Doro & Tricia on Staying Healthy During Cold & Flu Season

Join us as Tricia and Doro navigate cold and flu season. From washing hands properly, to adding elderberry to your daily routine, we discuss how to stay healthy and strong. We speak about immunity boosters as Tricia educates us on the benefits of sleep and gut-health, and how we should give ourselves the grace to know it’s okay to get sick. 

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Quotes:
Hydration is essential. If you’re dehydrated, it puts you at a much higher risk to get the flu or a cold because your immune system goes down. 
Tricia Reilly Koch

It's okay to get sick. Nobody's going to be living a life of not being sick. But you want to get through it a little quicker and you don't want it to turn into something serious.
Tricia Reilly Koch

There's no right or wrong way to meditate. You can just start with 5 minutes on your timer, sitting quietly and focusing on your in-breath and your out-breath.
Doro Bush Koch

You've got to rest to exercise, but you've got to exercise to rest.
Tricia Reilly Koch

Show Notes:
Doro Bush Koch: Let's just begin by talking about some of the things, some of the strategies we can use to prevent the cold, the flu, the respiratory illness we might be having.

Tricia Reilly Koch: Any health professional will say wash your hands and wash your hands all the time. But particularly during the time of flu season.

Tricia Reilly Koch: Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are fine, but we don't want to use antibacterial hand sanitizers as they can breed scary resistant germs.

Tricia Reilly Koch: Our immune system is in our stomachs, in our gut, and we really want to keep that strong.

Tricia Reilly Koch: When you're sick, it's a good time to cut down on alcohol, cut out sugar, and processed foods.

Doro Bush Koch: Obviously, we need to reduce stress.

Tricia Reilly Koch: Keeping ourselves chill during cold and flu season, which coincides with holiday season, can actually make a huge difference in our immune response.

Doro Bush Koch: Meditation, there's no right or wrong way to do it. You can just start with 5 minutes on your timer and sitting quietly and focusing on your in-breath and your out-breath.

Doro Bush Koch: When you're sick, you need to sleep to fight it off.

Tricia Reilly Koch: You need to make sure that your sleep plan is as big a part of life as your financial plan or as your food prep for the beginning of the week. Your sleep plan should be right up there.

Tricia Reilly Koch: Everybody is different. So you need to figure out how caffeine works for you.

Tricia Reilly Koch: we want to at nighttime, we remember we're part of nature, right? The circadian rhythm is huge.

Tricia Reilly Koch: Get the body moving, do stretches, make sure the body knows that the message is, we're going to keep going. 

Tricia Reilly Koch: Bone broth is incredible. It will help you build your muscles. It will help heal your gut. And remember, we heal our gut. Our immune system gets stronger.

Tricia Reilly Koch: Echinacea and elderberry can actually reduce the length of our flu and cold, and it actually can prevent it because elderberry is really high in antioxidants.

Tricia Reilly Koch: Try to bring in your onions, cook onions, garlic, turmeric and ginger. Right now, this is all to prevent the flu, but of course, do it when you have the flu as well because those are again, food is medicine and they're anti-inflammatory.

Doro Bush Koch: Kachava as you mentioned is for our gut, but it's also for our brains. Yes, our muscles, our skin, our hair, our heart.

Doro Bush Koch: The flu shot is a personal choice. It's something you want to talk to your doctor about.

Tricia Reilly Koch: Within 30 minutes of when you get up, you should go outside, let the light, the natural light hit your eyes, because then the melatonin shuts off.

Doro Bush Koch: I would add maybe reading some kind of inspirational poetry or something to my day because it just gets my mind thinking positively and thinking on beautiful things.



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