why does your body get achy when you are sick?
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If you ( or anyone here) would like an in-depth, but very understandable explanation of this, I 100% recommend Kurzgesagt! They make a ton of YouTube videos pertaining to science, technology, psychology, and more. They have a handful of videos explaining the immune system that are just excellent.
Shortest answer is that your body’s responses to infection and illness are designed to make the infection suffer and die, not to make you feel better. Germs grow less under heat? Give you a fever. Need white blood cells at the site? Empty the bloodstream into that site and fill it with white blood cells. Nose irritated? Coat it with slime and rinse the irritation away. None of these solutions are great for you, but they’re all steps in removing whatever’s annoying you.
Shortest answer is that your body’s responses to infection and illness are designed to make the infection suffer and die, not to make you feel better. Germs grow less under heat? Give you a fever. Need white blood cells at the site? Empty the bloodstream into that site and fill it with white blood cells. Nose irritated? Coat it with slime and rinse the irritation away. None of these solutions are great for you, but they’re all steps in removing whatever’s annoying you.
Shortest answer is that your body’s responses to infection and illness are designed to make the infection suffer and die, not to make you feel better. Germs grow less under heat? Give you a fever. Need white blood cells at the site? Empty the bloodstream into that site and fill it with white blood cells. Nose irritated? Coat it with slime and rinse the irritation away. None of these solutions are great for you, but they’re all steps in removing whatever’s annoying you.
When you’re sick, your body starts to produce more white blood cells to fight off the infection. These white blood cells are produced from the bone marrow. Increased production from the bone marrow is what causes the achy feeling. The white blood cells are being dumped into the bloodstream from the bone marrow.
This is why if you take something to increase your white blood cell count (when going through chemotherapy) You will get achy from it as well.
When you’re sick, your body starts to produce more white blood cells to fight off the infection. These white blood cells are produced from the bone marrow. Increased production from the bone marrow is what causes the achy feeling. The white blood cells are being dumped into the bloodstream from the bone marrow.
This is why if you take something to increase your white blood cell count (when going through chemotherapy) You will get achy from it as well.
When you’re sick, your body starts to produce more white blood cells to fight off the infection. These white blood cells are produced from the bone marrow. Increased production from the bone marrow is what causes the achy feeling. The white blood cells are being dumped into the bloodstream from the bone marrow.
This is why if you take something to increase your white blood cell count (when going through chemotherapy) You will get achy from it as well.
Others have mentioned the inflammatory processes that cause this to happen.
But why does it *feel bad*? Why does it make sense for you *as a person* to experience this whole “sickness” thing as *unpleasant*?
Because when you feel bad, you want to stay in bed and not go out.
And so, you spread your infection to fewer other members of your family, clan, and tribe. Your immune system has time to fight it out, and your family members care for you, and you stay away from everyone else so they don’t get sick.
And your whole tribe stays healthier, and is better equipped to either out-fight, out-trade, or out-fuck the rivals who go to work when they’re sick.
**That’s a hint, folks. If your tribe tells you to go to work when you’re sick, you will infect your coworkers, and your tribe will lose out to rival tribes with better public health policies.**
If someone is calling you “lazy” for not going to work when you’re feeling terrible and spewing viruses out your orifices, *that person is on the side of the viruses.*
Others have mentioned the inflammatory processes that cause this to happen.
But why does it *feel bad*? Why does it make sense for you *as a person* to experience this whole “sickness” thing as *unpleasant*?
Because when you feel bad, you want to stay in bed and not go out.
And so, you spread your infection to fewer other members of your family, clan, and tribe. Your immune system has time to fight it out, and your family members care for you, and you stay away from everyone else so they don’t get sick.
And your whole tribe stays healthier, and is better equipped to either out-fight, out-trade, or out-fuck the rivals who go to work when they’re sick.
**That’s a hint, folks. If your tribe tells you to go to work when you’re sick, you will infect your coworkers, and your tribe will lose out to rival tribes with better public health policies.**
If someone is calling you “lazy” for not going to work when you’re feeling terrible and spewing viruses out your orifices, *that person is on the side of the viruses.*
Others have mentioned the inflammatory processes that cause this to happen.
But why does it *feel bad*? Why does it make sense for you *as a person* to experience this whole “sickness” thing as *unpleasant*?
Because when you feel bad, you want to stay in bed and not go out.
And so, you spread your infection to fewer other members of your family, clan, and tribe. Your immune system has time to fight it out, and your family members care for you, and you stay away from everyone else so they don’t get sick.
And your whole tribe stays healthier, and is better equipped to either out-fight, out-trade, or out-fuck the rivals who go to work when they’re sick.
**That’s a hint, folks. If your tribe tells you to go to work when you’re sick, you will infect your coworkers, and your tribe will lose out to rival tribes with better public health policies.**
If someone is calling you “lazy” for not going to work when you’re feeling terrible and spewing viruses out your orifices, *that person is on the side of the viruses.*
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