• Accumulate life affirming nutrients rather than just calories. It's a daily choice.​

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• Eat a colorful plate loaded with fruits and veggies to get a variety of antioxidants, seeds, nuts, eggs, fish, meat, whole non gluten grains.

• Wash all produce once you are home: One teaspoon of soap with 1 Tablespoon of Clorox in a full sink.  Rinse well. 

• Load up on food and spices with antiviral and immune supportive properties, including raw garlic, coconut oil, oregano, ginger, kimchi, fermented foods, walnut, pomegranate, green tea, apple cider vinegar, and mushrooms (ie. shiitake, reishi, cordyceps, and turkeytail).
• Stay well hydrated with water, coconut water, herbal teas, bone broth...
• Decrease exposure to environmental factors (home, yard and beauty products). Visit EWG.org for specific information.
• Ensure you get adequate sleep. Increasing sleep can increase white blood cell production, and loss of sleep, even just a few hours per night, can increase inflammation in the body and decrease immune response.
• Get fresh air and moderate exercise daily. Moderate exercise can boost the production of macrophages, an important white blood cell/immune cell that assist with breakdown of bacteria and viruses.
• Do Nasal irrigation with a Neti pot or  (X-clear) xylitol nasal spray 1-2x daily. Viruses such as influenza multiply in the nasal passages for at least 1-2 days before you develop any symptoms. Nasal irrigation may wash away viral particles before they can take hold. Use organic sesame oil to the nasal passages (sniff it up) daily as prevention. 
• Minimize alcohol and recreational drugs to protect the liver cleansing processes.
• Minimal to no sugar drinks or snack as viruses and cancer cells LOVE sugar. 
• Avoid sport drinks with added sugar, power drinks, soda pop, tortilla chips, gummy bears, goldfish and sugar laden cereals, cookies, donuts and fast food etc. These put everyone at a significant nutrient deficiency risk.
• Avoid highly processed man made foods, modern grains, hydrogenated fats/seed oils, colors and dyes, high fructose corn syrup and foods with ingredients you do not recognize as food.

• Avoid smoking anything. Minimal to no recreational drugs.
• Practice kindness to yourself and others. Find gratefulness in little things. 
• Stay positive. 
• Make health accumulation your strategy and cancel the standard American diet.