Ward off This Season’s Flu Strains with these 3 Great TriVita Products!
November 11, 2009 by admin
Filed under Featured, TriVita Health Tips, TriVita Products, TriVita Specials
This flu season we seem to have more strains of influenza to fight than ever before… As H1N1 rages through our communities, the supply of the standard flu vaccine, and the H1N1 variety, is insufficient to meet the demand! Many of us have had to resort to adding ourselves, and our children, to waiting lists and are looking for alternative ways to help keep ourselves healthy in the meantime…
To understand how you can protect yourself, it’s important to first understand how a flu virus works:
There are 3 pathways by which a flu takes hold in the body….
- Transmission
- Infection
- Inflammation
The first pathway, transmission, refers to the passing of the virus particles from one “host” to another. This makes sense since the flu cannot be caught without first being brought into contact with it…
The second pathway, infection, refers to the replication and spread of the virus within the host body. This means the virus particles create more of themselves until the body becomes overwhelmed.
The third pathway, inflammation, is what results in all of our symptoms. When our immune system senses that the body is being overrun with an invading “force”, it responds by releasing a flood of cytokines into the body (commonly called a “cytokine storm”) to fight the invader. Unfortunately, though the cytokines are just doing their job in producing the inflammatory response which will eventually drive the virus out, it comes at the cost of symptoms like chills, fever, body ache, nausea, diarrhea, mucous that fills our lungs, etc.
This is why it is said that it’s not the FLU VIRUS that is responsible for causing fatalities; it’s our body’s own coping process that is attempting to fight off the virus that is responsible. The important thing to realize is that preventing any of these pathways from kicking in will prevent you from getting the flu.
Breaking the Transmission Pathway
To prevent transmission from ever occurring, it’s important to fortify your immune system with the proper transmission inhibiting nutrients to prevent the virus from binding to your DNA. Two great transmission inhibitors are green tea polyphenols and quercetin. These are first of defense in arming your immune system from being DIS-armed by the flu virus.
Breaking the Infection Pathway
The virus infects the cell by matching to a cell receptor called Hemagglutinin. Hemagglutinin (the “H” in H1N1) allows the virus to gain entry to the cell and mutate the cell DNA so it can breed an infection. It also allows the newly mutated DNA to be incorporated into surrounding cells and through cell lines. Hemagglutinin describes “infection” with the flu. To prevent the infection process from occurring, there are two powerful natural inhibitors of Hemagglutinin that you can take: green tea polyphenols and ginseng (Panax and Eleutherococcus).
Breaking the Inflammation Pathway
If a flu has spread within the body to the point that symptoms of a cytokine storm start to be felt, it’s at this point that we should be making our immune system work smarter, not harder… Though a popular practice of people seeking natural relief is to reach for the Vitamin C and the Echinacea to “boost” the immune system, it’s actually smarter to inundate our body with more immune system modulating nutrients to address the inflammation. This goes back to the Quercetin and Green tea polyphenols and ginseng mentioned earlier on.
Three outstanding products that will keep you healthy during flu season
TriVita offers 3 to notch, all natural products that can give you the nutrients you need to protect yourself from every stage of the flu listed above. These products are:
Nopalea is a unique nutritional beverage made from the fruit of the Nopal Cactus. It contains an abundance of the Quercetin bioflavonoids called Betalains which help attack or prevent Inflammation.
Adaptogen is another nutritional beverage made from a variety of stress-fighting plant extracts. It contains 2 types of ginseng (Panax and Eleutherococcus) which will aid in balancing the immune system and preventing the “cytokine storm” from ever occurring. Basically, it keeps your immune system calm, cool and collected, while it works toward fighting any invaders in your system.
Energy Now! is a nutritional supplement capsule containing transmission fighting green tea polyphenols to help your body resist infection.
For those looking for supplements their kids can take to prevent the flu, I can tell you that my 8 year old son takes 1 ounce of both Sonoran Bloom Nopalea and Adaptogen 10 Plus daily without side effects. I would urge you, however, to check with your child’s physician before giving them to your own child.
SPECIALS: During the month of November only TriVita is featuring specials on a combination package of Nopalea and Sublingual B12 which includes a box of Energy Now! as a free gift. The Super Sublingual B12 also includes ginseng, which is mentioned above as aiding in balancing the immune system. If you would like to check out the pricing and availability of those package options, click here to visit TriVita’s Specials.
