Posted on November 24th, 2008 by Craig Maltby, Editor
My experience: a little throat scratch has come and gone
Here’s the latest episode in the chronicle of my personal health experience while taking an immune 
balancing supplement with the EpiCor fermentate ingredient.
Over the weekend (2 days ago) I started getting that “throaty feeling.” You know, where your throat starts feeling a bit swollen and a little further down, that scratchy, coughy sensation sets in. In the past, I could set my watch to the time when a full-blown bronchial congestion, cough, phlegm fest and possible laryngitis would come crashing through. So far, nothing of the sort. I’ve been drinking a bit more water in the past couple of days, and made sure I got a couple hours extra sleep yesterday and this morning (but I did put up my Christmas lights last night in the nice 60-degree Iowa weather, while listening to my boy Kurt Warner and the Cards lose to Ely Manning and the Giants). I’m now ending the work day, and Operation Scratch is going away. Heck, I might even have a beer tonight. But not more than one. Alcohol is an irritant to soft tissue (as in a soar throat) and a diuretic, meaning it saps your body of hydration and dries out your system. You need to retain fluids during the cold season.
So far I’ve overcome this early-warning condition twice this season. Not to mention my allergy experience this year was an absolute success. It was like my hay-fever allergies went away entirely while pollen count in this area was heavy.
I have a wife and twin daughters. One daughter is taking an EpiCor-containing supplement, and so far she’s doing great. Her twin sister, on the other hand, even with EpiCor, seems to be extra susceptible to the winter crud. She’s had 8 sick days from school this year, complete with 3 or 4 doctor visits and 4 rounds of antibiotics. I’ve since tried having her take a bovine colostrum supplement. Too early to tell yet if it is making a difference, so we’ll wait out the winter and spring and see how it goes. However, she did make it though her latest bout with the crud by sleeping an extra day and needing no doc or prescription. Both my girls are conscientious about their diet and they do pretty well on getting a good amount of sleep.
December 10th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I noticed a similar effect while taking a supplement containing EpiCor. I felt as though I was about to get sick with a cold, as I do every year around the turn of the seasons. A lot of people around me were ill and, despite it all, I suffered little less than an initial itch inside my throat. I slept a couple extra hours and I was ready to hit the gym the next morning.