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Ep 13 - WWFND?- Colds, Flu, and a sprinkle of COVID
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In this week’s Functionally Feral, we extend our “What Would We Do?” series into cold & flu season. We swap stories (including a truly unhinged TSA moment), then lay out what we actually keep on hand and how we use it: homeopathy first-aid kits (yes, the exact kinds), propolis and silver sprays, echinacea basics, zinc/Vit D timing, cell salts/bioplasma, plus when we add herbs or just wait it out. We also talk early-sign body awareness (the tingle! the tickle!), simple lifestyle moves that matter (nap > grind, grounding, red light, lymph love), and how we travel with a slimmed-down “heavy hitters” pouch so we’re not scrambling in a mountain town for elderberry. Consider this your immunity starter pack—with zero shame and a lot of laughs.
Some products we mentioned: Earthley Feel Better Fast, Ollois 12 in 1 cell salts, Boiron ColdCalm, Boiron Chestal, Beekeepers Naturals Propolis Nasal Spray (regular and Max) and Propolis Immune Throat Spray, Results RNA ACS 200 colloidal silver spray and nasal spray, Xclear sinus rinse, Designs for Health Immunitone Plus, Liposomal Vitamin C, Vitamins ADEK, Probiospore soil based probiotic, Organ Synergy blend, Zinc, Rowe Casa products (Relief, Relief Kids, Clear and Open), Ecinacea, raw honey, Trace Minerals drops or electrolyte packets
Get a discount on your supplements by making an account at https://us.fullscript.com/welcome/nrichards1685729820
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Transcript
Intro
Behind-the-Scenes Humor
00:00:51
Felicia Devine
Hello and welcome back to episode 13.
00:00:53
Natalie Richards
Hello.
00:00:54
Felicia Devine
Hi, Natalie.
00:00:54
Natalie Richards
but We've just been having a grand old time chit-chatting.
00:00:57
Felicia Devine
Yes, we've already chatted.
00:00:58
Natalie Richards
Figured we should start recording.
00:01:01
Felicia Devine
We've already been chatting for 30 minutes. That was behind the scenes.
00:01:05
Natalie Richards
and all the things we want to talk about, and then we dive into these rabbit holes, and then we're like, wait, save it.
00:01:06
Felicia Devine
Maybe. Or all the things that we can't say live on the pod.
00:01:13
Natalie Richards
This is true.
00:01:13
Felicia Devine
But maybe someday we'll do a paid subscription for our behind the scenes conversations.
00:01:17
Natalie Richards
o for the real stuff. Yeah.
00:01:21
Felicia Devine
The stuff that we cannot give away for free.
00:01:24
Natalie Richards
Oh, man.
00:01:25
Felicia Devine
I know. Maybe someday.
00:01:26
Natalie Richards
i think that's a great idea because there's probably some people who would want the the details.
00:01:28
Felicia Devine
i know.
00:01:31
Felicia Devine
Who would actually want to know? Yeah. Yeah. No kidding.
00:01:36
Natalie Richards
So funny.
Series Extension Announcement
00:01:37
Natalie Richards
So going chat a little bit. We're going to like extend our series a little bit on the what would Felicia and Natalie do?
00:01:45
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:01:45
Natalie Richards
And we're going to more so like talk about general immunity, I guess. um What would we do for just like preventing general sickness?
00:01:57
Natalie Richards
And like if you have a cold, what would you do?
00:01:58
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:02:00
Natalie Richards
um Or the flu, something like that.
00:02:02
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Or the COVID.
00:02:02
Natalie Richards
We might even, yeah, we might even dabble into COVID now that we can actually talk about it.
00:02:07
Felicia Devine
The big C word. I know. I wonder if we'll get censored. We'll see.
00:02:11
Natalie Richards
Whatever. don't care.
00:02:12
Felicia Devine
We'll see who's to know my headphone wire keeps rubbing on my zipper and it sounds so terrible in my ears.
00:02:18
Natalie Richards
Oh no.
00:02:21
Felicia Devine
So i'm going to try and hide that.
00:02:21
Natalie Richards
Oh no. Oh, you can hear it.
00:02:23
Felicia Devine
Well, it just, I don't know. It's transmitting up the wire.
00:02:26
Natalie Richards
Oh, I see.
00:02:27
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Um,
00:02:28
Natalie Richards
It's all it's all ah like twisty.
00:02:31
Felicia Devine
Yeah. It's like, I wonder I'm dying it.
00:02:33
Natalie Richards
Dying it?
00:02:34
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:02:34
Natalie Richards
Dying it?
Wellness Episode Success
00:02:35
Felicia Devine
So what we want to talk about today is piggybacking off of our last episode that went over very well with our listeners. People really liked kind of hearing how Natalie and I approach different, I guess, topics in the wellness sphere and like what we would do to treat them in our own home.
00:02:52
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:02:54
Felicia Devine
um A lot of people were very fascinated about homeopathy. a lot of people were very fascinated about supplements that we have in our house that we kind of use interchangeably and like what they're for.
00:03:06
Felicia Devine
So we figured because we're coming up on the cold and flu season, we would piggyback into that and kind of give our rundown of things that we like and that work for us.
00:03:17
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
00:03:18
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
Uncle's Home Remedy Story
00:03:19
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:03:19
Natalie Richards
i ah'll I'll start with this funny story. Kind of not funny, but just interesting story.
00:03:22
Felicia Devine
and
00:03:25
Natalie Richards
My uncle texted me the other day and he and his wife, they're like, they're 80 years old. So they're they're getting up there.
00:03:31
Felicia Devine
Oh, yeah.
00:03:33
Natalie Richards
And he was just, I don't know. He just decided he was going to text me that day and just say, hey, you know, we're sick. And um just letting you know, like, I don't even know. It was almost like...
00:03:46
Felicia Devine
He was like, this is my last text message.
00:03:47
Natalie Richards
Just letting you know that, right. kind of like it kind of felt that way. I was like, wait, okay, let me call you ah we'll talk about what's going on.
00:03:53
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:03:55
Natalie Richards
he... he I just said, okay, like, what are you, what are you doing currently? What do you have at home?
00:04:02
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:04:03
Natalie Richards
He goes, well, my, he always consults with all of his doctor friends and before he calls me.
00:04:07
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. Right.
00:04:08
Natalie Richards
And ah so he was doing like, and right.
00:04:10
Felicia Devine
Old retired doctor friends.
00:04:12
Natalie Richards
So he had this really bad cough and, um kind of just like achy, not necessarily fluy fever, but just didn't feel good. you know?
00:04:22
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:04:22
Natalie Richards
So just kind of like he could feel that it was hitting him.
00:04:23
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:04:25
Natalie Richards
The mucus is like deep within his throat and and in his chest.
00:04:28
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:04:29
Natalie Richards
um So he was doing, he had a lot of nasal congestion too. So he was doing Afrin in order to sleep at night so that probably, i don't know.
00:04:37
Felicia Devine
Wait, isn't that addictive?
00:04:40
Felicia Devine
Wait, is that the nasal spray that people...
00:04:40
Natalie Richards
i feel like people are ah obsessed with that.
00:04:42
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:04:43
Felicia Devine
I think that's like an addictive nasal spray.
00:04:44
Natalie Richards
I think it is. I'm pretty sure, but it works from what I've heard.
00:04:47
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:04:48
Natalie Richards
I've never used it
00:04:48
Felicia Devine
Okay. If you use... I think like the back the box is like use only for like, yeah, for like two to three days at a time.
00:04:51
Natalie Richards
You can use it like twice a day for like a couple days. Right.
00:04:55
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:04:55
Natalie Richards
But some people use for so long.
00:04:56
Felicia Devine
ah People get addicted to for years. Yeah.
00:04:58
Natalie Richards
Okay. So he was doing Afrin and he go, I'm doing
Homeopathic Remedies Discussion
00:05:03
Natalie Richards
Afrin and I'm doing Tylenol. And I go, oh no.
00:05:07
Felicia Devine
You're like, and going to go ahead and tune into episode 12 of Functionally Feral found on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
00:05:07
Natalie Richards
No.
00:05:12
Natalie Richards
I literally said, wait, did you listen to our podcast? He goes, what podcast? I go, well...
00:05:19
Felicia Devine
Oh my God. If you have an hour.
00:05:20
Natalie Richards
Let me send it to you. But anyway, I i really said, okay, do you have these things? Because I know like his wife had some of them, I think, but not all the things that I would probably have him do for true getting over a sickness.
00:05:27
Felicia Devine
okay Yeah.
00:05:34
Felicia Devine
Reverse the effects of his Tylenol.
00:05:36
Natalie Richards
Afrin. Tylenol. So I go, first of all, let's stop the Tylenol unless you feel like you really, really need it.
00:05:44
Felicia Devine
Oh my.
00:05:44
Natalie Richards
um Just because it's going to prevent your natural body from healing in the right way. And he goes, okay, that's fine. And I go, I have a half an hour. I'm going to go to the natural market.
00:05:56
Natalie Richards
I'm going to get you some things and I'm coming over and I'll tell you how to use them.
00:05:58
Felicia Devine
Oh yeah.
00:05:59
Natalie Richards
And I will, you will feel better within a day. Like i I was like, you will feel better.
00:06:02
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:06:04
Natalie Richards
There's no, there's no way you won't.
00:06:04
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:06:07
Natalie Richards
He goes, okay, if you're if you're real, if you're for real about this, like I'll trust you.
00:06:12
Felicia Devine
Oh.
00:06:13
Natalie Richards
like, okay. So I went and got him. I'll tell you what I got him. So they had at the natural market that we have, they had only a few things.
00:06:16
Felicia Devine
Okay. Right.
00:06:21
Natalie Richards
And I wanted to also not do too many herbs because of the medications that he's on.
00:06:24
Felicia Devine
Yeah. And
00:06:25
Natalie Richards
So he has all kinds of like heart heart things that he's he's taking.
00:06:29
Felicia Devine
yeah and you have to be careful with herbs.
00:06:29
Natalie Richards
He's So you do, you have to be careful with herbs. So I said, okay, I'm going to go get you. um I went and just to see what they had.
00:06:39
Natalie Richards
So they had cold calm, which is the Boiron cold calm homeopathic um in the little tablets.
00:06:44
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:06:47
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:06:47
Natalie Richards
And I was like, okay, that's good. And then they had ah the chest all in the little pellets, which is great.
