August 19, 2025 • 18 mins
That familiar feeling of dread is creeping back as COVID cases rise once again—but take a deep breath. This time, we're not starting from scratch. We've learned, adapted, and now have the tools to face this challenge with confidence rather than fear.
The current surge features the LP 8.1 variant, which presents differently than previous waves. With fewer hospitalizations and respiratory complications, we're seeing the natural evolution of the virus as it adapts to human hosts. While media outlets might amplify anxiety, understanding the science behind viral mutations can help put this surge in perspective. As Dr. Dolcecori explains, all viruses mutate as they encounter new environments—it's simply Darwin's law applied to microscopic organisms.
Your strongest defense begins with daily habits that nurture your immune system. Quality sleep (7-9 hours) restores crucial immune cells. Regular movement strengthens your cardiovascular system and immune response. Proper hydration—especially during these record-breaking heat waves—requires both water and electrolytes to replace what's lost through increased perspiration. Stress reduction through breathwork, meditation, or prayer counteracts the immunity-suppressing effects of stress hormones.
Nutritional support forms the next layer of protection. Year-round vitamin D supplementation serves as a crucial nutrient transporter throughout your body. Vitamin C shortens cold duration, while zinc supports white blood cell production—particularly valuable during back-to-school season. Probiotics should be cycled every 2-3 months to optimize gut health without creating bacterial imbalances. Environmental strategies like HEPA filters, proper handwashing, and humidity control complete your defense system.
The emotional component shouldn't be overlooked. Many experience a form of PTSD when hearing about rising COVID cases, but living in fear undermines the very immunity we're trying to strengthen. Instead, focus on empowerment—small daily habits that make the difference between a minor inconvenience and a week in bed. Share this knowledge with anyone feeling anxious about the latest headlines and remember: you don't need to wait for pharmaceutical interventions to take meaningful action today.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It feels like deja vu , doesn't it?
Covid cases are rising again,but this time we're not
powerless.
You have tools, simple naturalthings you can do to keep your
immune system strong and loweryour risk for you and your
family.
Welcome to another week ofLiving a Full Life Podcast.
I'm Dr Enrico Dolcecori, and,yeah, covid is spiking again.
(00:27):
I was hoping I would never haveto say COVID-19 in my lingo
ever again, but here we are.
Realistically, we're going tobe saying it for the next 20
years.
All new viruses that aremanufactured in labs let's just
be honest, it's the only realway they're happening or mutate
in the wild and come into thehuman population will continue
to mutate because we're a newspecies with new DNA and as it
(00:50):
adapts, viruses adapt.
They mutate and try to adapt totheir environments.
As we kill them off quicker,they try and adapt and survive
in other hosts.
It's just what viruses do.
It's a common cold.
There's 800, 900 strands of thecommon cold and flus that we
know of that, we know of thatare out there and have been
around for a long time, and thisisn't the first time we've had
(01:10):
a new virus introduced into thepopulation that starts to mutate
.
It just it happens Swine flu,bird flu as long as we continue
having labs around the worldthat have game to function
research, this is going to keephappening.
But whenever a new virus comesout, it takes about 20 years to
go through all the mutations andwhat ends up happening is a lot
of those variants, like the onethat we're on now, the LP 8.1,
(01:36):
that's the variant that's goingaround right now.
All these variants, the strongones stay around and they become
the viruses that we know of,and the other ones die off and
they don't really, because theydon't survive.
That's that's Darwin's law,right, survival of the fittest,
and it applies to every organismon Earth, and that's what ends
up happening with viruses.
We've seen this 30, 40 years ofI'm only alive 40 years.
(01:59):
That's what I know, that I'veseen over my lifetime and the
changes in the studies thatwe've done in research through
pathology, that this continuesto happen.
So no fear there, this timewe're knowledgeable, right, and
this is just a quick update onCOVID-19 and the things that we
talked about back in 2020,before the vaccines were even
out, on how to keep yourself andyour family strong.
(02:19):
We're going to review thosethings.
I don't think we're seeing theresurgence, like we're going to
see when we saw in 2021.
This is not respiratory, it'snot taking over people's lungs,
it's not causing breathingissues, it's not loss of smell,
it's not really attacking.
The same way, everyone hasprobably been through COVID or
vaccinated or whatever, exposedthemselves to the virus one way
(02:39):
or another.
So I think, as the herdimmunity theory applies, it's
there around the world, I think.
