There's a lot of evidence that harboring a struggling or imbalanced microbial ecosystem can make you unwell.
"There's 60 different ways at least that alcohol can make you unwell or kill you," he told me over a glass of water.
I did Sylvia Plath so I thought poetry made you unwell.
The piece also notes that keyboards, telephones, Wi-Fi, desk chairs, open-plan offices, an office of your own and office air-conditioning could all be making you unwell.
Parasitic infections make children unwell, more likely to miss school and fall behind.
Dr Rubin suggests patients are experiencing an extreme "nocebo" effect: expecting something to make you unwell prompts real symptoms.
Last fall, she tested that proposition, but in reverse: She recruited a number of healthy test subjects and gave them the mission to make themselves unwell.
"It's a kind of laboratory," says Cees van der Spek, global corporate relations director of developer OVG Real Estate, based in The Edge. "The main things that make people unwell in offices are lack of daylight, the climate system not working and noise.
So they might put them on something in the beginning and they might think, oh I'll later change it to another medication, but by that time the patient might be ready for discharge, or you feel oh well they're just better now I don't want to try anything different that's going to make them unwell again, they're back into hospital".
Then there's the potential for overzealous amateurs to make themselves very unwell.
An infection may cause just discomfort or it may make you fell unwell with fever and body aches.
