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Tamiflu, known generically as oseltamivir, is one of the most commonly prescribed antiviral medications for influenza. It works by blocking the virus from spreading within your body, helping to reduce symptoms and shorten the duration of the illness. But knowing exactly how much Tamiflu to take and when can be confusing, especially with different doses for adults, children, and preventive use.

This guide from telehealth platform Doctronic breaks down the typical dosages, how to adjust them for various situations, and what to do if you miss a dose. Whether you’re treating the flu or trying to avoid it after exposure, understanding the right dose is crucial for safety and effectiveness.

Key Takeaways

• Tamiflu (oseltamivir) is an antiviral medication used to treat and prevent influenza.
• Dosage varies by age, weight, and whether Tamiflu is used for treatment or prevention.
• The typical adult treatment dose is 75 mg twice daily for five days; prevention doses differ.
• Children’s doses are weight-based and require careful adjustment.
• Missed doses should be taken as soon as possible unless it is close to the next dose.
• Consult a healthcare provider for personalized dosage advice, especially for special medical conditions.

Tamiflu Dosage Chart

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Tamiflu Dosage by Condition

Treatment of Influenza

For adults and adolescents (13 years and older), the usual dose is 75 mg twice daily for five days. This regimen helps reduce the severity and length of flu symptoms when started within 48 hours of symptom onset.

Prevention of Influenza

Tamiflu can also be used to prevent the flu in people exposed to the virus but not yet symptomatic. The typical dose for adults is 75 mg once daily for at least 10 days after exposure, or longer during a community outbreak.

Treatment and Prevention in Children

Children’s doses are calculated based on weight and age. For treatment, doses are generally given twice daily for five days, while prevention doses are once daily for 10 days or longer. Precise dosing is critical to ensure safety and effectiveness.

What is the Typical Tamiflu Dose For Adults?

Adults and adolescents 13 years and older usually take 75 mg capsules or equivalent oral suspension twice daily for five days when treating the flu. For prevention, 75 mg once daily is recommended. This dosing is based on clinical trials and FDA guidelines to maximize antiviral effect while minimizing side effects.

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Most of us have health goals, whether it’s to get in more steps, meditate more often, or master the army-style push-up. What about longevity? Who doesn’t want to extend their lifespan and health span? Because, yes, living to 100 years is cool, but enjoying those years in good health is the real flex.

And longevity supplements are a must in your lifestyle toolbox for aging well, both physically and mentally.

From well-known NAD+ and CoQ10 to promising ingredients like ergothioneine, Life Extension highlights 15 supplements that have been scientifically studied for their benefits to various aspects of the aging process.

You don’t need to add all of them to your routine (though some “super agers” take all of these and more), but keep reading to understand how they work and their use cases.

At a Glance

• Adding longevity supplements like resveratrol, NAD+, vitamin D, CoQ10, and ergothioneine to your wellness routine is a proactive way to support healthy aging.
• Different types of supplements support different aspects of staying vital with age. You might take quercetin for your heart, for example, and add lithium for your mind.
• Get the scoop on 15 science-based longevity supplements that experts recommend for healthy aging.
• Learn which supplements complement each other for the best results.
• You don’t need to add all of them to your routine. Speak with your doctor to choose the ones that are right for you.

1. NAD+

Short for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, NAD+ is a crucial coenzyme found in every cell in the body and is important for the proper functioning of your mitochondria. Your body needs NAD+ to promote the production of cellular energy and to support cellular metabolism. NAD+ is necessary to create adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the compound the body uses for fuel.

If that sounds like a lot of science to you, in simple terms, NAD+ helps keep you moving and grooving into your golden years.

Levels of NAD+ naturally decrease with age, which is why a supplement that promotes NAD+ production is a key part of a healthy aging routine. There are a few different supplements that claim to support NAD+ levels, but one with solid scientific backing is Niagen nicotinamide riboside. A randomized controlled clinical trial found that supplementing with Niagen nicotinamide riboside was effective at increasing NAD+ levels in the blood.

2. Resveratrol

Perhaps the most famous “longevity” nutrient is resveratrol. This plant compound (a polyphenol, if you want to get technical) has been studied for its support of a strong heart, which isn’t exactly trivial when your goal is a long lifespan.

In fact, resveratrol is the reason why people think red wine is a healthy aging staple, but that’s neither accurate nor the best way to get enough of it to benefit your health. While there may be some resveratrol in red grapes, how much you get from drinking red wine would de

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The first time Mike Martin held an AK-47 was after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, which claimed the lives of 20 children and six adults. The shooting shocked a friend of a friend, a lawyer, into questioning why he owned an AK-47 in the first place. “He decided to destroy that one,” Martin recalls.

As a Mennonite youth and young adult pastor, Martin had long contemplated the idea of interpreting the “swords to ploughshares” ideal from the Book of Isaiah in a modern context.

“My faith tradition is rooted in peace and non-violence,” he says. Together with his father and the lawyer, Martin took the AK-47 to a nearby blacksmith in Colorado Springs, dismantled it and forged the metal into a shovel and a rake. “There’s this thing about turning guns into garden tools,” Martin reflects in the book “Beating Guns.” “You have to add some heat — a little more than 2,000 degrees of controlled flame.”

