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Vital Nutrients for Cold and Flu Season

Vital Nutrients for Cold and Flu Season

Keys to surviving the most dangerous and wonderful time of the year

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Leland Stillman, MD
Dec 07, 2022
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In my last post, I wrote about the fundamental habits for surviving cold and flu season. I wrote about them in the context of how they help to normalize all of the labs that I look at as prognostic factors for someone's risk of severe illness, hospitalization, or death during cold and flu season.

Those habits must be in place, but once they are, there are key nutrients that we need to consider for optimal vitality.

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Nutrients that are vital for cold and flu season are:

  • Vitamin C

  • Magnesium

  • Sodium

  • Potassium

  • Iodine

  • Selenium

  • Vitamin D

  • Cholesterol

  • Thiamine

  • Arginine

  • Tyrosine

How do we measure or assess for these nutrients?

Why are these the nutrients I examine in preparation for cold and flu season?

Because they are all involved in inflammation, immunity, and our stress response...

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