Hello, this is Evan Brand. Thanks for joining me. I'm a certified functional medicine practitioner and a functional nutritional therapy practitioner. I operate worldwide via phone, Skype, and of course, any other way that we need to connect. I've always been in the virtual setting, meaning doing these online consultations with people so luckily it has not affected my ability

to still reach out to you all and connect with you all and to help you so if you do need help

clinically whether it's something that's more urgent related to antiviral protection type

strategies i've definitely had more requests to do those and i'm happy to have those conversations

but also my theory on the whole thing is get yourself as healthy as possible so that you

reduce your risk, which is what we talk about somewhat today because your immune system,

of course, is primarily coming from the gut.

So if you've got some sort of infection going on, bacterial

overgrowth, parasites, candida, those type of things, you need to get those things addressed

so that your immune system is not suppressed and you are not weaker, therefore a better

candidate for a virus to take over. So it may make you want to take these things more serious,

but that's always been my message, is to

fix and improve those things.

And the good side benefit is a lot of the herbs we use for bacteria, candida, parasites,

things like that are not only just antimicrobial, antifungal, but they could also be antiviral.

So, for example, olive leaf.

We use olive leaf a lot and some of my

formulas like my microbiome support three. We use that for candida and fungal issues quite often.

Olive leaf happens to be a great antiviral too, though. So you get side benefit, which is great. I love

when you could use a nutrient that has multiple benefits. But we're going to get into just some

strategies today to help talk about

reducing some of the fear helping to calm the nervous system down when it comes to this whole

...