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The NEWSS Helps Keep The Bugs Away

Guest post by: Michael Hume

Article Overview: You're going to pick up bugs, such as cold viruses, from time to time. But how badly they affect you, and how long they stay around, depends on how well you're doing on keeping yourself vital and strong. The better your health habits, the better you'll fare against the bugs....

The NEWSS Helps Keep The Bugs Away

Health Habits: Keep Yourself Strong... And Healthy The bugs are after me again. A few days ago, a digital virus took down my computer (despite two or three defense systems I'd installed). And this week, I have a cold virus that's taken up residence in my body. The computer had to be replaced; my body, which I can't replace, has to defend itself. And I'm happy to say the cold is mild, and already on its way to a quick defeat.

You're going to pick up bugs, such as cold viruses, from time to time. But how badly they affect you, and how long they stay around, depends on how well you're doing on keeping yourself vital and strong. The better your health habits, the better you'll fare against the bugs.

When I was a kid living in a small Colorado town, we had a great young doctor who'd decided to leave the big city and set up a practice in our little burg. He was a good doctor... but, like most people who are good at the technical work of a business, he might not have been as good at running the business itself. Like many, he might not have given thought to all the things entrepreneurs have to get right before he decided to start a business. But I was amused at his light-hearted way of handling things when business was down. Once, on a slow day during which I arrived for a routine exam, I caught him alone in his waiting room, arms folded behind him, looking out at the street. "Come on, bugs," he whispered. "Get 'em."

He knew what we all know: the bugs are out there, and sooner or later, they're gonna get ya. One of the best places for bugs to go hunting is, of all places, the hospital! A 2009 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services showed that 60% of doctors' uniforms (and 65% of nurses') carry dangerous bacteria. One in five of the security cards hospital personnel carry were contaminated with a host of pathogenic bugs, including the superbug MRSA (an annual killer of thousands)! It's no surprise the report went on to say that post-operative bloodstream infections had increased eight percent, and that post-operative catheter-related urinary tract infections and certain other infections related to medical care were on the rise.

And the bugs do what they can to keep themselves in shape for the fight with your body's defenses, too. A recent edition of the journal "Nature" reported researchers' discovery of antibiotic-resistant genes in bacteria they'd found in permafrost that was 30 THOUSAND years old. Scientists have always been awed at how fast bacteria can develop resistance to antibiotic drugs... this latest report shows the bugs have been at it as a natural phenomenon far predating the modern clinical development of antibiotic drugs beginning less than a century ago.

So what can you do? If the bugs work hard to develop their resistance to medicine, you have to work hard to develop more resistance to them. Start a program of personal vitality with the five key daily health habits I call The NEWSS: Nutrition (begin by cutting out the garbage "food"), Exercise (get at least three good workouts a week), Water (get two liters every day), Sleep (get eight hours every night), and Supplements (take at least one good daily multi-nutrient to beef up your body's natural defenses).

You can't keep the bugs from doing their best to invade your life. But you can do a lot to keep their intrusions from derailing your business, or your mission, or your simple enjoyment of life. Stay strong, and chances are, you'll stay well.

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