From Chris's email about helping build your Immune system, potentially :)
Immune stacks below
Hey healthier people
Does anyone else feel like they've been hit by a bus lately?
It's that time of the year, schools are back, and a fortnight later it starts.
Millions of kids are swapping viruses in classrooms and bringing home this season's greatest hits.
Millions of kids are swapping viruses in classrooms and bringing home this season's greatest hits.
Ask any GP receptionist. The phones go mental in mid-September like clockwork. Every single year. And it doesn't stay with the kids. It travels. Home, office, gym, everywhere.
The light problem
At the same time the light is falling off a cliff. The UK loses about 4 minutes of daylight a day through September.
The UK sun is too weak for your body to make vitamin D at all.
So the system knows the whole country runs low every winter. The plan? Wait until you're flattened in January, then tell you - deal with it, here's a few pills to get you through it, but do you need those nasties ?
How about feeling better and thriving for a change ? and not having to go anywhere near your doctors office ? If you can get an appointment these days, that is......
Winter doesn't ambush anyone
It arrives on schedule, same date every year, and every year, most people act surprised.
Not me mothafuckas :)
Your immune system isn't a light switch. You can't flip it on the morning you wake up with a throat like sandpaper. It's more like a garden. What you do in September decides what January looks like.
It's also called taking responsibility for your health :)
It's also called taking responsibility for your health :)
Come January, there are two types of people. The ones dropping like flies, passing the same bug round the office for three months. And the ones flying through it, wondering what all the fuss is about.
Which one are you ? Or I should say, you have a choice of which one you are.
Which one are you ? Or I should say, you have a choice of which one you are.
I have built you 3 stacks to help anyone, I should call them 3 armys :)
Here is the first one.
Here is the first one.
THE HOME GUARD, from £39.65 (£1.32 a day)
The foundations. If you do nothing else this winter, do this.
Vitamin D3+K2 (10,000IU). You know that flat, grey feeling that arrives around November? Not ill exactly. Just heavy. Tired at 3pm, tired at 8pm, low for no reason you can name, catching everything the kids bring home.
Most people call it winter. A lot of the time it's got a simpler name: running on empty vitamin D, because from October the UK sun is too weak for your skin to make any at all. Your immune cells are covered in vitamin D receptors, docking stations sitting there waiting.
Empty docks, sluggish defence, and a mood to match. Now picture yourself in January, up before the alarm, while the office passes the same bug round for the third time. That's what a full tank feels like.
The K2 rides along to send calcium to your bones where it belongs. This is the cheapest fix in health, and half the country never makes it.
Vitamin C. Strange fact: nearly every animal on earth makes its own vitamin C, round the clock, on demand. A goat under stress produces grams of the stuff. You can't make a single milligram.
Humans lost the ability somewhere down the line, which means you're the one animal that has to go and find it, every day, forever. And your body knows how much it matters: your white blood cells hoard up to 50 times more C than your blood carries, because when a fight kicks off they burn through it like an army burns through ammunition.
Run low and you feel it as that run-down, gums-bleed-when-you-brush, every-cold-lasts-a-fortnight state. Keep the ammo stores full and the fight's shorter. Simple as that.
Zinc. Ever had a cold that wouldn't leave? Two weeks, three weeks, still croaking? Food tasting of nothing, cuts healing slowly, white marks on your nails? That's what running low on zinc looks like from the inside, and it's one of the most common shortfalls in the UK, especially past 50 or if red meat's not a big part of your life.
Here's why it matters: your immune cells can't multiply without zinc. When a virus lands, your body needs to raise an army overnight, millions of new cells, and zinc is the recruitment officer.
No zinc, no recruits, and the war drags on. Your body can't store it either. It needs feeding daily, like a fire needs coal. Feed it, and the next thing that lands on you meets a full barracks instead of an empty one.
Link to Immune stacks: https://www.british-supplements.net/pages/immune-stacks
THE FRONT LINE, from £91.33 (£3.04 a day)
Everything in the Home Guard, plus three more soldiers.
Quercetin. Zinc does its best work inside your cells, and getting through the door is the slow part. Quercetin holds the door open. More zinc where it's needed, every capsule going further.
And once it's in there, quercetin fights too. It's one of the most researched immune flavonoids going, studied for slowing viruses down when they try to copy themselves inside your cells, which is the only way a virus spreads.
Door open for the zinc, spanner in the works for the bug. That's why it's the first thing we added when levelling up
Garlic. Your gran hung garlic in the kitchen and her gran did the same, through every plague, pox and pestilence in recorded history. Turns out they weren't superstitious, they were early.
Crush a clove and it releases allicin, the compound that gives garlic its bite, and one of the few herbal compounds that's been put through a proper placebo-controlled winter trial. The garlic group got on noticeably better than the sugar-pill group.
