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For the past year, I've gone without sinus infection, after many years of struggling with it beforehand. Around about 11 years ago, when my daughter was born, I started to get really severe sinus problems. I'd already had chronic sinus problems throughout my life anyway, and my dad had them, so there appeared to be some genetic element.
The birth of my daughter, uh, led to the, the physical exhaustion of tiredness. You know, for those of you who are parents, when you've got a baby, you don't get much sleep. And when you don't get much sleep, your immune system starts to collapse. And so I started to get two major problems that occurred with me sinuses. The first was that I was getting sinus polyps, which are inflammatory growths in the sinuses that block up the sinuses so that you can't breathe. And when I would get those really badly, uh, the doctors would put me on a steroid called Prednisone, or prednisolone it's sometimes called. And that was the only way that I could find to clear, um, these sinus polyps out so that I could breathe well enough to sleep. Very stressful situation that went on for years.
Then I started getting sinus infections, uh, which I assume was from the polyps because they block up your sinuses, you can't clear your sinuses out, and then infection sets in. So I then ended up with a chronic sinus infection that kept coming back again and again. And three or four times a year, that infection would come back, and I would usually end up having to take a doxycycline, uh, anti-antibiotics given by the doctor, um, and it was the only way I could find to get rid of these sinus infections. But the infections would always come back.
But I've just gone a full year with no sinus infection recurrence. And if I have felt like maybe, uh, I've been getting a bit of infection that's might be coming back a little bit, I've been able to quickly nip it in the bud with the natural techniques that I'm going to explain. I wanted to make this video about 8 months ago because I was so pleased with the results that I got, uh, but I thought, no, I'll wait a full year. If I can go a full year with no recurrence of all these things, then I know that what I've done has worked.
Now, I'm going to use a similar principle here in this video to what I presented in my only other health video that I've ever done, which was on the issue of acid reflux. Acid reflux was a problem that I suffered with over 10 years ago. It was brought on mainly by excessive drinking of alcohol. When I used to go partying, I used to drink whiskey straight from the bottle and stuff when I was at parties, and I messed up my esophagus to the point where I couldn't drink alcohol anymore and stuff like that. I've done a full video on that, and that video got a quarter of a million views. If you go check out the comment sections on that video, the people who've watched that video who have used the techniques are in it. Loads of them are reporting that they've got great results with their stomach problems and their acid reflux. Uh, so that was a really good, effective video. I'm proud of that one. It was just done for, for the help of you guys, cuz I knew I knew what it was like to suffer with the condition. So, so I'm glad I did that, and I'm doing the same here with the sinus infections.
I'm not trying to sell you anything at all, but in that video, there was a very important basic principle, which is going to be used again in this video. And that is, I present a series of techniques that can be used to fight against the problem. And if you only use one of those techniques, you might get a little bit of a result, but not much. If you use two or three of them, you're more likely to get a better result. If you use all of them, I would say you're very likely to get significant improvements. So we're going to be doing that again here. And there's a list of things. I've got 11 things on my list here. Not all of them are essential. There's one or two of them that I would say are essential because I haven't found alternatives to those steps, but yeah, I'll take you through them all anyway.
Right, so the first one on the list is very simple. Uh, I won't go into detail about it because you can easily look this up online to find more detail about it, but I just want to get you onto it. And that is to get rid of the congestion-producing foods from your diet, primarily things like cheddar cheese, cow's milk, uh, white rice, stuff like that. Go and look up, uh, congestion-reducing diets online, and you'll find more details about that. Basically, you're just reducing the amount of mucus in your body, but it's important.
The next one is to use natural foods, especially herbs, to get rid of, uh, bad bacteria in your sinuses. I've got a list of quite a few things here that I use. Um, some things may work better for you than other people, but these are the ones that work for me. The first is cayenne pepper or chili. If I eat a spicy meal, it kills off, um, a lot of stuff in the sinuses and opens the sinuses up. It's very, very good.
