immune system

“When you spend two hours out in nature, your immune system is about 50% more effective. The number of T cells, killer cells, you have, it's like 50% more for several weeks afterwards.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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.”