Yes, you can too catch a cold from being cold

It turns out Grandma was right all along. A new study in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology refutes the claim that catching what Grandma would call “the death of cold” is an old wives’ tale.

In fact, a newly-discovered immune response inside the nose actually can trigger a respiratory illness like RSV, Covid, the common cold and flu — which vindicates Grandma and makes the naysayers wrong.

It’s “a finding that challenges the conventional wisdom that infections spread because people are stuck indoors and signposts ways to develop new treatments,” Forbes reports.

“Based on experiments exposing nasal cell and tissue samples to three viruses that cause the common cold — two rhinoviruses and a coronavirus (not the one responsible for Covid-19) — the research showed the nose also uses the tactic to defend against viral threats.”

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Forbes December 6, 2022

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By Dr Joseph Mercola / Physician and author

Dr. Joseph Mercola has been passionate about health and technology for most of his life. As a doctor of osteopathic medicine (DO), he treated thousands of patients for over 20 years.

Dr. Mercola finished his family practice residency in 1985. Because he was trained under the conventional medical model, he treated patients using prescription drugs during his first years of private practice and was actually a paid speaker for drug companies.

But as he began to experience the failures of the conventional model in his practice, he embraced natural medicine and found great success with time-tested holistic approaches. He founded The Natural Health Center (formerly The Optimal Wellness Center), which became well-known for its whole-body approach to medicine.

In 1997, Dr. Mercola integrated his passion for natural health with modern technology via the Internet. He founded the website Mercola.com to share his own health experiences and spread the word about natural ways to achieve optimal health. Mercola.com is now the world’s most visited natural health website, averaging 14 million visitors monthly and with over one million subscribers.

Dr. Mercola aims to ignite a transformation of the fatally flawed health care system in the United States, and to inspire people to take control of their health. He has made significant milestones in his mission to bring safe and practical solutions to people’s health problems.

Dr. Mercola authored two New York Times Bestsellers, The Great Bird Flu Hoax and The No-Grain Diet. He was also voted the 2009 Ultimate Wellness Game Changer by the Huffington Post, and has been featured in TIME magazine, LA Times, CNN, Fox News, ABC News with Peter Jennings, Today Show, CBS’s Washington Unplugged with Sharyl Attkisson, and other major media resources.

Stay connected with Dr. Mercola by following him on Twitter. You can also check out his Facebook page for more timely natural health updates.

(Source: mercola.com; December 6, 2022; https://tinyurl.com/yvcdafpd)
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