Avoiding illness before hunt

[grizzly_]

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[Gellar]

I take a men's multi vitamin daily, plus I'll eat a few of my kids flinstone vitamins if I'm feeling weak! I get 7-8 hours of sleep, I drink lots of water and I never get a flu shot.

 

[huntin' lunatic]

Thanks for all the replies fellas. Have a Happy New Year.

 

[mtmuley]

There really is no way to avoid getting sick. I wouldn't worry about it. I'm in the Root. Who you hunting with? PM is fine. mtmuley

 

[JMG]

Take a Zinc and/or Magnesium supplement. Both boost your immune system. But, as mtmuley stated, there is no way to avoid getting sick. The zinc and magnesium, I believe, have helped me avoid getting sick or have reduced the duration of experiencing a cold/flu. I recommend no more than 25 mg/day of zinc and remember too much vitamin C is not a good thing.

 

[Deleted member 16014]

Avoid all children and you should be good.

 

[Gr8bawana]

Take a Zinc and/or Magnesium supplement. Both boost your immune system. But, as mtmuley stated, there is no way to avoid getting sick. The zinc and magnesium, I believe, have helped me avoid getting sick or have reduced the duration of experiencing a cold/flu. I recommend no more than 25 mg/day of zinc and remember too much vitamin C is not a good thing.

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Dara Mohammadi


Walk through the aisles of any health food shop and you’ll see pots of echinacea or zinc that promise to “support your immune system” or “maintain its healthy function”. Read new age health blogging sites and you’ll find posts on how drinking hot lemon water or knocking back a shot of wheatgrass juice or the current green goo du jour will “boost your immune system” and make you less likely to get ill. These are tempting prospects at this time of year, but ones that are foiled by an inconvenient truth: they don’t work. The idea that any dietary supplement can boost your immunity makes very little scientific sense. And because of the way your immune system works, even if they did what they say they did, you definitely wouldn’t want them to.

“People have this idea that the immune system is some kind of internal force field that can be boosted or patched up,” says Charles Bangham, a professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Imperial College London. “This couldn’t be further from the truth. As the name suggests it’s not a single thing but a system incorporating many organs and biological functions.”

 

[schmalts]

Sleep, don't overdo your workouts the last week. A run down immune system is not good. Limit the booze the week before too.