00:06:53
Felicia Devine
Okay. What is, what is chest all? Is that like, like chesty things?
00:06:54
Natalie Richards
Chest all is for coughs and for like deeper. Mm-hmm.
00:06:57
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:06:59
Natalie Richards
I find if you're specific between the cold calm and the chest all, like cold calm is great for like head head colds for sure. But if it's in your chest at all, chest all is so, so, so good.
00:07:07
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:07:10
Felicia Devine
ah What are you saying? Chest, A-L-L?
00:07:12
Natalie Richards
Chest A-L. So it's it's one word, C-H-E-S-T-A-L.
00:07:14
Felicia Devine
Oh, chest, ah chest all.
00:07:17
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:07:17
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:07:18
Natalie Richards
Chestal. um So I got those. I got him a silver. They only had the sovereign silver, like that classic sovereign silver spray that you have to take like
00:07:27
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Very generic. Yeah. Okay.
00:07:30
Natalie Richards
50 sprays of to equal one dose, but whatever.
00:07:34
Felicia Devine
They're like, drink half the bottle. Did you get the nasal spray or did you get the mouth spray?
00:07:37
Natalie Richards
I both, both. I did the silver nasal spray, the silver mouth spray, the propolis nasal spray, and the propolis throat spray.
00:07:39
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:07:41
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:07:45
Felicia Devine
and
00:07:47
Natalie Richards
So I did both, all of them.
00:07:47
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:07:49
Natalie Richards
was like, you need to have these things. These are just like,
00:07:51
Felicia Devine
All of that equals one dose of Afrin.
00:07:55
Natalie Richards
um like, you need to try this stuff. um What else did I get him?
00:07:57
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:07:59
Natalie Richards
um I got them silicochanum just in case it turned into like more of a flu situation because I love that one.
00:08:05
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. Yes.
00:08:07
Natalie Richards
But I said, you probably don't need this now, but just in case you were to get the flu, this is really good.
00:08:11
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:08:13
Natalie Richards
I think that was about it.
00:08:14
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:08:15
Natalie Richards
trying to think what else I got. No, I think that was it. So I go, do all these things multiple times a day.
00:08:21
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:08:21
Natalie Richards
i wrote down exactly what to do. And he goes, okay, I'm going to trust you. And he he said he woke up the next day and he he slept through the night.
00:08:25
Felicia Devine
Aw.
00:08:29
Natalie Richards
He didn't have any nasal congestion.
00:08:29
Felicia Devine
ok Okay.
00:08:31
Natalie Richards
it was so much better. His cough was less, um still like deeper, So I said, ah I'll bring over some other things if you feel like you need it. But by today, this is like two days ago.
00:08:43
Natalie Richards
By today, he said he's so much better.
00:08:46
Felicia Devine
Love that.
00:08:47
Natalie Richards
so And he's 80 years old.
00:08:47
Felicia Devine
Aw.
00:08:49
Natalie Richards
and Like your immune system should be honestly not that great at that at that point in time, you know, especially after he just took Tylenol for a couple of days.
00:08:54
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. It's getting tired. It's getting real tired.
00:09:02
Felicia Devine
His liver was real tired.
00:09:02
Natalie Richards
So that's like a little, just like a little, it was just a funny instance that was like, oh, this is appropriate that we're talking about all this stuff.
00:09:07
Felicia Devine
Oh my gosh. Right. How, how, yeah, the timing couldn't have been better. trying to think if I had any, like, I don't know. I mean, i in my life, I have people that are, that'll text and be like, Hey, I have this or like, Hey, my, my husband's suffering with this.
00:09:23
Felicia Devine
And
Homeopathic Kit Usage
00:09:24
Felicia Devine
I'm, I just like bring my first aid kit.
00:09:25
Natalie Richards
Totally. Right.
00:09:26
Felicia Devine
Um, so I mean, I love my homeopathic first aid kit. I think it's like, it's so universal to so many problems.
00:09:31
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:09:36
Natalie Richards
I know. And I hate when people text me and i like have all these things I want to tell them to do, but I know they don't have them.
00:09:43
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. Right.
00:09:46
Natalie Richards
And then that makes me annoyed because I'm just like, can you just get a homeopathic kit, please?
00:09:46
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:09:50
Felicia Devine
Can you get a first aid kit, please?
00:09:52
Natalie Richards
Please? Can you just have it so I can tell you what to do when you really need it?
00:09:53
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:09:55
Felicia Devine
Yeah. And even honestly, communal first aid kit, because they, they last forever, right?
00:10:01
Natalie Richards
For sure.
00:10:01
Felicia Devine
Or not forever, but they last so long.
00:10:01
Natalie Richards
That's so true.
00:10:03
Felicia Devine
Like I can cover like my family. I can cover my brother's family. Like i can kind of dose people in my close vicinity.
00:10:10
Natalie Richards
It's true.
00:10:12
Felicia Devine
So it's almost like, um, village living.
00:10:13
Natalie Richards
It's true.
00:10:16
Natalie Richards
Yes, I love it
00:10:16
Felicia Devine
Yeah. If you're close in proximity to anyone that you like and you can dose them, then like that's okay because these kits will last you. Like, I mean, how much of some of those things do you really need?
00:10:27
Natalie Richards
They do.
00:10:28
Felicia Devine
um
00:10:28
Natalie Richards
Yeah. yeah Some of them you could use once in your lifetime, you know, but but exactly.
00:10:29
Felicia Devine
But,
00:10:33
Felicia Devine
right. But when you need it, you need it. Yeah. um So, right.
00:10:37
Natalie Richards
You just need to have it. So let, i I will tell you, I have like, I have a lot of single remedies of homeopathic stuff just like that.
00:10:38
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:10:45
Felicia Devine
No, did you collect those as you've gone?
00:10:46
Natalie Richards
I've, that I've collected.
00:10:47
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:10:47
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:10:48
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:10:48
Natalie Richards
Um, along with like the acilococinum, which is wonderful for flu.
00:10:52
Felicia Devine
Flu. that That one is like a flu goddess.
00:10:53
Natalie Richards
Yeah. That one's literally the the number one thing that anybody should ever do is that.
00:11:02
Felicia Devine
Yeah. So the the number one takeaway from that this flu topic that we're about to go down is that you need that one.
00:11:07
Natalie Richards
hu
00:11:08
Felicia Devine
If you have anything.
00:11:08
Natalie Richards
Other than that, I mean, kind of just deal with it.
00:11:10
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, basically this whole podcast is to say you need one thing. um
00:11:15
Natalie Richards
and then So I also then beyond my single remedies that I've just kind of accumulated um depending on what I felt like I would need.
00:11:21
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:11:24
Natalie Richards
i have There's like a kit on Amazon. It's like a blue box of homeopathy. They have a yellow one that's for childbirth.
00:11:30
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:11:31
Natalie Richards
I have that one too.
00:11:32
Felicia Devine
Oh, cool.
00:11:33
Natalie Richards
That one has all of like the two hundred
00:11:33
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:11:35
Natalie Richards
c
00:11:36
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:11:37
Natalie Richards
concentrations of certain things.
00:11:38
Felicia Devine
Okay. Mm-hmm.
00:11:38
Natalie Richards
So I actually have liked having that one too. um But the the blue one is just like 30C, 36 remedies that...
00:11:46
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:11:47
Natalie Richards
And it comes with a little booklet and tells you how to use it, tells you what particular conditions you'd use each one. And it's great.
00:11:53
Felicia Devine
Right. Right.
00:11:54
Natalie Richards
It's like a good little, like I know I have pretty much everything if I needed it.
00:11:59
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:12:00
Natalie Richards
So I love that one.
00:12:00
Felicia Devine
Yes. And again, like all of these, all of these are good for like any age.
00:12:01
Natalie Richards
But then you...
00:12:06
Felicia Devine
So it's not like you would need like an adult version and a kid's version.
00:12:07
Natalie Richards
yeah
00:12:08
Felicia Devine
Like all of these homeopathic kits that we're talking about are fine for like, I was dosing Giuseppe with my first aid kit when he was an infant and I was doing drops in his mouth.
00:12:09
Natalie Richards
No.
00:12:19
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:12:19
Felicia Devine
Like yeah I could give it to my parents, you know, so it's, it's good for everyone.
00:12:20
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:12:24
Natalie Richards
Now, I will say what I learned from my homeopathic class I took is that sometimes for babies, like infant, infant, or ae super, super acute, intense situations, 200C concentration is sometimes what you want for infants.
00:12:32
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
00:12:37
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:12:42
Felicia Devine
Okay. So I will say, right.
00:12:43
Natalie Richards
But you don't have to have them.
00:12:45
Felicia Devine
So with the kit I have, so Natalie has a kit that she has both like purchased in a package deal, but also like kind of piecemealed some other things together.
00:12:57
Felicia Devine
i bought a 30 remedy kit um that is in the Fibonacci homo cords. So what that basically means is they take all of the dilutions and they put them all in one bottle.
00:13:10
Natalie Richards
Oh.
00:13:11
Felicia Devine
So when you're taking a Fibonacci Homo Chord remedy, it has every dilution and your body will only utilize what dilution you need. So as you go through your healing, if you need 200C at the beginning and a 30C in the middle, your body will pick up in that Homo Chord.
00:13:20
Natalie Richards
love
00:13:27
Felicia Devine
Like what...
00:13:28
Natalie Richards
it.
00:13:28
Felicia Devine
Yeah. So that's that's what I really like about
Homeopathy Kit Consults
00:13:31
Felicia Devine
the remedy kit.
00:13:31
Natalie Richards
Love it.
00:13:32
Felicia Devine
And then um my homeopath here locally, Jenny, um or I should say in the US, I shouldn't just say locally because Jenny treats patients all over the US.
00:13:40
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:13:41
Felicia Devine
um But she uses the Fibonacci Home Accord. She has the 30 kit, 30 remedy kit. And it comes with the first aid booklet. And it's essentially like everything you would need for, like I don't even know.
00:13:56
Felicia Devine
It's a 30 page first aid booklet.
00:13:59
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:13:59
Felicia Devine
Like that's how in depth you basically.
00:14:00
Natalie Richards
but Right.
00:14:03
Felicia Devine
So how you so people are like, OK, what I get this kit. How do I use it? Right. So the first aid booklets, basically you trace down your symptoms.
00:14:14
Felicia Devine
That's how you you match homeopathy. It's not just like, oh, I have. I don't even know what a good example of like doing it wrong would be. um Anyway, so like how you find the correct remedy is you trace down like exactly what your symptoms are.
