Mushrooms Talking and Moaning

Advice for Cold Virus and More...

Dear Friends

I have become quite a moany person because, I am in a perpetual state of cold virus. The other day I went out to the woods and was moaning to myself. In my inside voice I said “How can I stop getting so many colds?” And then a mushroom said “Hello!”

I mean, the mushroom didn’t magically appear and verbally speak to me, but as I had the moany thought it hit me smack between the eyes. I took some photos, to identify it when I got home. After some careful research I learnt that it was a Birch Polypore. Birch Polypore are antiviral, antiseptic and antifungal. A piece of this special mushroom was found being carried on a leather thong with Ötzi the Iceman who died 5,300 years ago.

So I went back and picked the mushroom that had spoken to me. Then I sliced it, dried it, and I’m working on a double extracted tincture.

Then, rather than continuing whinging I tried to look into practical things I could do and found two interesting science podcasts by Andrew Huberman talking about immunity.

💊 How to prevent and treat colds and flus
💪🏻 Using your nervous system to enhance your immune system

At the bottom of this email I’ve listed the main things I learnt.

Enough about colds. What else?

I’ve carried on doing regular drawing in the evenings. Here are some from the past few weeks.

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That’s all for now

LOVE ALWAYS WINS

Laura
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Cold and Flu Virus Learnings

The main key take aways I got from these podcasts and other Google wormholes are-

• There are over 200 strains of cold (I naively believed that I could just get all the colds and become immune)

• My first line of defence is my skin barrier, which colds can’t get in. The viruses get into my eyes, nose and mouth so don’t touch them in public.

• There is science showing that Wim Hof breathing enhances immunity so I’m getting back on that.

• Your lymph system supports your immunity, so I’ve been trying out this face and neck massage and this full body massage

• Spirulina has been scientifically proven to reduce nasal condition so I just bought some! I used to drink it when I lived in London but I forgot.

• Exercise is good for your immunity (duh!) I go on long walks but haven’t been doing weight or any real cardio so I think I need to stop being a lazy bones and step it up.

• Good sleep is very important for immunity (this annoys me as a parent to a young child I am often out of control of this)

• Green tea is good. Drink more.

• Ginger is good. Drink and eat more

I will start to implement these things. And I can’t wait to tell you that my colds have become less regular. Apparently Andrew Huberman only gets one every 18 months, that would be a dream come true.

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