Oregano is excellent as well. If you're going to make a soup, put lots of oregano in it. I don't normally recommend supplements, but you can get oregano supplement capsules, uh, which are very good, and they, they're actually quite powerful. I would say they're more powerful than just using regular oregano. One of the great things about oregano is that sometimes the bacteria in your, your body and your sinuses, especially, will clump together and surround themselves with a, a sort of protective biofilm, like a translucent stuff. That's part of the reason we tend to have mucus that's very sort of elastic-y is because you get your bacteria that surround themselves with this biofilm to defend themselves against your body's defenses. Oregano breaks down that biofilm, especially. I find the oregano oil is very, very powerful for that. Um, if you do take oregano oil capsules, make sure to take it with food because it's really potent stuff and it can cause you a lot of stomach pain. Take it with food so that you don't get that effect. But I find, yeah, eating a lot of food with oregano in it, or having the oregano oil capsules, uh, within half an hour, I feel a cleansing effect going on in my body. In fact, there's been many times where I've felt like I've had a cold coming on. I take oregano oil or have the herb, and within half an hour, I feel better, and the cold doesn't actually happen. This, this has happened quite a few times for me.
Raw garlic is also excellent. Uh, I mean, you can cook garlic into your food, put lots of it in, cook it in, that can be great, but the raw garlic is amazing. Has similar effects to the oregano oil and is a really good antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, all in one. There are many times I, I've at a meal and I've just chopped up a clove or two of raw garlic, uh, put it in with the meal and just eat it with the meal. Or sometimes I will use coconut oil. I'll, I'll get a spoonful of coconut oil, chop up the, uh, raw garlic, put it in with the coconut oil, put that in my mouth, chew it, and swallow it. Um, because if you just chew the raw garlic on its own, it's very harsh, um, like a strong antiseptic effect, and it can burn your mouth a little bit. But if you have it with food or with some olive oil or coconut oil, it lessens that effect. Or I have heard that you can just leave the, the chopped, uh, raw garlic, uh, just leave it out for 20 minutes, and that harsh acidic effect starts to disappear, then you can swallow it, and there's no problem.
Cinnamon, I've also found very powerful for opening up the sinuses and clearing out some infection. If, for some reason, whenever I eat Thai food, it has a strong effect on me, and I'm not sure why. Maybe there's a specific combination of things, maybe the coconut oil combined with the chili, or combined with the lemongrass. Maybe that those go together to have a potent effect. I don't know, but it's very powerful. Uh, ginger is also excellent. Coconut oil, I've already mentioned, and extra virgin olive oil. All of these things are superb for clearing out viral infections, bacterial infections, and fungal infections. So it's good to work these things into your diet regularly.
Number three is the Candida diet. This is really important. For years, I was taking antibiotics over and over and over again, prescribed by the doctor, because I couldn't find any other way of killing off, uh, the sinus infections once they'd set in. And the, the, the general literature seems to assume that if you take antibiotics over and over again, then the bacteria in your body start to develop a resistance to it. But sometimes that isn't actually the problem. Sometimes the problem is that the antibiotics have killed off all of the good bacteria, uh, in your sinuses or whatever other part of your body it is. And then, because there's an absence of good bacteria and you're killing off the bad bacteria with the antibiotics, there's a vacuum that sort of sets in. And as a result of that, fungal infections start to take over. And then the fungal infections don't respond to the antibiotics. So you think that you've got an infection that is antibiotic-resistant, but it's not actually a bacterial infection. It is a fungal infection that's set in. You didn't realize it, and the symptoms will have a lot of similarities to a normal bacterial infection.