00:14:30
Felicia Devine
So if you have a cough, so this is a good example.
00:14:31
Natalie Richards
hu
00:14:33
Felicia Devine
If you have a cough, is your cough wet? Is it dry? Is it productive? is it um Is it squeaky?
00:14:37
Natalie Richards
huh
00:14:39
Felicia Devine
Is it barking?
00:14:40
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:14:40
Felicia Devine
Is it better with cold? Is it better with hot? it Like it basically, you track down like exactly your symptom profile and then it'll tell you the remedy for that.
00:14:50
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:14:50
Felicia Devine
So that's what's in the booklet. It's like symptom profiles.
00:14:56
Natalie Richards
Love that.
00:14:56
Felicia Devine
And then and then then that's how you dose. And sometimes I get a little bit like, ooh, it kind of is. Like if you're looking at a stye for your eyeball, OK?
00:15:04
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:15:05
Felicia Devine
Well, like it kind of does get better with a hot compress, but it's also like more irritated at night, like whatever it might be.
00:15:12
Felicia Devine
So I'll pick and choose, and I'll kind of blend my own remedies.
00:15:12
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:15:16
Natalie Richards
You can, yeah.
00:15:17
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:15:17
Natalie Richards
And you you can kind of also go down the path that's most appropriate, where it doesn't have to be like 100% exact, but the the general feeling of that thing is what you go towards.
00:15:22
Felicia Devine
Right. Exact. Yeah.
00:15:29
Felicia Devine
he
00:15:31
Natalie Richards
So you could use the same remedy for a lot of different ailments depending on what the characteristic of the ailment is.
00:15:31
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:15:36
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:15:41
Felicia Devine
Correct.
00:15:41
Natalie Richards
And this is going to go ah over a lot of people's heads.
00:15:41
Felicia Devine
So
00:15:45
Natalie Richards
And I, it goes over my head.
00:15:45
Felicia Devine
it still goes over my head.
00:15:48
Natalie Richards
So read a book, get a homeopathy book, or at least like something that you, or talk to a homeopath.
00:15:49
Felicia Devine
Yes. but Yeah. Or talk to Jenny.
00:15:56
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Like just, and you'll learn as you go.
00:15:57
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:16:00
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:16:00
Natalie Richards
um i'm awful, but like chat GPT is sometimes really helpful.
00:16:05
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:16:06
Natalie Richards
for remedies finding.
00:16:07
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:16:08
Natalie Richards
So like if I'm like quickly, I don't feel like going through my brain of like, what do i what do I know?
00:16:08
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:16:13
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:16:15
Natalie Richards
Because I don't have all of them memorized.
00:16:16
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:16:17
Natalie Richards
And I'm like, can you just give me ah some options for this particular thing?
00:16:22
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:16:22
Natalie Richards
It'll come up with all the different remedies. And I say, okay, I have this one or I don't have this one. Let's just try this.
00:16:28
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:16:28
Natalie Richards
and And you can kind of like trial and error a little bit sometimes.
00:16:32
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:16:33
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:16:33
Felicia Devine
Yeah. A family member of mine had a stye and that's what I did. I was just like, okay, what is like the best for this kind of stye? What location it is? Like all these things. And then I was like, okay, I have three of the five.
00:16:44
Felicia Devine
So I'm just going to blend the three I have.
00:16:45
Natalie Richards
Right. Yep.
00:16:46
Felicia Devine
um I will say if if you purchase a kit from Jenny, so Jenny um will... will make the kit, but she also does a 30-minute consult with you when you purchase the kit.
00:16:59
Felicia Devine
And it's one-on-one, and she tells you how to use it what the indications are, how to dose, like what um what the parameters are, um which is great because when you're purchasing a big purchase like this, like her kit is typically 315 for remedies.
00:17:09
Natalie Richards
That's very nice.
00:17:16
Natalie Richards
huh
00:17:17
Felicia Devine
um And if you're making a purchase like this for your family, like you want to know how to appropriately use it so it gets used.
00:17:23
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:17:24
Felicia Devine
um You don't want to be like, well, I don't even know where to start.
00:17:24
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:17:27
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:17:28
Felicia Devine
So she does a 30-minute consult. We'll link her info in the show notes um and and get that squared away so that you have a way to contact her.
00:17:33
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:17:36
Felicia Devine
But she's great. I mean, I've been friends with her for years.
00:17:37
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:17:40
Felicia Devine
um she's She's taught me a lot about what I know in like a lot of different wellness spheres.
00:17:40
Natalie Richards
It's good to have somebody on your team.
00:17:45
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:17:46
Felicia Devine
um
00:17:46
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:17:47
Felicia Devine
So.
00:17:47
Natalie Richards
It's just like takeaway number one is get a homeopathy kit. Sorry.
00:17:51
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:17:52
Natalie Richards
You just have to.
00:17:52
Felicia Devine
Yes. Yeah. It's like having Band-Aids at your house. Yeah.
00:17:55
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Like you just have to.
00:17:56
Felicia Devine
Like you have a first aid kit with like alcohol swabs and band-aids and gauze. You need a first aid kit of homeopathy.
00:18:00
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:18:02
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:18:03
Felicia Devine
um And also it like doesn't expire. And like it can go bad if you like treat it poorly, leave it in the sun and like put it on top of your Wi-Fi router.
00:18:07
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:18:10
Natalie Richards
Yeah. <unk> Right. Yeah.
00:18:13
Felicia Devine
But generally speaking, great shelf stability.
00:18:14
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:17
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:18:17
Natalie Richards
Yes.
Traveling with Homeopathy
00:18:18
Natalie Richards
i So from my years of Chinese medicine as a child with my mother, you had we had this Chinese medicine doctor and you i think he said that you can like re-energize the vial by just shaking it.
00:18:23
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:18:33
Felicia Devine
Yeah, yeah.
00:18:34
Natalie Richards
And you can like like re... I don't know.
00:18:37
Felicia Devine
Jenny teaches us to percuss them in our hand or suck us suck us is the word.
00:18:39
Natalie Richards
like to Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Suck us.
00:18:43
Felicia Devine
So you take your palm and you suck us the vial or you suck us the jar and that like recharges the frequency.
00:18:43
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:18:45
Natalie Richards
Yes. Okay.
00:18:48
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:18:51
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:18:52
Felicia Devine
Wait, have i heard have I ever told you about my TSA experience with my homeopathy?
00:18:56
Natalie Richards
no With your vials? No. i bring it with me all the time.
00:19:00
Felicia Devine
Okay. Oh, get this.
00:19:02
Felicia Devine
Okay. So this was back in 20,
00:19:02
Natalie Richards
oh no.
00:19:07
Felicia Devine
twenty fifteen So 10 years ago.
00:19:09
Natalie Richards
Okay. Oh, my God.
00:19:11
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:19:11
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:19:11
Felicia Devine
Yeah. So I was working with a homeopath in Arizona and i was dealing with recurrent, very painful cysts in my ovaries.
00:19:23
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:19:24
Felicia Devine
And I ended up having like a kind of like a cancer scare. I was working with an oncologist. I had surgery to remove the cyst. They did like biopsies while I was still under. Like it was kind of like this, like it doesn't look like a normal cyst.
00:19:37
Felicia Devine
So we're just going to prepare you for the worst.
00:19:37
Natalie Richards
Okay. Sure.
00:19:39
Felicia Devine
um Ended up, I didn't have cancer, but their only solution, the OB's only solution was birth control.
00:19:48
Natalie Richards
Yes. Same for me too. I had the same thing and I was like, no,
00:19:51
Felicia Devine
And i my family and I were like, wait a minute, that's the solution? And they're like, yep, that's the only way you're going to ever like manage your sis. And my um my mom is like, she's always been like an outside of the box thinker.
00:20:07
Felicia Devine
um And she was like, this can't be right. So she found me a homeopath. And we went to this homeopath. And she, you know, it it was so over my head at the beginning, Natalie.
00:20:19
Natalie Richards
It's so extensive. like that
00:20:21
Felicia Devine
Oh my gosh. ah is She had a wall. This whole room was a, it was a library and it had, i mean, it you could probably do some damage in there.
00:20:27
Natalie Richards
who
00:20:32
Felicia Devine
Like it had, ah she had thousands of vials.
00:20:33
Natalie Richards
Totally.
00:20:36
Natalie Richards
oh my God.
00:20:37
Felicia Devine
Okay. So she did her whole workup. She did everything. I think she did muscle testing, but again,
00:20:42
Natalie Richards
yeah
Early Homeopathy Experiences
00:20:42
Felicia Devine
it was so over my head at that time.
00:20:44
Natalie Richards
Because it seems so ridiculous.
00:20:47
Felicia Devine
And I literally was like, I don't even know what she's talking about, but all I took away from it was like, here's like, okay.
00:20:52
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:20:52
Felicia Devine
And I was like, great. Sounds good. Okay.
00:20:54
Natalie Richards
Number one principle of of homeopathy. Yeah.
00:20:56
Felicia Devine
um we Like, here's like, so I was like, okay.
00:20:57
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:20:58
Felicia Devine
So she hands me this like set of vials and they're in these like brown, amber bottles. And I was like, okay, well I'm going to school in Iowa next week.
00:21:09
Felicia Devine
And she's like, all right, so you don't want to send your vials through the x-ray machine. Okay.
00:21:14
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:21:15
Felicia Devine
And I said, okay. She's like, so my patients who travel, they just put the vials in their waistband and they just go through the metal detector.
00:21:21
Natalie Richards
No.
00:21:23
Felicia Devine
and I go, okay. So this was 10 years ago. I don't even think they were using the at that time. And I was also traveling through a small airport.
00:21:28
Natalie Richards
No.
00:21:30
Felicia Devine
So it wasn't like an international airport. It was ah is a regional.
00:21:33
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:21:34
Felicia Devine
So I just walked through the metal detector. had all my vials in my waistband.
00:21:38
Natalie Richards
a
00:21:39
Felicia Devine
I was alone. i get flagged.
00:21:42
Natalie Richards
Of course you do.
00:21:42
Felicia Devine
They're like, ma'am, but ma'am.
00:21:44
Natalie Richards
Of course.
00:21:46
Felicia Devine
ma'am, we need to check. We need to do a pat down. I go, no, no, no, you don't. They start patting me down. Natalie, they go, oh, I need you to lift your, your shirt. There's something in your waistband. Are you wearing a belt?
