Re: Medical advice needed

"Ryan Cousineau" <rcousine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:rcousine-9DB167.22291918102009@[74.223.185.199.nw.nuvox.net]...
In article <rubrum-99E78E.20284918102009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Michael Press <rubrum@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <9bCdndNOTtos3UfXnZ2dnUVZ_v6dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Mike Jacoubowsky" <MikeJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Ryan Cousineau" <rcousine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:rcousine-F165C6.10011517102009@[74.223.185.199.nw.nuvox.net]...
I'm laid up with, I dunno, the flu or a bad-ass cold. I have been
subsisting on regular meals and fruit juices and tea for three
days.

Will a 3.2% kriek beer sufficiently weaken my immune responses
that I
should be concerned, or am I just being a big pantywaist?

--
Ryan Cousineau rcousine@xxxxxxxxx http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."

Do what you *want* to do and get over it. This thing about getting
a cold
or
whatever and staying in bed is for the birds. Or maybe pigs. Think
what
you're saying to those little buggers. You've won. Party on in my
body.

Resistance is *not* futile.

Staying in bed is not sufficient.
Bundling up and raising the entire
body temperature from toes to finger tips
to crown is effective. Viruses are
killed by elevated temperature.
Give them no quarter. They also
die from ascorbic acid, so steady
dosing is also effective.

Feed a cold...murder a fever?

You're catching on! For the San Bruno Mountain hillclimb back in, who
knows, 1973?, I had a bad sore throat and a fever of something like 103
early that morning. I rode anyway (because that's what I did...I was the
polar opposite of the Bill Cosby kid who would feign sickness so he
didn't have to go to school). Got third place, and felt fine from
then-on. That was one fever I definitely "murdered."

I have yet to see personal evidence that coddling bad colds and such
gets people through them faster. Why put your body into a state of
suspended animation? Isn't the whole point of doing so to slow processes
down? Don't you want to get better faster?

Or, as they say so often in Starship Troopers- "You want to live
forever?"


--
Ryan Cousineau rcousine@xxxxxxxxx http://www.wiredcola.com/

--
--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com


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