Liv(e) Better

* Just so you know, lots of Vitamin C can mess with your birth control -- please keep in mind if you are on birth control!


So a lot of people are sick, or getting sick right now. Which is sad. And avoidable! Now, disclaimer: This is neither an expert health opinion (I mean, let's be serious), nor a paid endorsement. It's my own experience with a product that I believe has helped me and others I know a lot. Plus, Part Two is about my political views. Obviously. But for now I would like to discuss the magic of Emergen-C.

My body used to have a pattern. Right around the time the seasons changed, I'd start to get a cough. And you know that episode of "The Brady Bunch" where Cindy sneezes and everyone completely loses their shit and act like she is Beth from Little Women all of a sudden? Well, the coughing made me not insane like that, but concerned. If a got a sore throat, I knew I was screwed, and would be on antibiotics at the end of the month to get rid of an upper respiratory infection.

I'm sorry, I didn't warn you that this blog would be sexy.

Anyway, speaking of sexy in a non-ironic way, the person who got me to try Emergen-C was Liv Tyler!







I hate women's magazines, but found that reading them while listening to my music was the most effective way to rock the elliptical machine at the gym. Also, I love Liv Tyler so much. She is just, to borrow froggy's word, lovely : ) So I went straight to the interview with her, and in it, she gets really excited talking about this wonderful product called Emergen-C. During "Lord of the Rings," a lot of them were working around the clock and getting very few hours of sleep -- that was simply the job -- and as a result dropping like flies from being sick. Liv Tyler somehow ended up being introduced to Emergen-C, and she said it just made all the difference in the world, and she got her health back and was able to withstand lack of sleep.

Anything that tells me I don't need sleep AND is enthusiastically raved about by Liv Tyler? Has my money. I went and found this Emergen-C stuff and started taking it here and there as a supplement, and more when I started getting under the weather. Things went great, so I stopped taking it. All of a sudden, the Cindy Brady Sneeze sore throat appeared! Oh no! This would be the ultimate test of Emergen-C.

I took more of them like Liv Tyler said to when you start feeling sick, but still felt sure I'd be visiting the dreaded doctor pretty soon. There had never been any turning back from the sore throat.

Until now! My body started feeling steadily better, and before I knew it, I felt completely healthy! No doctor visit necessary! Emergen-C is truly that awesome. One thing that sets it above other cold remedies for me is that not only is it essentially just vitamins, not medicine, but it has some chromium in it that does wonders to battle the fatigue a cold can bring.

I realized I'd told everyone I've ever known about Emergen-C, including the Liv Tyler part (I'm fun to take home to the parents), but I hadn't told you guys, and so many of you've been sick! Try Emergen-C! As with anything, don't jump right in; see how your body handles it (speaking of which, has anyone out there ever done the hair strand test they recommend in the color kits? And how does one reconcile that with the potentially exploding bottles they warn about?). But check it out at least. Know that it's there. It's improved my life, so I'm sharing.




Vitamin C for LIFE! Pun intended!


So!

- Have you tried Emergen-C?
- What are your favorite cold remedies?
- I find it annoying that the blog categories have neither "Health" nor "Books." How about you?
- How are you all feeling!















Hey, wow, I did NOT know about this until just went I went to look for a video! Awesome!






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