00:21:56
Felicia Devine
I go, no, I'm not, I'm not wearing a belt.
00:22:00
Natalie Richards
cannot
00:22:02
Felicia Devine
And I lift my waistband so awkwardly. And I'm just like,
00:22:07
Natalie Richards
And you didn't say, oh yeah, that's my homeopathy. You said,
00:22:10
Felicia Devine
Well, eventually they, I had to, because I was like, I have like six vials shoved it down my pants.
00:22:11
Natalie Richards
No.
00:22:21
Felicia Devine
And the lady's like, what are these? And I was like, ah I was like, they're medicine.
00:22:23
Natalie Richards
no
00:22:27
Felicia Devine
They're my homeopathy. And she's like, no.
00:22:28
Natalie Richards
And you don't even know because you don't even understand anything about it.
00:22:30
Felicia Devine
no They looked like I was smuggling drugs, bombs, lighter fluid.
00:22:33
Natalie Richards
my word.
00:22:38
Felicia Devine
I don't even know what I would be like. Why would I do that?
00:22:40
Natalie Richards
oh my
00:22:41
Felicia Devine
I literally was so taken aback because my this homeopath was like all my patients that have to travel.
00:22:43
Natalie Richards
word
00:22:46
Felicia Devine
They just shove them in their waistband. They walk. No issue. I didn't even wasn't even nervous. I literally was like, this is what they do.
00:22:57
Felicia Devine
So I was like so caught off guard when she was like, ah you need a pat down.
00:22:59
Natalie Richards
Oh, oh my God.
00:23:00
Felicia Devine
And I was like, no, I don't. So I had to present these. I was just like fumbling things out of my pants. It wasn't, they weren't even my pocket. They were in, they were shoved in my pants and I'm fumbling them. And I'm just like here. And she's like, what are you doing? Why did you do this?
00:23:18
Felicia Devine
I said, good question. Why, why did I do this? I don't know. My homeopath told me to.
00:23:23
Natalie Richards
Oh my God.
00:23:25
Felicia Devine
So at the end of the day, they like swabbed them and they were like, oh, it's fine.
00:23:27
Natalie Richards
Yeah. yeah
00:23:28
Felicia Devine
But like, don't do that.
00:23:30
Natalie Richards
Oh my God. i can't even believe told you to do that.
00:23:32
Felicia Devine
And I said, that's,
00:23:36
Felicia Devine
I'm also, I'm surprised they gave him back to me.
00:23:39
Natalie Richards
I'm shocked. But if it doesn't if it doesn't test as anything, they just give it right back.
00:23:40
Felicia Devine
I know.
00:23:44
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:23:44
Natalie Richards
So my mom has always done that with all of her not shoved things in her pants through security.
00:23:45
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:23:51
Natalie Richards
But she requests.
00:23:52
Felicia Devine
Honestly, Anita, Anita would do that.
00:23:54
Natalie Richards
She totally would.
Homeopathy vs Conventional Medicine
00:23:56
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:23:57
Natalie Richards
She would always take her like remedies and her her different things from all of her doctors and she would have them like so like manually test them.
00:24:01
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:24:06
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:24:07
Natalie Richards
So like, can you not send this through?
00:24:07
Felicia Devine
but Because she didn't want it to go through the x-ray.
00:24:08
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Yeah.
00:24:09
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:24:09
Natalie Richards
So you can just like ask them to ah test it.
00:24:11
Felicia Devine
Okay. so
00:24:13
Natalie Richards
but
00:24:13
Felicia Devine
So if you're traveling with your remedies, um don't send it through the x-ray machine at TSA. Just give it to the TSA agent and say, this is medication.
00:24:21
Natalie Richards
So funny.
00:24:22
Felicia Devine
It can't go through x-ray.
00:24:23
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:24:24
Felicia Devine
Yeah. I also, speaking of, um Jenny just purchased me as like a thank you for something.
00:24:31
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:24:31
Felicia Devine
She purchased me ah radiation bag.
00:24:35
Natalie Richards
Oh.
00:24:37
Felicia Devine
It's so cool. So you put your remedies in it and it's this like radiation sleeve
00:24:39
Natalie Richards
Oh, and then you can just pass a ride on through.
00:24:42
Felicia Devine
You can put it through. yeah You can put it through anything. Um, I think it would be good just to protect it from like EMF anywhere.
00:24:48
Natalie Richards
In general.
00:24:49
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:24:49
Natalie Richards
m
00:24:50
Felicia Devine
Um, but it's very cool.
00:24:51
Natalie Richards
Love that.
00:24:52
Felicia Devine
So she gifted me that this summer. Um, all that to say that was my first experience with like, I started homeopathy and dabbling in homeopathy, um, very early.
00:24:55
Natalie Richards
Very nice.
00:25:04
Felicia Devine
I mean, over 10 years ago.
00:25:06
Natalie Richards
Yeah. It was, i remember, i mean, I've used it ever since I was a kid because we would do, our Chinese medicine doctor would actually have us hold the charged vial and then he would do like tapping down our meridian, like of our spine.
00:25:07
Felicia Devine
yeah.
00:25:11
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:25:18
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:25:22
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:25:23
Natalie Richards
And you do tapping to clear the sensitivity of whatever that vial was. So it would be like a vial for like an allergy or something or whatever, whatever it was that we were sensitive to that particular month or whatever.
00:25:32
Felicia Devine
here Yeah. yeah
00:25:38
Natalie Richards
I don't even remember.
00:25:38
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:25:39
Natalie Richards
And I was like, i was so young.
00:25:40
Felicia Devine
I know. Sometimes it's so over your head.
00:25:42
Natalie Richards
Yeah, it was.
00:25:42
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:25:43
Natalie Richards
and I was like, this is ridiculous. Like this doesn't work. But and i still to this day, I'm not sure at the time if it worked, maybe maybe because I was not believing in it. I don't know.
00:25:53
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:25:54
Natalie Richards
It probably did. just didn't have that much faith in it.
00:25:58
Felicia Devine
Now that you know more about emotion code and like how you can clear things subconsciously.
00:26:00
Natalie Richards
Now that I know more about a lot of things, I'm like, yeah, I probably would love, yeah, I would love to do that again.
00:26:06
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:09
Natalie Richards
But whatever.
00:26:10
Felicia Devine
I know. So my first chiropractic experience, I i don't recall anything. Like i I recall going and I recall being there, but I don't recall any education. i don't I don't know anything about chiropractic from this first chiropractor I went to and I was like, what a disservice.
00:26:27
Natalie Richards
Yeah, I know.
00:26:28
Felicia Devine
What a disservice.
00:26:29
Natalie Richards
Isn't that sad?
00:26:30
Felicia Devine
Yeah. And thankfully I found Dr.
00:26:31
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:26:31
Felicia Devine
Jeff who ended up being my hugest mentor, hugest, he didn't teach me that word.
00:26:33
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:26:37
Natalie Richards
who
00:26:39
Felicia Devine
He ended up being my biggest mentor and like teaching me about chiropractic and like, like the philosophy.
00:26:43
Natalie Richards
Yeah, like the how it really works. like
00:26:46
Felicia Devine
He actually, um, he won the, the philosophy award at Palmer and he started the business center, a group of his friends and, and he started the business center.
00:26:51
Natalie Richards
Oh, that's cool. I didn't know that.
00:26:55
Natalie Richards
Oh. That's very cool.
00:26:57
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. So like rooted in philosophy is awesome.
00:26:59
Natalie Richards
I think if I would have, yeah, if I would have been told, even at as like a seven, eight-year-old, if I would have been told essentially how it all works, I think I would have been very much on board.
00:27:06
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:27:10
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:27:12
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:27:12
Natalie Richards
But it was just kind of like, here's what we do.
00:27:14
Felicia Devine
It was done to you.
00:27:15
Natalie Richards
This is what we're doing. It was done to me.
00:27:17
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:27:17
Natalie Richards
It wasn't like, here's why we're doing this. Like, this is how it works.
00:27:19
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:27:21
Natalie Richards
I don't know that a lot of kids are ready for that, honestly, at seven or eight.
00:27:24
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:27:24
Natalie Richards
Maybe they are.
00:27:24
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:27:25
Natalie Richards
i don't know. I was.
00:27:26
Felicia Devine
Honestly, feel like maybe that understanding earlier on will will program your you're subconscious and program like your understanding of what is medicine, what is healing.
00:27:26
Natalie Richards
I would have loved that.
Relearning Health Beliefs
00:27:38
Natalie Richards
Absolutely.
00:27:40
Felicia Devine
Because the longer you go and then have to relearn, I feel like the relearning is hard. And that's why we're saying like for a lot of people, homoepathy is going to be over their heads.
00:27:45
Natalie Richards
Relearning is really hard.
00:27:48
Felicia Devine
It's because none of us have been exposed to this philosophy or this understanding from an early age.
00:27:50
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:27:53
Natalie Richards
You can't get the concept because it's so different than our current medical model.
00:27:56
Felicia Devine
It's so wildly out of your paradigm. Yeah. It's like, yeah.
00:28:01
Natalie Richards
ah Homeopathic medical schools and hospitals existed before, like right before the Rockefeller petroleum and current medical like whole changeover.
00:28:07
Felicia Devine
Oh.
00:28:12
Felicia Devine
a
00:28:20
Felicia Devine
Big Pharma.
00:28:20
Natalie Richards
So, isn right.
00:28:23
Felicia Devine
Big Wellness got taken over by Big Pharma.
00:28:26
Natalie Richards
And it's all, like, you can dive down that rabbit hole of, like, the petroleum-based industry of like how current medical training is pretty much just based around the fact that we can, we can prescribe petroleum based pharmaceuticals.
00:28:31
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:28:45
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. And patent them.
00:28:47
Natalie Richards
So, and patent them and right.
00:28:49
Felicia Devine
You can't patent homeopathy.
00:28:51
Natalie Richards
No, no.
00:28:52
Felicia Devine
You can't. It's not, you cannot patent homeopathy.
00:28:53
Natalie Richards
It's a natural substance. Right.
00:28:55
Felicia Devine
It's literally earth, molecule, like plants, leaves, flower. It's like all those things.
00:29:00
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:29:01
Felicia Devine
And then it's diluted. So you can't patent it.
00:29:04
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:29:04
Felicia Devine
And that's why I got kicked to the curb.