And so the Candida diet kills off the fungal infection, and it works in two ways. One of which we've already covered is to take, uh, those dietary, um, herbal elements like the garlic and the oregano and the chili and stuff like that. Those things help to kill off a fungal infection. But also, you need to starve the fungal infection so that it can't get the food to reproduce itself. And the way you do that is you get rid of all of the sugars, starches, carbohydrates out of your diet. And that's a very difficult diet to do. It means you can't eat any bread, you can't even eat any fruit because fruit has got sugars in it. You, by removing sugars, carbs, starches from your diet, you are starving the fungus because it feeds on that stuff. If you get a petri dish and you, uh, put, um, sugars, starches, any kind of carbohydrates, whatever, into that petri dish and you put the fungus in, it grows. It just grows directly off that stuff. And this is kind of gross, but one of the types of fungus that tends to set in in the sinus infection is the same green that grows on bread. Gross, you don't want that growing in there, but it can. And I was reading up that in really severe cases, if you get that stuff growing in your sinuses and you don't get it sorted, it can actually seep into your bones and even back up into the brain and cause problems there and even kill you. That's pretty bad, isn't it? So if you've got a fungal infection, you want to get rid of it. But also, the Candida diet will give you lots of other benefits because you might have fungal problems going on in your stomach or in your liver or somewhere, somewhere else in your body. The Candida diet will help reduce those kinds of problems all over the body, not just in the sinuses. So it's worth doing as a general bodily cleanout. I won't go into detail about the Candida diet because there's tons of websites, web pages out there that explain how to do it.
The next one, and this is crucial, is how to get rid of sinus polyps. I had sinus polyps in my teens, and they did surgery on me at the time, when I was about 15 years old, to get rid of them, which basically means cutting out part of the lining of your sinus. That operation messed my sinuses up for years afterwards. I became extremely sensitive to perfume smells, flower smells, things like that. My sinuses were messed up by that operation. What I needed at the time was attention to my diet, but I didn't know a damn thing about dietary issues at the time, so that was no good. So even today, a lot of doctors will try and get you to get, um, sinus surgery to remove polyps. Personally, it didn't work for me. I've read a lot of other people online who've talked about getting the, the surgery to remove them, and a lot of them say that the polyps just grow back. So there's a huge problem there, and it's not really known exactly why the polyps grow, why some people get them and some don't. But there does seem to be some relation to allergies and things like that. And for me, I found that very high stress levels would cause me to get sinus polyp growth. So there's definitely something going on with that as well. But once you've got them, it's almost impossible to shrink them. The only thing that was able to do it for me, and I kept having to have these again and again from the doctors, was prednisone steroids or prednisolone steroids, um, very powerful steroids, anti-inflammatory. And that was the only thing that I could find that would shrink the polyps. But you can't take, uh, prednisone on a regular basis. You can't take it constantly because it, it weakens your bones, it has other bad effects on the body. So, but I was still ending up taking prednisone like two, three, sometimes four times a year to get rid of these sinus polyps. It was especially when my daughter was younger, it was the stress levels that were making my sinus polyps grow.
But about 6 weeks ago, I finally, after many years of looking and failing to find some sort of solution, I found something that shrinks the polyps without surgery and without taking any steroids. Amazing. So I'm glad I waited the year to do this video, otherwise this particular solution wouldn't be in there. And this comes from a Japanese food called, uh, natto. N-A-T-T-O, not NATO as in the global geopolitical organization. NATO. This Japanese food, which is apparently fermented soybeans. Now, I don't know the chemical, uh, mechanism of this. I'm not a chemist, I'm not a biologist, uh, but I did read up some of the scientific papers, and there's actually pictures, uh, in these papers where they'd taken, uh, some of the compounds from this, this natto fermented soybean, uh, food, and they would put, um, surgically removed polyps into this, this substance from the natto food, and within 24 hours, the polyps would shrink. Whereas the ones that were in a separate dish in saline, uh, liquid, they would not shrink. So I started reading up a little bit about the mechanisms. It's apparently it's something to do with, uh, a substance called fibrin, which our body uses to heal injuries. And then our body is supposed to, uh, get rid of the fibrin later. It's supposed to send in enzymes to destroy the fibrin so that you, if you've got like a blood clot, or you've got a scab, or something like that, some sort of internal injury, your body, it sends fibrin there to sort of clog things up and create inflammation so that the area can heal. And then once the healing has occurred, then your body sends the enzymes in and breaks that stuff down so that you're not stuck with permanent, um, inflammation. But as we get older, our bodies become less effective at getting rid of the inflammation.
