The Best Remedies to Use When You’re Sick

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I’m going to tell you how to get rid of your infection symptoms naturally. To combat an infection, try to determine if you’re dealing with a viral infection or a bacterial infection.

Viral infection symptoms will be more systemic. If you have a viral infection, you’ll notice more body aches and chills. Bacterial infection symptoms will be localized. Fevers are typically higher with a bacterial infection.

A sore throat associated with a viral infection is often accompanied by a runny nose and a cough. If a sore throat is caused by a bacterial infection, you’ll feel more localized pain without a runny nose.

A dry cough is associated with a viral infection, while bacterial infections are associated with a productive cough. Respiratory infection, the common cold, flu, bronchitis, and infections involving the sinuses and lungs are generally viral. Pneumonia can be both bacterial and viral.

A viral infection typically lasts 1 to 2 weeks. A bacterial infection will probably last a bit longer, but this depends on your immune system. Mucus associated with a viral infection is usually clear or white and green or yellow with a bacterial infection.

The best viral infection remedies are elderberry and olive leaf extract. For bacterial infections, try garlic, oregano oil, and echinacea.

The following remedies for infection work for both viral and bacterial infections:

•Take a hot bath or shower/dress warm

•Get more sleep

•Take zinc, vitamin D, and vitamin C

•Fasting

•Increase sea salt intake

•Improve emotional state

•Get more sunlight (UVB and infrared rays)

•Take cod liver oil

Stress, age, and poor gut health can increase your susceptibility to infection. Refined sugar and other refined foods deplete zinc and vitamin C, also increasing your susceptibility to infection.

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0:00.0	You know I've done a lot of videos on the immune system.
0:02.8	Today we're going to talk about what to do once you get an infection and what is the fastest
0:07.5	way to overcome this infection.
0:09.9	Well, the first thing to do is to kind of figure out or guess if it's more a viral infection or a bacterial infection.
0:18.0	So with a viral infection, it's going to be more systemic, so you're going to probably feel more body aches, chills with bacterial infection. more maybe urinary tract infection or food poisoning. A fever in a bacterial infection goes
0:36.2	a little bit higher than a viral. So if your fever is really super high, potentially could
0:41.4	be more bacterial. If you get a sore throat with a
0:43.8	viral infection a lot of times you have a runny nose and a cough but with a
0:48.9	bacterial sore throat you're going to feel just like more pain and
0:52.0	localized without the runny nose.
0:55.0	That's a type I used to have every single year growing up.
0:59.0	It was terrible.
1:00.0	With a virus you'll have more of a dry cough, bacterial, productive cough, which means
1:07.2	there'll be mucous involved.
1:08.8	Typically when you have a respiratory infection, sinus or lung or bronchitis, think viral. But if you have pneumonia,
1:17.7	you could have both bacterial and virus, except sometimes in the childhood illness, you'll get pneumonia, viral pneumonia.
1:25.7	But if you have like the common cold or flu, that's typically going to be viral.
1:30.6	Now as far as how long these infections can go, with a viral... viral. It could be one to two weeks. With the bacterial, it could be a
1:35.4	one to two weeks. With the bacterial, it could be a little bit longer. And
1:39.7	this all depends on your immune system. The mucus with a viral infection
1:44.5	usually is clear or white,
1:46.9	but with a bacterial infection, it's more green or yellow.
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