Make sure you get enough sleep How have you been sleeping lately? Clinical reasearch indicates that people who get less than six hours of sleep each night are more than four times as likely to develop a common cold after exposure to the viruses that cause them than people who sleep for longer periods of time. ¹9
If you do come down with a common cold, be sure to get as much sleep as your body needs because it's hypothesised that the immune system's ability to 'remember' the infectious organisms it encounters may be enhanced during periods of deep sleep. ²0
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