So anyway, this natto food from Japan is very hard to get a hold of. I've looked around even in like the foreign food shops here in Liverpool, and I couldn't find it anywhere. But some good people have been good enough to extract the, the, the effective elements from the natto and put it into a capsule form. And this is the only supplement I'm going to recommend in this video. It's the only thing that I've found that works. I would rather not take the supplements, I'd rather eat the actual natto food, although apparently it's an acquired taste. So, uh, yeah, this stuff is called NattoKane. And this isn't the only brand, there's lots of brands out there. NattoKane is extracted from the natto food and it gives you the good effects. I started taking this. Apparently, people take it for eight weeks to shrink their polyps. Personally, I felt a huge difference within 10 days of taking this stuff. And it's usually been my right sinus where I get polyp blockage, and that has been going on. Even though for the past year, I've had no sinus infection recurrence, I've still had some blockage going on in the right nostril, not from, um, congestion and not from infection, but just from polyps that were still there. And I didn't want to take the prednisone steroid again, and it wasn't interfering with my sleep, so it was okay, but I wanted to get rid of it. This stuff shrunk them within 10 days. Pretty amazing.
Now, the fifth one here is extremely important. Uh, if you've had fungal infection and you've cleared it out, you still have the problem that the fungal infection might come back because your, your sinus biome needs to be repopulated with probiotics of some kind. Now, when you get a problem with, um, with the stomach, there's loads of probiotics you can use for that. But I went looking around everywhere online, and I could hardly find anything anywhere which involved a probiotic for the sinuses. Until I came across a Japanese woman, a researcher, she was a scientist, and she came from a family that had, um, that they all had sinus problems in her family. They all got repeated sinus infections. Her family were all on antibiotics all the time, repeatedly. So she started researching into how to repopulate the sinus biome with good bacteria. And what she came across was food called kimchi. Again, what is it with these Japanese foods that help out? But anyway, kimchi is fermented cabbage, but it's not the same as sauerkraut. It's got some differences. It apparently it's, uh, it's fermented in a slightly different way, or a slightly different amount of time, and it's got some other things in it. They put in a little bit of garlic, sometimes they put in carrot, or there's somehow the process is different, and kimchi tastes, uh, fairly different to sauerkraut as well, a bit more spicy in its flavor.
Well, anyway, kimchi tends to produce bacteria that are unusual and that are very, very good for the sinuses. And so what she started doing was buying various, um, kimchi brands, and she would, um, take a cotton bud, dip it in the kimchi juice, and coat the inside of the nostrils with it on both sides. She'd do it with all her family. And the idea was that, um, it would reintroduce those good bacteria that would make their way up into the sinuses and, you know, repopulate the good bacteria so that you didn't get fungal infections, um, and the bad infections couldn't kick in anymore. Because there's this, um, important concept where within the sinus biome, or within the stomach biome, or any other biome, there's only a certain amount of bacteria that can occupy that space. And once that space becomes fully populated with bacteria, other bacteria can't really get in there and settle in. So if you've got, um, good bacteria fully populating your sinus biome, you know, both the fungal infections can't really get in there, and the bad bacteria find it hard to get in there as well.
So she was doing that with the kimchi, and she said she was getting good results. And so she worked on finding a way to extract the good bacteria from the kimchi juice and isolating it and then making it available as a supplement. Now, you don't have to use this supplement. I did buy it once, uh, from her company. I think it was her company, and this stuff is called Kimchi Power. This is expensive. This was £62, not $62, £62, just for this. Right? I only used it for three days, and I got a fantastic result with it. It was amazing. Basically, I would take, you know, a little cotton bud, dip it in the powder, and I would coat the inside of my, my two nostrils with it, and then I would breathe it in so that it went up into the, the sinus biome. Three days, and my sinuses felt fantastic. And it was ever since I did that that the fungal infections haven't come back, nor have the bacterial infections. However, there is a problem with this stuff that once you store it, it doesn't last that long. The longer you have it stored, you store it in the fridge, this stuff is actually useless now because it's been there for like a year, and all the good bacteria within this will have died off. So I'd have to order another one if I wanted to, but I don't need to do that. What I've been doing instead is I've just been going and buying the kimchi and just having that in my diet generally. Apparently, with the kimchi, even if you just eat it with the mouth, you don't have to coat the inside of the sinuses with it, just eating it through the mouth allows some of those good bacteria to fill, fill your mouth and to make their way up into the sinuses from the back of the mouth. And it's very important if you're going to do that, if you're going to use kimchi, that you need to get the right stuff because if you use pasteurized kimchi, a lot of the good bacteria have already been killed off in it. So you want to get a kimchi which has got, uh, something on the, the, the label that says either raw or organic or live cultures. If it says one of those three, then it's probably going to be the, the good stuff that you can use. You could try one, if it doesn't really work, get another brand, but make sure that it's not pasteurized. You want those live bacteria. So, yeah, that one is incredibly powerful. That's the only probiotic technique that I found for this. Perhaps, uh, normal sauerkraut might help. I haven't really tried it for that, but yeah, this kimchi stuff is fantastic.
