Hello, happy new year. Welcome along to Age Better with me, Liz Earle. So let us get your January off to the most brilliant start. I have got so many insightful questions from you today. And I'm so excited to answer them for you because it is my mission to help you truly thrive in later life.

So if you have a question for me, please do get in touch.

All the contact details are in the episode description and at the end of the show.

So coming up today, Kate wants to know how to reset after the Christmas craziness. I will be diving deep on the

morainea coil and Samantha asks how to tackle stretch marks. Then I will be talking through the steps

to rebalance gut health after an upset stomach. And finally, I have a lovely voice note about how to time taking supplements.

Now, before we get into these questions, you might hear a slight croakiness in my voice. I promise

you, it's not from too much parting. There was a little bit of that, obviously, but no, a little bit

of lurgy lingering. And do you know, I was doing some research as to why I felt so achy with the

flu. And I managed to shake it off really easily. And I'll tell you how I did it. I thought that it was

the virus that was making me feel achy.

It was some kind of viral ache.

But actually, it seems to be that when our immune system detects something that's going on like a virus,

it prioritises defending the body and kind of bringing out the big guns to beat it.

And that means a lot of our electrolytes and other immune resources

are pulled away from normal bodily functions,

and that is what can cause the achiness.

So, armed with that bit of knowledge,

I then downed about three pints of electrolytes,

obviously not all in one go,

sipped slowly throughout a number of hours.

And do you know what? I felt so much better.

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