Posted on January 27th, 2009 by Craig Maltby, Editor
Winter is raging but my cold/flu status is negatory, good buddy.
Well I’ve been out snowblowing the driveway at 5:30 in the morning more times during this Iowa winter than 
Governor Blagojevich has been to his hair stylist. It’s been snowy and dang cold here (my apologies to the state tourism bureaucrats). So how’s the “germ environment” in our house? Well, one of my daughters is home sick today with some mild flu-like symptoms. She’s been taking a colostrum supplement for the past 3 months. Seems like she’ll be back to normal tomorrow. Part of her problem is that she and her twin sister are in every music activity possible in high school, which means most weekdays they go from 5:00 a.m. in the morning to 9 or 10 p.m. Then they start homework. On Saturdays, it’s all-day competitions. On Sunday, it’s homework then working at the neighborhood supermarket for 7 hours. All in the dead of winter. Their schedule is brutal, at least in my book. (When I was in high school, it was sports practice after school, home at night talking to my girlfriend on the phone or riding around with my cronies, and maybe looking at a bit of homework). So, needless to say, I can completely understand if they get run down once in a while during this stretch of the year.
My other daughter, who with me, takes a daily EpiCor supplement, is in good shape, though may be showing a couple mild symptoms herself (a little throat scratch that started yesterday). Meanwhile, at school, at least 4 of their friends have mononucleosis! What the heck is up with that? And they said strep is starting to make the rounds.
So far for me, nothing at all. All quiet on the western front. My last discernible hint of any cold/flu-like episode was early last spring, when I was a little congested in the head and slept in until mid-morning one day. That was the last of anything I experienced. My nutritional supplement regimen right now: EpiCor (500 mg); chromium picolinate (200 mcg); Vitamin D3 (1000 mg), lutein ( 6 mg). No massive Vitamin C or zinc intake.
