June 03

I’m ill. I have a cold directly delivered from hell.  Why am I ill? Yes, why?! 

I like to think that I’m a healthy person, living a healthy life. Look at these simple fact’s:

- I exercise (running, yoga, walking, horse-back riding etc). 

- I eat healthy; mostly vegetarian food, some fish and lots of green stuff. 

- I drink tea, black tea, red tea and herb tea. 

- I have a juice centrifuge. YES! I think this is the ultimate evidence of me living a healthy lifestyle.  

- I drink water, around 2 litres per day. (I drink some wine too, but not too much, only in the weekends.) 

- I live on the countryside, hence lots of fresh air and outdoor activities.

- I have a family who seems to love me

So why am I sick when I really try to stay healthy?

As you can hear I start to get a bit annoyed and frustrated about collecting all the colds there are to find in the neighbourhoods. It’s simply unfair. 

Thus, I started to think about facts about the immune systems. This is what I found:

1) eat vegetables: check!

2) drink water: check!

3) don’t smoke: check!

4) exercise regularly: check!

5) eat fish: check!

6) avoid white sugar: hum, I do eat some sugar but it’s really not much. I don’t drink coca cola and drinks like that, but I do eat candy from time to time, and cookies. But really, it’s not that much. Not on a daily basis.

7) drink green tea: no way, don’t like it!

8) drink freshly made juice: check!

9) keep the stomach in good work with probiotic germs and fibers: check!

10) surround yourself with loving persons: check!

So, is it the lack of tea then? No, I think one out of 10 criteria’s shouldn’t be the cause.

I tried to think about factors I can’t help, like:

11) genes: ok, we seems to die young in my family (65-75 is the average lifetime), but I think smoking could be the reason and I don’t smoke. And I’m still only 41!

12) geographical location: north of Sweden.

And now I think I found something. In the north of Sweden we have a long and dark winter.  Then we have pay-back time in the summer when it’s light almost 24 hours a day. How could this affect the immune system?  Well, the most popular thing to mention is a lack of D-vitamin. So maybe that’s it? It makes sense. Last summer (2014) the weather was great, it was the best summer I can remember actually. I spent so much time in the sun. And I haven’t been ill until now. Maybe I simply run out D-vitamin? The winter before was horrible. I had a never ending cold from November to June and nothing helped. And maybe that was because the summer of 2013 was the worst ever. Rain, rain and rain.  

So, two things will end this writing.

1) I’m going to eat D-vitamins from now on.

2) I’m going to pray for a sunny summer.

Read aboutD-vitamin believers  here:
http://www.kostdoktorn.se/d-vitamin#vad
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166406/
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health-conditions/influenza/
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/vitamin-d/

Read about disbelievers here:
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/vetenskap/onodigt-att-kopa-d-vitamin/