Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Huberman Health Tips on the common cold virus and why we can't cure it.
'And the cold almost always causes some degree of nasal symptoms in humans It's either runny nose or sneezing or stuffed up nose or sometimes unfortunately all three Now the reason we don't have a cure for the common cold is that all of those different serotypes of the cold virus mean that the virus itself has a different shape on its outside And as a consequence even if you've been exposed to a cold and you've developed antibodies against that cold virus the next cold that comes along very likely has a different shape And therefore your body's antibodies to the cold virus it combated successfully before can't latch on to and defeat that next different serotype of the cold virus Now a little bit later I'll talk about the immune system and how those different antibodies are generated But for the time being understanding that there are a lot of different types of cold viruses explains first of all why we don't have a cure for the common cold but also why you can get multiple colds within a given year or even within a given season Because even if you develop antibodies against one serotype of the cold virus a different serotype can come along and you can get sick again with that new serotype of the cold'
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Huberman Health Tips on the common cold virus and why we can't cure it.
'And the cold almost always causes some degree of nasal symptoms in humans It's either runny nose or sneezing or stuffed up nose or sometimes unfortunately all three Now the reason we don't have a cure for the common cold is that all of those different serotypes of the cold virus mean that the virus itself has a different shape on its outside And as a consequence even if you've been exposed to a cold and you've developed antibodies against that cold virus the next cold that comes along very likely has a different shape And therefore your body's antibodies to the cold virus it combated successfully before can't latch on to and defeat that next different serotype of the cold virus Now a little bit later I'll talk about the immune system and how those different antibodies are generated But for the time being understanding that there are a lot of different types of cold viruses explains first of all why we don't have a cure for the common cold but also why you can get multiple colds within a given year or even within a given season Because even if you develop antibodies against one serotype of the cold virus a different serotype can come along and you can get sick again with that new serotype of the cold'
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