Imagine explaining to your gran that science finally caught up with her. She'd give you that look. You know the one.
Echinacea. The Plains tribes of North America used echinacea for more or less everything, centuries before a chemist ever looked at it. What the research points to now is that it wakes the immune system up: more activity from the patrol cells, the ones that wander your bloodstream looking for trouble before trouble finds you.
And that's the key to echinacea, it's a before herb, not an after one. Starting it when you're already streaming is shutting the stable door. Starting it in September, while you're still well, means the patrols are already out when the first bug walks in. Which is rather the point of everything on this page.
THE FULL ARMY, from £136.23 (£4.54 a day)
Everything in the Front Line, plus the heavy support. Because an army fights better when the whole body's running right.
Olive Leaf. The olive tree lives a thousand years in blistering heat, riddled with pests, and doesn't die. Ever wonder how? It makes its own defence chemical, oleuropein, so bitter nothing wants to eat the leaves.
Mediterranean folk brewed those leaves for fevers generations before anyone knew why. Now we know: oleuropein's been studied for making life hard for bugs at every stage, stopping them latching onto your cells and slowing them down once they're in, which is why researchers call it one of the broadest natural defence compounds going.
Your body also breaks it down into hydroxytyrosol, one of the strongest antioxidants ever measured, mopping up while the fight's on. You're borrowing the immune system of a tree that outlives empires.
Mediterranean folk brewed those leaves for fevers generations before anyone knew why. Now we know: oleuropein's been studied for making life hard for bugs at every stage, stopping them latching onto your cells and slowing them down once they're in, which is why researchers call it one of the broadest natural defence compounds going.
Your body also breaks it down into hydroxytyrosol, one of the strongest antioxidants ever measured, mopping up while the fight's on. You're borrowing the immune system of a tree that outlives empires.
Turmeric. Here's what nobody tells you about a long winter of fighting bugs: the fighting itself wears you out. Every battle your immune system wins leaves a bit of smoke behind, inflammation, and by February that's the stiff knees, the puffy face, the aching everything.
Turmeric's curcumin helps keep inflammation in its lane, so your army fights without burning the village down behind it. It's the difference between winning the winter and merely surviving it.
India's been putting it in everything for 4,000 years. They weren't doing it for the colour (most of the time).
Beetroot. The odd one out, until you think like a general. You can have the best-supplied army in the world, but if the roads are shot, nothing reaches the front.
Your blood is the road network every immune cell, every vitamin and every mineral on this page travels on, and beetroot feeds blood flow like almost nothing else, which is exactly why athletes quietly guzzle it.
Better roads, faster deployment. It also arrives loaded with betalains, the deep red pigments that mop up the mess while everything else fights. Logistics wins wars. Ask any general.
Poor blood and nothing much works as it can't get delivered.
What do you have to lose? It's £4.54 a day for the lot, less than a meal deal, and late Dec will tell you whether it was worth it.
Poor blood and nothing much works as it can't get delivered.
What do you have to lose? It's £4.54 a day for the lot, less than a meal deal, and late Dec will tell you whether it was worth it.
Link to Immune stacks: https://www.british-supplements.net/pages/immune-stacks
Buy longer, pay less
Every stack comes in 1, 2 or 3 month options.
The Home Guard: 2 months saves you £16.62. 3 months saves £34.87, which works out at 93p a day.
You've lost more than that down the back of the sofa :)
You've lost more than that down the back of the sofa :)
The Front Line: 2 months saves £35.54. 3 months saves £76.82.
Best price 3 month pack: £2.19 per day.
Best price 3 month pack: £2.19 per day.
The Full Army: 2 months saves £52.73. 3 months saves £113. Yes, £113.
Best price 3 month packs: £3.29 per day.
Best price 3 month packs: £3.29 per day.
And here's the thing about the 3-month option. Three months from now is mid-December. That's October, November and December sorted in one decision, the whole danger zone,
while everyone else is fighting over Lemsip in the supermarket, your man's running around like He-Man, and you're like Wonder Woman rolling back the years :)
Pick your army here
Link to Immune stacks: https://www.british-supplements.net/pages/immune-stacks
Lastly, as you know, a spade is a spade with me; nothing in a pouch makes you bulletproof. I wish it did. People taking everything still catch things, me included, although I'm a 1 in 5 years sorta deal currently, the odd cold or sore throat.
One thing I always like to point out, you need to take them long term and build them up in your system, that's the main thing when it comes to natural herbs and vitamins.
Every other supplement company will email you about immunity in November/Decemeber, when you're already flattened on the sofa. We're telling you now because now is when the garden gets planted.
Everyone will be dropping like flies. You, flying on He-Man's shoulders hopefully :)
Win-win is the goal :)
Chris and the British Supplements team.