I think we're there.
So it's going to be verydifferent.
There's rising cases that arehappening right now and if it
wasn't for my patients coming inasking more regularly these
questions, I wouldn't have known.
So I researched, it went to thenews and, yes, the news is
loving this.
They're eating this up rightnow.
(03:00):
Media is loving it.
Um, this, you know, while wewait for vaccines and medicine,
the strongest protection startswith our own health habits.
Just like last time, it'salways going to start with you.
If you're going to wait forsomeone else to manage your
health well, you're doomed.
You're doomed.
If you're waiting for someoneelse to take care of your
finances, you're doomed.
If you're waiting for someoneelse to take care of your
spirituality, you're doomed.
(03:20):
If you're waiting for someoneelse to take care of your family
, you're doomed.
If you're waiting for someoneelse to take care of your health
, you're doomed.
You're doomed.
You have to do this stuff.
This is the point of thesepodcasts, and everything is to
just inspire and give you somevigor about health.
So you need to do this.
While we wait for this stuff,the strongest protection starts
with your own daily habits.
(03:42):
So this surge is different.
Let's talk about what's going onin the news a little bit
Hospitalizations not reallyhappening.
It's more about spread andsymptoms that are happening
right now.
The natural immunity is there.
The media is actually talkingabout it.
Lifestyle defense matters morenow than ever because people are
exposed to it.
So I think, as it's back toschool season, parents are
(04:04):
bringing their kids back toschool Now.
They're watching the news andthey're coming in like wait,
hang on a second.
I'm bringing my kid to school.
Covid's going around.
They're going to bring it backto the house.
They're going to spread it tothe family.
Everyone's freaking out.
It's like PTSD from 2021.
They're like, oh my gosh, herewe go again.
It's not going to be like that.
So here's some things that weneed to do right now for a
natural and some practical stepsthat you can take right in and
(04:26):
just reminding you, you probablyknow 90% of this, but that 10%
that you forget will really helpLifestyle foundations.
Get back into the schoolroutine.
Get back into the sleep routine.
Seven to nine hours of sleep Ifyour kids are younger, they can
do a little bit more itrestores your immune cells.
It restores your T cells andyour killer cells.
These are really important inimmunity.
(04:47):
So sleep, prioritize sleep.
Movement got to go for a walkevery day.
Got to get the cardiovascularsystem moving.
You got to strengthen theirimmune response with movement.
Hydration, man, it's been a hotsummer around the world
record-breaking in Europe,record-breaking in North America
.
Hydration is really important.
Yes, you got to drink yourgallon of water per day.
(05:07):
This is just to help youperspire and push urine and
waste products out of the body.
That's not hydration.
Hydration is mineralizationinto the body.
That's it bringing the saltsinto your body and we consider
magnesium, sodium chloride, allthese things as salt.
So all of these things iswhat's called electrolytes.
We need to keep ourelectrolytes up, especially
(05:29):
during the summer months,because we just perspire all the
time.
Even if you're in anair-conditioned building, you're
going to perspire more becausethe hotter temperature
difference there is outside toinside temperature difference
there is outside to inside.
If you're going from 34 degreesCelsius outside to 20 degrees
Celsius inside, or from 95degrees Fahrenheit outside to 71
degrees Fahrenheit inside, wehave now a massive shift in
(05:54):
temperature of 25 degrees 14degrees Celsius, change which
creates humidity responses inthere, which makes you perspire
more.
So summer we just sweat more.
So you've got to hydrate more.
Stress reduction, breath work,prayer, meditation, slowing down
this stress hormone is an issuewith our immunity.
(06:15):
Stress will just make us moresusceptible to getting sick.
There you go.
Quick recap on the lifestylefoundations that we really need
to focus on, but let's get intothe depth of this, of the
nutrition.
What are the things we need tobring back If you stop?
Sometimes we go through seasonalthings, like with vitamin D.
There's this fairytale beliefof like vitamin D you take in
the winter and you don't need totake in the summer.
(06:37):
No, you take it every singleday, 365 days a year.
Vitamin D, you know?
Sunlight, yes, we get it, butwe're not walking around naked
all day.
And if you do, let me know howyou've done this without getting
arrested.
But let me know if you'regetting enough sunlight, because
we're all clothed, we're notgetting enough sunlight.
This is critical forrespiratory defense.
Vitamin D is pretty much thecatalyst that brings around all
(06:59):
nutrition through the body andminerals, and it's a massive
transporter for many things.
