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COLDS excert from my new book

Avoid them, stop touching door handles, elevator buttons and money, any time you touch money, then go wash your hands often and stop touching your face. Refuse to shake hands with people, bow instead. Follow a balanced diet high in vitamin C and I take 1000 mg in vitamin C a day, plus drink lots of fruit juices, eat oranges and grapefruits. I have had the flu once and 1 or 2 colds in the last decade because my immune system is so strong. Even when I get a cold is severity and duration is half what you go through. You want to be loaded up with natural antioxidants in your system which includes broccoli, green and red peppers, cantaloupe and drink lots of water to stay hydrated. And when I get a cold, I do not fight it, I accept it, I go to bed and rest, I take the time off unless I am booked into a show which then I will perform half dead, and have.

When you first feel a cold coming on, suck on zinc lozenges. If you’re around sick people, add some garlic to your diet. I take a garlic vitamin pill every day. Try medicinal shiitake, maitake and reishi mushrooms. They may stimulate the immune system. Tomatoes and other lycopene rich foods may help. Chicken soup helps loosen mucus. This stuff is great, it really works wonders. Some even claim acupuncture even helps. The average American gets 2 to 4 colds a year. The pool player more, because he lives in a germ factory, a pool hall and bars, where hundreds of people come in every day and several are infected with colds and the flues and leave their germs all over the place for you to pick up and get sick from. You poor Bastards don’t have a chance, and every year you go through this same bull s***. The same pain, the same sickness. Ok this year, fight back.

You can’t take a week off being in bed, so you try and play through it, and all you do is make the illness last longer, your play tanks at least 25% under your usual game and you now lose. Being around people means they will infect you. But you can reduce these if you know how they work. If you live with a lady, and she is coming down, sleep in another room and do not touch her until she is well. People in your family drag in germs and disease to infect their love ones. People who get sick, no longer stay home, they go to work infected, and they show up at leagues, infected. They don’t even warn you. So during the cold and flu season you must take extra precautions.

Do not touch people. Do not shake hands, period. The main thing you just do is eliminate physical contact with any human you are not trying to hump or pork, and then only pork healthy ones with no snivels’. Before you mount any female, ask here, are you over 18, do you have the cold, flu or Herpes?

Bow instead. Stop touching anything in any strange room. When you walk into the joint, keep a wash rag, or a paper towel in your pocket to put on the door handle to get in. Take your shirt; put it on the handle to open it. To leave, take a paper towel to open the door with it, and then discard it outside.

Never use their pen to sign in, always carry your own. They hand you a pen to sign your tab, use your own, never theirs. Don’t touch anything others have before you. Don’t use their house cues; carry in your own set of balls. The set of balls they hand you, may have had 20 diseased people handling them before you get them. When have you seen a desk man, wipe down a set of balls, or put them in a ball polishing machine. Almost never, so buy a pro set of balls from me and stop using their diseased balls, which are giving you the colds.

Before I play, I even spray the table with quick clean and wipe it all off with a towel. I carry a can in with me in my bag, I won’t even use their rack, I have my own, I won’t use their rake, I put my moose head bridge head on my break stick. I touch nothing in there. When I hit the Head, my cloth is on the door handle, I hit the plunger with my elbow or foot, and I touch nothing in there. I cover the seat with toilet paper I sit on. I wash my hands a lot, I have trained myself to stop touching my face, nose or eyes with my fingers, unless they have just been washed. Never touch an elevator button, use your elbow. 2009 tests at the University of Virginia, virology department, have proved that germs can live on refrigerator handles and on remotes, pool balls and house cues for 48 hours.

A pool player travels around a lot, staying in one cheap hotel room after another one. The germs are still alive in your room when you enter it from the sick person who checked out the day before. They are all active the entire first day you are in there. Remember they live for 48 hours. Rooms turn over daily.

You pick up the phone to make a call. You just got nailed. You need to carry a can of Lysol and spray and wipe off the phone, the remote, the door handle, the toilet flush, the bathroom knobs, anything you will touch. The first thing you do is disinfect the room.

If you have kids, they are the worst; they drag everything into the house, being in school with so many other kids. If they get sick, you have to isolate them from the other family, or you just keep spreading it around in a circle. Lock the little fooker in the trunk, poke a couple of air holes, and open the trunk and toss in a couple of burgers once a day, then let him out in 3 to 5 days.

Just kidding. But everyone in the family has to stop touching him.

You take the kid to the doctor for a checkup, he feels great, he plays with the toys put there to entertain them, and two days later the kid has a cold, and he spreads it to everyone in the house. The doctor’s office, for God’s sake touch nothing there, do not pick up the magazines, and keep your hands in your lap.

I do not suggest you freak out and become Howard Hughes, but you have to protect yourself better. When I board a plane, and somebody next to me is sick, I put on a surgical mask and cover my head with a blanket I carry and I stay covered up until we land. I can’t tell you how many of these ass holes have boarded a flight sick as a dog and sat down next to me and then put me out of work for 3 or 4 days. You board 3 to 5 flights in a row, and your ass comes down sick. It’s a mess up there.

