How to Avoid Mosquito Bites

They'll be spraying for mosquitos in southeast Fort Collins in what they consider a problem area.

These toxins can be quite effective in killing the pesky insects. According to some people, they can be harmful to our health and our environment as well. Yes, West Nile virus and mosquitos can be a problem, but I wonder if there is another way to deal with it besides to spray wild areas with toxic chemicals.

I have not had one mosquito bite this season, and had very few last season, and I think it is because of a supplement that I take.

My wife's company, Genesis Pure, distributes many high potency foods and supplements from all over the world.

I will swear by the chia all day long, and I love taking some of the other pure, exotic juices like noni, acai and goji.

There is one other thing that I love to take and make sure that I ingest it at least 5 times per week--sulfur.

Sulfur, or methylsulfonylmethane, is supposed to help with joint and ligament function, detoxifies the liver and purifies the blood. It has also helped with my wife's allergies, which are normally somewhat crippling to her in the spring, but were barely noticeable this year.   Unlike Mila (the premium chia blend that I take daily) which I can physically notice if I have or have not been taking because my bowel movements will be much less robust and soft, the effects of organic sulfur are much less obvious. It is something that I decided would be good for me, and I started taking it regularly.

I had heard that if my body had less sugar in it and was more balanced in regards to alkalinity and acidity, mosquitos wouldn't be attracted to me.

Did it work? Well, I have not been bitten by all year. I started taking the sulfur about a year and a half ago. Since then, I have moved. Now, it's possible that there are less mosquitos where I live now. I do live next to a lake, and I know there are mosquitos here because my neighbor complains about them all the time. The other night she was squatting them away and I was standing there in a short and tank top without an issue.

There are many MSM supplements on the market and most of them are filled with excipients (fillers that exist in many vitamins and pills and make up a majority of what we are taking) and chemically synthetic sulfur. The organic sulfur I take is created from pine lignans and the purity is important to me.

Can I say that sulfur is 100% the reason why I have not been bitten by any mosquitos? Absolutely not, and as Rod Benjamin said in the video above, the effects of it are still somewhat unknown. But, when Dr. Lindsey Duncan said that it would help with mosquitos, I decided to go all in, and it has really seemed to help.