Does exposure to cold weather really make you more likely to catch a cold?
No, it doesn’t. In fact, as a new YouTube video entitled Cold Weather Myths explains, research suggests just the opposite: frigid temps lower the risk of catching cold by stimulating the body’s production of infection-fighting immune cells known as granulocytes.
And you know how they say being wet in the cold, or failing to bundle up, can make you sick? According to the video, part of the “Healthcare Triage” series, those too are just myths.
Needless to say, the debate over how we catch colds probably isn’t going to end soon. But one of the few indisputable facts about the common cold is that many of us will catch one.
