You’re thinking about your current quality of life and what you will be forced to deal with in the long term. You are part of a generation that associates good health with the bigger picture. Mental health and happiness are important to you, while things like physical appearance are of less concern.
You are aware that reducing your long-term risk of disease and debilitating illness is an important part of better health and wellbeing.
You understand that prevention is better than the cure. You may be motivated by a previous health scare to make positive changes. You hear about friends suffering with debilitating illness or that are no longer alive because their immune systems were too weak to ward of illness.
Headlines inform you of the various deadly illnesses now facing mankind.
Headlines inform us that the Big One is coming, and it’s going to be a flu pandemic. Unlike seasonal flu, pandemics occur when a completely new or novel virus emerges. When it happens, it will probably have a greater impact on humanity than anything else currently happening in the world. With flu pandemic we cannot rely on our bodies’ ability to fight. Our immune systems may not be strong enough to fight Pandemic flu. This flu is a different beast. The result is something mankind has never seen before: a pathogen that can spread easily from person to defenseless person.
At present there is no pandemic flu vaccine available.
There are methods that can ease suffering with antivirals, breathing machines and antibiotics for secondary bacterial infections. None of which are preferable!
The World Health Organization (WHO) argues that the antibiotics currently in development are not sufficient to counter rising antimicrobial resistance particularly in the pathogens that present the greatest threat to human health.
Bacteria and other disease-causing microbes are becoming drug-resistant. Antimicrobial resistance will become “an even greater threat to mankind than cancer”
You think about improving your health every day. That’s a lot of thinking. The intention is there. It’s just a matter of turning that into action.