Okay, so those five techniques that I've outlined so far, I consider those to be the essential techniques for sorting out your sinuses. It deals with infection, it deals with, uh, polyps, and it deals with fungal infection as well. If you can get all three of those sorted, then you should have much, much healthier sinuses. It's been brilliant for me this past year. My sinuses have been better this past year than they've been for almost my entire life.
Well, now I'm just going to get into some other smaller, um, aspects of all this, which I find are quite important. One is, this is probably unusual, this might have been kind of unique to me, but just in case any of you have this problem, it took me a while to find out that this was an issue. But I used to do this thing where I would get very dry sinuses in the morning, and I would go to the bathroom, I would wash my face, and sometimes I would just sniff a bit of water up into my sinuses to, to make them wet so that I wouldn't have that dry feeling. You know, I would sort of dip my fingers in the water from the tap and I would go like that and breathe in a bit of water, just to, I, I thought that I was clearing my sinuses out by doing that. But I did read up that tap water tends to contain certain bacteria that can infect the sinuses, and so I was probably infecting my sinuses by doing that thing where I was breathing water up into my sinuses, thinking that I was clearing them when I wasn't. Might have just been a weird, stupid problem I had, but in case any of you have got that, just thought as I've mentioned it.
The next one is, um, I don't even know what to call this, but I, I started doing this exercise a while back which helped with my sinuses quite a bit. It would give me short-term relief. And what I would do is I would get myself into some sort of upside-down position, my feet were higher up and my head was lower at the bottom. And then I would do deep breathing in that position. And this would flush a lot of blood to my head. Apparently, this is quite good health-wise, it helps with the brain functioning and stuff like that. But I found that by doing it, it would help my sinuses. I could feel the blood flowing to my sinuses and having a strong effect. I'd feel my sinuses fill up with blood, and then when I got up, it would clear out, and it seemed to have a little bit of a cleansing effect on my sinuses. Sometimes when I was in that position, I would, um, I would breathe in and hold my breath deeply and just hold it for like 10 seconds, and I could feel that blood intensity, up-oxygenating the sinuses and oxygenating the brain. Uh, it's really, really good just as a general health thing, but yeah, I found it good for the sinuses.
The next one is an issue with early morning air. This, I found quite important as well. Uh, the weather here in Britain can be very, very damp and cold at certain times of the year, and the, it's very conducive to cold viruses and stuff, uh, floating around in the air. And I find that I am much more likely to get a cold if I go walking around early in the morning when it's been damp and raining all night, and the sun hasn't quite come up yet. The sun comes up, and the sun's rays kill a lot of bacteria and viruses that are floating around in the air. We breathe these things in all the time, but after it's been raining all night and it's been fairly cold in the morning, the air tends to be a lot more full of these, uh, things that can infect us. And once the sun comes up and it's been up for an hour or so, it kills a lot of that stuff, cleanses the air. So, yeah, I found that not going out in that cold, wet air in the morning, very early in the morning, was a great way of preventing myself from getting colds. Uh, sometimes I would go out at those times in the morning if it was a particularly wet morning, and within two or three hours, I could feel a cold coming on. That's how bad it can be.
