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ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Fortifying families against school year bugs

by HOLLY CARLING/Vital Health
| October 9, 2024 1:00 AM

The bugs are out! Our little petri dishes are cultivating all kinds of opportunistic “bugs” as they go back to school and sports activities. A “petri dish” is a shallow container filled with a nutrient-rich medium that is used to grow cultures of microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi or cells, used for diagnostic or experimental purposes in a laboratory. When used in the context of children, they, (children), seem to grow all kinds of bacteria and viruses, then take them home and get the whole family sick! Ugh! 

So what is our defense against everyone getting sick? It ultimately comes down to 3 things: sanitation, good nutrition, and strong immunity. 

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