements. Thanks, everybody.

All right, we’re back. I can just blame the flu, right? You get brain fog and all that. I did remember—actually, I remembered what I was going to say, forgot again during the break, and now I just remembered again. Let’s see if I forget. No, I remember. If I didn’t know what I knew, Dr. Pompa, about vaccines and whether they work or whether they don’t and all the information that we’ve educated ourselves over for whatever, you 20 years, me 15 years—well, actually me like 13 years, you more like 25 years, just because you’re older. No, it’s because you’ve been in the game longer, but I would’ve gotten a flu vaccine after experiencing that. If there’s a 20 percent chance, and the flu vaccine was safe, and lots of people do, and there was just a 15, a ten percent chance that that would help me, I would roll the dice. Most people go and get their daily numbers and have a one in a million chance of winning. If I had a ten percent, that’s great odds to not be on your back for three days and unproductive, and you’ve got kids and family.

There’s a lot of hope there, right? Ten percent is hope, and the flu vaccine is hope. They fear you into it, too, because of the deaths and the children dying, and you’re a bad parent. They offer it at the schools and everywhere. It’s the easiest thing to get. If you want a flu vaccine, it’s easier to get than a cigarette. It’s simple. I don’t even—there are probably waivers. You can get it under 18 now, I bet. I doubt that, but it is handed out like candy, for sure. I only say that, because it was so bad, I can see why people who don’t understand what the flu vaccine does and how it necessarily works, they would choose that option, especially when you’re older. Because you’re older, that puts you at higher risk to die of the flu, because you do have—

Dr. Pompa:

Absolutely.

Warren:

—immune compromise and stuff like that. My parents are very afraid of that, and they’ve been so antibiotic all their lives for diverticulitis in their guts and all these bacterial overgrowths and inflammation because of different infections in their body. They wind up pneumonia, all these things. They’re getting massive amounts of antibiotics, so when they get something, this gets in the microbiome. They just don’t have the strength to fight it, and it puts them at risk. Then, they have to get more antibiotics, and then, at some point, the antibiotics stop working, because the bacteria or whatever’s going on is so resistant, and their body has used those antibiotics so many times, it’s just not working for them anymore.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah, there’s no doubt that the immune-compromised—you should fear the flu, because again, when you look at the infections that—when you distract the immune system, now another bacteria, virus can proliferate, and that’s typically what causes the death, another complicating virus or bacteria. Again, when we look at what we need to do to avoid the flu, we can—nobody wants it, so what can we do to really not get the flu and avoid it? I think these things are important for all of us, right? Just for the healthy person who doesn’t just want to get the flu like you and suffer. There are some things. Look, obviously, your all-around lifestyle is a factor. When you travel more, your chances of getting it are better, because it does play a toll on your immune system. You’re stressed. Going in and out of different time zones stresses you. Being nailed by a lot of radiation up in the air stresses you. Being in closed quarters that much puts—you’re going to get exposed, but again, why doesn’t everyone get it? It’s definitely a factor more of the other stressors that you have, and then you add the stress of flying, the radiation exposure, the time changes, lack of sleep. It all plays in.

Warren:

Yeah, I stayed up late. I traveled. I did everything wrong. Bad night’s sleep, went out too late, drank alcohol. Everything you could’ve done to compromise my body, I did it, so I got what I deserved, really. Back in the day, I wouldn’t have allowed that to happen. I’ve gotten healthier, and I haven’t gotten sick, really sick, in a long time. I’ve actually been really, really healthy. One thing I used to travel with—this is kind of getting into—I don’t know if you’re getting into—I think you’re trying to move us in that direction, what we can do, because that’s what people really want to hear—is the beta glucan product, because that’s an antiviral, right? It affects your immune system, and I used to travel—high doses of that before I would travel, and that seemed to really ward off any colds or flus that I used to deal with, and I would high-dose on vitamin C—yeah, high-dose vitamin C and vitamin D, 40 thousand IUs of vitamin D. I’d do high vitamin C, I would do the beta glucan, and then I would also do one other thing. What was it? Shoot. I take VIVI. We can talk about the botania oil or whatever, but there was another one, but go ahead. I’ll let that one [24:01].

