The best way to reduce flu risk…right now, this minute

Evidence shows that a flu shot is a feebly unreliable way to prevent flu. And that’s the BEST you can say for it.

The best flu prevention — proven by research — is simple: wash your hands.

And I’ve found a perfect way you can use to motivate yourself to wash your hands. Just take a look at the details from a recent study titled “Microbial Biogeography of Public Restroom Surfaces.”

That’s right…from the title alone, you can just imagine.

University of Colorado researchers tested surfaces in 12 public restrooms and found them to be teeming with all sorts of bacteria, much of it “gut-associated taxa” — that’s the stuff that can lay you up and make you feel pretty miserable for a few days.

Keep in mind that other studies have shown that surfaces such as ATM keypads and shared computer workstations can be nearly as bacteria-active as restrooms.

Wash those hands and be well.

Sources:
“Microbial Biogeography of Public Restroom Surfaces” PLoS ONE, Vol. 6, No. 11, 11/23/11, plosone.org