Wendy was 72 hours into a brutal flu fight before she slithered out of bed and hunched over her laptop. She looked like she just survived a disaster movie though. The 2024-25 flu has been a beast. The CDC says it racked up 33 million cases, sent 430,000 to the hospital, and sadly, took 19,000 lives by the end of February. Most adults start to recover between 3 to 7 days, but if you’re over 50 (like Wendy 
) it often lingers for 10 days. Kids under 5 and the elderly get hit hard too. As soon as she had a headache and a fever, we hit her with Lysine and Zinc (anti-virals), plus Vitamins C and D, lots of NingXia with Thieves essential oil, Thieves chest rub at night for the cough, and kept the diffuser rolling full blast with more Thieves, Raven and Peppermint. Seems to have worked, she’s bounced back fast.
This flu spreads like wildfire, living with someone who has the flu gives you a 30% shot at catching it. Yet, sleeping next to Wendy (and with our 10-year-old camped out on the floor, don’t judge me, he gets scared) none of us or the other two kids got sick. What’s the secret? A nasal spray with saline, grapefruit seed extract, and xylitol. Science backs it—studies from the pandemic days show these ingredients zap viruses in your nose before they dig in. The studies were done on CVD-19 but saline and xylitol were proven to have “Virucidal effects”. This means they directly inactivate or destroy viruses. They can kill or render viruses non-infectious upon contact. If you haven’t heard of Xylitol, it’s just a harmless sugar alcohol that is commonly used as a sweetener. It’s as good as saline but doesn’t dry out the nose as much. If you do get sick, keep using it. Viruses like to make the sinus area home base to continue replicating and make you even sicker. Grapefruit seed extract kills the bacteria that often cause sinus infections. If you want to stock up before bird flu or whatever Venezuelan Tree Rat virus is next, here’s where I got mine… $22 for two bottles. https://amzn.to/4il3ybI Sources: Xylitol for Viruses: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36039203/
Saline for Viruses: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34938268/ Grapefruit seed extract for bacteria: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12165191/ could you sprinkle the first pic in the middle of the article? Then the second one at the bottom?
