Quercetin Fights Flu – & MLM Aversion

Many people in the work at home field are network marketers selling health related products.

Years ago, news like this today was reserved for publications well outside the mainstream, such as the old “Prevention” (prior to its status as coporate shill for the pharmaceutical industry when it promoted bone meal and cod liver oil, the “super nutrients” of its day).

Nutritional boons were considered myths … nothing like the “benefits” of “modern medicine”.

You’d never see headlines like this one Quercetin Fights Flu

To be sure, there are frauds and scams but the public is much more willing to consider the health benefits of new discoveries.

That’s good for MLM promoters… less sales resistance.

But it’s also bad… more competition from discounters when MLM products are “premium” brands essentially and seek to provide “proprietary” formulations.

But anyway, new like this is both blessing and curse to work at home nutritional marketers. But I suspect mostly blessing.

Mice given quercetin, a naturally occurring substance found in fruits and vegetables, were less likely to contract the flu, according to a study published by The American Physiological Society. The study also found that stressful exercise increased the susceptibility of mice to the flu, but quercetin canceled out that negative effect.

Quercetin, a close chemical relative of resveratrol, is present in a variety of fruits and vegetables, including red onions, grapes, blueberries, tea, broccoli and red wine. It has been shown to have anti-viral properties in cell culture experiments and some animal studies, but none of these studies has looked specifically at the flu.