I am recording this sick, in a sports bra, with a roll of toilet paper next to me because I do not own tissues. So here is the full audit of how I got here, and the exact protocol I run to get out of Sicktown at speed.
I never get sick. I do not even own a box of tissues. So the fact that I am recording this with a deep chest cough, a puffy face, and hair going in nine directions after a Gojek ride is, honestly, a little bit funny and a little bit humbling.
And I decided to do the thing I do with every client and run a full audit on myself and why I got sick.
You probably do not have a bad immune system. You have a body running an overdraft, and immunity is one of the most expensive departments in the building, so it gets defunded first. It is why the sickest week of your year lands right after the big deadline, or on day one of vacation. You did not catch something on the plane. You got on the plane depleted.
In this one I break down the four real reasons immunity drops, including the one almost nobody connects, which is your gut and every round of antibiotics you have ever taken. I had strep throat from age 10 to 14 and it was not a coincidence.
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