I was listening to a acquaintance the other day and he kept apologizing because he had come down with a cold. He lives in a warmer part of the country, and he is generally pretty healthy, so he considered it pretty unusual.

When I hear something like that, I have to resist the impulse to share what I know about boosting the immune system to avoid getting sick like that. He already eats pretty well and exercises, so he would be a great candidate for the immune boosting supplement that I promote. The problem is, I don’t want to come across as just some pushy sales guy.

I know the product works great, and can really fine tune the immune system so that even healthy people can reduce the already small likelihood that they will get ill. Unfortunately, especially in the nutritional supplement industry, there are so many people pushing “snake oil” products that any kind of suggestion will get ignored, at best. It makes things a bit more difficult for those of us who are not fly-by-night and have something that really will help. One of the ways around it is to let people get to me, and then they learn that I always look for the best quality and value of products in my life, especially with things that I offer to others.

For example, one of my friends who is an avid cyclist takes my advice with regards to sports nutrition supplements. He knows I give good advice because his performance has improved since he started following it. A few weeks back he came down with a cold. When I suggested our immune boosting supplement, he was at first a bit hesitant as he thought he didn’t get sick that often. When I reminded him of some of the get togethers he had to miss due to being sick, he realized that he did catch something several times a year. So now he is using the supplement and is having good results so far.

Of course, with the prevention of anything, you don’t really know right away if something is working or not. It depends on the individual and what their normal patterns are. If they normally catch a cold every month, and then that stops happening after using a product, then they can say with a good degree of certainty that the product is doing something for them.

There are other ways to tell if a “prevention” product is working or not, but that’s a subject for another time.