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A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. -- Jane Smiley
A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse. -- Thabo Mbeki
Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system. -- Marianne Williamson
I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals. -- Bernie Siegel
When you're under stress, your immune system doesn't work as well. -- Bob McNair
I think of images as an immune system and a transit system. -- Lynda Barry
We can boost our immune systems by strengthening our social networks and decreasing stress. -- Jane McGonigal
Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions. -- Anthony Fauci
I take goldenseal, Echinacea and cod liver oil when flying to boost my immune system. -- Janelle Monae
The right raw materials can... double or triple the protective power of the immune system. -- Joel Fuhrman
Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs. -- Helen Fisher
Faith is a kind of immune system filtering out fears that otherwise would paralyze all activity. -- Reinhard Bonnke
The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation. -- Deepak Chopra
Americans are grossly deficient in basic micronutrients and especially those phytochemicals that arm our immune system to fight cancer. -- Joel Fuhrman
People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier. -- Moby
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should. -- Kurt Vonnegut
To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck. -- Leroy Hood
The immune system constantly creates genes on the fly that are specific to the things that show up in the body. It's amazing. -- Erez Lieberman Aiden
The body's immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host. -- Anthony Fauci
We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders. -- Joel Salatin
If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger. -- Andrew Weil
No doctor has ever healed anyone of anything in the history of the world, The human immune system heals and that's the only thing that heals -- Bob Wright
A carrier with a venereal disease can have many partners, but only those whose mental and physical immune systems are weak will be susceptible to it. -- Louise L. Hay
Oxygen plays a pivotal role in the proper functioning of the immune system. We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single greatest cause of all diseases. -- Stephen Levine
The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of how it is under attack. -- Gloria Steinem
We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build a global immune system. -- Nathan Wolfe
I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease. -- Bill Toomey
Like so many other positive acts, it turns out that hugging boosts our immune system. Plus it just plain feels good! So hug someone today, perhaps a person who seems particularly in need. -- M. J. Ryan
A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively. -- Henry Cloud
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically. -- Barbra Streisand
You have to believe in a placebo or it wont work, but if it works, its obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy. -- Charles Jencks
When you vaccinate someone, or when you get infected, the microbe is presenting itself to the immune system in a way that the immune system recognizes the important elements of the microbe and makes an immune response, both an antibody response and a cellular response, to ultimately contain the microbe. -- Anthony Fauci
The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus. -- Anthony S. Fauci
Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Kindness extended, received or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved. -- Wayne Dyer
People focus too much on weight, dress sizes, and tape measurements - and those aren't motivating. What gets me going is: I'm 52, and because I work out, I know my fitness will improve and my immune system will stay strong, and my body will prevent injuries. I like being fit, strong, coordinated, and agile. -- Tony Horton
Whenever the immune system deals successfully with an infection, it emerges from the experience stronger and better able to confront similar threats in the future. Our immune system develops in combat. If, at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger. -- Andrew Weil
The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health. -- Dalai Lama
Anger is the immune system of the soul. -- Stefan Molyneux
A flu shot just compromises your immune system. -- Bill Maher
I have leukemia, and my chemotherapy has destroyed my immune system. -- Eric Reeves
Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system. -- Bernie Siegel
You start treating your body right and your immune system is better. -- Aaron Bruno
A belly laugh increases the ability of your immune system to fight infections. -- Elizabeth Taylor
As you begin to heal the inner you, you alter your immune system. -- Wayne Dyer
Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions. -- Anthony Fauci
The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around. -- Jonas Salk
Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system. -- Stuart Stevens
The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system, -- Joel Fuhrman
The press is our immune system. If it overreacts to everything, we eventually get sicker. -- Jon Stewart
When you are expending much energy on someone else's demise, it's like you weaken your psychic immune system. -- Heidi Julavits
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions. -- Cory Doctorow
Strong ethics keep corporations healthy . Poor ethics make companies sick. Values are the immune system of every organisation. -- Patrick Dixon
Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system. -- Norman Cousins
