Fight Mexican Swine Flu Pandemic with Exercise

A swine flu, originating from Mexico, may reach pandemic proportions, according to the World Health Organization. The Mexican swine flu virus, originally being transmitted from pig to pig, has now been getting  transferred from human to human. Current vaccines are useless, according to the WHO.

WHO reports that the swine flu has "pandemic potential." So what can one do, next to loading up on vitamin C and avoiding close proximity to other people? The problem with a swine flu pandemic is that the virus is so aggressive that, unlike typical flu sicknesses, many people besides those classically at high risk for flu, would end up contracting the virus and dying.

This means apparently healthy people in their twenties through middle-age. Children and the elderly have historically high risk for contracting the influenza virus, as do people with compromised immune systems. A swine flu pandemic couldn't care less if you were elderly, a preschooler or an active 30-year-old. This is why seemingly healthy adults need to prepare. Hardcore exercise will boost the immune system.

Exercise should consist of cardio and weight lifting. When a virus invades the body, this is an assault on the body. The body "perceives" this invasion as a stressor or trauma. The body's defense mechanisms go into high gear, and a fever results. But sometimes, the body's defense becomes overwhelmed with the trauma or stressor, and death results.

One might say that, in cases as these, the body was not prepared for the trauma. The swine viral invasion was way too shocking to the body's immune system.

If you make a habit of exercising at a hardcore, strenuous, punishing and grueling level (cardio exercise, weightlifting exercise), you will train your immune system to be more prepared for an invasion. This is because every time you engage in a punishing workout, you subject the body to severe trauma, from which it is forced to figure out how to recover from.

Published by Jillita Horton Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, and having lived in Chicago, Illinois, for several years, I now write from the Midwest. Freelance writer for print magazines and web sites.  View profile
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