Why You Keep Getting Sick Every Winter (And What’s Actually Going On)

The three things missing from most people’s winter health plan, and how to fix them.

Every year around this time, I start seeing a familiar pattern in clinic.

Patients come in exhausted, a little run down, often fighting off their second or third cold for the season and start the cycle of getting sick every winter. They have been taking zinc since the first sniffle. They bought the elderberry syrup. They are doing what they think they are supposed to do.

But they keep getting sick.

And when we look a little deeper, the answer is almost always the same: the foundations were not in place before winter arrived.