If you're normothyroid to begin with, your fever may be a result of your body having the ability to raise temperature when needed. You don't need to thyroid at all.

Since our immune system creates ROS to destroy pathogens, these ROS may spill over to cause oxidative stress, our body has to rely on ita primary antioxidants to counter oxidative stress.

These processes consume energy that would divert rhe body from optimal mitochondrial oxidation. Because less CO2 is produced, the body can become acidic and this disrupts the virtuous cycle needed by the body to be keep running in a self-correcting and rebalancing manner. Less CO2 in blood may also restrict tissue oxygenation, and lead to less energy produced while increasing lactic acid production while decreasing CO2 production.

Taking baking soda, drinking carbonated water, or breathing carbogen will provide an external source of CO2 and bicarbonate to compensate for the temporary shortfall in endogenous CO2 production. Drinking citrus fruit juices also provides bicarbonate as rhe citrate readily xonverts to bicarbonate in the body.

@yerrag said in WICKED SORE THROAT + I got the FLU ----- HELP ------:

Im not keen on taking paracetamol or NSAIDs. Lowering body temperature is counterproductive.

See. I did not know that they do that. Im starting to feel less of their effects as I am getting to sleep time.

I will try to sleep more. I have to.

Plentybof rest helps a lot but sleep is difficult if your breathing is restricted. Helps to sleep in a reclining position.

Since a fever helps kill microbes, wrap yourself in a blanket as you sleep and let it sweat as the heat induces more antimicrobial action.

Drinking plenty of water may be harder, as water tastes bland. I used to drink 7Up as a child, but colas then had real sugar, which is better than the sugar substitutes in soda these days.

Gargling with salt is very helpful.

Taking Benadryl helps me sleep.

Since it is also harder to eat when sick, I dont force myself to eat when I don't feel like it. Digesting food uses energy and it diverts the energy needes for healing. Just eat light. I would eat rice porridge with dry meat flakes, which is easily found in asian grocery stores.

Im not keen on taking paracetamol or NSAIDs. Lowering body temperature is counterproductive.

Sleep is the best way as it let's the body recover. Without sleep, medication is useless as medicine is not the primary way to heal from flu. It ia an aid to potentiate the real solution.

Hope this helps.

It looks like maybe testosteronemaxxing could be effective, along with these:

"...their severity can be controlled not only by administration of androgens but by various measures aimed at controlling PUFA availability and its metabolism, considering PUFA is the main driver of inflammation. Namely, dietary PUFA restriction, lipolysis inhibition (aspirin, niacinamide), lipid peroxidation inhibition (vitamin E), COX/LOX inhibition, etc. should all help both increase resistance to viral infections and accelerate recovery from them."

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