I feel I should approach this topic very gingerly. I know that many of us have differing opinions on the state of the world and the validity (or not) of Covid and all that the past year has entailed. While Covid-19 is certainly what inspired me to write this post, it isn't at the heart of it. With that being said, please take your time, read this post, chew on it, and leave the comments section for the real discussion (which I will get to right..... now).
Like many people (again, or not), I have a bottle of hand sanitizer sitting right on my desk. It is right in front of my keyboard just below one of my monitors. When I leave my office and come back, the first thing I do before logging back into my computer is put some of the hand sanitizer on.
I was contemplating this ritual that I have gotten into the other day and it occurred to me that I legitimately can't remember the last time I was sick (knock on wood). In the past, I was always good for at least two or three good colds per year. My wife and I work in a public school district. The little baddies that you are prone to catch through the year is usually off the chart. My wife had a run where she got strep throat at least four years in a row and I think one year alone she caught it three times.
Yet here we are, neither of us have had nary a sniffle a snoot or a cough. While this may seem like a good thing, there was a little voice in the back of my head questioning how great this really is.
I could be wrong, but part of me feels like we need those sicknesses to keep our immune system in shape. I started wondering how many years you can go without getting the cold before you finally do and it hits you like a mac truck. Simply because you haven't been regularly building up the antibodies or whatever it is inside of you to battle it.
In this world of incessant sanitation, are we actually setting ourselves up to be steam-rolled by something as simple as the common cold in the future?
Which leads me to why I posted this post in the Natural Medicine community. A long time ago I purchased a book from Amazon called The Green Pharmacy. It was filled with all manner of treatments and applications of plants and herbs for medicinal benefit. I firmly believe that there are some (or many) things that can be cured with "alternative" medicine. That's a funny word right since really nature was here first and what we use these days as medicine is really the alternative.
But I digress...
Have you spent some time considering the scenario I outlined above? Do you think that by being so healthy we are setting ourselves up for issues down the road? Is there a natural alternative that can give our immune system a workout so it is ready for that next time we do get a cold? Green Tea? Black Tea? Echinacea? Colloidal Silver?
I look forward to hearing your thoughts and replies!
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