You're not feeling good, again. What do you do? You run to the medicine cabinet to see which pill you have available for this particular ailment. Rummaging through all the bottles and packages, you finally find the right pill and take it.

You wait a while and start to feel a little better. You decide this will have to do and go about your business.

Your concentration level is bad today but you justify that by the fact that you are sick and you also have medicine head. These things are to be expected and you will have to live with them.

Let's take a look at what is going on in your body.

Some 'bug' got a hold of you and your immune system wasn't strong enough to fight it off. Your body is working double time to eliminate the virus or bacteria. Then you take some pill. This pill is yet another foreign substance that you body has to deal with.

Your immune system doesn't understand that you added these chemicals to make you feel better. It only understands that this is not a part of your body chemistry so it must get rid of it. Now your already overworked and run down immune system has to work three times as hard to make you well again.

No wonder you are tired and can't think straight. There is only so much one body can do at one time. Adding your pill just made things worse.

What is the alternative?

The first thing you should do is concentrate on staying healthy. Eating right is a great start but nearly impossible with today's lifestyles. How about supplementing your poor diet with some vitamins? Your body obviously needs more than you are giving it. A good multi vitamin is a good place to begin.

Next you will have to take a look at your lifestyle. Are you under a lot of stress? Do you get enough sleep? Do you ever relax? It may be impossible to reduce stress in the work place but it is possible to find a few moments for yourself to just relax.

It is necessary for you body to relax and sleep in order for you to rejuvenate. Find 10 or 15 minutes during the day that will be just for you. No outside distractions of any kind. You think this can't be done but you have to find the time. It is very important for your health.

Think of it like this, if you take 10 minutes each day for you, you will not have to spend 3-4 days in bed every few months when you are sick again. How do you manage to find the time to be sick?

Set yourself a bedtime and stick to it. Most often we get run down because we just don't get enough sleep. A good method to be sure you will get to bed on time is to set a night time schedule. About a half hour to an hour before 'bedtime' start your nighttime routine. After a week or two of following this routine, your body will start recognizing this as time to start relaxing. By the time you get to bed, you will be ready for sleep. This really does work very well, try it.

Now it's time to build your immune system. If you don't know this, you body is designed to fight off bacteria and viruses when you come into contact with them. When your immune system is run down, it is all you can do to maintain life. Forget about fighting off anything.

Start by adding some yogurt to your daily diet. If you have been eating junk food and taking prescription drugs, your intestines probably don't have any decent amount of beneficial bacteria left. This beneficial bacteria in your intestines is what your body uses to keep you healthy. After years of abuse, you have probably all but eliminated this bacteria. If you don't like yogurt, you can supplement your diet with acidophilus. You can buy this in almost any vitamin section of any store. It is paramount in recovering your health system. If you don't do anything else that I am recommending here, do this!

If you really want to get serious about your health, you should do a good colon cleansing. This can be done with supplements and does not require a trip to the doctor's office. Most people who do cleanse their colon will find that they lose 10 to 20 pounds of built up gunk from their intestines. Talk about easy weight loss...

Finally, to help your body build itself back up to where it should be, start taking (almost) daily doses of Echinacea. (Echinacea should be take 6 out of 7 days a week.) This will increase your natural immune system and you won't even know when you came in contact with a 'bug'. Echinacea can be found in any vitamin section of any store.

Acidophilus and Echinacea are both natural supplements that will work in harmony with your body. Your system will not try to fight these supplements off like it does with the other pills you have been taking.

Follow this advice and one day you will wake up and think, WOW, I haven't been sick for a whole year now! Then two years, and three years... You will have more energy than you have had since childhood. You can finally clean out that medicine cabinet because you won't even think about using any of those pills anymore.

It is not natural to be sick several times a year. If you have come to accept illness as a normal part of life, you have some work to do. Get your health back and start enjoying every minute of your life.

NOTE: If you are under the care of a health practitioner, you should always check with him or her before changing your routine. This information is not meant to replace medical advice.