So when we're deficient it'slike not having enough semi
trucks in your body to move thegoods.
So vitamin D plays a huge rolein that.
Vitamin C absolutely throughcitrus, through vitamin C
supplements, bell peppers,berries this shortens your cold
duration.
This has been shown anddocumented through numerous case
(07:19):
studies over the last 70 yearson vitamin C and what it really
does is well, maybe you do it,you take it and you still get
sick.
You're like, yeah, I'm doingall the right things, why did I
get sick?
But watch how fast you recoverbecause you did the right things
.
You'll be out for a day andthen you're back at it.
Zinc Zinc is great.
I've been telling a lot ofparents the back to school
regimen zinc pumpkin seeds,legumes no one's eating oysters
(07:42):
supports white blood cell count,which is your defense system.
So in your kids you can do azinc drink or just get them to
take a little bit more zincright now, at the before to
school week, the first coupleweeks of school and everyone's
now sharing all their boogers,that's the time to put the zinc
in, and then you're getting backto your immune boosting stuff
Acai, elderberry syrup whateverit is that you're taking and
(08:03):
giving your kids it's tasty thatworks really well.
Elderberry is shown to reduceseverity and duration of colds
as well, because it's a highantioxidant concoction of
berries and good stuff thathelps support your immune system
.
Probiotics I think this is onethat always gets forgotten.
Probiotics should be around allthe time and we talked about we
(08:26):
have about three podcasts onprobiotics.
So just go into the search feedon the podcast on Spotify or
wherever you're listening tothis, and put in probiotics.
You'll see the two or three popright to the top Great ones.
These are some of our mostpopular podcasts and we want to
cycle them.
So we want to go through acycle of probiotics stop, let
(08:46):
our gut adapt and then bring ina different probiotic and we
cycle this.
So two to three months on one,depending on the dosage of the
container that you buy.
If you buy a 90 day supply or60 day supply, you go through it
for 60 days, you're off of itfor 60 days and then you get a
different one for 60 days tojust change the cultures that
you're putting into your body.
Once you cycle through thisover a couple years, you'll know
(09:07):
the ones that are good for youand the ones that are not, the
ones that kind of gave you someupset stomach or the cultures
that you probably didn't need ormaybe created some overgrowth.
Then you stay away from thoseand you pick your three winners
and you just cycle through thoseand that's the best way to
regulate gut health.
Garlic and ginger add these toyour cooking.
These are just fantastic.
Put them in there.
Eat with garlic.
If you're Italian, you're set,you're all good.
(09:29):
Green tea using the EGCGcompounds inside of green tea
support antiviral immunity.
This is more for adults becausegreen tea typically contains a
little bit of caffeine in that.
Don't have to give it to yourkids.
But all these little thingswork really well.
So the snippet of this podcastis bringing back your vitamin D
dosing, vitamin C and probiotics.
(09:51):
Those are the three highlightsI want you to walk away as your
doctor.
I might not be your doctor, butas a doctor, listening to me is
those are the three things Iwant you to walk away from.
Air quality, environmentaldefense Well, pathogens and
viruses love to be spreadthrough the air through contact,
and air quality plays a bigrole.
(10:13):
Making sure you have HIPAAfilters or HEPA filters in the
house is really important,opening your windows if you can.
In Florida it's a great way toget mold in the house because of
the humidity.
You just really can't do thatright here.
But getting some fresh air, youknow getting the house.
So in Florida and in thesouthern states you want to be
(10:34):
using good filter systems, bothin the house filter that filters
the air handler, and two in therooms.
You want to be using HEPAfilter, air filter in bedrooms,
in major living spaces, andcycle those through.
Make sure you change thosefilters.
Read the package on how oftenyou need to do that.
Those are really important.
(10:54):
Measel rinses and saline spraysto just keep your filtration
system clean.
Hygiene washing our hands.
Going back to that, I did avideo.
I remember it was like March25th 2020.
And I shot a quick video on howto wash your hands.
I'm like am I really doing this?
Are my social media followersthis stupid?
But you're not.
It's just a quick reminder.
(11:15):
That we spend that extra 10seconds washing our hands or
singing the happy birthday songjust ensures that we're giving
the soap, the basic compoundsthat we're putting on our hands,
which is the transporter ofmost viruses because it touches
everything.
Enough time to kill 99% ofeverything that are on our hands
.
