Probably a meandering post … but looking for any shared experiences and insights. Prior to the pandemic (pre March 2020) I was a verifiable “road warrior” in the corporate sense. I traveled 3-4 days a week, was in airports, taxis, Ubers, hotels, restaurants, offices, etc., in addition to having a …

[image] batwood14: Are there any N=1 anecdotes, homeopathic or otherwise, of what you all are doing to bolster your immune systems, etc., to allow you to better fight these things off? You’ve likely seen these related topics, but just in case: I'm sick all the time! 10 courses of antibiotic…

Do you understand the basics of flu vaccines? This is my lay understanding - “they” (drug mfgs) pick a couple of strains they think are going to be making the rounds, and mix up a cocktail. You take a shot and develop some level of immunity to those strains. If a different strain comes around, you r…

Similar experience here! I used to get ill once a year (flu), and that was it. Travelled a lot for work too. Last year was pretty bad though, with regularly losing a week of training every month or two due to illness. It became gradually worse over summer. We fell into a very predictoble pattern wh…

Yup, same here. I’ve had more minor colds/coughs in the last 6 months than my whole adult lifetime (maybe slight hyperbole, but not much). I suspect lockdowns have negatively affected many people’s immune systems (that’s not an anti-lockdown comment, just what I believe to be a statement of fact).

Same. I get sick once a year normally. I’ve been sick 3 times in the past month. :face_exhaling:

After getting COVID I’ve been feeling very fatigued after training blocks. I’ve been also getting sick very easily when maintaining a TSS I could happily handle prior to COVID. My solution that I’m currently trying and has been working so far, was getting a Garmin Forerunner 255 that tracks my HRV. …

You’re mostly right on how flu vaccines work except that it’s not manufacturers that choose the strains to target, it’s a committee from within the FDA. They choose what to go after based on info from the CDC and WHO and then finally the manufacturers build to go after those strains. Usually, it wor…

When you were out and about a lot you will have been getting exposed to lots of things in small doses. Enough to cause an immune response, not enough to get sick. You’ve missed those frequent micro doses of immune interaction. It’ll get back to normal soon enough with enough frequent exposure aga…

Touchwood after getting my Iron levels sorted out in April 2019 I’m back to a good immune system and even when I was immunocompromised with chemo during most of 2019 I was still fairly healthy.

[image] WindWarrior: This will not be popular with some, but I’m old school on this topic. Don’t hide from the world and you’ll keep your immune system stronger. I am immunocompromised and think the same thing. Yes I masked in the early parts of covid but for some time I have been just doing …

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