Susceptibility to Infections

You get sick more often than others. The cold everyone else shakes off quickly lingers in you for weeks. The wave of illness at the office hits you every time. When a flu goes through the family, you are the one who stays down the longest. Your immune system seems permanently on the retreat — as if it has lost the will to defend you.

Medicine looks for pathogens, immune deficiencies, vitamin deficiencies. And all of that has its place. But it doesn't answer one question that pushes forward when you look honestly: Why you? Why now? Twenty people sit in the same room, breathe in the same pathogen — and three fall ill. The question is not only which germ strikes you. The question is why your system is leaving the door open right now.