If we do a quick rinse withcold water, we may not get all
of it.
So it was a great tip and I wasfeeling silly doing it.
(11:37):
But going back to that,remembering to wash your hands
for that extra 10 seconds withwarm water, and then humidifiers
humidifiers in humid areas wewant to be putting that in sorry
.
Humidifiers in dry areas, rightis where we want to put into
our home to help humidify theair.
I grew up in Calgary, alberta,dry as dry as dry can be.
(12:01):
It's very desert-likeconditions, believe it or not,
kind of like Arizona, colorado,montana, very dry, and you do
need a humidity.
It works really well.
Humidity feels really good inthose areas.
But aside from that, if you'reother parts of the country,
you're probably getting enoughhumidity in the house and
outside the house.
You don't need to put too muchthought into that.
(12:23):
Some more supplements to thinkof If your family is susceptible
to respiratory conditions andthese viruses that are mutating
and going around.
Quercetin is an antioxidant andhas antiviral properties.
This is something you can addinto your diet safe for most
people to take, and these arefor, like, higher risk areas or
(12:44):
if you know there's a outbreakat the school or wherever your
work, you may want to put these.
Keep these on the shelf so thatyou have access to them quickly
.
Nac N-Acetylcysteine supportslung health.
I felt like here in my localarea, I was one of the first
people to bring this in in 2020at the NAC and telling my older
population to take it.
The response that was comingback from them whether they had
(13:07):
COVID or not, this was in 2020,they were like I can breathe
better.
It helped me breathe better,helped break down the mucus, it
helped me clear out my lungs andeven up to today, anyone comes
in with some lung issues.
I tell them NAC if they're overthe age of 50, all of them come
back within a week or twotelling me that's amazing, like
I feel like I'm getting stuffout.
(13:27):
So that's how that works forthe respiratory.
It also has some greatproperties throughout the body
as well.
And omega-3s Please eat youromega-3 supplements.
It's anti-inflammatory and itsupports your overall immunity
Really important with theomega-3s.
Just because we can't get theseoils enough in our diet.
Unless you do, unless you'vetruly measured this and know
(13:49):
you're getting enough, you'reeating the right oils, you're
getting some salmon, you'regetting fish almost daily, it's
part of your diet, then you'reprobably doing pretty well.
Almost daily it's part of yourdiet, then you're probably doing
pretty well.
There is an emotional side togetting sick too, which I like
to talk about, and we have toacknowledge fatigue.
This isn't about living in fearabout COVID coming back.
(14:09):
Please do not.
Please do not do this.
I know it's PTSD for all of usas a culture and a society, and
when we hear that it's going tobe looked back on 20 years from
now as the same effects of WorldWar II or maybe even the
Vietnam War, when we look backat this and the amount of stress
it caused on our society, sowhen we hear this there's going
(14:31):
to be a trigger right COVID-19.
Oh my gosh.
Everyone kind of figures out,but this isn't about living in
fear.
It doesn't help you to befearful and what's going to
happen.
There was people that truly gothurt eating or getting COVID-19
.
So we need to be on top of thattoo.
People have been hurt.
Their families were hurt.
People have lost people.
People did die because of this,just like the flu.
So it instills fear in familiesas well.
(14:54):
So people know people that havebeen hurt by it and people are
living with long COVID man.
They don't want to hear thisright.
They don't want to hear any ofthis.
So living in fear doesn't helpus.
It's about living empowered,and now we have a lot of control
we can use to help ourselveslive healthier.
Small daily habits can make thedifference between a mild
sniffle and a really bad week inbed.
(15:16):
So do the right things, takecare of yourself and you'll
notice how strong you really arefrom the inside out.
Vaccines that they're talkingabout may be available by
mid-September, but the vaccineboosters that have been going
around it's kind of paused in2025 here we haven't heard much
about the, but up until 2024, wehad all the boosters coming out
(15:36):
.
I think the trust issue overallaround the world just went down
.
So the utilization of theboosters went way down, crashed
and not real much change, withinfectious rates and critical
morbidity rates andhospitalizations around the
world from that.
So I think the rage about it isdown.
(15:57):
But they're saying for theLP8.1 virus that's coming out.
Sorry, that's out.
The vaccine in mid-Septembermight be out.
So for those of you that utilizethat type of medicine, they are
coming out for you.
So there's something to lookforward to.
That's more to manage yourstress.
