Food Can Fix It - dr. Mehmet Oz

have it ready to go for when you need it.)
While Grandma probably didn’t know all that, she always seemed to have a
good sense of which kitchen concoction could cure your cold—or prevent you
from getting one in the first place.
The last time I was really sick? It was a bout of food poisoning from what I
suspect was either bad fish or bad sauce (or a bad sauce on top of bad fish). My
body rebelled fiercely—from both the north and the south. I was so cleaned out
that, heck, I could have had a colonoscopy the next day. It was horrible. But
besides that memorable-for-all-the-wrong-reasons day, I don’t have a long illness
history, because I just don’t get sick. In the last decade, I have never missed a
day of work because of illness; I may get stuffy or deal with a sore throat once or
twice a year, but nothing more than that.
The funny thing is, I should get sick more than I do. It’s common for me to
shake a hundred hands a day, which is a leading cause of sickness, as bacteria
and viruses jump from person to person. I’ve spent much of my career in a
hospital, aka ground zero for germ transmission. Even if my whole family is
sick, I know I likely won’t come down with anything. And no, I don’t wear
rubber gloves and surgical masks wherever I go.