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I'm sick. a really good one. My mom, a single mom, and I got sick together when I was about five

years old, which meant my little baby brother, who's four years younger than I am had to be shipped off to my

grandparents house and so I got my mom all to myself for five days and to make matters

even better my mom had been planning to have a party. I guess it must have been around the

holidays and she baked a yellow cake with chocolate frosting. And it was the night

before we both got sick, the party got cancelled, single mom on the

sofa with the flu, five-year-old girl on the sofa with the flu, baby brother out of the picture,

and all we could eat for five days

was that yellow cake with chocolate frosting.

Now, that memory aside, I've had the flu once

as an adult, and it's a miserable illness I mean you just ache the

traditional name for flu is break bone fever and if you've ever had it you know

why you can have a tremendously high fever and just be so uncomfortable.

So chocolate cake and time alone with mom aside. The flu is not something any of us

really want to have.

So let's talk today about how to prevent the flu naturally, how to treat it, and overall,

these same tips are great for optimizing wintertime immune support for you, your family, your kids.

Let's start by talking just briefly about what is the flu?

The flu is a shorthand term for influenza, which is a contagious respiratory virus caused by a group

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