The weather is changing - one day spring, the next back to winter. This can wreak havoc on your immune system and when your immune system is down, its perfect conditions for catching the latest bug going around. Before you reach for Nyquil, try these natural cold remedies.

Our amazing, God-given immune system is the BEST defense against any bug. What's the best way to make sure your immune system is strong in times of stress? Establish a habit-of-health now, not after you get sick. Prevention is the best defense and natural cold remedies are the best method. 

Follow these tips to cancel your weather-change cold:

10.   Leave the house prepared for a variety of weather conditions: rain, wind, cold, sun! Don't get caught off-guard without proper protection from the elements. Your body is depending on you!

9.  Short and simple: wash your hands - thoroughly and often. Even then, try to keep your hands away from your face - especially your ears as there's some evidence that cold and flu viruses enter through then breed in the ear canal.

8.  Regular aerobic exercise speeds up the heart to pump larger quantities of blood; makes you breathe faster to help transfer oxygen from your lungs to your blood; and makes you sweat once your body heats up. These exercises help increase the body's natural virus-killing cells.

7.  Make a habit of drinking plenty of water every day! Water flushes your system, washing out the poisons as it rehydrates you. How can you tell if you're getting enough liquid? If the color of your urine runs close to clear, you're getting enough. If it's deep yellow or has a strong odor, drink more (water, that is).

6.  Rest! Your body does more than dream when you sleep. You also repair and regenerate, not just rejuvenate! When your're sick, rest is even more important because your body needs all the energy it can conserve to go towards fighting disease and healing itself.

5.   Remember the old addage "feed a cold"? This is true if you're feeding your body plenty of protein in times of a cold. Why? because protein contains amino acids which are the building blocks your body uses to repair itself.

4.   Eat Foods Containing Phytochemicals. "Phyto" means plants, and the natural chemicals in plants give the vitamins in food a supercharged boost. So eat plenty of organic (grown in vitamin rich soil!) dark green, red, and yellow vegetables and fruits. Preferably still alive, which means FRESH!!!

3.   We all need 90 nutrients in our diet everyday. Our bodies need 60 minerals, 16 vitamins, 12 essential amino acids or protein building-blocks, and 3 essential fatty acids EVERY DAY to generate new cells, blood, and operate properly. According to the 1936 U.S. Senate Document #264, our farmlands have been depleted of essential minerals since then. So, is there really such a thing as "Eating Right"? If the minerals aren't in the soil where the food is grown, they are not in our foods. We recommend you make it a habit to take a multi-vitamin, multi-mineral supplement EVERY DAY to give your body a fighting chance to overcome whatever bug hits it. (Get your free copy of the Dead Doctors Don't Lie CD which explains this point fully).

2.   If you feel the telling signs of sickness coming on you (scratchy throat, aches, fatigue, etc.) take action right away! We recommend taking widely available Airborne (or Wal-born or any other off brand) as well as Emergen-C Immune Defense formula -- BOTH several times a day. These products have herbs, vitamins, and minerals crucial to strengthening your immune system (especially if you haven't been doing #3 above). We also recommend supplementing with Echinacea, Goldenseal, Vitamin C, Zinc, and/or Colloidal Silver (contact us for information on this powerful antibiotic and micro-organism fighter). If you don't want to take a trip to the drug store, eat plenty of onions and FRESH garlic - a natural antibiotic.

Drum roll please...

1.   Did you know that essential oils are arguably the BEST antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial substances (meaning killers of viruses, fungus and bacteria) known to man? Keeping certain essential oils in and around your body and your home is one of the single most important things you can do to kill cold and flu viruses in the air before they ever get in your body.

Contact us about getting some of the best cold-killing essential oil blends available.

By following these tips, you may find that natural cold remedies just may be the alternative to drowsy, drugy cold medicines you've been looking for.