The role of loneliness in reducing resistance to the common cold was recently demonstrated in England. Researchers recruited fifty-two men and women and classified each as an introvert or an extrovert. All were then inoculated with cold viruses and kept in hospital for ten days of observation. Tests showed that those with extrovert, outgoing personalities [...]
Patricia Wagner, Ph.D. coauthored a study at the University of Florida, relating zinc levels to overall immune response in 203 subjects aged sixty to ninety-three. Tests showed that forty-five persons had weakened immune system, and these same people all had the lowest zinc levels. When five of these subjects were given fifty-five mg of zinc [...]
When cold symptoms seem to persist for longer than fourteen days, the cause is more probably an allergy than a virus. Symptoms of allergic rhinitis include itchy, red, watery eyes which often swell; frequent sneezing; an itchy, runny nose; and a tickle in the back of the throat. The cause is hypersensitivity to an allergenic [...]
It may come as a surprise to learn that thinking positive thoughts and staying physically relaxed can do more to conquer a cold than any other single therapy. But the simple explanation is that stress is unable to exist when we are deeply relaxed and thinking optimistically. Like most other human diseases and dysfunctions, cold [...]
We cannot overemphasize here that your success depends on visualizing yourself as already free of headache pain. Pictures and phrases such as “My headache will disappear”, make weak, vague instructions to feed to the subconscious. Compare it with “My headache if gone, I am completely free of headache pain”.
In a sense, we are mobilizing our [...]