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Have you ever woken up on any given morning and felt it just was not going to be a good day?. That foreboding of the roll out of the next 12 or 14 hours may very well be your body’s way of telling you to take it easy. It may be that your immune system is on the brink of fighting an invading fortified viral attack. It is only too simplistic to consider this all faff. We certainly can and should take heed of what we feel! Of course declaring “I feel off today, no work then!” probably won’t appease your employer and it should not. The feeling is subjective; your boss really can’t determine if you’re being lax or honest. The best advice is to not over tax yourself. Avoid any unnecessary work tasks, consume light easy meals. Drink fluids (particularly not sugar drenched beverages) to help wash out toxins. A high sugar diet has been correlated to a less active immune system. Once again the old adage of anything in moderation is fine. Yes you could be gulping down the ‘red bull’ or other energy revving beverage but for whose benefit? It certainly is not yours. Ah, yes your boss will be pleased to see you jumping around but your body is under pressure and needs some rest. Short term, you feel up and speedy. Long term, your strength will dwindle in slight ways. We have often heard about people commenting “I feel so much more energy since changing my diet”, well maybe you should consider, can diet be a hefty stress? It can be, especially when we pour in stimulants too pump out those last drops of fuel to keep the body active when it should be resting. Calm down, take more time to paying attention to your tasks and then plan how to accelerate ‘bed time’ to catch some sleep and rest. Don’t scoff at that! It will pay off, your rest promotes faster, more efficient immune functioning which means better health and triumph over this and future viral attacks. You want a strong body now and a strong body in later years to ward off illness. It’s common sense. Knock knock, anyone home in the common sense department? We seem to have forgotten how to utilise that area, especially as we are bombarded with one piece of literature or latest developmental study/research backtracking previous snippets of information. Lock up the information bank sometime and fiddle around, throw out the junk, keep what you know to be useful from experience and guess what you should remember your common sense again! Practice, it sure will save you time. Then again, knowledge imparts better choices so keep the key for the information department. Anastacia Sampson D.N. Med |