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Learn how to take control of your health -- and decrease susceptibility to infectious viral disease before it strikes.There will almost certainly be more pandemics in our future. Yet, during the coronavirus crisis, not a single major public health official took the simple step of telling Americans what we all need to hear:Robust good health -- healthy immunity, low inflammation, low toxic burden, and freedom from stealth infection and chronic disease -- is our best defense against infectious viral disease.Of course, it's not that simple. The way our bodies interact with infectious disease is complicated -- both a function of the "germ" and the "terrain" -- the virus and the host. In The Virus and the Host, Dr. Chlebowski succinctly describes emerging science on the virome and how toxic exposure, chronic inflammation, infections, and chronic diseases interact and predispose us to poor outcomes from acute viral infection.