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Want Your Body To Fight Infectious Diseases? Here are Things That Suppress Your Immune System
WebMD ^ | 03/26/2020 | Medically Reviewed by Hansa D. Bhargava, MD

Posted on 09/10/2021 8:42:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Lack of Sleep

Not getting enough sleep can make you more likely to catch viruses or germs. And you also may take longer to get better. That’s because your body can’t make as many infection-fighting cells and proteins called antibodies that help defend against illness. Your body releases certain proteins that help the immune system, called cytokines, only during sleep.

Anxiety

Stress and worry aren’t great germ fighters. Just having anxious thoughts can weaken your immune response in as little as 30 minutes. Constant stress takes an even bigger toll and makes it harder to fend off the flu, herpes, shingles, and other viruses. Talk to your doctor if you can’t shake your worry or if it gets in the way of normal life.

Low Vitamin D

You may know you need it for strong bones and healthy blood cells. But vitamin D also helps boost your immune system. You can get it in eggs, fatty fish, and fortified foods like milk and cereal. Sunlight is another key source. In the summer, just 5-15 minutes of rays on your hands, face, and arms 2-3 times a week usually is enough. In the winter, you might need a bit more.

Certain Medications

They include drugs to treat allergies, arthritis, lupus, IBS, and organ transplant. Corticosteroids are one example, as are TNF inhibitors for inflammation and chemotherapy for cancer. Talk with your doctor before you adjust any prescription medication.

Too Few Fruits and Veggies

These foods may help your body make more of the white blood cells you need to fight off infections. Fresh produce and nuts and seeds pack a lot of zinc, beta-carotene, vitamins A, C, and E, and other nutrients you need for a healthy body. Plant-based foods also fill you up with fiber, which helps lower your body fat percentage, which can strengthen your immune response.

Marijuana

Smoke from pot can inflame your lungs. If you use it regularly, you may have the same breathing problems you can get from nicotine cigarettes. That means coughing up colored mucus called phlegm and a higher chance of lung infections.

High-Fat Diet

Oils can hinder germ-fighting white blood cells. And high fat diets over time can upset the balance of bacteria in your gut that can help immune response. Look for low-fat dairy with no added sugar, along with lean protein like seafood, turkey, and chicken, or lean cuts of beef with any visible fat cut off. Also, being obese seems to make you more likely to get the flu and other infections, like pneumonia.

Too Little Time Outdoors

Sunlight may energize special cells in your immune system called T-cells that help fight infection. But being outside brings other benefits, too. Many plants in the woods make phytoncides and other substances you breathe in that seem to bolster your immune function.

Smoking

Nicotine from cigarettes, chewing tobacco, or any other source can weaken your body’s ability to fight germs. Yes, vaping counts, too. And it’s not just the nicotine. Other chemicals in e-liquids seem to suppress your immune response, especially when you inhale them through vaping.

Alcohol

Just overdoing it once slows your body’s ability to fight germs for up to 24 hours. Over time, drinking too much blunts your body’s ability repair itself. That may be part of the reason you’re more likely to get illnesses like liver disease, pneumonia, tuberculosis, and certain cancers. If you use alcohol, try to keep it to one drink a day for women and two drinks for men.

Grief

There is some evidence that sorrow, especially if lasts a long time, can depress your body’s immunity. The effect can linger for 6 months, but may go on longer if your grief is deep or doesn’t ease. Talk to your doctor or a mental health professional if you need help with a loss or traumatic event.

Lack of Exercise

Regular aerobic exercise appears to help your body fight illness caused by viruses and bacteria. That’s in part because it helps blood get around your body more efficiently, which means germ-fighting substances get where they need to go. Scientists continue to study exactly how exercise helps boost your immune system.

No Sex

Good news! Weekly intimacy seems to help boost your immune system compared to those who have it less often. Sex raises levels of a germ-fighting substance called Immunoglobulin A, or IgA. But more may not always better. Couples who had sex more than twice a week had lower levels of IgA than those who had no sex at all.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: healthcare; immune; immunesystem; virus

1 posted on 09/10/2021 8:42:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

High-fat diet? Not nearly as bad as a high-sugar diet.


2 posted on 09/10/2021 8:50:18 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

I thought a high fat diet was supposed to help your immune system?


3 posted on 09/10/2021 8:53:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe too many omega-6 compared to omega-3 fats?

