MetabolicTrash
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Why do some people seem to be "getting colds" so much (like small kids for example) but others never, no matter what? I used to get them nonstop as a kid, but now it seems I never do even if I'm around others who are supposedly "sick" (this is not to say I'm super-healthy/resilient/bragging or anything like that).
I don't think I have a "good" immune system at all, so I doubt that could be the reason for me avoiding it. Maybe a lot of people who "get sick" aren't really sick in that sense, but more so it's an overall indicator of intrinsic health dips than some "foreign pathogen" sickening you out of your control/choices?
Also, some say that being in the vicinity of another who is sick can make you "catch" the cold, but this is questionable when sick people are around some and they never fall ill despite it. while others it's like a human-domino-effect where one with a runny nose leads to another with a sore throat and then "everybody is sick."
People will agree that it's about health and resilience, but I am not especially healthy at all, I don't think, so that argument is debatable. In fact, some of the quote unquote "healthy people" with good diets, lots of energy and etc. might be "catching colds" more often than the lower energy individual with overall bad symptoms, which also brings up the topic on psychosomatic response in being around sick people -- or other energy/nutritional insufficiencies that can aggravate feeling "the cold coming on" possibly.
Again, some people mention "feeling sick" or symptoms like that of a cold, but this could point to various sources since not everyone who "feels sick" has the same origin of said feeling making them associate it with -- in their mind -- having "the cold" or such (think: allergies with the runny nose/all "classic" symptoms). So I'm not sure where to go or what sense to make of this when people say they're "sick" or "have a cold."
Maybe "sick" to many people is endotoxemia/immunosuppression? Viral origin as believed may not be the primary pathology?
I know plenty of doctors -- when kids for example "feel sick" and are taken to the see them -- never find anything and just advise for something vague like rest, vitamin C or etc. -- they usually don't specify or identify any real origin on what caused most "feeling sick" cases that aren't traceable easily to something on a routine, elective medical visit or check up, which makes it seem like a waste of time for some I'm sure.
I don't think I have a "good" immune system at all, so I doubt that could be the reason for me avoiding it. Maybe a lot of people who "get sick" aren't really sick in that sense, but more so it's an overall indicator of intrinsic health dips than some "foreign pathogen" sickening you out of your control/choices?
Also, some say that being in the vicinity of another who is sick can make you "catch" the cold, but this is questionable when sick people are around some and they never fall ill despite it. while others it's like a human-domino-effect where one with a runny nose leads to another with a sore throat and then "everybody is sick."
People will agree that it's about health and resilience, but I am not especially healthy at all, I don't think, so that argument is debatable. In fact, some of the quote unquote "healthy people" with good diets, lots of energy and etc. might be "catching colds" more often than the lower energy individual with overall bad symptoms, which also brings up the topic on psychosomatic response in being around sick people -- or other energy/nutritional insufficiencies that can aggravate feeling "the cold coming on" possibly.
Again, some people mention "feeling sick" or symptoms like that of a cold, but this could point to various sources since not everyone who "feels sick" has the same origin of said feeling making them associate it with -- in their mind -- having "the cold" or such (think: allergies with the runny nose/all "classic" symptoms). So I'm not sure where to go or what sense to make of this when people say they're "sick" or "have a cold."
Maybe "sick" to many people is endotoxemia/immunosuppression? Viral origin as believed may not be the primary pathology?
I know plenty of doctors -- when kids for example "feel sick" and are taken to the see them -- never find anything and just advise for something vague like rest, vitamin C or etc. -- they usually don't specify or identify any real origin on what caused most "feeling sick" cases that aren't traceable easily to something on a routine, elective medical visit or check up, which makes it seem like a waste of time for some I'm sure.