00:29:05
Natalie Richards
um So like, ah exactly.
00:29:07
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:29:07
Natalie Richards
So those were, that's what hospitals were and that's what medicine was before petroleum.
00:29:10
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:29:13
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:29:15
Natalie Richards
Anyway.
00:29:15
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:29:16
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:29:16
Felicia Devine
Anyway, we digress.
Simple Flu Remedies
00:29:18
Felicia Devine
um Okay. How are we treating, what what are we looking for with cold and flu? um
00:29:22
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:29:23
Felicia Devine
Symptoms, how are we treating them? why What are we doing?
00:29:25
Natalie Richards
Let's start with flu because flu is easy. i think flu is like ah you basically do nothing except a silicochnum and water and minerals and you kind of just ah hope for the best.
00:29:27
Felicia Devine
Flu is so easy.
00:29:32
Felicia Devine
And water.
00:29:36
Felicia Devine
Wait it out.
00:29:37
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:29:38
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:29:39
Felicia Devine
um Honestly, I kind of...
00:29:39
Natalie Richards
Truthfully.
00:29:40
Natalie Richards
But it's like ah flu is okay.
00:29:42
Felicia Devine
I feel like the flu is maybe one of the best things to get because you're not getting antibiotics shoved down your throat. like
00:29:50
Natalie Richards
I do agree with you.
00:29:51
Felicia Devine
When you know you have a virus, you are just like, okay, it's a wait it out.
00:29:52
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:29:55
Felicia Devine
It's a 10-day, 7-10-day wait it out.
00:29:56
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:29:57
Felicia Devine
And almost wish...
00:29:58
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:29:58
Felicia Devine
and must wish We had more of that philosophy when it came to other things because when it comes to anything that remotely resembles a bacteria, people are jumping on an antibiotic.
00:30:02
Natalie Richards
I know.
00:30:10
Felicia Devine
And like with the cold and flu, it's just like, a let's wait it out.
00:30:10
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:30:13
Natalie Richards
We just know we can't do anything about it.
00:30:15
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:30:15
Natalie Richards
So yeah.
00:30:16
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:30:16
Natalie Richards
But the, in terms of symptom relief, Ocilococinum is amazing.
00:30:20
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:30:22
Felicia Devine
Yes. Yes.
00:30:24
Natalie Richards
um
00:30:24
Felicia Devine
And, um, if you can do herbs, the, uh, the feel better fast from earthly that honestly, if you have anything, try feel better fast.
00:30:28
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Yes. Feel better fast.
00:30:34
Natalie Richards
Definitely. For pretty much everything.
00:30:35
Felicia Devine
If you don't feel good for any reason, I don't care what you don't feel good with feel better fast.
00:30:38
Natalie Richards
Yep. That one is like, that's a for sure.
00:30:39
Felicia Devine
Yeah. It's a heavy hitter.
00:30:40
Natalie Richards
You need to buy that one. That one is so good.
00:30:43
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:45
Natalie Richards
um
00:30:45
Felicia Devine
So.
00:30:46
Natalie Richards
And that's kind of across the board for colds, flus,
00:30:46
Felicia Devine
Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
00:30:49
Natalie Richards
stomach aches, fevers, bacteria, like anything.
00:30:50
Felicia Devine
Bacteria is.
00:30:53
Natalie Richards
Feel better fast is so good.
00:30:53
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:55
Natalie Richards
um I do think like the general old echinacea is really good.
00:30:59
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:31:00
Natalie Richards
And I think we talked about that a little bit last time, plain old echinacea, but echinacea is in the feel better fast also.
00:31:01
Felicia Devine
Like plain old. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:31:06
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:31:06
Natalie Richards
So that's why for kids, it's amazing.
00:31:09
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:31:09
Natalie Richards
I think for adults, if you wanted to up the echinacea a little bit, oh, that's the other thing I got my uncle.
00:31:12
Felicia Devine
I was going to say. Mm-hmm.
00:31:14
Natalie Richards
I said, do you have echinacea? I was like, that was our grandma's like traditional
00:31:16
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:31:19
Natalie Richards
classic remedy. He goes, yeah, that was what she would always give.
00:31:20
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah.
00:31:22
Natalie Richards
And he goes, I used to take that all the time and I don't think I have it anymore. And I said, okay, I'm going to bring you echinacea and you're going to take that.
00:31:25
Felicia Devine
and
00:31:28
Felicia Devine
How do you like people to take it? Do you do a pill or do you do a tincture pill?
00:31:31
Natalie Richards
pill, a pill, either one, honestly, either one is good.
00:31:33
Felicia Devine
I can't honestly, if you can stomach it liquid, it's better, but I just, I have memory of it burning so bad.
00:31:34
Natalie Richards
The liquid's probably better.
00:31:40
Natalie Richards
I can't do it. I i have trauma.
00:31:42
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:31:43
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:31:44
Felicia Devine
Um, so anyway, you can take it Echinacea.
00:31:45
Natalie Richards
I can't it. Yeah.
00:31:47
Felicia Devine
Um, okay.
00:31:48
Natalie Richards
So that one's good, again, for colds, flus, whatever, fever, anything.
00:31:51
Felicia Devine
Yes. Yeah.
00:31:54
Natalie Richards
General immunity.
00:31:54
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:31:55
Natalie Richards
Echinacea is amazing.
00:31:55
Felicia Devine
yeah Okay. So, you know, when you get a cold or you get the flu, mostly like the flu, you had like the, the body aches. What are we what are we doing for our body aches?
00:32:04
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:32:06
Felicia Devine
i I like like a rice pack. I like a warm compress when I have a body ache.
00:32:12
Natalie Richards
Warm. Yeah.
00:32:13
Felicia Devine
Um, if it's like really, yeah, if it's really bothering me, usually
00:32:13
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Epsom salt bath. who If you don't have much of a fever, you could do an Epsom salt bath.
00:32:19
Felicia Devine
Right. I usually like can power through the body aches, but like, what would you do for like a body ache?
00:32:26
Natalie Richards
Rest, hydration, minerals, minerals.
00:32:27
Felicia Devine
Rest. Yeah.
00:32:30
Natalie Richards
The silicochinum, that's what that's for, is for the achy, the achiness and the just chills, whatever.
00:32:30
Felicia Devine
Okay. yeah Okay.
00:32:36
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:32:37
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:32:37
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Okay. Um, what are some other classic things that like a flu symptom would, would present as a stomach is a stomach bug, a flu?
00:32:47
Natalie Richards
Not really.
00:32:47
Felicia Devine
This no, what is the stomach bug?
00:32:48
Natalie Richards
no but we can talk about the stomach bug too.
00:32:51
Felicia Devine
You're getting a lot out of this episode. Wait, what is the stomach bug?
00:32:54
Natalie Richards
It's more of a virus.
00:32:55
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:32:56
Natalie Richards
It's typically more of just a different type of virus, like norovirus or
00:32:58
Felicia Devine
Oh, it's a different. Oh yeah. Yeah.
00:33:00
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:33:01
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:33:01
Natalie Richards
So it's like stomach flu is not influenza.
00:33:01
Felicia Devine
Correct.
00:33:03
Felicia Devine
Correct.
00:33:04
Natalie Richards
So when we're talking about influenza, A, B, COVID, oh whatever, um,
00:33:06
Felicia Devine
A or B. Yeah. C, D, E, F, G. Whatever strain you're getting.
00:33:14
Natalie Richards
You can do, there's, there's just not a ton besides like the viral things that we've already talked about a little bit with fever. colloidal silver, do your echinacea, do your, I don't know, what the heck did we talk about?
00:33:29
Natalie Richards
um The viral ones. So yeah I said silver.
00:33:31
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:33:32
Natalie Richards
Yeah. I think like though that's what I would be doing.
00:33:33
Felicia Devine
yeah Yeah.
00:33:35
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:33:35
Natalie Richards
That's what I'd be doing.
00:33:35
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:33:36
Felicia Devine
Here's a little segue.
00:33:38
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
Predicting Flu Trends
00:33:38
Felicia Devine
Ways that we can, this is a little life hack. How to know what is coming. So people are like, ooh, how do I know what to prepare for? How do I know what's on the horizon? What's coming this season?
00:33:51
Felicia Devine
Well, you can always assume cold and flu. It's kind of like the influences, right?
00:33:56
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:33:56
Felicia Devine
But if we look to Australia and we look at what they had in their winter It'll tell us what we're getting this winter. Isn't that crazy?
00:34:04
Natalie Richards
I find that so fascinating, but it makes so much sense. Mm-hmm.
00:34:08
Felicia Devine
So their seasons are opposite of ours. And they're pretty much going through like what we just had this summer. Like they just had their cold and flu season. So we're looking at them to see, okay, what's coming our way now?
00:34:16
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:34:20
Felicia Devine
Like what are we prepared for? um And so in my research, they called it the triple demic, which kind of sounds like a sushi roll.
00:34:27
Natalie Richards
but my god
00:34:30
Felicia Devine
Like, ah yeah, a triple demic.
00:34:30
Natalie Richards
That sounds horrible. sounds like a sounds like a monster truck.
00:34:36
Felicia Devine
I know essentially what it was is it's pretty much the influenza A, B and COVID.
00:34:43
Natalie Richards
Oh, so like everything that's every year.
00:34:45
Felicia Devine
It's like, Oh, it's coming again. um but what they were just saying is like, they got hit pretty heavily this year with it. Um, that's why they called it a triple Demic because it was pretty much like, like, like, ah yeah.
00:34:54
Natalie Richards
Okay. Okay.
00:34:58
Natalie Richards
all of them all together probably where you have like each thing and you test for all of them.
00:35:00
Felicia Devine
Yeah. yeah Yeah. Yeah. You can test positive for all three. Um, so yeah, that's pretty much what's coming our way.
00:35:06
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:35:11
Natalie Richards
Okay. I mean, I feel like that was the same last year too, or maybe two years ago.
00:35:13
Felicia Devine
Last year, did know, I was going to say, I did know a few people that got hit with double or triple infection. And the double, triple infections, they pretty much are ending up in like urgent care um or the hospital because they're getting real sick.
00:35:26
Natalie Richards
Definitely. Yeah.
00:35:28
Felicia Devine
um But if you can do things that like mitigate your inflammation, then when you do get hit with something like this, then your body has more of a reserve to fight.