Even this mainstream article only points to special situations like that or fire-charred fats, etc.:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods-that-weaken-immune-system#6.-Fast-food


4 posted on 09/10/2021 8:57:40 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

Colloidal silver kills all viruses and bacteria 🦠. Dead


5 posted on 09/10/2021 9:09:06 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! I could )
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To: SeekAndFind

A serious threat is arsenic. The US has amazingly strict limits to how much can be in drinking water, because it desensitizes the immune system to novel pathogens. Then when they are finally recognized, the immune system dangerously overreacts.

Legal amount in drinking water: 10 parts per billion (ppb).

https://www.wired.com/2013/09/arsenic-nation/


6 posted on 09/10/2021 9:13:39 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Do kids in Iceland still play "The Floor Is Lava?")
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To: Truthoverpower

How do you take that?

I have some kind of a gel of it. Not sure why.


7 posted on 09/10/2021 9:40:40 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lacking 1 out of 13 ain’t bad...

...unless solo counts:

THIRTEEN!!!


8 posted on 09/10/2021 10:02:58 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: SeekAndFind

great list, but they forgot a huge, huge item thatis terrible for your immune system

that would be “refined sugar”


9 posted on 09/10/2021 10:12:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 9YearLurker

That seems like kind of a big difference. Some people may have high Omega-6, while others are having high omega-3. I just had wild salmon six days in a row.


10 posted on 09/10/2021 11:18:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Truthoverpower
Colloidal silver kills all viruses and bacteria 🦠. Dead

You have 30 Trillion bacteria in your body and 300 Trillion viruses. If colloidal silver killed them all, you’d be dead.

11 posted on 09/10/2021 11:44:40 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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To: Truthoverpower

“Colloidal silver kills all viruses and bacteria 🦠. Dead”

Colloidal silver could turn u blue.

[WIKI] “Argyria is a rare skin condition that can happen if silver builds up in your body over a long time. It can turn your skin, eyes, internal organs, nails, and gums a blue-gray color, especially in areas of your body exposed to sunlight. That change in your skin color is permanent.”


12 posted on 09/11/2021 4:18:23 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Clutch Martin

Colloidal silver could turn u blue.

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LOL, like the man that turned blue.

Although, you would have to consume a ton of it over a long period of time.
The man that turned blue, used to washed himself with it and drank a ton of it everyday. I have no idea why he would do that.

People use to use it all the time before the wide spread use of antibiotics, and I haven’t heard of any other person that turned blue.


13 posted on 09/11/2021 4:44:10 AM PDT by kara37 ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Can’t trust WebMD for much after they joined the anti-Ivermectin parade by calling it a “Horse de-wormer” w/o acknowledging it as prize-winning and on the essential medicines list.


14 posted on 09/11/2021 5:14:02 AM PDT by trebb (Fight like your life and future depends on it - because they do.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No mention of refined sugar or high fructose corn syrup.


15 posted on 09/11/2021 8:49:35 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Truthoverpower; Trillian

I need some, how/ where do I get it?


16 posted on 09/11/2021 12:24:40 PM PDT by Conservative4Life (thy merchants were great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. Rev18:23)
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To: Conservative4Life

Hi conservative for life! Thanks for responding to me - I’ll be more than happy to help you out

You can purchase colloidal silver from many different entities many different health food stores but it’s very expensive about $50 for a quart bottle and it’s usually about 10 ppm

What you want is your own colloidal silver generator

No I’m an old engineer and I just use 3. 9V batteries and silver electrodes with alligator clips and distilled water

But it’s so much easier to purchase an automatic maker that you just plug into the wall which will convert the AC electricity to 25 or 27 V DC and generally will have indicator lights and what not as well and also maybe will even tell you what parts per million

Elixa.com. Sells generators. Simple ones 160-200$. To 1000$ and up

I make a glass of silver or two every day and my family drinks it I do not know how strong it is but it’s probably on the order of 100 ppm

If I forget it and it goes too long and it starts to taste like metal then I just cut it with more water

The most important thing is to use distilled water or the equivalent or else you’ll get other ions of silver. Not colloidal

Cheers ! To your health!

Truth over power


17 posted on 09/11/2021 3:49:55 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! I could )
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To: SeekAndFind

Saved


18 posted on 09/12/2021 1:07:37 AM PDT by octex
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