Dr. Pompa:

I think one more before we actually even get to the solutions—you really didn’t talk about the—I said, hey, it’s your choice whether you get the flu shot or not. Don’t listen to me. Do your own homework. Just Google Parkinson’s and flu shots, and I think you’ll be shocked. In one of my Power Points, I talk about Hugh Fudenberg, who the CDC to this day bashes on the website. Meanwhile, this is one of the leading immunologists of our time, over eight hundred and some peer review papers. He’s always on TV shows, being quoted. The guy’s broad. I think he needs a little bit about immunity, but when we looked at the number of Alzheimer’s, which is the latest thing that he talked about, and flu shots, in any ten-year period, having five consecutive flu shots increased your risk of getting Alzheimer’s tenfold, so these are scary numbers. When he was asked why that is, he said, it’s the accumulation of mercury and lead in the brain.

Look, there was one earlier on about Parkinson’s, consecutive flu shots. I can tell you there’s risks out there that they’re not telling you. Do your homework. These things, flu shots, still contain 25 mcg of mercury, ethyl mercury that does cross right into your brain, so Hugh Fudenberg is correct on that. Yes, they do contain aluminum and other retroviruses, so don’t be fooled. There’s a consequence. There is another massive side to these shots that they don’t want out. They don’t want you to hear this stuff. That’s why they attack Fudenberg on the CDC, because this is something—again, this is a cash cow, vaccines. Just as a remember, drug companies, this is their cash cow. Drug companies will not get sued, because the government protects them. It’s the only drug on the planet that—it’s the only big business that can’t get sued, so this is the only drug that they cannot get sued for. The government protects them.

Warren:

They don’t have to have—like a typical drug, right? They don’t have to go through all the—

Dr. Pompa:

Safety studies. No.

Warren:

All the safety studies.

Dr. Pompa:

They don’t. Oh, as a matter of fact, the safety studies actually puts the drug company at risk, because if they do a safety study on a flu shot, as an example, and they find a problem, now they have to actually talk about the problem. They actually have to disclose it, so they don’t want to do a safety study, because they would have to disclose it. When people say, okay, it’s not mandatory on these that you do these safety studies like a normal drug, but why wouldn’t you? Because of the way the laws are written, because it actually makes them more at risk for doing a safety study, so believe me, these drugs are not tested.

Warren:

Yeah, and that’s not even conspiracy stuff. That’s the facts.

Dr. Pompa:

No. Yeah, that’s the facts, right. Yeah. Definitely.

Warren:

Yeah, that’s the facts, so that’s—

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah, look, they—

Warren:

That’s something to think about, right? Holy cow.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah. The safety studies they do are for a couple days in small groups. They don’t want to find anything, folks, because they have to disclose it, and now they’re liable, and profits will drop. It’s not my opinion.

Warren:

Yeah, so just like when there’s a commercial that says, you may die, you may have immune compromise, blah, blah, blah, those sorts of risks, like a drug commercial.

Dr. Pompa:

All right. We’ll be back.

Warren:

With answers. Sounds good.

I think we have two things we can bring together there. What do you do to prevent the flu, and then, what do you do during the flu? I can share what I did. I was kind of sharing what you do to boost your immunity, but let’s wrap that up and bring it all together. We kind of dropped a few little nuggets in the first three segments, but what do you think, Dr. Pompa?

Dr. Pompa:

Okay, let’s talk about what you do when you get it. You just did it, so tell them what you did when you got the flu.