Some sick person sneezes in an elevator, I pull my shirt up over my head. I know this seems weird to you, probably double weird. But this is how you stay fit and healthy. I gargle 3 times a day with Listerine, and I feel keeping alcohol in my system kills germs in my system. What germ can live in me when they are floating in Johnny Walker?

Wash your hands, every time you go anywhere, stop touching things. Sick people get sick a lot. Young healthy athletes rarely get sick. So get healthy.

You catch a cold or get sick because your immune system is weak. Poor diet, toxins, lack of sleep, not drinking adequate water, not getting moderate regular exercise, lack of good supplements are some reasons for getting a weak immune system.
To strengthen/ boost your immune system, do as many of these as possible, and you will not catch a cold! Load up on vitamin C, 500 to 1000 mg a day. Eat a lot of fruit, an orange, and a grapefruit and drink a lot of fruit juice.

1) Keep practicing good personal hygiene care, wash your hands! The great plague of 1918 could have been avoided by practicing good personal hygiene. Bath or shower twice a day, stay clean.

2) Get plenty of rest. During deep sleep, our body release potent immune-enhancing substances that strengthen your immune system function. By not allowing our body sufficient rest, the immune system will sputter, and as a result, not function at full capacity. We then are more likely to become ill with common illnesses. A healthy, deep sleep allows our body to release a significant amount of growth hormone that boosts the immune system and aids in the growth and repair of the body. A pool player must have 7 to 9 hours a day, 8 is about right.

3) Get moderate and regular exercise
an increase in blood flow associated with moderate exercise helps to circulate antibodies along with white blood cells necessary to fight infection more quickly. As a result, this provides our bodies with an early warning system to ward off potentially damaging germs. In addition, the increase in body temperature as a result of physical activity may aid in inhibiting the growth of bacteria; thus allowing the body to fight infection more effectively. Find a gym, or walk for 30 minutes fast, after your evening meal.

4) Receiving a Regular Body Cleansing.
Body cleansing is essential because our bodies need to properly eliminate the toxic build up that has formed in our intestines (colon), which may lead to sickness and disease. Our body organs and tissues must be free of toxins for the immune system to function optimally thus enabling our bodies to receive the essential nutrients our bodies need.
Your urine must be white, if it is not, keep drinking water until it becomes white. If it is yellow, you are backing up your plumbing. You must defecate naturally once a day. I move when I first wake up, and around noon a 2nd time. Keep things moving through you? Eat right, move a lot of liquids through your system, eat cereal and fiber and you will be regular. If you need help, go get the prunes.

5) Boost immune system by drinking plenty of filtered water. 8 glasses a day.
Water is essential for all living things and keeps our immune system operating optimally while improving the way we feel, look and live. Without sufficient amounts of water, you may experience routine fatigue, dry skin, headaches, constipation, and a decrease normal bodily function which may lead to your body unable to fight off diseases. Without water we would literally dehydrate which could result in the shutting down of vital organs and ultimately end in death. Pool players need more water intake than the average person.

6) Eliminate all sugar and allergens from your diet. Its crap, you don’t need.
Just a small amount of sugar has been proven to impair white blood cells up to 50% for very short periods of time. By discovering what our personal food allergies are, then eliminating or desensitizing them will help strengthen your immune system. By removing these triggers, our immune cells are strengthened in order to combat other invaders such as influenza rather than the allergen. The elimination of sugar from your diet can also strengthen immune system. Cut out salt, you get enough in the junk you have to eat out. Get salt off your table.

7) Eat nutritiously
Good foods to eat include organic fruits and vegetables, chloretta, medicinal mushrooms like maitake, shiitake, reishi, or turkey tail. Besides water, wheatgrass juice, aloe vera juice, or green tea are good drinks. If it doesn’t rot or sprout, do without.
Stay away from junk food like pop, bake goods, any processed foods. Bad foods contain stuff like refined sugar, sodium nitrite, Tran’s fats, Mono-sodium glutamate (MSG), artificial colors, preservatives, and flavors.

8) Take supplements
Supplements are needed because our bodies cannot produce the nutrients necessary to maintain optimum health. There are many nutrients needed in order to maintain a strong immune system. It is very challenging in the world we live in to obtain sufficient nutrition with the foods available to us. They are over processed and void of many essential nutrients. Additionally, food is grown in soils that have been over-planted and saturated with synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Vitamin and mineral deficiency subjects us to more diseases, aging, sickness, and the weakening of our immune system. Get a very high end multi vitamin, buy the best.

Best herbs include, goldenseal, garlic, olive leaf extract, elderberry, or astragalus.

Best vitamins include Vitamin A, C, or E. These are a good source of antioxidants, which will boost your immune system.
The minerals zinc and selenium also help with boosting your immune system.

As you can see, there is no one magic cure, one supplement, or one way strengthen your immune system, but there are many things you can do to help prevent getting a cold.

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