My advice for getting better when you’re sick is not to get sick in the first place! It’s actually much easier to stay well than to get over a virus or a bacterial infection (or worse.) You can read this blogpost from many years ago about how to boost your immune system.
That said, I usually succumb to some sort of cold or virus once a year and it’s usually when I’m run down and pushing myself too much, which happened this year the day after Thanksgiving. I was super sick for 2 days after Thanksgiving, but I rebounded very quickly. Many people I know had a similar illness but they say it lingered for weeks. Twice I posted a few Instagram stories about what I did to get better lickety split. And since then, I have received many direct messages every day on Instagram which ask me to repeat my list of go-to cures because ‘tis the season. This clearly deserves a dedicated blogpost!Continue reading