My New Favorite Cold Medicine

Regular readers might remember my bouts with respiratory illnesses: bronchitis that hung on for months, colds that wouldn't go away, sinus infections so frequent that I had sinoplasty many years ago (it didn't stop my sinus infections), and even a week in the hospital with a sinus infection when I was a kid. The sickest I ever felt was when I had the flu at age 17. As someone (maybe Dr. Eades) recently described, I remember where I was and what I was doing when it came on.

Last week when I felt a cold coming on, I figured I'd be sick for several days. I was tired and starting to get congestion and a sore throat. But it went away 12 hours later and didn't come back.

Photo from Unsplash.

Maybe it was short COVID.

Kidding aside, the only difference is that I've been taking Ideal Immunity, a probiotic made by Biotiquest. (I'm not an affiliate.) Some of the members at Dr. Davis's Inner Circle have been getting incredible results with Sugar Shift lowering their blood sugar; another member has greatly improved her atrial fibrillation with Simple Slumber.

Ideal Immunity was the only thing I took (besides a cough drop). I didn't make a yogurt out of it--I normally take one pill, but took two the night I felt sick.

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My old favorite cold medicine was ivermectin. Ivermectin is antibacterial, and since I go to great lengths to avoid killing my gut bacteria, I'm not going to take it for cold symptoms anymore. First of all, the probiotics worked a lot better. Second, the omicron variant of COVID is, so I have heard, no worse than a cold, and so it doesn't justify taking something that might kill gut bacteria.

I'm going to continue taking the probiotics through the winter. Based on one of the ways they work (strengthening your gut lining), I don't think you'd get such fast results by taking them after you get sick. They're kind of pricey, but if you want to stretch them out, the vendor has a recipe to make yogurt. The recipe calls for Sugar Shift, but it has most of the same bacteria as Ideal Immunity.

Here's a link to my video on making perfect yogurt.

Stay well!

Comments

Anonymous said…

Hi Lori! I know you from Dr. Davis' Inner Circle. I'm happy to see your response to Ideal Immunity. I began (maybe a couple of weeks ago) taking Sugar Shift and Ideal Immunity, one in the morning and the other in the evening. It's a little early to rave about the benefits, but I'm cautiously optimistic, as they say.

I always enjoy your posts & input on the weekly meetups.

Stay well.

October 25, 2022

Lori Miller said…

Thanks for the kind words. Hope you have good results with the probiotics, too.

October 25, 2022

Lowcarb team member said…

Stay well Lori.

All the best Jan

October 25, 2022

Lori Miller said…

You too, Jan!

October 25, 2022

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