For the rest of you, like me,you're like I'm going to do all
(16:17):
the right things and COVID maybe rising again, but you don't
need to wait for the next shotin your arm to take your action.
Your kitchen, your sleep, yourhabits these are all tools that
give you resilience.
Share this episode with anyonethat's been a little bit spooked
with the recent news, becausethey like to watch the news
every day.
I didn't know anything about ittill last week when patients
(16:38):
were coming in and then somepatients were missing
appointments, you know a coupleof weeks ago, like sorry, I had
COVID, I didn't want to come inand spread it.
I'm like, oh, interesting, Ididn't even know it was going
around again.
So I looked at it and I lookedit up and I'm like well, 34 out
of the to be a little bit of awow factor for you if you don't
listen to the news.
(16:59):
But nothing to fear, you'reprobably doing, like I said, 80
of this stuff already.
That extra 20 may just be thethings that you need to help
prevent you and your family fromsuffering from any of this or
being out for too long andimpacting your life much.
We're all going to get a cold.
We're all going to get a flu.
What we need to do is minimizethe amount of symptoms we get so
(17:19):
that we can just live throughit.
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Stay well, stay healthy, takecare.
It feels like deja vu , doesn't it?
Covid cases are rising again,but this time we're not
powerless.
You have tools, simple naturalthings you can do to keep your
immune system strong and loweryour risk for you and your
family.
Welcome to another week ofLiving a Full Life Podcast.
I'm Dr Enrico Dolcecori, and,yeah, covid is spiking again.
(00:27):
I was hoping I would never haveto say COVID-19 in my lingo
ever again, but here we are.
Realistically, we're going tobe saying it for the next 20
years.
All new viruses that aremanufactured in labs let's just
be honest, it's the only realway they're happening or mutate
in the wild and come into thehuman population will continue
to mutate because we're a newspecies with new DNA and as it
(00:50):
adapts, viruses adapt.
They mutate and try to adapt totheir environments.
As we kill them off quicker,they try and adapt and survive
in other hosts.
It's just what viruses do.
It's a common cold.
There's 800, 900 strands of thecommon cold and flus that we
know of that, we know of thatare out there and have been
around for a long time, and thisisn't the first time we've had
(01:10):
a new virus introduced into thepopulation that starts to mutate
.
It just it happens Swine flu,bird flu as long as we continue
having labs around the worldthat have game to function
research, this is going to keephappening.
But whenever a new virus comesout, it takes about 20 years to
go through all the mutations andwhat ends up happening is a lot
of those variants, like the onethat we're on now, the LP 8.1,
(01:36):
that's the variant that's goingaround right now.
All these variants, the strongones stay around and they become
the viruses that we know of,and the other ones die off and
they don't really, because theydon't survive.
That's that's Darwin's law,right, survival of the fittest,
and it applies to every organismon Earth, and that's what ends
up happening with viruses.
We've seen this 30, 40 years ofI'm only alive 40 years.
(01:59):
That's what I know, that I'veseen over my lifetime and the
changes in the studies thatwe've done in research through
pathology, that this continuesto happen.
So no fear there, this timewe're knowledgeable, right, and
this is just a quick update onCOVID-19 and the things that we
talked about back in 2020,before the vaccines were even
out, on how to keep yourself andyour family strong.
(02:19):
We're going to review thosethings.
I don't think we're seeing theresurgence, like we're going to
see when we saw in 2021.
This is not respiratory, it'snot taking over people's lungs,
it's not causing breathingissues, it's not loss of smell,
it's not really attacking.
The same way, everyone hasprobably been through COVID or
vaccinated or whatever, exposedthemselves to the virus one way
(02:39):
or another.
So I think, as the herdimmunity theory applies, it's
there around the world, I think.
I think we're there.
So it's going to be verydifferent.
There's rising cases that arehappening right now and if it
wasn't for my patients coming inasking more regularly these
questions, I wouldn't have known.
So I researched, it went to thenews and, yes, the news is
loving this.
They're eating this up rightnow.
(03:00):
Media is loving it.
Um, this, you know, while wewait for vaccines and medicine,
the strongest protection startswith our own health habits.
Just like last time, it'salways going to start with you.
If you're going to wait forsomeone else to manage your
health well, you're doomed.
You're doomed.
If you're waiting for someoneelse to take care of your
finances, you're doomed.
If you're waiting for someoneelse to take care of your
spirituality, you're doomed.