A lack of restful sleep disrupts the body's innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging process. -- Deepak Chopra
By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared. -- Deepak Chopra
Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health. -- Dalai Lama
I don't think I would have spent time learning about the immune system if understanding vaccines weren't something I considered very important. -- Bill Gates
Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system. -- Howard Gardner
The bodys immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host. -- Anthony S. Fauci
I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system. -- Tammy Faye Bakker
I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick. -- Bryan Adams
Giving, in the form of volunteer work: enhances your immune system, lowers cholesterol levels, strengthens your heart, decreases the incidence of chest pains, and generally reduces stress. -- Azim Jamal
The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears. -- Frederick Lenz
I think garlic is absolutely critical. Lemon is absolutely critical to boost the immune system. Olive oil is absolutely critical ... just one teaspoon, it will last the whole month. -- Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears. -- Frederick Lenz
The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation. -- Anthony S. Fauci
The immune system's goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation. -- Anthony Fauci
No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously. -- E. O. Wilson
Because the oils work in a different way from antibiotics, they do not have the usual side effects, and they tend to stimulate the immune system instead of depressing it. -- Robert Tisserand
Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases! -- Patch Adams
Gay sexuality inevitably involves brutal physical abusiveness and the unnatural imposition of alien substances into internal organs, orally and anally, that inevitably suppress the immune system and heighten susceptibility to disease. -- Rod Parsley
The claim that somehow raw foods give you better energy, are more healthful, improve your immune system and all of that is simply not substantiated. And moreover, it's not biologically plausible. -- Dennis Miller
Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center. -- Eddie Van Halen
As with most physical activity, yoga helps boost your immune system. However, it also stretches and strengthens your body simultaneously, while also balancing your mind and spirit. It benefits the whole human. -- Jennifer Nettles
My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending. -- Marya Hornbacher
It's my personal opinion, and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind. -- George Hamilton
If a bacterium is trying to infect you, it won't secrete alone, because your immune system will block it. Bacteria will hide until they can all act together and make an impact. -- Bonnie Bassler
We can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected. Our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system. -- Luc Montagnier
Supporting local farmers is important to me, which is not only good for the local economy and better for the environment, there is evidence that eating locally grown food strengthens your immune system. -- Suzanne Whang
My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip. -- A. J. Jacobs
In our world, these harmful micro-organisms and an endless list of toxic chemicals consistently assault our immune system. Coupled with these assaults are the daily stresses of life and their deleterious effects upon us. -- David Wolfe
I find that low protein diets often contribute to improvement in patients with immune system problems ... In fact, it would be hard to become deficient in protein in our country even if you tried. -- Andrew Weil
Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault from pollution, stress, contaminated food and age-related diseases as our lifespans increase. -- Paul Stamets
Onions, along with leeks, garlic, shallots and scallions, make up the allium family of vegetables, which can have beneficial effects on the cardiovascular and immune systems, as well as possible anti-diabetic and anti-cancer effects. -- Joel Fuhrman
When you're happy, your immune system is at its strongest point. And when you think negatively, or when you hate, or allow yourself to grow emotionally out of control, you are weakening your immune system. -- Frederick Lenz
When you're happy, your immune system is at its strongest point. And when you think negatively, or when you hate, or allow yourself to grow emotionally out of control, you are weakening your immune system. -- Frederick Lenz
The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn't know who I was. -- Corey Taylor
Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at play now in the upwelling of grassroots work aimed at finding a sustainable future. -- Alison Hawthorne Deming
Researchers have found that the brain definitely sends nerves directly to organs of the immune system and not just to the heart and the lower gut. In that way, too, the brain is influencing the body. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
There is an urgent need for a protective Ebola vaccine, and it is important to establish that a vaccine is safe and spurs the immune system to react in a way necessary to protect against infection. -- Anthony Fauci
We can look high or we can look low in books or in journals, but the result is the same. The scientific literature has no answers to the question of the origin of the immune system. -- Michael Behe
Too many multi-vitamins are packaged as one size fits all, but you should be more specific about what you need. When I was competing as a dancer, I took zinc for healthy skin and immune system. -- Anton du Beke
