Rethinking Common Cold Symptoms

Over the past few weeks, I’ve heard the same thing from a number of clients:

“I’m coming down with a cold.”

“It must be the virus that’s going around.”

“I’m not sure if it’s the flu or Covid.”

“I think my son might have whooping cough.”

In 90% of these cases, muscle testing showed that there was no cold or virus to speak of. And after the offending imbalances were cleared from their systems via our protocol, all symptoms disappeared.

So what was the root cause underneath these faux winter bugs?

Dense food.

The body sees food as fitting into two categories: foods that contain their inherent living waters, and those that do not. Fruits and vegetables created in nature have their waters intact. These waters contain enzymes that our bodies can recognize, and their naturally occurring hydrogen fuels all aspects of our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.

The latter, what we call dense food, ranges from meat to dairy to ultra processed foods (think cookies, protein bars, crackers, cereal) to oils and yes, even coffee. They do not contain any water whatsoever, which means that we require additional water from somewhere else in the body (organs, glands, tissues, etc.) to digest them properly.

Therefore, two things happen when we consume dense foods:

• The body’s hydration level drops to compensate for the extra water needed to process the incoming density, and

• If not enough water is consumed at the same time as the dense food, inflammation spikes and acid byproducts are created from the unprocessed density

What happens when this occurs?

Usually a symptom or two. In some cases, multiple symptoms; depending on the person’s sensitivity level and quantity of dense food consumed. Coughs, runny noses, and sinus pain are just 3 in a long list of complaints we’ve heard – and resolved – through identifying and clearing out dense food waste in the body.

Just for a moment, close your eyes and imagine how the human body -  a being of light and water -  might respond to a typical American meal. An example (which I personally ate throughout most of my 20’s and 30’s):

You’re out to dinner with a friend, and you share a charcuterie board over a glass of wine. Meats, cheeses, bread, crackers, and alcohol. What we see in our research and client testing is that the cumulative density of this food requires a significant amount of water – in some cases, upwards of 150 ounces – to fully and completely clear the effects of the density.

But the reality is that these foods are quite filling. By the time you’ve polished off the board and wine, how much room remains in your stomach for that 150 ounces of water? Probably not nearly enough. You might squeeze in a few sips here and there, but the volume of water required to process the density of the food is rarely consumed – especially at the end of a heavy meal.

The result? Immediate dehydration and inflammation.

This response in the body often times manifests as cold symptoms. “Cold”, in quotes, because when this inflammation is cleared, clients return to normal within hours. No virus to speak of, no contagiousness, no need to mask or remain confined at home.

Last week, one of my clients reached out about her toddler, scared that he might have whooping cough. “His cough is really incessant and deep.” I could sense her concern from miles away.

So I connected into him and began working through our protocol, and every time I asked about a virus or bacteria, the pendulum gave me a big no.

Through process of elimination, I used our charts to inquire about what was causing his cough. Dense food and dehydration were the two areas that sent my pendulum in a clockwise circle. Yes, and yes.

His body steered me towards various places that needed to be cleared & healed to resolve the symptoms and remove the root cause, and within a few hours I received the following email from his mom:

"It’s amazing. The cough completely disappeared shortly after you finished working on him.”

The moral of this story? While we’ve been conditioned to believe that cold symptoms are a reflection of being sick with a virus, that’s not necessarily what’s happening beneath the surface.

The reality is that we have far more control than we think, and a lot of that control stems from understanding how the body functions when it’s fed dense food.

It shrivels up, stagnates, and becomes a hub of inflammation.

So drink up (the cleaner, the better) to offset the density in your own diet. You’ll be amazed at the difference you begin to feel as your body becomes more hydrated on a cellular level.