(03:20):
If you're waiting for someoneelse to take care of your family
, you're doomed.
If you're waiting for someoneelse to take care of your health
, you're doomed.
You're doomed.
You have to do this stuff.
This is the point of thesepodcasts, and everything is to
just inspire and give you somevigor about health.
So you need to do this.
While we wait for this stuff,the strongest protection starts
with your own daily habits.
(03:42):
So this surge is different.
Let's talk about what's going onin the news a little bit
Hospitalizations not reallyhappening.
It's more about spread andsymptoms that are happening
right now.
The natural immunity is there.
The media is actually talkingabout it.
Lifestyle defense matters morenow than ever because people are
exposed to it.
So I think, as it's back toschool season, parents are
(04:04):
bringing their kids back toschool Now.
They're watching the news andthey're coming in like wait,
hang on a second.
I'm bringing my kid to school.
Covid's going around.
They're going to bring it backto the house.
They're going to spread it tothe family.
Everyone's freaking out.
It's like PTSD from 2021.
They're like, oh my gosh, herewe go again.
It's not going to be like that.
So here's some things that weneed to do right now for a
natural and some practical stepsthat you can take right in and
(04:26):
just reminding you, you probablyknow 90% of this, but that 10%
that you forget will really helpLifestyle foundations.
Get back into the schoolroutine.
Get back into the sleep routine.
Seven to nine hours of sleep Ifyour kids are younger, they can
do a little bit more itrestores your immune cells.
It restores your T cells andyour killer cells.
These are really important inimmunity.
(04:47):
So sleep, prioritize sleep.
Movement got to go for a walkevery day.
Got to get the cardiovascularsystem moving.
You got to strengthen theirimmune response with movement.
Hydration, man, it's been a hotsummer around the world
record-breaking in Europe,record-breaking in North America
.
Hydration is really important.
Yes, you got to drink yourgallon of water per day.
(05:07):
This is just to help youperspire and push urine and
waste products out of the body.
That's not hydration.
Hydration is mineralizationinto the body.
That's it bringing the saltsinto your body and we consider
magnesium, sodium chloride, allthese things as salt.
So all of these things iswhat's called electrolytes.
We need to keep ourelectrolytes up, especially
(05:29):
during the summer months,because we just perspire all the
time.
Even if you're in anair-conditioned building, you're
going to perspire more becausethe hotter temperature
difference there is outside toinside temperature difference
there is outside to inside.
If you're going from 34 degreesCelsius outside to 20 degrees
Celsius inside, or from 95degrees Fahrenheit outside to 71
degrees Fahrenheit inside, wehave now a massive shift in
(05:54):
temperature of 25 degrees 14degrees Celsius, change which
creates humidity responses inthere, which makes you perspire
more.
So summer we just sweat more.
So you've got to hydrate more.
Stress reduction, breath work,prayer, meditation, slowing down
this stress hormone is an issuewith our immunity.
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Stress will just make us moresusceptible to getting sick.
There you go.
Quick recap on the lifestylefoundations that we really need
to focus on, but let's get intothe depth of this, of the
nutrition.
What are the things we need tobring back If you stop?
Sometimes we go through seasonalthings, like with vitamin D.
There's this fairytale beliefof like vitamin D you take in
the winter and you don't need totake in the summer.
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No, you take it every singleday, 365 days a year.
Vitamin D, you know?
Sunlight, yes, we get it, butwe're not walking around naked
all day.
And if you do, let me know howyou've done this without getting
arrested.
But let me know if you'regetting enough sunlight, because
we're all clothed, we're notgetting enough sunlight.
This is critical forrespiratory defense.
Vitamin D is pretty much thecatalyst that brings around all
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nutrition through the body andminerals, and it's a massive
transporter for many things.
So when we're deficient it'slike not having enough semi
trucks in your body to move thegoods.
So vitamin D plays a huge rolein that.
Vitamin C absolutely throughcitrus, through vitamin C
supplements, bell peppers,berries this shortens your cold
duration.
This has been shown anddocumented through numerous case
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studies over the last 70 yearson vitamin C and what it really
does is well, maybe you do it,you take it and you still get
sick.
You're like, yeah, I'm doingall the right things, why did I
get sick?
But watch how fast you recoverbecause you did the right things
.
You'll be out for a day andthen you're back at it.
Zinc Zinc is great.
I've been telling a lot ofparents the back to school
regimen zinc pumpkin seeds,legumes no one's eating oysters
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supports white blood cell count,which is your defense system.
