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Our bodies are, but you're going to have to tell us why it's a great thing. Cold medicines just suppress the symptoms your body would use to deal with it normally, so it can last even longer! Sounds like, if it's a good thing to have a cold, that cold medicine helps.


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Our bodies are not perfect, you know? That's why cutting out a mostly useless part of it, the appendix, can actually save someone's life. Our bodies overreact and take bad decisions all the time.


So is it the cold or the symptoms that are good?

> That is literally the body dumping out what's no longer needed inside.

Are you implying it's a waste management system, and not an immune response to a foreign agent?




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