00:35:41
Natalie Richards
yeah Let me tell you a very important piece to this is that typically, typically if you get sick, you're waiting a couple of days, you're doing your DayQuil, NyQuil, whatever hell.
00:35:46
Felicia Devine
Drop it, Natalie.
00:35:56
Natalie Richards
I don't even know. i don't even know.
00:35:57
Felicia Devine
I know. don't even know what people take. Wait, what is Tamiflu?
00:35:59
Natalie Richards
I don't even know.
00:36:01
Felicia Devine
Tamiflu is one of those things.
00:36:02
Natalie Richards
That would be once once you know and you have been tested for the flu. like But then that's like already the first different you so
00:36:06
Felicia Devine
But I think Tamiflu only works in the first. I think you could have to take Tamiflu in the first like 24 hours.
00:36:13
Natalie Richards
I know. know. So like if you're waiting a couple days and then you get tested and then you're still sick after like four or five days and your body's been going through, well, maybe or it's going to get worse.
00:36:17
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:36:20
Felicia Devine
It's almost over.
00:36:24
Felicia Devine
Yeah, that's true.
00:36:25
Natalie Richards
You know, if you just like are waiting it out, doing literally nothing for yourself, right?
00:36:28
Felicia Devine
Nothing. Right.
00:36:29
Natalie Richards
to increase your body's natural immunity. Like you, yeah, you could be sick for weeks.
00:36:32
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:35
Natalie Richards
If you can fight things from the moment you feel something,
00:36:38
Felicia Devine
Right. Right.
00:36:41
Natalie Richards
The moment, like the moment you feel like a little a little like tingle in your nose, a little tickle in your throat, the tiniest little thing, that's when you like pound the feel better fast, pound the electrolytes, pound the echinacea, the whatever.
00:36:44
Felicia Devine
Tingle.
00:36:48
Felicia Devine
Scritch of your throat. Yeah. You sneeze three times in a row.
00:36:56
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:37:00
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:37:00
Natalie Richards
I wouldn't do silver yet until you know you're actually sick.
00:37:03
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:37:04
Natalie Richards
But do some things like the propolis, all of that, not for you, not for beasting
00:37:05
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yes. Yeah.
Quick Action on Illness
00:37:10
Felicia Devine
People.
00:37:10
Natalie Richards
allergies.
00:37:12
Natalie Richards
But like do the zinc and the vitamin D.
00:37:14
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:37:16
Natalie Richards
And I don't even, i don't think we talked about a lot of that stuff.
00:37:18
Felicia Devine
No, there's so much to talk about.
00:37:19
Natalie Richards
Um, and theless
00:37:21
Felicia Devine
This could be 400 parts.
00:37:21
Natalie Richards
There are.
00:37:22
Felicia Devine
All right, Natalie, you get a tickle in your throat.
00:37:23
Natalie Richards
There are. So like I'm doing, I specifically you do, I have a tickle, propolis spray.
00:37:27
Felicia Devine
What's your protocol? Okay. ka Okay.
00:37:31
Natalie Richards
um I'm probably doing cell salts also. So like I personally do bioplasma.
00:37:35
Felicia Devine
That's a, that's an electrolyte.
00:37:36
Natalie Richards
but it's It's kind of like a mix of an electrolyte and homeopathy. It's like right in the middle ground.
00:37:41
Felicia Devine
Oh, okay.
00:37:43
Natalie Richards
So I like the cell salts.
00:37:45
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:37:45
Natalie Richards
um That helps your body like get through sickness a little bit better when you have a vague symptom where you don't have a symptom enough that you would take a homeopathic remedy for it because you don't know what it is yet.
00:37:49
Felicia Devine
Yes. Mm-hmm.
00:37:55
Felicia Devine
Because you don't know what it is yet. Mm-hmm.
00:37:57
Natalie Richards
So like cell salts are awesome. So bioplasma is great um or a 12 in one cell salt.
00:38:03
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:38:04
Natalie Richards
is good. Okay. So I'm doing propolis, cell salts, probably a little feel better fast tincture.
00:38:11
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:38:12
Natalie Richards
I'm doing zinc, probably 50 milligrams a day. I'm going to do my upper limit.
00:38:16
Felicia Devine
On on a stomach that has food in it.
00:38:20
Natalie Richards
Has food in it, please.
00:38:21
Felicia Devine
Do not take zinc on an empty stomach.
00:38:23
Natalie Richards
Please do not. It hurts. It's really uncomfortable.
00:38:26
Felicia Devine
I got so sick from zinc once.
00:38:27
Natalie Richards
I've done it before. It's horrible.
00:38:30
Felicia Devine
I thought I had food poisoning.
00:38:30
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:38:31
Felicia Devine
It wasn't. It was zinc on an empty belly.
00:38:32
Natalie Richards
e Just sink.
00:38:34
Felicia Devine
Whoops.
00:38:35
Natalie Richards
I'm also probably upping my vitamin D to at least 15,000 IUs, at least, maybe 20.
00:38:43
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:38:44
Natalie Richards
um And I do a combined A, D, E, and K altogether all all four, because I i find it's it's all the fat solubles.
00:38:48
Felicia Devine
Oh, you do all three. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. You're like, Felicia can't count.
00:38:53
Natalie Richards
I find that... hopefully How many fat soluble vitamins do we have?
00:38:58
Felicia Devine
D, E, and That's something I'll never forget.
00:39:01
Natalie Richards
Never. so
00:39:02
Felicia Devine
Never.
00:39:03
Natalie Richards
but So I'm doing, um it's like a liposomal capsule.
00:39:04
Felicia Devine
And you do liquid.
00:39:08
Felicia Devine
Capsule. Okay. Mine's a liposomal, uh, like shoot, yeah shoot in your mouth, not a spray, but a squirty.
00:39:08
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Yeah.
00:39:12
Natalie Richards
Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. I'm doing enough vitamin c just up to the point that it gives me diarrhea.
00:39:22
Felicia Devine
it
00:39:24
Natalie Richards
Because that's how you know you're taking enough.
00:39:27
Felicia Devine
Oh my gosh. That's how much, um, with my magnesium, uh, post-surgery, my, my doctor was like, take it until it's too much and then back off a little.
00:39:31
Natalie Richards
Literally. Literally.
00:39:36
Natalie Richards
o
00:39:37
Felicia Devine
And I was like, perfect.
00:39:37
Natalie Richards
o pretty much.
00:39:39
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:39:40
Natalie Richards
um And then I kind of like wait and see. So I'm ah actually, you know what?
00:39:43
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:39:45
Natalie Richards
Designs for Health has something called Immunitone also.
00:39:48
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:39:49
Natalie Richards
And that has like all kinds of mushrooms in it. it has, I think, some echinacea zinc. It has like all these different like immune herbs.
00:39:54
Felicia Devine
Okay. That's a little catch-all. Mm-hmm.
00:39:57
Natalie Richards
It's a catch-all herbal supplement. I love that. I have patients who swear by that one.
00:40:02
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:40:02
Natalie Richards
they're like, I haven't been sick since I started taking that. I'm going to that's awesome.
00:40:05
Felicia Devine
Yep. Yep.
00:40:06
Natalie Richards
um That's my like, okay, I'm feeling a little, I'm doing nasal sprays too.
00:40:11
Felicia Devine
Okay. Okay.
00:40:12
Natalie Richards
Definitely. Because that's where sickness starts is in the sinus.
00:40:15
Felicia Devine
Yep. Yep.
00:40:16
Natalie Richards
So I'm doing maybe not that.
00:40:16
Felicia Devine
ah Specifically this kind of sickness.
00:40:18
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Maybe not the silver yet. Again, i would do silver once I know there's like
00:40:21
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:40:24
Natalie Richards
something brewing.
00:40:24
Felicia Devine
An infection.
00:40:25
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:40:25
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:40:26
Natalie Richards
But the herbs, the propolis sprays, the xylitol sprays, whatever, saline, even neti pot, whatever.
00:40:30
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yep. Yep. Okay.
00:40:34
Felicia Devine
um
00:40:34
Natalie Richards
I'd say that that's most of my list.
00:40:37
Felicia Devine
Okay. So Natalie just covered some of the supplemental things.
Immunity Boosting Tips
00:40:42
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:40:42
Felicia Devine
I'm going to cover, in addition, lifestyle. Okay.
00:40:45
Natalie Richards
Yes. Yes.
00:40:46
Felicia Devine
Okay. So I get a tingle. i get a scritch, a scratch. i get something. First thing I'm doing is like the supplements, right? But then I'm going to clear my schedule and I'm going to take a nap.
00:41:00
Natalie Richards
That's a wonderful thing that i can't say that I do.
00:41:02
Felicia Devine
Yes. Natalie's like, and I don't nap. No, but I...
00:41:06
Natalie Richards
I love that for you
00:41:09
Felicia Devine
I don't get to nap often and I will only use my naps like when I really need them. So like if you feel like you're getting sick and you're like, Oh God, a wedding this weekend. Like I can't afford this.
00:41:20
Felicia Devine
Like this is this, this is like the extreme, like you go to the end of what you're capable of.
00:41:20
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:41:26
Felicia Devine
I would say take a nap. And the kind of nap you want to take, you want to be on your, well, I like to be on my back.
00:41:27
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:41:33
Felicia Devine
That's the most neutral you can be. On your back, you want your feet elevated slightly, elevating your feet just slightly above your head.
00:41:35
Natalie Richards
hey
00:41:40
Felicia Devine
it does not You don't need to put your feet on the wall. Just enough of a pillow um under your feet, and that's going to change the the gradient pressure of your cerebrospinal fluid, which helps activate more of your immune system and immune-boosting properties in your brain.
00:41:50
Natalie Richards
hu
00:41:56
Felicia Devine
So basically like it's, it's, it's helping your brain pump your fluids a little bit faster.
00:41:56
Natalie Richards
Love it.
00:42:03
Felicia Devine
And so you want just to have a little bit of an elevation to the feet.
00:42:03
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:42:06
Felicia Devine
You want to take a nap, even if it's 30 minutes. Um, but what that does is when you're napping, your body doesn't have to use any of its cell energy for other things.
00:42:15
Natalie Richards
yeah
00:42:15
Felicia Devine
It can work on healing, healing, healing, and then getting ahead of the problem.
00:42:20
Natalie Richards
Totally.
00:42:20
Felicia Devine
Um, so I mean, that's like a, if you can afford a nap, I would say take a nap.
00:42:27
Natalie Richards
Do it. Yeah. And yeah, just in general rest a little bit.