Warren:

After I got the flu—well, when I started getting it, getting symptoms, I knew—I thought I just had a cold, so I just high-dosed some vitamin D. I wasn’t at my house. I was at our CEO’s house, so I didn’t have the luxury of 60 bottles of different immune-boosting products, not that I take all these things, folks. Only in an emergency. I’m not a big—I don’t take a ton of supplements. I take some. He had some vitamin D3 from Systemic, so I took that. What else did he have? I had some of the beta glucan. I don’t know the name of that product, our beta glucan from whatever. We have beta glucan on our site, revelationhealth.com.

Dr. Pompa:

I think it’s called—it’s called Beta 500.

Warren:

Yeah, Beta 500, and I took that, but that’s—and I had that in my suitcase, and I think I took—that’s it, but I thought I just had a cold, so I wasn’t really aggressive on what I was taking. Typically, I would also take #3 Bactrex, which I don’t know what the ingredients are. I don’t have it with them, but what are some of the active herbs, the antivirals, antibacterials? Bactrex kind of hits both virus and bacteria. When I got back, and I knew something just wasn’t right, I relieved my symptoms, because I was shivering, so I took a warm bath, eucalyptus, soaked in that, and then I just tried to go to sleep. Sleep is obviously your best friend, and I tried to sleep elevated, because I had the influenza A. I put eucalyptus in my nostrils. It kind of burns, but it helped. I put a Hall’s in my—not a Hall’s but a natural one. I don’t know what they are, with eucalyptus in it so I could breathe better, and I just stuck it into my cheek. Some people can’t stand that, because it feels weird, but I did that to help me breathe, and just tossed and turned and fought it all night. Then, the next day, I was on the couch, but when I felt better enough to even walk downstairs, I took the VIVI, which is mostly Leptotaenia oil or something. Is that what it is?

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah. That’s the active ingredient. Yep.

Warren:

Yeah, so I start taking that. I high-dosed vitamin D3 in capsule form versus the liquid. It’s way more potent. I also did vitamin C. Oh, shoot, what else did I do? I’m telling you, this flu’s got me a little confused. I did a few other things, too. Oh, I did high probiotic, because I figured, hey, if you put in good bugs, it could help fight the bad bugs, so I did a bunch of MVC, which is a high-dose microbiome colonizer, which throws a bunch of probiotics. Probiotics boost your immune system, so that’s what I did.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah, so, when you look—and the winner, lack of vitamin D definitely. Vitamin D’s a hormone, and it plays into the immune system, so lack of it can definitely predispose it to the flu. Warren said he did high-dose vitamin D. That’s really good, and make sure you always have one that’s balanced with—especially when you do high dose. What is high dose, though? You could talk about anywhere between 50 thousand, even a hundred thousand units of vitamin D, which that’s a mega-dose, but you have to make sure it’s balanced with K, too, and vitamin A and some vitamin E, and the reason is, those are all fat-soluble vitamins. They compete for the same receptors on the cells, so you can create what we call functional deficiencies when you just take that much vitamin D without K. You block your vitamin K, which you need to absorb calcium in the bone, and it has a lot of other functions, even in the muscle, so you just have to be—and then you block even vitamin A, which affects the immune system, so you want a balanced formula. DV3’s the one that we take, you and I. You can have someone put that in the show notes, but it’s balanced, and so if you’re taking those higher doses, you definitely have to make sure that you’re taking a balanced formula.

Warren:

If I took a—you couldn’t take a hundred thousand units a day. You’d have to take that over—

Dr. Pompa:

Some people do it, because when you get exposed to the sun, those are the numbers that you’re actually getting.

Warren:

Got it.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah, so you’re trying to emulate a sun exposure. Now, obviously, if you have access to the sun, that’s the way to go.

Warren:

Getting outside in the sun, I should’ve done that, but it was cloudy.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah, it helps. Cold, too. Yeah, when you’re sick and already cold, it doesn’t sound like a good option, but yeah, if you have access to the sun, do it, but again, most of you don’t, so taking the high dose of vitamin D, it works, right? You get a pill that has three thousand units of vitamin D, and you can see how many pills you would need just based on that. Again, the mega-dose works, right? You can pop it out, and you only have to do maybe a couple of those mega-doses, maybe even those units every other day for a few days, so it’s not like you’d keep doing that high dose like that. That’s an option.

