Immune System
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Enders: Unhealthy guts contribute to anxiety, depression, and immune dysfunction
“And then also some other things are also a bit more subtle when you look at the effect of an unhealthy gut on symptoms like anxiety, risk of depression, just an immune system that's out of check. Maybe influenced by some disturbances in the gut has an impact.”
Enders: The Gut Is a Primary Training Ground for the Immune System
“The immune system has different locations where it's being trained, but the gut is a very large and a very central one, because especially there's all these exchange happening with the outside world. When you look at us from the outside, you would almost think…”
Diamandis: Sugar acts as a neuroinflammatory and cardiac inflammatory agent
“Sugar Is a neuroinflammatory agent, a cardiac inflammatory agent. It glycosylates proteins. It hits your immune system.”
Solomon: Immune system mapping enables data-driven drug discovery
“Having a map of the human immune system will enable researchers to apply data mining tools to come up with novel ways to develop and discover therapeutics.”
Afeyan: Early immune interventions may shield against flu, coronavirus, and HIV
“Because I think that we're learning enough about the immune system that if we intervene early enough and broadly enough, we may well create a shield, a protective shield against these hyper variable viruses like influenza, like Corona, like rhinovirus that cau…”
Physical touch triggers hormones that soothe nervous systems and support immunity
“Touch is incredibly important to us. We're primates. We are soothed. There are a whole series of hormones that are very good for our immune system that aren't released unless we were touched.”