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Wellness Wednesday for January 24, 2024

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I’ve been feeling under the weather for the past couple weeks, and am thinking about doing a cleanse to see if that can jumpstart my body’s immune system.

Any recommendations for a healthy cleanse, maybe lasting up to 6 days?

Your cleanse should be...

  • More than 8 hours of sleep.
  • Drinking a lot of water.
  • Eating nutritious meals.
  • Some exercise.
  • Some sunlight/ vitamin d pills.

Just stay on the cleanse forever.

Your forgot

  • Eliminate alcohol

It's what helped me stop getting sick all the time. A drink or two a night was enough to ruin my sleep and in turn suppress my immune system. YMMV of course.

Try a leek soup cleanse, although it's more of a wet fast so I'd recommend 2-3 days max.

From everything I've read a cleanse isn't necessary, though depriving oneself of, for example, sugar or anything sweet, or booze, or similar, especially if it's something you regularly consume, might produce results. I'm currently reading Robert Lustig 's Metabolical and it's compelling and convincing, though I'm always leery of diet advice, just based on the experience of seeing various waves over the years of true believers who were later debunked.

Edit: I may not have in mind the same cleanse you do

I have never heard a coherent rationale for why a "cleanse" is a good idea or even makes sense.

I suppose a lymphoma or leukemia would be a good excuse, but also unlikely to be relevant here.

No.

No recommendations because such a thing does not exist.

jumpstart my body’s immune system

Did you get vaccinated (fuck the COVID one, just the regulars you're supposed to get)? That'll do you more good than any number of cold baths or Vitamin C pills. If so, consider your immune system well and truly jumped.

Why fuck the covid one but not the others?

@Walterodim has saved me the trouble

Unless you're old/sick, or working with the old/sick, the benefits are largely negligible at this point.

I have had 2 normal shots and 3 boosters, and have caught COVID 4 times confirmed and once suspected (I couldn't be arsed to get tested and I wasn't employed where I could use it for sick leave).

Also, if someone hasn't had it yet, I don't care to tell them again.

It's a fairly ineffective vaccine and the eventual outcomes were such that if I had gotten those in a controlled animal-trial, I would have discarded it as ineffective and filed the results away in a cabinet. Despite the later claims that vaccines aren't intended to prevent infection and transmission, they actually are intended to prevent infection and transmission; failing to do so is an incredibly disappointing result. There are good reasons to believe that there was good-faith belief that it would be more effective than it wound up being, but it really isn't a very good vaccine.

Perhaps more importantly to the conversation, it's also the most polarizing one and people could have good reasons for skipping it while not having a broadly anti-vaccine stance.

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