The importance of offtopic
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·August 6, 2025kruffalon
baxtr
Sad to hear but curious to know: before you got the flu, did you expose yourself to sunlight?
There are more and more studies showing how light helps our immune system.
kruffalon
Yes, outside everyday, summer is my season.
Although I prefer not being in direct sunlight I'm still in sunlight every day.
Interesting how sunlight is helpful, do you know/think it is the light in itself, vitamin D, both or something else?
My mistake, which in hindsight is obvious: I spent 3 days with a person at the end of their flu :)
Still worth!
baxtr
I am no expert myself but it as far as I understand morning or late-afternoon sunlight’s red and near-infrared light boosts mitochondria and thus supports immunity.
bowsamic
I don’t see why my colleagues should be my friends. Then again I live in Germany and it seems to be very much not the culture to mix those two things here
I got some kind of summer flu the other day. It always catches me by surprise that you can get "a cold" in summer.
Oh, well, I don't really mind, it is one of the few times I rest and don't keep chipping away at my todo-list.
It sucks too though, because I also had plans with friends and it's harder to make new plans since many of my friends are teachers and start working soon, around the 20th.