As the weather turns colder and we head into flu season, I get a lot of questions about various home prevention concoctions. Most common are questions about elderberries. Syrups, gummies, and various tinctures are all frequent items about which I am queried.

While elderberries may be well-known for their immune-boosting properties, unfortunately most effective forms are going to be sketchy, at best, on a Ketogenic protocol. The problem is that you have to have a pretty concentrated dose of elderberry to really reap any health benefits, and it's a sugary fruit: the higher concentration needed, the more fruit is actually in that spoonful of syrup. Which means even the varieties that have no added sweeteners tend to be pretty carb-heavy.

Today, I'm presenting you, my dear readers, with a healthy and very low carb alternative: Golden Milk.

Golden Milk is a Westernized version of the ancient Indian remedy haldi doodh, which is milk blended with a bunch of turmeric. Unfortunately, drinking tablespoons of turmeric at a time isn't really a palate-pleaser unless you've acquired a taste for it, and so as the remedy migrated West, it morphed into the spicy, coconutty drink we now call Golden Milk. And with ingredients like coconut milk, coconut oil, turmeric, and other common spices, it has a smooth, comforting flavor that's a family-pleaser as well as being packed with anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, health-boosting benefits (you can read more about the ingredients' immune support properties here).

Notes: I consider this kind of a starter recipe for those looking to benefit from using turmeric regularly. If you have a taste for it, feel free to add more of any of the spices listed (as well as the coconut oil), and play with using additional spices and flavorings to make this your own. I personally like to throw a little cardamom into my Golden Milk with all the other awesome pie-esque spices. It gives it a little bit of a coconut chai thing.

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