00:42:27
Felicia Devine
um Yeah. Yeah. um Another great thing, if you can't afford a nap, get your feet in the earth, the vibrations of the earth and sunlight.
00:42:35
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Sunlight and earth.
00:42:39
Felicia Devine
here
00:42:39
Natalie Richards
It's so true.
00:42:40
Felicia Devine
Even in the winter. I mean, I know it's cold, but like if you can find a space that's in the sun and the the earth is like a little bit warmer, ah a rock, go stand on a rock.
00:42:42
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:42:49
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:42:50
Felicia Devine
Um,
00:42:50
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:42:50
Felicia Devine
Um, you don't have to stand in the snow, but if there's like a rock that has like some sun on it and it's a warmer rock stand on the rock, the vibrations of the earth, the vibrations of the, the like air outside, like everything outside is going to be leading to a healthier immune system.
00:42:58
Natalie Richards
Totally.
00:43:06
Felicia Devine
Um, and so if you can't nap, at least get your feet in the earth and whether that be on grass, dirt, um, a warm rock or sand, I don't know, wherever you are.
00:43:07
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:43:12
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:43:17
Natalie Richards
Perfect.
00:43:19
Felicia Devine
Um, if you don't have that capacity, it's nighttime, it's freezing out red light therapy.
00:43:25
Natalie Richards
yeah Definitely.
00:43:27
Felicia Devine
That's a generic, like covers all inflammation kind of thing. Like if you're fighting respiratory, if you're fighting something like head cold, if you're fighting stomach bug, like any kind of those, like, oh, red light therapy.
00:43:36
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:43:40
Natalie Richards
yep Definitely. ah vibration plate if you have one.
00:43:44
Felicia Devine
Oh, I want to get one.
00:43:45
Natalie Richards
Lymphatic drainage.
00:43:46
Felicia Devine
That's my next purchase.
00:43:46
Natalie Richards
I love mine.
00:43:48
Felicia Devine
I'm getting a vibe plate and you can get them pretty inexpensively.
00:43:48
Natalie Richards
i really love it. i really love it. You can. You can. I think that's – you should have.
00:43:53
Felicia Devine
i should have gotten one on prime deal. Prime deals day.
00:43:56
Natalie Richards
It's so good.
00:43:56
Felicia Devine
Darn it. There's probably another prime deals day in a week or two.
00:43:57
Natalie Richards
Like it's – oh, I'm sure there is. There will be all the time.
00:44:00
Felicia Devine
They're like all the time. Okay. So napping, uh, outdoor grounding, uh, vibe plate and red light therapy,
00:44:07
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:44:10
Felicia Devine
Um, you kind of touched on it, but like water water water, water, water, water is so healing.
00:44:13
Natalie Richards
yeah Yeah.
00:44:16
Felicia Devine
I mean, your body is going through so many processes to try and heal and boost your immune system.
00:44:16
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:44:20
Natalie Richards
who
00:44:22
Felicia Devine
Your lymph is going to be taking out the garbage. So you need fluid in order for your lymph to move.
00:44:26
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:44:28
Felicia Devine
Um, you also need movement.
00:44:28
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:44:30
Felicia Devine
Um, napping is great, but you also need to like move your body.
00:44:30
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:44:33
Natalie Richards
Just a little.
00:44:34
Felicia Devine
So, uh, you have to do both.
00:44:37
Natalie Richards
If you can handle taking a walk.
00:44:37
Felicia Devine
Um, yeah.
00:44:39
Natalie Richards
I think that's what was missed. that was That's what, yeah, during COVID is that everybody was like, I'm going to sit in my house because I'm scared to even go outside.
00:44:42
Felicia Devine
During COVID? Yeah. People weren't moving.
00:44:49
Felicia Devine
Yeah. So they missed the earth, the grounding.
00:44:50
Natalie Richards
And that was ridiculous.
00:44:51
Felicia Devine
They missed fresh air.
00:44:52
Natalie Richards
The sunlight.
00:44:52
Felicia Devine
They missed movement. They missed sunlight.
00:44:55
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:44:55
Felicia Devine
lots Lots of pieces were missed.
00:44:57
Natalie Richards
That was ah a dark time of our existence.
00:44:57
Felicia Devine
um
00:45:00
Felicia Devine
Existence of our society. Really, we should have started the podcast then.
00:45:04
Natalie Richards
It really was. I know.
00:45:06
Felicia Devine
Um, so I, yeah, I love lifestyle. I love lifestyle because those things, like all the things i just named beyond the red light therapy and the vibe plate, all those things are free.
00:45:10
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:45:16
Natalie Richards
Yep. No.
00:45:18
Felicia Devine
Okay. It doesn't cost money to go stand on a rock. You can go stand on a rock in a public place.
00:45:21
Natalie Richards
No.
00:45:22
Felicia Devine
You can stand a rock in your backyard. You can stand on a rock at the mall. Okay. I don't care what rock you're standing on.
00:45:29
Natalie Richards
ah Exactly.
00:45:31
Felicia Devine
um
00:45:32
Natalie Richards
Just get outside.
00:45:32
Felicia Devine
But like a lot of the lifestyle things are things that you can do anywhere. And even if you're on vacation, you know?
00:45:39
Natalie Richards
yeah Faux free.
00:45:40
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:45:41
Natalie Richards
Faux free.
00:45:41
Felicia Devine
So free. um What else are we doing, Natalie?
00:45:42
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:45:44
Felicia Devine
What else are we doing to help like the second, again, observation, observation.
00:45:45
Natalie Richards
Well, yes.
00:45:49
Felicia Devine
You have to know you're getting the tingle. You have to be so in tune with your body. I i am ah prone to these recurrent viral infections.
00:45:57
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:45:57
Felicia Devine
that I've been combating for probably o upwards of 15, maybe 20 years.
00:46:04
Natalie Richards
Yeah, like most of your life.
00:46:04
Felicia Devine
um Yeah, I've been struggling with this stupid virus. But I know almost 12 to 24 hours before I get an infection, I know it's coming.
00:46:16
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:46:16
Felicia Devine
I get the tingle. I get like a, um, like a slight dryness to my lip.
00:46:18
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:46:22
Felicia Devine
Like I have these really minute changes that come across and before anything, you knew you were pregnant in your lips, like your lips,
00:46:23
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:46:26
Natalie Richards
I'm the same way. i can feel it in my lips before anything else. Uh-huh. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. but I got thirsty beyond thirsty.
00:46:37
Natalie Richards
And I was like, oh, no.
00:46:37
Felicia Devine
your lips will tell you more about your health. And when you're going to get sick, then you would ah really imagine like,
00:46:44
Natalie Richards
Or I get like just like a little intuitive thought and it's like, oh, I need to probably maybe just take a little immune booster or something.
00:46:48
Felicia Devine
Oh, same. and
00:46:53
Felicia Devine
Yep. Yep. Yeah.
00:46:54
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:46:54
Felicia Devine
I mean, I would say you and I are highly attuned to our own bodies.
00:46:59
Natalie Richards
Highly.
00:46:59
Felicia Devine
Highly.
00:47:00
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:47:00
Felicia Devine
um I know when I'm going to get a mood swing. I know they're coming. I know when I'm going to get sick. I know when I'm going to get a headache.
00:47:08
Natalie Richards
who
00:47:09
Felicia Devine
Like I have tuned into that so well. And I think if if we continue to practice and flex those muscles of intuition, we're going to get better at a figuring out when we're going to get sick, but be figuring out what we need to treat.
00:47:18
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:47:23
Natalie Richards
Exactly.
00:47:24
Felicia Devine
Um, because like if yeah, exactly.
00:47:24
Natalie Richards
Like immediately, you'll know whether it's bacteria, virus, whatever. Yeah, you know exactly what you have to do.
00:47:28
Felicia Devine
And then the sooner, you know, what your symptoms are, the quicker you can jump to homeopathic, um, remedies.
00:47:33
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:47:34
Felicia Devine
And so, you know, We don't want to wait three days until we're like, okay, this is my symptom Rolodex. Like three days in you want to be like, okay, these are the symptoms I'm getting.
00:47:40
Natalie Richards
No.
00:47:44
Felicia Devine
Like even before I get sick, what is this telling me? Like my history tells me I'm getting a lip infection.
00:47:47
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:47:50
Felicia Devine
These are the things i can do to treat that. So if we can just kind of like practice and flex those muscles a little more, i think we're going to be all off to a better start.
00:47:55
Natalie Richards
Right. Yep. And I tend to like keep certain things with me wherever I am just in case I'm like, I'm getting that feeling.
00:48:03
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:48:06
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:48:06
Natalie Richards
i need something immediately. Like, because I know that I could nip it in the bud before it ever goes further.
00:48:08
Felicia Devine
Well, exactly. Well, and like when you're traveling, so when you're traveling, you're sleeping probably a little less or you're getting less restful sleep.
00:48:15
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:48:21
Felicia Devine
You're probably a little bit more dehydrated.
00:48:23
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:48:23
Felicia Devine
You're probably a little bit more inflamed because we're drinking a little bit more alcohol or we're eating more desserts.
00:48:28
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:48:28
Felicia Devine
So like when you're traveling, you're
00:48:29
Natalie Richards
Exposed to different toxins.
00:48:31
Felicia Devine
exposed to different water, exposed to different, um, bacterias.
00:48:32
Natalie Richards
Mold. Mm-hmm.
Travel Preparedness
00:48:35
Felicia Devine
So if we travel with our kit, then we're going to be, or like whatever, like I travel with a zipper bag, like this big, I put in my heavy hitter remedies.
00:48:35
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:48:45
Felicia Devine
I put in my throat spray, my, um, clital silver, I put in like coated silver, like whatever I need to travel with in that season of life for what I know I'm going to be kind of exposed to.
00:48:51
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:48:56
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:48:58
Felicia Devine
And that'll change in the winter.
00:48:58
Natalie Richards
yeah
00:48:59
Felicia Devine
It's going to look different than it is in the summer. Um, no, but that when you forget it, girl, you need it.
00:49:03
Natalie Richards
And you won't need it every time, but man, you don't need it.
00:49:09
Felicia Devine
You need it.
00:49:09
Natalie Richards
Trust me.
00:49:12
Felicia Devine
I've never needed things more than when I went to, ver ah so this is a story.
00:49:12
Natalie Richards
Oh my gosh.
