Everything You Need to Know About Colds and Flu

🎙️ On this episode of the podcast, we discuss the various things that take place in your body as soon as you get a cold or flu, why symptoms appear in the order they do, and which cures are actually worth it while others are merely based on tradition.

🦠 We go through the full infection timeline: why viruses target your nose first, the "hook and scissors" mechanism every respiratory virus uses to invade and escape cells, why influenza specifically hijacks your own cell's genetic tagging system, and why Tamiflu only works within a 48-hour window.

🔥 We look in detail at interferon and the entire chain of effects that come after, such as fever, aches, and a loss of appetite.

❌ Does dairy really make mucus worse? Does garlic up the nose clear an infection? Does menthol actually open your airways? How do honey, zinc, and vitamin D play a role? This episode covers all of that.

🤰 Plus flu in pregnancy and why the risk is genuinely different past 20 weeks, and why it's worth a same-day call to your GP, not a wait-and-see.

🩸 And what's actually happening with iron during infection, why your body deliberately hides it from a virus, and what that means for your cycle and ovulation timing if you get sick mid-month.

All references are in the full article available on my Substack and Patreon.

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