The next one is good quality sleep. And this was the trap I was stuck in with the sinus infections, where the sinus infections would would make my sinuses inflamed, and then I couldn't sleep because I couldn't breathe. And because I couldn't breathe and couldn't sleep, my immune system couldn't kick in and clear out the virus because, uh, a lot of our immune system processes occur while we're asleep. You know, when you're asleep, your body gets to work on fixing things, killing germs, and stuff like that. And, um, a good quality sleep can really help rid your body of a lot of that infection. I mean, when we get ill, what do we do? We tend to sleep a lot because that's where the repairing goes on. If you get bad sleep for a period of time, I tend to find that if I get, uh, two or three nights of bad sleep on the run without a good sleep in between there, then my immune system collapses, and they start to get cold, sinus infections, or other illnesses, or whatever. So, yeah, make sure to get a really good sleep. I tend to find I can have one night with bad sleep and get away with it, but if I do more than that, it's a problem.
The next one is to make sure that you've got a fairly healthy mouth biome because the mouth biome is quite connected up with what happens in the sinuses. Apparently, if you get infections, uh, with teeth and stuff like that, it, those infections can make their way up into the sinuses. So to keep the mouth biome good, there's three things that I use. One is oil pulling. I use either coconut oil or extra virgin olive oil, and sometimes I put a little drop of clove oil in it. Uh, the clove oil is brilliant for removing inflammation in the teeth, getting rid of bacteria and stuff. And, uh, if you've got any inflammation, pain in your teeth, the clove oil is amazing for sorting that out. So that, plus something else called colloidal silver. I just got on this a few months ago, and since I started using it, I've been finding my teeth are far less sensitive to hot and cold. Colloidal silver, you can buy it, uh, there's various different brands, go and look them up, find a good one, and you just swish it in your mouth for a few minutes, then spit it out, and then rinse your mouth with a little bit of water. Uh, I don't know if it's good to swallow colloidal silver. I think some people do for health conditions, but I'm not sure about that. I haven't looked into it. I just use it as a, a mouthwash thing, and it's very good. And also with the toothpaste, uh, a commentator on my previous health video on acid reflux, they got me onto this, was to use toothpaste that has Novamin in it. N-O-V-A-M-I-N. Novamin. I don't know exactly what it is or what it does, but I found that since I started using a toothpaste that has Novamin in it, get great results with the teeth. And also chewing xylitol gum.
So all of those things I've just mentioned together, which is the xylitol gum, the Novamin toothpaste, oil pulling, clove oil, and colloidal silver, I use those on a frequent basis with my teeth, and my mouth biome is pretty good, and that helps with the sinuses. Another thing that some people swear by, but it didn't really work for me, is saltwater rinses of the sinuses. Uh, you have to use sterile water for it, and you can just put salt in it. Actually, you know, there was a sinus specialist who actually told me that he said to me, the research has been done, but hasn't been published yet. You don't need to buy anything from the chemist, you can just use regular salt, put it in with the sterile water, and do a sinus rinse. Some people swear by it, but it didn't help me, and it doesn't shrink the sinus polyps either. Like I said, in the experiments where they showed that the surgically removed sinus polyps being shrunk by this NattoKane extract in those petri dishes, they had saline, uh, solution in the other petri dishes, and it did not shrink the polyps. So, yeah, sinus saltwater rinses won't work for that, but it might work for you for sinus infections, I don't know.
Okay, so there you go, folks. I hope this helps. Please, if you try these techniques, don't just do one. Try and use several of them, and let me know in the comments section how you get on with this stuff. Try this stuff for a week or two, come back. I'd be amazed if anybody did all five of those main steps that I've talked about. I would be amazed if they didn't get a big improvement in the sinus problems. Like I said, I've gone for a year now without any recurrence of sinus infection. Fungal infections aren't coming back. In fact, I've been getting colds far less than I used to get them, and when I do get colds, my colds are a lot milder than they used to be, and they don't last as long. This has been the best year I've had for sinus health since I was a kid. And don't forget, if you've got problems with acid reflux, check out my video on that as well. You folks take it easy. Bye-bye.