The VIVI is another great one when you have it and even prevention, because it really has a strong effect on the viruses, and it does cross over into bacteria as well, just like the other product you mentioned, the Bactrex. High-dose C. You have to go pretty high-dose for the C to actually work, and I know C gets a lot of attention, but—

Warren:

That’s why I took it.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah, it tends to create diarrhea, obviously, at higher doses, which might not be a bad thing to kind of get the bowels moving. I think taking the high-dose probiotic was smart, too. That does have an immediate effect on the immune system, but don’t take—if you’re taking a probiotic all the time, same one, that can create monocultures. I don’t ever recommend that, so try to take a different one, especially if you go high-dose, so it’s not familiar to your body, and you can get an immediate immune boost from that. Those are just some of the things that most people think of, as far as doing right away, but here’s an important one that maybe most people don’t think about doing, and that’s just fasting. Listen to your body. I know that sounds silly, because when you have the flu—

Warren:

I was forced to fast.

Dr. Pompa:

Yeah, that’s my point. I think we’re forced to fast, right? Now, we fast people for a multitude of different issues, but the flu, when people have a mild flu or when it’s first coming on, they tend to eat. I can tell you this right now. If you feel those first early signs, fast. Later on, once you’re sick, you’re forced to fast, but early on, fast. Now, listen, a lot of people start drinking Gatorade and sugar water, because okay, I can’t eat, but they’re worried about their electrolytes. Not a good idea. Just good old-fashioned sea salt and water is your friend. The electrolyte drinks are typically sugar load. If you want your illness to last longer, raise glucose. It’s just a simple combination, so stay away from the sugar drinks. If you want electrolytes, sea salt, and that actually help knock down viruses and bacteria anyway, in the gut especially, so that’s a positive, and it helps your adrenals, which get wiped out during the fast. It protects them, because a lot of people, after a flu, they’re wiped out even for a week or so later, just because their adrenals take a hit, so the sea salt is the most natural way to protect your adrenals and your electrolytes. There may be something people haven’t thought about, and again, first sign of symptoms, fast. If I feel like I’m getting a cold, I don’t eat that day and maybe not the next. Just drink water. That’s what we mean by a fast. That’s your best friend as far as really bolstering your immune system. I know, it’s opposite of what you’re grandmother told you.

Warren:

If you’re cold—

Dr. Pompa:

Eat a big meal.

Warren:

[36:35], though. You said I [36:38].

Dr. Pompa:

Start both, yeah.

Warren:

Yeah, start both. That makes sense. I’ve always used the cold—in a cold, you do have an appetite. When you have a fever, you don’t have an appetite.

Dr. Pompa:

Early on, with a cold, you want to fast, because it bolsters that immune response, bolstering stem cells.

Warren:

Yeah, and you’re not wasting your energy digesting food. Your body’s able to utilize its energy, which it has plenty of stored up to take care of business. The other thing, which I wanted to do, but I was too sick to drive myself, but if I would’ve had someone that was able to drive me, I would’ve went and got adjusted. There’s some good research there that shows that an upper cervical adjustment can spike the old immune system and help with colds, so I didn’t get that done. I was going to do it today but still haven’t made time for that. Shame on me. All my chiropractor friends are going to be yelling at me right now, saying, Warren, take care of yourself. Go get adjusted. I’ll do it tomorrow, promise.

Dr. Pompa:

Then, the other thing is, if you feel like you’re getting sick, don’t run to the gym. Use your energy. That’s why we’re not eating. We want to use our energy for healing. Use your energy for healing, not exercise, so don’t run to the gym. If you feel like you’re getting sick, rest. There you go. There’s some tips that many people didn’t think about, perhaps.

Warren:

All right, have a great week and stay healthy, guys, and avoid the flu, because it really sucks. See you next week.

Dr. Pompa:

Bye.