Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.

Hey guys, hope you are all doing well or as well as you can be. Our guest today in this very special episode is Dr.

Aviva Ramb, who we've had in the podcast before and she's a medical doctor,

midwife, and herbalist who bridges the best of traditional wisdom and modern medicine for women's and children's health, which is an area that's very top of mind right now as a man who is surrounded by women with my wife, my mother, and our two little girls.

And it is great to have here to talk about COVID-19 and some of the things that are top of mind for me,

Aviva. I'm going to start with my first question. You know, so many people in the My Buddy

Green community, we all lean toward natural. But at the same time, there's so many great blog posts on your on your website about this. There's so much

nonsense out there and without going down the rabbit hole of the nonsense out there. In your opinion, what are some of the more natural steps that those who want to take a natural approach should consider.

And I'll talk about the four buckets.

There's lifestyle, foods, nutrients, and herbs.

Maybe we start with lifestyle.

Yeah, you know, Jason, if you don't mind me just saying too, you know, you mentioned there being a lot of nonsense and there's so much unknown right now, so I would say one way that folks can kind of almost automatically spot something being nonsense is if somebody's saying

this is a cure for COVID or this is proven to be a care for COVID because until we hear otherwise right now it's all speculative and so that should be a red flag.

So lifestyle, I mean the biggest thing that those of us who can shelter at home can do is to shelter at home. The best way to prevent getting sick right now is to not

be exposed. And so that's sort of a basic thing and then all of the things that we're being told like

hand washing making sure you're doing that properly it seems so simplistic in a way

but really like we know that this virus for example has a fatty outer layer and so good soap and

water particularly that soap liquid soap or bar soap can actually help break up

that fatty layer so if you do get contaminated on your hands, you're not touching your

eyes and touching your mouth and your nose and all the ways that we soft infect with these

fomites. So lifestyle that's really important, I think also staying really connected, right?

We all know, we all talk about how stress and loneliness can affect our immune systems.

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