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6 stories tagged "immune-system"
A Bacterial Syringe, a Mouse Gut Lining, and Eight Months of Immune Memory
In mice, the cells lining the colon present bacterial antigens themselves, and whether a lasting memory forms tracks with where inside the cell the antigen lands rather than how much of it arrives.
Metabolic & WeightYour Immune Cells Remember Obesity for Up to a Decade After the Weight Comes Off
CD4 T cells hold chemical marks of past obesity for an estimated five to ten years, which may help explain why the risk for diabetes and some cancers can linger long after the scale reads normal.
Infectious DiseaseA 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.