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4 stories tagged "immune-system"
A Sauna Floods Your Blood With Immune Cells. It's a Flush, Not a Boost.
Fifty-one Finns sat in a 73°C sauna for half an hour, and every white blood cell type poured into their blood. Half an hour later the neutrophils and lymphocytes were back to baseline, and the immune system's chemical alarm had barely rung.
Nutrition & FoodCancer Drugs Starve Tumors of Arginine. A Rockefeller Lab Says the Immune System May Need It to See Them.
Some cancer therapies deliberately strip arginine from the body to starve tumors. Rockefeller researchers found that in mice the same depletion can hide tumors, flu, and SARS-CoV-2 from the immune system.
Infectious DiseaseA Toxicologist Mapped 800 Shared Causes Across 4,000 Diseases. His Protocol Treats Them by Subtraction, Not Prescription.
Ronald Kostoff argues chronic and infectious disease grow from the same toxic soil, a damaged immune system, and that removing the cause has to come before any drug can work.
Autoimmune & InflammationA 30-Minute Sauna Floods the Blood With Immune Cells, and the Heat Isn't What Triggers Them
Finnish researchers put 51 people in a 73-degree sauna and watched every class of white blood cell surge, then found the surge had almost nothing to do with how hot anyone actually got.