00:49:15
Felicia Devine
I went to Vermont last winter for our week long family vacation. The day we are about to leave I got this brain fog. I couldn't think straight.
00:49:26
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:49:26
Felicia Devine
I couldn't even tie my shoe. I was like, what is wrong with me? Like I literally was like not, I was like fumbling what I was doing. And sure enough, because I had the brain fog, I forgot every single remedy, every single supplement, every single anything.
00:49:43
Felicia Devine
I usually travel with ah ah a whole host of things.
00:49:46
Natalie Richards
he
00:49:47
Felicia Devine
Natalie, I forgot every single thing.
00:49:50
Natalie Richards
No.
00:49:51
Felicia Devine
I brought nothing. Nothing. And Sepp and I both got hit. The second we landed in Vermont, it's a five-hour drive. The second we got to Vermont, I said, Dan, I'm sick.
00:49:58
Natalie Richards
Oh my
00:49:59
Felicia Devine
He's like, really? And I was like, I'm sick. I got the tickle in my throat when we were driving, and I was like, I'm sick. Sure enough, I had a fever for like six days straight, like high fever.
00:50:07
Natalie Richards
oh my God. Right.
00:50:08
Felicia Devine
um And I had nothing with me. So we had to go into town. And I'm like, we're in this small mountain town.
00:50:13
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:50:13
Felicia Devine
The only thing I could get my hands on were a jar of local honey and a bottle of elderberry syrup. And that's all I had.
00:50:22
Natalie Richards
Fine.
00:50:22
Felicia Devine
So that's all. I mean, but Sep couldn't take either because they both had honey.
00:50:23
Natalie Richards
Fine. No.
00:50:26
Felicia Devine
They were both honey.
00:50:27
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:50:27
Felicia Devine
Yeah. So poor Sepp struggled, but he was nursing. So like really he was, he was off to the races before I was, he was fine.
00:50:31
Natalie Richards
Yeah. He's fine. He's doing great.
00:50:35
Felicia Devine
Um, but I only had honey and I only had elderberry and I was just like, ah, I had nothing with me.
00:50:39
Natalie Richards
Oh my gosh. Right. Like wishing you had all that. Because you know what to do.
00:50:45
Felicia Devine
I was so sick.
00:50:46
Natalie Richards
No.
00:50:46
Felicia Devine
We ended up, we came back a little early cause I just, I couldn't recover.
00:50:51
Natalie Richards
No.
00:50:51
Felicia Devine
I was so ill.
00:50:53
Natalie Richards
ah But it happens every time.
00:50:54
Felicia Devine
Yeah. So yeah.
00:50:55
Natalie Richards
It's happened every time to me.
00:50:56
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:50:56
Natalie Richards
Every time I forget my stuff, sure thing, sure thing something comes up.
00:50:58
Felicia Devine
You need it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know.
00:51:02
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:51:03
Felicia Devine
It's wild.
00:51:04
Natalie Richards
Whatever it may be.
00:51:05
Felicia Devine
I know.
00:51:06
Natalie Richards
ah i think the only other thing I wanted to touch on really quick was um i don't really care about COVID
COVID Preparedness
00:51:15
Natalie Richards
at all. I i never i never did ah that much, okay?
00:51:19
Felicia Devine
We don't care about COVID.
00:51:19
Natalie Richards
In terms of like really changing my life and being scared of it and and whatever.
00:51:23
Felicia Devine
No, no, no, no.
00:51:25
Natalie Richards
It's another virus. It's it's a virus.
00:51:27
Felicia Devine
It's like influenza a influenza B, influenza COVID.
00:51:29
Natalie Richards
It just is. Yeah. so i I wouldn't even add, especially now, i really don't care whether you have COVID or not.
00:51:35
Felicia Devine
No, it's diluted so much.
00:51:37
Natalie Richards
It doesn't matter.
00:51:37
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:51:38
Natalie Richards
um But back in the day there were a couple extra things that I probably would have added.
00:51:39
Felicia Devine
I mean, you're still going to get sick, but.
00:51:44
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:51:44
Natalie Richards
um
00:51:45
Natalie Richards
and that would have been like quercetin, maybe a little more zinc.
00:51:48
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:51:50
Natalie Richards
Monolaurin was a really good one at the time.
00:51:52
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:51:53
Natalie Richards
um
00:51:53
Felicia Devine
Oh, that's a good viral one.
00:51:54
Natalie Richards
that one's really, really good for viruses.
00:51:56
Felicia Devine
I used to take that. ah used to take that for my lip.
00:51:58
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Yeah, exactly. L-lysine
00:52:00
Felicia Devine
No.
00:52:04
Natalie Richards
that was a good one for a virus.
00:52:04
Felicia Devine
Also, I used to take that.
00:52:05
Natalie Richards
Yeah, that's a good for like cold sores and all of that stuff.
00:52:06
Felicia Devine
I've taken every viral. yeah
00:52:09
Natalie Richards
So ah for viruses, there's a few like very specific things that you can do. And then-
00:52:16
Felicia Devine
what you Yeah. Would you still source ivermectin?
00:52:20
Natalie Richards
For the current COVID, no.
00:52:23
Felicia Devine
I would, yeah.
00:52:23
Natalie Richards
But for a different type of pandemic that is likely to happen at some point, it would probably be wise to have some.
00:52:29
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:52:34
Felicia Devine
To have some on hand, like a little um medicine cabinet of some things.
00:52:36
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Yeah. I think it's wise to have some just for periodic parasite cleansing.
00:52:41
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah.
00:52:42
Natalie Richards
Like i I think that's a, that's a, not a bad thing.
00:52:45
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:52:46
Natalie Richards
Um, so yeah, there's, there's that company we were talking about. It's called the wellness company and they, you can do like a medical consult and they can give you this kit.
00:52:51
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:52:56
Natalie Richards
That's basically like an, uh,
00:52:56
Felicia Devine
It's like a prescription kit.
00:52:58
Natalie Richards
like an emergency preparedness kit for whatever whatever disease, illness, pandemic is coming down the pipeline because there's bound to be something that's going to try to wipe out the population.
00:53:09
Felicia Devine
yeah Right.
00:53:12
Natalie Richards
It's something to be prepared for that.
00:53:14
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:53:14
Natalie Richards
So they do like a ah ah special thing.
00:53:14
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:53:16
Natalie Richards
So you can get it through them for sure.
00:53:19
Felicia Devine
and
00:53:19
Natalie Richards
i don't know really where you can get it from a horse supply store if you really want to.
00:53:19
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:53:23
Felicia Devine
Right. Yeah. They also...
00:53:25
Natalie Richards
wouldn't recommend Wouldn't recommend it, and but you could.
00:53:29
Felicia Devine
I know someone that got so out of whack. they They were taking quite literal horse doses of ivermectin.
00:53:35
Natalie Richards
Which is wild.
00:53:37
Felicia Devine
No, they were so uneducated, but um they ended up in the hospital because they're um their sodium was so out of whack that they were having cardiac issues.
00:53:41
Natalie Richards
Of course.
00:53:44
Natalie Richards
Of course.
00:53:45
Felicia Devine
They almost died.
00:53:45
Natalie Richards
Oh, my word. oh my God.
00:53:47
Felicia Devine
I know. and So don't...
00:53:48
Natalie Richards
Let's have a little logic here.
00:53:48
Felicia Devine
don't Right. Like, don't, don't be crazy.
00:53:52
Natalie Richards
God, no.
00:53:52
Felicia Devine
Don't be crazy. Um, and do your research again, like Natalie and i have done a lot of this independent research just based on like what, what family values we have.
00:54:04
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:54:04
Felicia Devine
Like my family values are stay out of the hospital
00:54:10
Natalie Richards
At all costs.
00:54:11
Felicia Devine
at all costs. And that's pretty much it.
00:54:15
Natalie Richards
Support your immune system, support your body's natural processes.
00:54:15
Felicia Devine
Um, yeah, but it's like, Like the flu does wipe out quite a few people and like significantly, but if you can catch it early enough, like, and we can support our immune system, then you can help fight it, you know, harder.
00:54:23
Natalie Richards
and It does.
00:54:30
Natalie Richards
Right. That's the whole point. i don't I think if more people knew about what to do before like Tamiflu is ever an option for you, before you have to go to the hospital, like there are so many things you could be doing.
00:54:32
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:54:37
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. Or before you have to go to the hospital.
00:54:44
Natalie Richards
That was the other part of COVID that was so frustrating is that they say, don't do anything until you are literally dying.
00:54:44
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:50
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:54:50
Felicia Devine
And then you have to go to the hospital.
00:54:51
Natalie Richards
And then you have to go to the hospital.
00:54:53
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:54:53
Natalie Richards
That was a major problem.
00:54:55
Felicia Devine
And by the time you're that sick and you have to go to the hospital, you're so dehydrated. Your liver is so inundated with toxins.
00:55:02
Natalie Richards
Oh.
00:55:02
Felicia Devine
so Like you you are fighting for your life.
00:55:05
Natalie Richards
You truly are at that point.
00:55:05
Felicia Devine
So, so yeah.
00:55:06
Natalie Richards
So like you could have done, maybe just taken a little vitamin D or like you probably would have been in a much better condition.
00:55:13
Felicia Devine
yeah You, you could have probably, yeah, yeah.
00:55:14
Natalie Richards
And and we know that. We know that now from from multiple multiple studies is that if they could have just told people to say, maybe take some vitamin D instead of saying, hey, you better you better hold onto your britches until the vaccine comes to save you.
00:55:17
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:55:20
Felicia Devine
Yeah. I mean, and multiple countries.
00:55:28
Felicia Devine
No.
00:55:32
Felicia Devine
They wouldn't tell us to take vitamin D.
00:55:33
Natalie Richards
That was insane.
00:55:34
Felicia Devine
They wouldn't. No.
Episode Wrap-Up
00:55:35
Felicia Devine
that would that would tell that That would show weakness in the in the government.
00:55:35
Natalie Richards
um
00:55:40
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:55:41
Felicia Devine
If they were telling us to do anything natural, that would show that they didn't know what they were talking about.
00:55:45
Natalie Richards
Right. Now we're going to censored.
00:55:46
Felicia Devine
Okay. Pfft.
00:55:47
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:55:49
Felicia Devine
Anyway, thanks for tuning in to episode 13.
00:55:49
Natalie Richards
Have a great day.
00:55:53
Felicia Devine
We'll see you next week.