The medicine dulls the symptoms while your body fights it the same way it would had you not medicated.
Except the medicine often interferes with the healing process: swelling that's relieved would have been useful, so your body takes a little longer to repair.
This actually applies to most common symptoms. Fevers inhibit replication of bacteria and viruses. Nasal mucus is a physical barrier that prevents viruses from passing through the mucal membrane into the blood stream. Coughs expel matter from the lungs. Most of the time, you'll be better off not taking anything.
Everyone is different and quite the opposite is true for me. Rest right at the onset of symptoms is critical for me. But I lift weights at least 4 times a week and am a mailman so I walk ~5 miles per day.
worked as a cartpusher for four and a half years, usually bundled up and sweated through an illness. Even when I don't, I'm usually miserable for a day or two, then get the sniffles for a week or two and I'm fine.
...I usually tell people to add some fresh garlic to their meals and maybe eat something spicy if they don't have an upset stomach.
For that I suggest peppermint tea. It tastes great and mint in general settles the stomach, though I usually go with peppermint because it tastes better in my opinion.
There's an image that's been floating around for a few years of a black dude with a huge MAGA banner (or was it a confederate flag? can't remember), and a white dude with a BLM banner and the text underneath is something like, "The teams have been auto-balanced."
My health got a lot better when I started listening to my body, slowed down and rested when I felt tired. Don’t go to work sick, stay home, drink water, eat well, rest. You get less sick, feel better sooner and enjoy life more.
Very little medicine is needed. If you are taking medicine, you are doing something else wrong.
The medicine dulls the symptoms while your body fights it the same way it would had you not medicated.
Except the medicine often interferes with the healing process: swelling that's relieved would have been useful, so your body takes a little longer to repair.
This actually applies to most common symptoms. Fevers inhibit replication of bacteria and viruses. Nasal mucus is a physical barrier that prevents viruses from passing through the mucal membrane into the blood stream. Coughs expel matter from the lungs. Most of the time, you'll be better off not taking anything.
You’re absolutely right. Exercise right at the onset of illness is critical. Sweat that shit out, hydrate with reverse osmosis water, sleep, repeat.
Everyone is different and quite the opposite is true for me. Rest right at the onset of symptoms is critical for me. But I lift weights at least 4 times a week and am a mailman so I walk ~5 miles per day.
worked as a cartpusher for four and a half years, usually bundled up and sweated through an illness. Even when I don't, I'm usually miserable for a day or two, then get the sniffles for a week or two and I'm fine.
Indeed. Steering away from modern “medicine” is the key though.
...I usually tell people to add some fresh garlic to their meals and maybe eat something spicy if they don't have an upset stomach.
For that I suggest peppermint tea. It tastes great and mint in general settles the stomach, though I usually go with peppermint because it tastes better in my opinion.
There's an image that's been floating around for a few years of a black dude with a huge MAGA banner (or was it a confederate flag? can't remember), and a white dude with a BLM banner and the text underneath is something like, "The teams have been auto-balanced."
That's what I think of in moments like this...
My health got a lot better when I started listening to my body, slowed down and rested when I felt tired. Don’t go to work sick, stay home, drink water, eat well, rest. You get less sick, feel better sooner and enjoy life more.
Very little medicine is needed. If you are taking medicine, you are doing something else wrong.
nyquil, dayquil, and theralu are GODS AMONG MEN
Man, don't shit on my nyquil. It's the only thing I take.