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(cough) It's flu season! What do we do?
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Stay tuned.
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So it's the winter time. Everybody's
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getting sick. I was watching on the news.
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It was like, in the States obviously, 43
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states are calling this a - I don't even
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know - national disaster, or some
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ridiculous news-like term. But it is
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the flu season and every year, 5-20
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percent of the population gets the flu.
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And obviously these are state statistics,
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so I'm sorry for those of you who aren't
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in the States but that gives you a rough
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idea. I'm sure it's very similar
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everywhere. But that means that a lot
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of us are getting sick. And if we're not
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getting sick, a lot of people around us
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are getting sick. Aghh. For germophobes
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it's like the worst time of the year. But
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anyway, so what do we do? We have to
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prepare because the thing is, every year
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over 200,000 people have hospital - bleh,
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sometimes I can't talk - hospitalizations
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due to flu complications. And you know who
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those people are? That end up in there?
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The elderly, children, and people who are
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already sick. And guess what? We sometimes
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fall in that category. Right? Because
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we're not eating properly, we're not
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really taking care of ourselves, and so
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our immune system is really depressed and
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we don't really have anything to fight it
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off. We don't have any of those good bugs
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that fight off the bad bugs. Right? I
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think that's what they call them. But
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anyway, like I said, I'm not a doctor. But
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we need to prepare. And something I
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always do every year in preparation, so
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that I am strong and I can fight, is I
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get the flu shot. And you know now - like
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okay, one of my best friends, and I'm
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not gonna call her out by name but I hope
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she watches this and she laughs to
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herself, she's deathly afraid of needles.
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I mean, one year, cause she works in HR,
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they gave shots, flu shots, in the office
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(ah!) she couldn't even handle it - so now
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it's like a tenth of the size of the
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needle it used to be. You don't even see
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it. It's like the smallest needle ever. So
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for those of you who are afraid, just like
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look over to the side and like talk to
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somebody 'cause it will be done before
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you know it and the needle is not even -
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I don't even know how it gets in to do
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what it needs to do - so, flu shot. What
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else do we do? We hydrate. Now I hear
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from a lot of you, and I hear from a lot
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of my clients, "I don't drink water
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because I'll gain water weight..." No.
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Not now. Not now. Water is good. Our body
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needs water and I know, if anything, if
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you're eating disorder is like a calorie
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counting, then that doesn't even count.
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So please fight back against that voice.
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Do my first task in my workbook. Fight
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back, because you need to stay hydrated.
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That's like my number one most scary thing
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that I hear from my clients is, "I don't
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drink water." Because we can go longer
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without food that we can water. So please
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drink water. Okay. So we're gonna stay
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hydrated. And we're gonna get our flu
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shots. Yes, yes, yes. And then, take
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preventative measures. Take vitamin C.
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Drink some orange juice in the morning.
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I'm a huge fan of Emergen-C. And no this
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is not a plug. If they were paying me that
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would be awesome, but they're not. But
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Emergen-C is great. You can throw it in
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your water. You shake it up. I have like
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little water bottles that I take with me
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to work every day and I drink and fill
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and drink and fill. Right? 'Cause I'm
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talking all the time. La-La-La. I get
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really dry. Water. And I just fill it with
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Emergen-C. Ta-da! I think it has like
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a thousand-whatever milligrams of
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Vitamin C to make us strong, so we can
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fight. Right? Because the flu can really
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take us out. And the thing that's the
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worst is because we are already immune
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system depressed, right? Our immune system
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is like, "I just can't! I don't have it in
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me! I'm gonna take a nap!" instead. But,
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because that's already happening and we
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are already weak, and we may not be eating
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enough, the flu really takes us out. And
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then, guess what? Our little eating
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disorder is like, "ha ha! I'm gonna take
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advantage of this and I'm gonna make you
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do this" and no more! Now you've been
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feeling sick, you've been throwing up,
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you've had a fever, no appetite,
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'cause that's a bad side effect of getting
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sick, right? It's like, "ha ha! We win!"
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No! Bad! Bad eating disorder! No more!
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Right? 'Cause it kind of takes advantage
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of when we're down and out and it's like
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"I'm gonna get you." So, we need to
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protect ourselves. So make sure you're
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doing those things. Go get the flu shot.
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CVS, Walgreens - I want to say it's like
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$10. I think I paid $10. Plus tax or
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whatever else they want to charge you for.
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It probably cost me 15 by the time I was
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out of there. But, do that. Get that. Get
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some Emergen-C. They come in a box for
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like $14, although I live in L.A. so
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I'm probably getting screwed. It's
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probably like $9.99 somewhere where
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you guys are. But, get it. Pick it up.
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There's Zicam.