So in your kids you can do azinc drink or just get them to
take a little bit more zincright now, at the before to
school week, the first coupleweeks of school and everyone's
now sharing all their boogers,that's the time to put the zinc
in, and then you're getting backto your immune boosting stuff
Acai, elderberry syrup whateverit is that you're taking and
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giving your kids it's tasty thatworks really well.
Elderberry is shown to reduceseverity and duration of colds
as well, because it's a highantioxidant concoction of
berries and good stuff thathelps support your immune system
.
Probiotics I think this is onethat always gets forgotten.
Probiotics should be around allthe time and we talked about we
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have about three podcasts onprobiotics.
So just go into the search feedon the podcast on Spotify or
wherever you're listening tothis, and put in probiotics.
You'll see the two or three popright to the top Great ones.
These are some of our mostpopular podcasts and we want to
cycle them.
So we want to go through acycle of probiotics stop, let
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our gut adapt and then bring ina different probiotic and we
cycle this.
So two to three months on one,depending on the dosage of the
container that you buy.
If you buy a 90 day supply or60 day supply, you go through it
for 60 days, you're off of itfor 60 days and then you get a
different one for 60 days tojust change the cultures that
you're putting into your body.
Once you cycle through thisover a couple years, you'll know
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the ones that are good for youand the ones that are not, the
ones that kind of gave you someupset stomach or the cultures
that you probably didn't need ormaybe created some overgrowth.
Then you stay away from thoseand you pick your three winners
and you just cycle through thoseand that's the best way to
regulate gut health.
Garlic and ginger add these toyour cooking.
These are just fantastic.
Put them in there.
Eat with garlic.
If you're Italian, you're set,you're all good.
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Green tea using the EGCGcompounds inside of green tea
support antiviral immunity.
This is more for adults becausegreen tea typically contains a
little bit of caffeine in that.
Don't have to give it to yourkids.
But all these little thingswork really well.
So the snippet of this podcastis bringing back your vitamin D
dosing, vitamin C and probiotics.
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Those are the three highlightsI want you to walk away as your
doctor.
I might not be your doctor, butas a doctor, listening to me is
those are the three things Iwant you to walk away from.
Air quality, environmentaldefense Well, pathogens and
viruses love to be spreadthrough the air through contact,
and air quality plays a bigrole.
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Making sure you have HIPAAfilters or HEPA filters in the
house is really important,opening your windows if you can.
In Florida it's a great way toget mold in the house because of
the humidity.
You just really can't do thatright here.
But getting some fresh air, youknow getting the house.
So in Florida and in thesouthern states you want to be
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using good filter systems, bothin the house filter that filters
the air handler, and two in therooms.
You want to be using HEPAfilter, air filter in bedrooms,
in major living spaces, andcycle those through.
Make sure you change thosefilters.
Read the package on how oftenyou need to do that.
Those are really important.
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Measel rinses and saline spraysto just keep your filtration
system clean.
Hygiene washing our hands.
Going back to that, I did avideo.
I remember it was like March25th 2020.
And I shot a quick video on howto wash your hands.
I'm like am I really doing this?
Are my social media followersthis stupid?
But you're not.
It's just a quick reminder.
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That we spend that extra 10seconds washing our hands or
singing the happy birthday songjust ensures that we're giving
the soap, the basic compoundsthat we're putting on our hands,
which is the transporter ofmost viruses because it touches
everything.
Enough time to kill 99% ofeverything that are on our hands
.
If we do a quick rinse withcold water, we may not get all
of it.
So it was a great tip and I wasfeeling silly doing it.
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But going back to that,remembering to wash your hands
for that extra 10 seconds withwarm water, and then humidifiers
humidifiers in humid areas wewant to be putting that in sorry
.
Humidifiers in dry areas, rightis where we want to put into
our home to help humidify theair.
I grew up in Calgary, alberta,dry as dry as dry can be.
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It's very desert-likeconditions, believe it or not,
kind of like Arizona, colorado,montana, very dry, and you do
need a humidity.
It works really well.
Humidity feels really good inthose areas.
But aside from that, if you'reother parts of the country,
you're probably getting enoughhumidity in the house and
outside the house.
You don't need to put too muchthought into that.
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Some more supplements to thinkof If your family is susceptible
to respiratory conditions andthese viruses that are mutating
and going around.
Quercetin is an antioxidant andhas antiviral properties.
