I can add one the far less data point too. Used to get sick multiple times every winter, nothing in the last two years. Also got more allergies in the summer.
Is anyone else getting cold/sick much more often these days?
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#62Sunlight (vitaminD) is one of the most important factors. As you are, strong cardiovascular health (sustained sweat intensely 3x a week) Eat a balanced and non processed diet high in nutrients. Think salads and meats with some rice and tubers. Snack on fruit and nuts. Get plenty of sleep. Try not to be stressed. If you are, simplify your life. Its better to drive an old toyota with faded paint relaxed than to work ov…
The focus on masking and vaccines is really just cope that the average person in the first world is so atrociously unhealthy.
You want to reduce strain on the healthcare system? Mandate exercise and outlaw fat people.
Passports for restaurants that show you've been eating healthy.
Of course that's facetious, inhumane and absurd, but so is the public health policy we get shoved down our throats.
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#63I am more sick these days, but that's because I have a preschooler...
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#64Been sick since September with the illness of the week. But, I have kiddos in daycare/school.
Still, RSV was a doozy the other week. 3 kids in one class were on oxygen at the hospital for multiple days.
We've been to the hospital twice since September for the kiddos. They're so packed that they put us in a conference room the first time, and the MRI room the second time. Conference room is kinda 'meh', but when they put us in the MRI room, I was stunned. Those rooms are the most dangerous in any hospital by far. That's how packed they are around us.
I agree with the nurses and MDs, this winter is worse than any covid winter.
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#65I'm not sure. I'm getting what feel like the start of a cold or flu more often than I used to, but if I sleep for a few hours they are gone. I don't think I've had something that lasted past a good sleep in a few years.
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#66Yes 100%.
I have not been sick in about 5 years and then I caught Covid when the first wave hit.
Since then, I’ve been sick at least once a month while my wife and kids have experienced the same thing (just less extreme)
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#67This story is anecdata bait.
By this I mean, without a means to isolate whether responses are self selecting (either for or against the proposition), it just devolves to a "hn story time" which has way too wide of a context to be meaningful.
If I'm wrong, I wonder what sort of thoughtful expansive substantial comments is this post seeking that are good as a hacker news topic?
To answer the question posed. No. I am generally fine. The weather has been colder on average for this month where I live.
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#68> I do try to stay active though, I'm running 5k in the gym regularly, I've been to the gym almost 100 times this year. I'm taking multi-vitamins as well. What else can I do to avoid getting cold so often?
Go to the gym less often? Like all other enclosed spaces which don't do enough air exchange (e.g. offices, malls, schools etc.) it's a perfect places for people to infect each other with their germs.
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#69Seems like much less, and that’s with three children at three different places (kindy, childcare, etc). Childcare has historically been a vector.
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#70Expose yourself more to cold. Take cold baths/showers. Swim in cold sea (if possible) (do not suddenly shock yourself though, enter gradually and slow). Practice Wim Hof Method. Do not sit for long periods of time and walk around at least 5 minutes after every hour of sitting. Avoid stress and practice meditation. Ear less carbs and more fibers/vegetables/meat. Once you get used to these, it's extremely unlikely that…
> Practice Wim Hof Method Do not practice the pseudoscientific methods of a genetic outlier who strapped some random thoughts and ideas to the _revolutionary_ method of... training. It's a waste of your time, as are cold showers etc. Even with the best of diets and exercise regimes, you'll still get sick. Don't fall for the "oh well once you sat down for two hours straight and ate some chocolate on Christmas day, of…
Genetic outlier? The guy literally took many completely untrained random people from diversity many times, applied his methods, and shown people have similar effects. Not to mention all the science-backed experiments around the method.
Wim Hof is exactly opposite of pseudoscience: someone who is collaborating with scientists and doctors to show that he's not special and anyone can do the same.