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ORIGINAL: tammystarm

if Your running and the cold catches You   Your not running fast enough

run harda

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ORIGINAL: MadameMarque

The problem is, when your being cold lowers your body's immune defenses, and makes you susceptible to illness. 

Notice the temperature changes in your body, when you are ill.  Basically, if the environment keeps your body close to its ideal temperature, your body doesn't have to use a lot of its resources just manufacturing heat, so it can use those resources for other functions, such as healing, reproducing itself healthfully, and dealing with unwelcome invaders such as allergens, disease, and infections.

Now, on the other hand, acclimating yourself to withstanding cold can make you hardy.  I do not know how one does that without compromising the immune system.

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ORIGINAL: MadameMarque

Now, on the other hand, acclimating yourself to withstanding cold can make you hardy.  I do not know how one does that without compromising the immune system.

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ORIGINAL: YourhandMyAss

And in winter I don't mean the below zero's or snow or places ilke michigan, cause I have no doubt that'll cause health problems if not simply discomfort. I mean like I always thought colds were caused by germs.  And I don't mean running like marathons, so I put around in the title, a bit belated though lol.

Running around as in your home continually naked, while it's cold with no source of proper heat, or walking about your yard naked* if your yard is secure enough* or if you live in a nudist colony on the beach nude lol. that kind of running naked.

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ORIGINAL: solia

Hm, as an allergy and immunization technician, I'll have to go ahead and give you the short version that no ~ nakedness in a cold environment will not make you sick.  Neither will all the preventative measures people believe in such as taking a daily vitamin or drinking OJ every morning  keep you from getting sick.  Your immune system is what it is and it may or may not be able to build defenses against everything like your neighbor's does.   There's a lot of stuff going on in your body all at once ~ makes sense that if energy is being put elsewhere to some other disorder, then less energy is being put to immunity building.  That's the short reason why they don't like us to get vaccinations when we have a cold ~ our immune system is already busy and it won't do a very good job building immunities to the new 'thing!'
I used to take vitamins and drink OJ every morning and all the other recommended preventative measures ~ and I was constantly sick.  Then I learned that OJ triggered migraines for me, that the vitamins were one of the reasons causing my acid reflux and learned that my immune system was busy fighting all the allergies that I found out that I had developed instead of keeping me from getting sick all of the time.  I stopped all of that and stopped being sick most of the time.  Now, I keep my life simple and my thermostat around 65 because my particular body doesn't like temps above 70 in the winter.   Long exposures to 70+ temps actually make me sick! And that's because of the nice warm environment all the germs like to live in.
As a kid, I used to go off to school with my butt length hair wet from my morning shower and I never got sick from that even though everyone swore to heaven and hell that I would.
And that's my advice to you, listen to your body ~ it's unique from everyone else's.  What works for someone else is probably not gonna work for you.

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ORIGINAL: suhlut

When i was a kid, at camp, i used to participate in an activity that was called "polar bear".. where we would be woken up at the very crack of dawn, run from our cabin down to the lake, and jump IN..for a VERY chilly first morning swim..

Never made me sick.. in fact, i remember the after effects fondly.. that cold swim did something to my body, that nothing else ever has, a complete awakening.. and the rest of the day was spent with a different feeling of awareness..wakefulness.. everything could be seen much differently. i loved that, just..brr.. i hated that first moment the cold water touched body.. till you became used to it.

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ORIGINAL: JoeStalin

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ORIGINAL: solia

Hm, as an allergy and immunization technician, I'll have to go ahead and give you the short version that no ~ nakedness in a cold environment will not make you sick.  Neither will all the preventative measures people believe in such as taking a daily vitamin or drinking OJ every morning  keep you from getting sick.  Your immune system is what it is and it may or may not be able to build defenses against everything like your neighbor's does.   There's a lot of stuff going on in your body all at once ~ makes sense that if energy is being put elsewhere to some other disorder, then less energy is being put to immunity building.  That's the short reason why they don't like us to get vaccinations when we have a cold ~ our immune system is already busy and it won't do a very good job building immunities to the new 'thing!'
I used to take vitamins and drink OJ every morning and all the other recommended preventative measures ~ and I was constantly sick.  Then I learned that OJ triggered migraines for me, that the vitamins were one of the reasons causing my acid reflux and learned that my immune system was busy fighting all the allergies that I found out that I had developed instead of keeping me from getting sick all of the time.  I stopped all of that and stopped being sick most of the time.  Now, I keep my life simple and my thermostat around 65 because my particular body doesn't like temps above 70 in the winter.   Long exposures to 70+ temps actually make me sick! And that's because of the nice warm environment all the germs like to live in.
As a kid, I used to go off to school with my butt length hair wet from my morning shower and I never got sick from that even though everyone swore to heaven and hell that I would.
And that's my advice to you, listen to your body ~ it's unique from everyone else's.  What works for someone else is probably not gonna work for you.

Isn’t the reason why we get sicker in the winter because viruses survive longer in cold temperatures so therefore there are more of them around in the air when it is cold?
And being naked in cold requires body to use more resources to maintain body temperature, which leaves less for the immune system, and that weakens it? So naked in, cold you have more viruses and less immunity, which means greater chance to get ill?

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ORIGINAL: suhlut

  


"Why Do People Get Sick More Often in the Winter?
“Lots of hypotheses, not one perfect answer,” says William Schaffner, M.D., chairman of the department of preventive medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, in Nashville. A leading theory is that confinement breeds infection. “In winter,” Schaffner says, “we spend more time indoors, in rooms that may not get a lot of circulation, giving us more opportunities to be exposed to respiratory viruses.” The winter air, inside and outside, also tends to be less humid, drying nasal passages and making them more vulnerable to viral invasion.

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ORIGINAL: Dnomyar

Achooooooooooooooooooo.