This is something you can addinto your diet safe for most
people to take, and these arefor, like, higher risk areas or
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if you know there's a outbreakat the school or wherever your
work, you may want to put these.
Keep these on the shelf so thatyou have access to them quickly
.
Nac N-Acetylcysteine supportslung health.
I felt like here in my localarea, I was one of the first
people to bring this in in 2020at the NAC and telling my older
population to take it.
The response that was comingback from them whether they had
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COVID or not, this was in 2020,they were like I can breathe
better.
It helped me breathe better,helped break down the mucus, it
helped me clear out my lungs andeven up to today, anyone comes
in with some lung issues.
I tell them NAC if they're overthe age of 50, all of them come
back within a week or twotelling me that's amazing, like
I feel like I'm getting stuffout.
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So that's how that works forthe respiratory.
It also has some greatproperties throughout the body
as well.
And omega-3s Please eat youromega-3 supplements.
It's anti-inflammatory and itsupports your overall immunity
Really important with theomega-3s.
Just because we can't get theseoils enough in our diet.
Unless you do, unless you'vetruly measured this and know
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you're getting enough, you'reeating the right oils, you're
getting some salmon, you'regetting fish almost daily, it's
part of your diet, then you'reprobably doing pretty well.
Almost daily it's part of yourdiet, then you're probably doing
pretty well.
There is an emotional side togetting sick too, which I like
to talk about, and we have toacknowledge fatigue.
This isn't about living in fearabout COVID coming back.
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Please do not.
Please do not do this.
I know it's PTSD for all of usas a culture and a society, and
when we hear that it's going tobe looked back on 20 years from
now as the same effects of WorldWar II or maybe even the
Vietnam War, when we look backat this and the amount of stress
it caused on our society, sowhen we hear this there's going
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to be a trigger right COVID-19.
Oh my gosh.
Everyone kind of figures out,but this isn't about living in
fear.
It doesn't help you to befearful and what's going to
happen.
There was people that truly gothurt eating or getting COVID-19
.
So we need to be on top of thattoo.
People have been hurt.
Their families were hurt.
People have lost people.
People did die because of this,just like the flu.
So it instills fear in familiesas well.
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So people know people that havebeen hurt by it and people are
living with long COVID man.
They don't want to hear thisright.
They don't want to hear any ofthis.
So living in fear doesn't helpus.
It's about living empowered,and now we have a lot of control
we can use to help ourselveslive healthier.
Small daily habits can make thedifference between a mild
sniffle and a really bad week inbed.
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So do the right things, takecare of yourself and you'll
notice how strong you really arefrom the inside out.
Vaccines that they're talkingabout may be available by
mid-September, but the vaccineboosters that have been going
around it's kind of paused in2025 here we haven't heard much
about the, but up until 2024, wehad all the boosters coming out
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.
I think the trust issue overallaround the world just went down
.
So the utilization of theboosters went way down, crashed
and not real much change, withinfectious rates and critical
morbidity rates andhospitalizations around the
world from that.
So I think the rage about it isdown.
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But they're saying for theLP8.1 virus that's coming out.
Sorry, that's out.
The vaccine in mid-Septembermight be out.
So for those of you that utilizethat type of medicine, they are
coming out for you.
So there's something to lookforward to.
That's more to manage yourstress.
For the rest of you, like me,you're like I'm going to do all
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the right things and COVID maybe rising again, but you don't
need to wait for the next shotin your arm to take your action.
Your kitchen, your sleep, yourhabits these are all tools that
give you resilience.
Share this episode with anyonethat's been a little bit spooked
with the recent news, becausethey like to watch the news
every day.
I didn't know anything about ittill last week when patients
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were coming in and then somepatients were missing
appointments, you know a coupleof weeks ago, like sorry, I had
COVID, I didn't want to come inand spread it.
I'm like, oh, interesting, Ididn't even know it was going
around again.
So I looked at it and I lookedit up and I'm like well, 34 out
of the to be a little bit of awow factor for you if you don't
listen to the news.
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But nothing to fear, you'reprobably doing, like I said, 80
of this stuff already.
That extra 20 may just be thethings that you need to help
prevent you and your family fromsuffering from any of this or
being out for too long andimpacting your life much.
We're all going to get a cold.
We're all going to get a flu.
What we need to do is minimizethe amount of symptoms we get so
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that we can just live throughit.
Have a great and healthy week.
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