Top Flu Symptoms and Natural Treatments | Dr. Neal Barnard

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🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Flu symptoms are more than just body aches and fever. Some are mild while others can be severe.

Discover the top symptoms for influenza and natural remedies with bestselling author and nutrition expert Dr. Neal Barnard. He joins Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room live with insight on the most common flu symptoms and ways to boost your immune system.

In This Episode

- How to tell if it's the flu or the common cold.

- When should you see a doctor?

- What foods boost immunity?

- Will vitamin C speed up flu recovery?

- Can zinc help with the flu?

- Does dairy and milk make flu symptoms worse?

- Can spicy foods help with the flu?

- Do herbal teas help boost immunity?

- What is the best diet for the immune system?

- And more!

Dr. Barnard is a multiple-time best-selling author whose latest work is The Power Foods Diet.

This episode is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg’s passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.

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0:00.0	Today on the exam room.
0:04.0	Zinc, let's talk about that. James, does a diet rich in zinc help prevent or shorten the flu?
0:10.0	I think it does. Here again, you'll have people debating the evidence, and I don't think the silver bullet in the research world has yet arrived.
0:20.0	However, this started probably 20 years ago with cold symptoms.
0:25.0	And there's some evidence that it can help against other kinds of respiratory infections too,
0:29.4	both with regard to shortening the duration of them and perhaps making them less likely to occur in the first place.
0:36.4	Take that with a slight grain of salt because,
0:38.5	as I said, I don't think the studies are the best quality.
0:47.4	Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Hi, I'm the
0:52.4	weight loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world.
0:57.9	Hi to the exam room he's listening in Fargo, North Dakota,
1:01.2	Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Munich, Germany.
1:05.1	Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.
1:09.5	This is episode 93 of season 7, number 592 overall.
1:14.8	And today is all about the flu. How will you know if it is indeed the flu or just a common cold?
1:23.1	And what are the top flu fighting foods that you should be stocking up on this winter?
1:34.9	Well, we are doing a full-blown flu Q&A with Dr. Neil Barnard to turbocharge our immune system to get us back on our feet faster.
1:38.4	So on tap today, from the exam room live, we have a lot of great questions about the flu from
1:43.6	the exam room. He's like, when of great questions about the flu from the exam room.
1:44.4	He's like, when should you really see a doctor?
1:47.8	Will vitamin C speed up flu recovery, or is that just an old wife's tale?
1:52.5	Will zinc help?
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