Immune System still strong..How?

recover_healthy_fit
recover_healthy_fit Posts: 209 Member
edited February 4 in Food and Nutrition
I have not been sick in years, and when I do feel something coming, it's usually gone within two days, MAYBE three. I know I don't eat very well and there's a reason for that....my username should be a hint........anyways, I've always wondered how is it still so strong when my body is the way it is right now? It doesn't make sense to me. I'm not complaining, but you'd think for someone that doesn't eat enough that I'd be getting sick all the time. I am however starting to feel something and I think it's from my Dad since he's got the cold. right now it feels like a little scratchy throat and SLIGHTLY sore when I swallow....but that's happened so many times before but then it goes away fast.

Any ideas as to how my immune system is still strong? lol

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  • recover_healthy_fit
    recover_healthy_fit Posts: 209 Member
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  • Ainar
    Ainar Posts: 858 Member
    Just because you don't ate a lot of calories does not means that you are not getting enough vitamins and nutrients for your immune system to stay strong. If you are sure you don't well then, probably just a lucky genetics you have.
  • beachlover317
    beachlover317 Posts: 2,848 Member
    If your immune system were truly strong - you would not be getting sick at all, or rarely. Your immune system is the first line of defense against any virus or infection that you come into contact with. A strong immune system kicks *kitten* and you are not even aware that you had the potential to be sick.

    Good luck in your recovery/
  • haroon_awan
    haroon_awan Posts: 1,208 Member
    I believe it's just the way our bodies work. The history of medicine and vaccines for example show that, very simply, a vaccine is made by separating the part of the virus that makes you sick from the part of the virus that induces an immune response and it's protective. You take the virus and you kill it with an activating agent but you didn't damage the structural proteins of that virus such that it couldn't induce an immune response. It still induces an immune response, it just couldn't reproduce itself so it couldn't cause a disease.

    Our immune system still has the ability to kill viruses and prevent them from spreading in our body even when the immune system itself is still quite weak. The fact that you you said yourself that you still get sick, like everyone else, is absolutely normal. If you are that interested in medicine and human biology then consider pursuing some education in it and making a career out of it?
  • recover_healthy_fit
    recover_healthy_fit Posts: 209 Member
    If your immune system were truly strong - you would not be getting sick at all, or rarely. Your immune system is the first line of defense against any virus or infection that you come into contact with. A strong immune system kicks *kitten* and you are not even aware that you had the potential to be sick.

    Good luck in your recovery/

    I mean SICK. I DO have a TRULY strong immune system. It's either I don't get anything at all or if i do, it's gone the next day. and it's never bad, even if the other person had it for weeks and puking.

    and thank you
  • recover_healthy_fit
    recover_healthy_fit Posts: 209 Member
    I believe it's just the way our bodies work. The history of medicine and vaccines for example show that, very simply, a vaccine is made by separating the part of the virus that makes you sick from the part of the virus that induces an immune response and it's protective. You take the virus and you kill it with an activating agent but you didn't damage the structural proteins of that virus such that it couldn't induce an immune response. It still induces an immune response, it just couldn't reproduce itself so it couldn't cause a disease.

    Our immune system still has the ability to kill viruses and prevent them from spreading in our body even when the immune system itself is still quite weak. The fact that you you said yourself that you still get sick, like everyone else, is absolutely normal. If you are that interested in medicine and human biology then consider pursuing some education in it and making a career out of it?

    I'm not sure yet, but I might be interested in helping young girls and women, even men and younger guys that are going through what I am. But we'll see..
  • NoAdditives
    NoAdditives Posts: 4,251 Member
    If your immune system were truly strong - you would not be getting sick at all, or rarely. Your immune system is the first line of defense against any virus or infection that you come into contact with. A strong immune system kicks *kitten* and you are not even aware that you had the potential to be sick.

    Good luck in your recovery/
    A lot of the symptoms we experience from colds are actually the result of our immune system overreacting to a pretty harmless virus. A strong immune system can actually result in worse cold symptoms than a weaker immune system would.
  • recover_healthy_fit
    recover_healthy_fit Posts: 209 Member
    The very tiny feeling of a cold i had yesterday is gone. like always now. good lol
  • ithina
    ithina Posts: 23 Member
    I have a really good immune system too. I managed to hurt it some with my crazy work schedule (hardly had time to sleep for months/years). I'm back to where I was and I haven't been sick for a bit *knocks on wood.*

    For me I think a good bit of it is genetics. My dad's side has always had a strong immune system and it got passed down to me. I don't know if genetics plays a role in how beefy your immune system is, but it would explain my situation.

    I'm glad your throat tickles went away =). Good luck in your recovery.
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