This moment sparked the beginning of RAWtools (War spelled backwards), a nonprofit Martin now runs full-time, and a movement spanning four states with affiliates in Buffalo, NY; Philadelphia, PA; and Asheville, North Carolina, Reasons to be Cheerful reports. Since its humble beginnings 14 years ago, RAWtools has destroyed and repurposed more than 6,000 guns, forging them into garden tools and art. Martin now carries the trigger of the first Kalashnikovs he destroyed on a keyring, while books about gun violence and art collages made from weapon parts line his walls.

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For Martin, the physical act of destroying a gun can be healing, but often it’s just the beginning of a bigger conversation. “The dominant culture often tells us that we can’t escape the violence, so we should therefore join the violence,” he says. “Instead, this counter-story of turning swords into plows insists that violence is the problem, not the solution.”

Anybody can fill out a form on the RAWtools website, or respond to the buyback program “Guns to Gardens,” and arrange to donate their gun in exchange for a grocery card. A national network of hundreds of volunteers, blacksmiths, woodworkers and artists will even pick up firearms from donors’ homes. “Sometimes people have 30 or 40 guns that they inherited, and they don’t want to bring all of that into a public space, or they might feel unsafe transporting a gun,” Martin says.

Donors often want to be involved in transforming the weapon into a force for good. “We’ve had veterans, police chiefs, grandmothers and little kids take part in the action,” Martin recalls. Hunters, too, have been “some of

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In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sent Nov. 13, Michigan Republicans asked the federal government to provide “comprehensive oversight” of the state’s 2026 election.

But the letter doesn’t specify what “comprehensive oversight” means. And it’s not clear that the people who signed the letter agree on the meaning either.

A total of 22 Republican state legislators from both the Senate and the House signed on to the letter, including Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt, Sen. Ruth Johnson — a former Michigan secretary of state — and Rep. Rachelle Smit, who leads the House Election Integrity Committee.

The letter asks the U.S. Justice Department to “deploy official election monitors and provide comprehensive oversight for Michigan’s 2026 primary and general elections.” It cites a number of concerns about Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s administration of the election, from the fact that she is running for governor in the 2026 election to her alleged violations of election law.

It is not unusual for secretaries of state to oversee elections in which they are candidates. Benson ran the 2022 election that won her a second term, for instance, and Johnson oversaw two separate elections as secretary in which she was also on the ballot. In Michigan, while the secretary of state sets rules and regulations, it is local clerks who typically work with voters more directly, creating a layer of separation between the state’s highest election official and the voters who may or may not be supporting them.

It’s not clear if the Justice Department will take the matter on, but Johnson told Votebeat on Thursday that department officials were already meeting on the request. She said she didn’t know who specifically was involved, and a spokesperson for the department did not respond to a request for comment.

Nebulous views of ‘oversight’

The first part of the Republicans’ request — federal election monitors — isn’t unusual. Monitors watch polling places and vote-counting centers to ensure workers are following processes appropriately. Under President Joe Biden, the Justice Department sent monitors to 27 states in the 2024 general election, including Michigan, and sent monitors for Michigan’s primary election as well. Under President Donald Trump, it sent monitors to California and New Jersey earlier this month after similar requests from members of the GOP in both states, but th

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Brianna Bagley’s favorite hobby is playing Horizon Zero Dawn, a role-playing game featuring a young hunter who battles murderous robotic organisms on a postapocalyptic planet overrun by machines. When she isn’t leveling up in the game, Bagley is hard at work in the produce department of a chain supermarket in Salt Lake City. Seven years in the grocery industry have given her plenty of experience with the real-world technology that is automating stores.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bagley earned about $15 per hour in a supermarket e-commerce department dedicated to filling online orders and preparing them for delivery. The department was unable to fill the flood of orders that came in each day. Managers pulled employees from other parts of the store to double the department’s staff—but only about half were actually employed in the e-commerce department. The rest were cashiers, baggers, and others conscripted into emergency service. Bagley was grateful for the help, but recognized that it came at others’ expense. “It was harder for those departments to provide customer service with fewer employees,” the 26-year-old told The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation.

Bagley’s experience is of a piece with the broader trend in retail toward automation and other technological shortcuts. From self-checkout machines to payment by app, technology is rapidly changing the way we buy groceries. Progressive members of Congress are sounding the alarm: Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and 13 colleagues wrote to the CEO of the supermarket behemoth Kroger in November of last year about electronic price tags (often called electronic shelf labels or ESLs). These digital displays allow companies to change prices automatically from a mobile app. Tlaib warned that this so-called “dynamic pricing” permits retailers to adjust prices based on their whims. Just as Uber raises prices during storms or rush hour, retailers like Kroger use ESLs to adjust prices based on factors like time of day or the weather. Supermarkets could conceivably mine a shopper’s personal data to set prices as high as possible. “My concern is that these tools will be abused in the pursuit of profit, surging prices on essential goods in areas with fewer and fewer grocery stores,” Tlaib wrote.

In August, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bob Casey wrote to Kroger raising similar concerns about price gouging. Noting that the company has already implemented the technology in hundreds of stores across the country, they warned that “ESLs may help Kroger extract maximum profits from consumers at a time when … high grocery prices are a Read more