Think about this for a moment -
5 Years ago you'd get the flu, and start running a fever. What would you do? Most people would take Tylenol to stop the fever so they stop feeling sick.
But the flu didn't give you the fever. Your immune system upped your body's temperature in order to kill the flu virus. Your immune system gave you the fever, not the flu.
By stopping the fever, you're preventing your immune system from making you better, which results in you staying sick.
Another example - If you get food poisoning, you end up puking and have diarrhoea. Which is the body trying to flush the bad stuff out of the stomach and guts. Taking Pepto Bismol stops the body from flushing the bad stuff out, and keeps it all inside the stomach and guts.
When you feel sick, the vast VAST majority of the time, the symptoms you feel are caused by your immune system fighting something. And most of the time when you take things to stop the symptoms, you're taking things that stop your immune system from doing its job.
5 years ago if you asked, How does the flu kill people? (scientificamerican.com) (First article to pop up, it's from 2017) - The answer was that the flu doesn't kill, it isn't capable of killing anyone. If someone dies it's because their own immune system kills them. - It's the same thing with SARS type Corona Viruses. The virus burrows into your throat cells, replicates, and bursts out. That's it. That's all it does. It doesn't give you a fever, it doesn't make you sick, it can't kill you.
Right now, people breath in some dust or pollen, get a stuffed up nose, and instantly start taking medication that attacks their immune system. Which causes their immune system to fight back and results in all types of symptoms.
Yes there are medications that help our immune systems and make us better. But if you stop and think about it, many of the medications people take fight against their immune system, and keep them sick by preventing their immune system from making them better.
Oy vey! You sound very antisemitic. Why do you hate jews? /s
I used to take antihistamines against my allergies, but now I just let it happen with snots and all. If I suppress my inflammatory response, then I won't be able to feel other things attacking my body.
Allergies are a result of an overactive immune system, children and youths who had significant allergies died in their youth in every era before the Victorian period. The unnecessary inflammation is very bad for your long term health daily antihistamine use can be too. You need to remove the allergens from your environment first then use the antihistamines as needed.
Allergies are largely a product of over 300 years of escape from natural selection just like the need for eyeglasses.
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