21-9 Viruses: What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You

<p><strong>21-9 Viruses: What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You</strong></p> <p>Despite what you’ve been told, viruses are NOT bad for you.</p> <p>Viruses actually provide your body with continuous “updates”… updates of genetic code that allow you to function in an ever-changing world.</p> <p>Kind of like the way your smart phone needs updates to stay current.</p> <p>The truth is, without these viruses and their genetic updates, we wouldn't be able to survive.</p> <p>1) So, why do viruses get such a bad rap?</p> <p>The main reason viruses get a bad rap is because we don’t understand them.</p> <p>For example, guess how many viruses are living right now, on and in your body?</p> <p>1 million?  No.</p> <p>1 billion?  No.</p> <p>1 trillion?  No.</p> <p>Believe it or not, there are approximately 380 trillion viruses living on and inside your body right now.</p> <p>380 trillion!!!</p> <p>That’s a lot! In fact, it’s 10 times more than the number of bacteria in your body.</p> <p>Amazingly, the overwhelming majority of these viruses peacefully co-exist with you.</p> <p>Peacefully, because most viruses have found what they want: a “place to hang out.”</p> <p>You see, viruses need to find places in your body to “host” them so that they can reproduce.</p> <p>This desire to find a location where they can reproduce is so strong that it will cause them to explore a variety of options in your body.</p> <p>2) So, why are viruses killing people?</p> <p>Actually, they’re not. (Stay with me)</p> <p>As I said, the job of a virus is to bring your body “genetic updates”… and they do so by finding places to “hang out and reproduce.”</p> <p>Typically, their “hang out place” is inside of bacteria.  </p> <p>What they’ll do is sneak into bacteria, replicate themselves, and then burst out so that they can go “infect” more bacteria.</p> <p>Again, this is what MOST viruses do.</p> <p>SOME viruses, however, don't care for bacteria so they try to infect themselves into your cells.</p> <p>Especially the cells of your lungs.</p> <p>Your body does not li