What can I take to give me some ooomph

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51 year old, menopausal, struggling to get over a sinus infection and feel like crap. Not on HRT (long story). Still don’t have my sense of smell back after a month, and still blowing out gunk (sorry) and feel like I am functioning on 80% energy levels. We go away next Wednesday for a special family holiday and I really need a quick fix!

can you still get this, I thought it was discontinued? If you can it’s the best tonic ever OP

People really shouldn't be recommending B12 etc unless the OP actually has a deficiency. Same with the madness that is taking electrolytes every day, where on earth this has sprung from I just can't fathom. You could overdose on potassium or anything else that you're not actually short of.

A large percentage of brits are deficient in vit D and it can make you feel awful. You can get tests cheaply on Amazon.

Oh - don’t know. Our kids are uni age now so less prone to bringing diseases home so haven’t had to buy any for ages. Hope not, it was always such a pick me up!

@VoltaireMittyDream which NAC do you use?

Which mushroom supplement please

This really. Or drinking something that gives you sugar and caffeine….

good nights sleep, some fresh air. Vit D and sublingual b12 (I don’t absorb it well) are al I take.

Neilmed sinus rinse

I take together health b complex which is half the dose of berrocca. (You could take two) and a separate slow release vit c and zinc (when I remember) Simply as it’s more natural/ no aspartame

ferroglobin is similar

I dont seem to either. Nor folate. I heard Tim Spector doesn’t either on a random podcast (maybe his 😁)

So I sometimes add a sublingual b12 and extra together health folate. Don’t need the b12 as much at the moment since I got my levels up.

In all honesty the quickest fix that I’d do would be some brisk daily walks (3 a day) and try to breathe through your nose during them, steaming your head, loads of water and some hot ginger and tumeric drinks. And dark chocolate.

Also look at butyeko breathing techniques. This is a free app and there’s one video for clearing your nose that works really well and quickly too.

https://buteykoclinic.com/pages/free-breathing-app

Erm nobody told me that Berocca would give me fluorescent yellow wee 😳

Oh erm… yeah it does 🤣.

😂😂😂

I take Ors, they’re like a form of diorylite that seems to give me a huge boost the day I take them, dissolve two in water

From the health shop or online, oregano oil is called natures antibiotic.

I'm in the same boat OP...had sinus infection.following a chest infection. Had an xray which came back normal. Took antibiotics and steroids but still waking up every morning completely stuffed up. Sense of smell and taste fluctuating all the time for the last month. I'm so over it. Am using saline rinses every day and have just started taking NAC supplement so hoping it works. I'm also menopausal! I definitely think there's a connection. Have a doc appt in a couple of weeks but not sure there's much they can do!