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Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead role in bringing down scn, that task falls to you and me. -- Keith Henson
Lower your cortisol level. The happiest people have the lowest level of cortisol, a stress hormone that raises blood pressure and weakens the immune system. Cut the stress-more yoga, less road rage-and you'll cut your cortisol production. -- Daniel Gilbert
The research shows that if you meditate, the mind becomes still, and they can see the functionality and gray matter in the brain increase, the nervous system calm, the immune system improve and a reduction in stress. -- Russell Simmons
The physical demands of cycling is that it actually lowers your immune system, and you expose yourself to a tremendous amount of elements - so certain people might get a chronic overload and develop, say, bad asthma. -- Greg LeMond
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It is well known that measles is an important development milestone in the life and maturing processes in children. Why would anybody want to stop or delay the maturation processes of children and of their immune systems? -- Viera Scheibner
On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: "I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system. I guess I just didn't find time to eat. I am much more healthy these days. -- Calista Flockhart
Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions - what it does to the heart, the circulation, the immune system, the digestive function, the liver. -- Eckhart Tolle
I like to read general biology - things about the immune system and advances in that area - because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue. -- Bill Gates
From my perspective, it appears that a great thrust of research on health and longevity is pointing towards improving our immune system - that within an empowered immune system are the health solutions and longevity answers we're looking for. -- David Wolfe
Probably all of us have random rogue cancer cells floating around in our bodies but by and large, in the majority of cases, our immune system circulates and acts as a surveillance mechanism and kills off those few tumor cells. -- Laurie Glimcher
Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma. -- Robert Winston
I believe the best way to activate genius within the immune system is by ingesting certain superherbs and superfoods, taking probiotics and cultured foods, minimizing toxic food exposure by eating pure organic raw-living foods, and making appropriate healthy lifestyle improvements. -- David Wolfe
The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and patrol our guts to prevent infections; they help to form and bolster our immune systems, and digest food. -- Michael Specter
It took me three and a half years to become a mom, so it makes me feel so good to know I'm giving my baby the best chance I can to develop a strong immune system and live a healthy life. -- Constance Marie
Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from within and attacks the immune system. When you have hatred inside you, it always crushes you in the end. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
Without this balance, a body's immune system will not have the desired response when faced with infection. These findings could aid the development and production of vaccines and lead to further research on how the body fights specific infections, such as HIV. -- Bill Vaughan
The challenge is that if you stimulate your immune system, it might get over-stimulated. And it might actually start causing harm to normal cells in your body. So we have to work a balance between attacking the cancer and not attacking yourself. -- Tyler Jacks
Laughter is very infectious, and why it should be so is a most interesting neurological problem. But it also has other, more physiological, benefits. Apparently it boosts the immune system, reduces stress hormones, massages the heart and diaphragm and engenders a 'feel good' factor. -- Semir Zeki
HeartMath found that five minutes of feeling love and care can strengthen your immune system for up to six hours, whereas five minutes of feeling angry can weaken and suppress the immune system for six hours. Love releases very powerful, beneficial chemicals into the body. -- Marci Shimoff
There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally. -- Deepak Chopra
If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So, as far as genetics go, we're almost identical. The composition of the blood, the immune system, the structure of the brain - almost identical. -- Jane Goodall
Fortunately, our immune system can be improved and empowered to such a point that not only can the harmful microbes be halted and the chemicals detoxified, but also a "stress defense shield" may be built up, which can even drive off the effects of daily stress. -- David Wolfe
You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy. -- Charles Jencks
If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days. -- Kris Carr
... if it's not your style to stretch and go the extra mile to make sure our customer experience is great, you're going to have an allergic reaction to this company. You probably won't stay. If you do try and stay, but can't adapt to the culture then it will reject you like a virus from a healthy immune system. -- Jeff Bezos
Ahead of me lies the familiar litany: weakening of the heart, hardening of the arteries, increasing brittleness of bones, decreases in kidney filtration rates, lower resistance of the immune system, and loss of memory. The list could be extended almost indefinitely. Evolution seems indeed to have arranged things so that all our systems deteriorate, and that we invest in repair only as much as we are worth. -- Jared Diamond

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