As a nutritionist, herbalist and health coach, I’m offering these health tips to help you and your family be their healthiest right now. Luckily, kids have great immune systems, and are largely immune to covid, and when they get colds and flu, it stregthens their immmune system for the future. Here are some recommendations to help you and your family stay healthy this Fall and Winter.
It would be great to eat ample vitamin D3 and A right now. It can be taken in a supplement form. Foods that include vitamin D include wild shrimp (the tiny salad shrimp are wild), milk, grass-fed milk, grass-fed/pastured pork lard. d# supplements are thought to be better paired with vitamin K, but be aware that some people can’t add K to their diet if they are on medications related to blood clotting. Check with your doctor if you are on meds.
Vitamin A is found in butter, dairy products, and all the yellow and orange vegetables like winter squashes (butternut and acorn), sweet potato, etc.. Soups or baked squashes are easy to make.
Cod liver oil contains both vitamin A and D, which is why schools and parents used to dose it out on spoons each fall. Be aware that fish oil can expand blood vessels, which can lower blood pressure. This can be good for many – However, talk to your doctor first if you are on heart or blood medications, because the doctor may be balancing your blood pressure with the medications.
Fermented Foods: Why Eat Them?
Swedish Pickles 
Green Tomatillo Salsa 
Fermented Cream Cheese, made from strained homemade yogurt. The liquid that comes off is whey. 
Ground Pork, Pan-Fried, adapted from an Epicurious.com recipe. Served with fermented red sauerkraut with garlic. Four mason jars of fermented foods 
Daikon Radish Pickles 
Creamy yogurt fermented at home from raw grass-fed milk.
You could also include small amounts of fermented foods to beef up the good bacteria in our digestive tracts, which that play a large part in directing immunity. Examples include these foods from the cold section of local health food stores: miso (for soup and dressing) sauerkraut, pickles, kimchi (kimchee), yogurt, and more –
Check out this free video about Recovery of Good Bacteria After Antibiotic Use, that details many other foods and why its important, especially to repair your gut flora of good bacteria:
Free Video: Post-Antibiotic Recovery and Rebuilding of Gut Flora –
https://youtu.be/-9NMIVttxU8 (this video is also found at Apple and Google Podcasts, Apple Music, iHeart Radio, Libsyn.com, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and more.
I also like offering my family fresh hummus or pesto, or garlic toast, for the benefits of raw garlic. Any fruit in a fresh or uncooked state is great for the taking in vitamin C. Sauerkraut and kimchi have it, too. And fresh food is better than taking vitamins any day.
And there is a homeopathic remedy called Influenzium, made from flu, found at health food stores. Taking two tablets per month is thought to be preventative for general flu virus. 9c was recommended to me, but I find 30c at health food stores. Homeopathic remedies do not interfere with other medications, and should not have side effects. [This is NOT an affiliate link.]
