I've just had the manflu, transmitted to me via internet courtesy of Wulfy, or at least that's what I suspect. Now, so far no one has managed to cure this ailment also known as the common cold, because the cold is a virus. And viruses (virae? viral infections?) are notoriously impossible to kill for reasons I could explain to you in intricate detail, but I won't because it'll bore the pants off you, and I wouldn't want to do that (well I would want to bore the pants off some of you but that's another story).
(By the way, fun fact about the cold! When you have a cold lots of little cold-virus-particles hang out in your sinuses. A virus particle then injects part of itself into one of your own cells, whose normal job it is to be for example skin or musocal tissue or cilia. This poor cell gets mindcontrolled to stop being whatever it is and to start producing new virus particles instead. It continues to do so until it gets so full it explodes, destroying the cell and all the new virus clones spread out to the surrounding cells. So that whole thing of having a stuffy nose, feeling like your whole head consist of phlegm that keeps dribbling out your nose? Yup, snot is basically blown up bits of cells and virus trickling out the only way it can. But, I digress.)
Now, the cure! I tried running 18 minutes on that elliptical thing, thinking logically that evil might chase off evil, but that didn't work. So the next day was spent moping in bed. But then I made a smoothie and et voila - it's gone! So here's the cure:
- A handful of tropical fruit mix
- Some raspberries/strawberries
- A dash of rice milk
- A splash of orange juice
- A few drops of lemon juice
- A pinch of cinnamon (no really)
- And a tablespoon of flax seed oil (oddly accurate, that one)
Also - eat spirulina. It's literally the most nutritious food known to man, and don't be discouraged by the fact that it's a blue-green algae because it comes in pill form. Consists of 60% complete protein (compared to beef or chicken at 25%), complete meaning that it contains all eight essential amino acids (and 10 other non-essential ones). It's also rich in Omega 3, 6 and 9, it's the highest know source of vitamin B12 and beta-carotene and provides other nutrients such as vitamins E, other Bs and minerals like calcium, iron, phosphorus, iodine, magnesium, zinc, selenium, copper, chromium and potassium. It also has chrolophyll, other phytoutrients and powerful antioxidants. And to top it all of this microscopic life form doesn't have the usual tough cell walls found in normal plant life, making it very easy to digest and absorb. There's a reason it's called a "superfood".
