The Great Physician's Rx for Colds and Flu
By Jordan Rubin and Joseph Brasco
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Jordan Rubin, along with Joseph Brasco, MD, shows readers how to apply the 7 Keys to Health and Wellness and naturally eliminate colds, the flu, and sinus infections from their lives.
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The Great Physician's Rx for Colds and Flu - Jordan Rubin
Every effort has been made to make this book as accurate as possible. The purpose of this book is to educate. It is a review of scientific evidence that is presented for information purposes. No individual should use the information in this book for self-diagnosis, treatment, or justification in accepting or declining any medical therapy for any health problems or diseases. No individual is discouraged from seeking professional medical advice and treatment, and this book is not supplying medical advice.
Any application of the information herein is at the reader’s own discretion and risk. Therefore, any individual with a specific health problem or who is taking medications must first seek advice from his personal physician or health-care provider before starting a health and wellness program. The author and Thomas Nelson Publishers, Inc., shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to loss, damage, or injury caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this book. We assume no responsibility for errors, inaccuracies, omissions, or any inconsistency herein.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rubin, Jordan.
The great physician’s Rx for colds and flu / by Jordan Rubin with Joseph Brasco.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-7852-1402-X (hardcover)
1. Cold (Disease)—Prevention—Popular works. 2. Influenza—Prevention—Popular works. 3. Cold (Disease)—Religious aspects—Christianity. 4. Influenza—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Brasco, Joseph. II. Title.
RF361.R83 2006
616.2'05—dc22
2006013764
Printed in the United States of America
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CONTENTS
Introduction: It’s Going Around!
Key #1: Eat to Live
Key #2: Supplement Your Diet with Whole Food Nutritionals, Living Nutrients, and Superfoods
Key #3: Practice Advanced Hygiene
Key #4: Condition Your Body with Exercise and Body Therapies
Key #5: Reduce Toxins in Your Environment
Key #6: Avoid Deadly Emotions
Key #7: Live a Life of Prayer and Purpose
The Great Physician’s Rx for Colds and Flu Battle Plan
Notes
About the Authors
INTRODUCTION
It’s Going Around!
Bird flu, anyone?
I know that attention spans are short-lived these days, but you had to have been sleeping against a tree trunk like Rip Van Winkle not to catch the media’s full-court press last winter. Experts Fear Bird Flu But Can’t Predict Timing,
proclaimed a Knight Ridder News Service headline. Race to Prevent Global Epidemic,
declared Newsweek while picturing a sick-looking, beady-headed red rooster on the cover. Not since Alfred Hitchcock released The Birds, a frightening film from the early ’60s, have our fine feathered friends been held in such ill repute.
What the mainstream media was doing was working from a template, and with bird flu, the stories generally followed this outline:
1. Something bad is happening in Asia, and it could spread to our borders.
2. Experts are concerned that one of the worst natural disasters in the history of mankind could . . . just might . . . happen very soon.
3. The U.S. government doesn’t want to be caught short, so measures are being taken to protect the public health.
4. Despite anyone’s well-intentioned efforts, we’re doomed, unless science can develop a vaccine.
These feature articles were often accompanied by a grainy sepia-toned World War I–era photo of a cavernous, wood-raftered emergency hospital in Camp Funston, Kansas, where hundreds of bed-ridden victims lay on rows of cots while being nursed back to health. A cutline would state that an estimated 670,000 Americans died from the Spanish flu
influenza pandemic of 1918–1919.
I harbor no doubts that 1918 was not a good time to catch the flu. The influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 killed many more U.S. soldiers than the gruesome trench warfare of World War I. Historians are divided on how many perished globally from the massive influenza outbreak, but estimates run between 20 million and 50 million. In the U.S., one-fourth of the population was infected; globally, 20 percent were tainted with the influenza. My good friend and writer, Mike Yorkey, lost his great-grandfather to the 1918 influenza outbreak.
The Allies of World War I dubbed the epidemic the Spanish Flu,
probably because the outbreak received greater press attention in Spain since the Spanish stood on the sidelines during World War I and enacted no wartime censorship. When Spain was hit hard by an early outbreak of the disease, other countries were eager to pin the epidemic tail on its behind, although some thought the Germans—who introduced poisonous mustard gas on the Western Front in 1915—were behind a diabolical plot to exterminate their enemies with another form of biological warfare.
The Spanish flu quickly traversed the Atlantic and reached our shores, thanks to the human cargo aboard troop transport ships and trading vessels. Like an invading force, it didn’t take long for the Spanish Flu to establish a beachhead in our major cities. As body counts rose and state and local authorities realized they had a modern-day plague on their hands, severe restrictions were placed on public gatherings and travel. Theaters, dance halls, churches, and other public gathering places were shut down. Quarantines were enforced. Funerals were limited to fifteen minutes.
Many of these public restrictions were entirely appropriate measures. Once La Grippe
—the other name associated with the 1918 flu—clutched you by your sore throat, you could be a goner, especially if you were between the ages of twenty and forty. For some reason, the Grim Reaper wielded its sickle on those in the prime of their lives, not young children or the elderly. Victim’s lungs filled rapidly, and they struggled to clear their airways of a blood-tinged froth that gushed from their noses and mouths. What happened is that you essentially drowned yourself in a matter of days or even hours.
Ghastly. Physicians were helpless against an epidemic that historians today call the most devastating ever—causing far more deaths than the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351, although it must be noted that many more people were living at the turn of the twentieth century than 650 years ago.¹ Since the Spanish flu was an indiscriminate affliction that cut across economic and social lines, fatalism ruled the day, which was encapsulated in a rhyme that children sang as they skipped rope in 1918:
I had a little bird
Its name was Enza
I opened the window
And in-flu-enza
The suspected source of the 1918–1919 flu pandemic was a bird flu that jumped directly to humans, morphed into a human virus, and then was spread from one person to another. Could that happen again today? No one is sure, which is why we’re seeing so much media speculation. 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft said, The World Health Organization calls [the bird flu] the most serious health threat facing the planet, greater than AIDS or tuberculosis.
Kroft made this statement because public-health authorities are gravely concerned that a deadly bird flu virus could make that critical leap to human-to-human transmission.²
As Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra once said, if that happens, it would be déjà vu all over again.
NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT
So is another deadly bird flu pandemic