Immune System Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Team, Self, Play

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• For me, the most serious problem is how America became so vulnerable to the assertion of blatant falsehoods that drive policy and are not corrected by the so-called immune system of democracy, a free press and a free democratic discourse.

  Al Gore

  America, Democracy, Serious

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Read a textbook. It will tell you. These are the things for instance on the African continent that will contribute to immune deficiency, various tropical diseases because of poor infrastructure, general levels of poverty don’t get treated. Syphilis untreated or not properly treated, which as it happens is a big problem as I hear, gets treated, the symptoms disappear but in fact… it … that impacts on the immune system. You’ve got to deal with these things.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Impact, Syphilis, Poverty

  Interview with Lionel Barber, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• 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

  Important, Environment, Eating

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• 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

  Cancer, Cells, Majority

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• 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

  Heart, Joy, Feelings

  "Chopra Brothers: Separate Paths But Common Bond". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 29, 2013.

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• 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

  Happiness, Stress, Yoga

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• Other anatomical changes associated with long-duration space flight are definitely negative: the immune system weakens, the heart shrinks because it doesn't have to strain against gravity, eyesight tends to degrade, sometimes markedly (no one's exactly sure why yet). The spine lengthens as the little sacs of fluid between the vertebrae expand, and bone mass decreases as the body sheds calcium. Without gravity, we don't need muscle and bone mass to support our own weight, which is what makes life in space so much fun but also so inherently bad for the human body, long-term.

  Chris Hadfield

  Fun, Heart, Space Flight

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• [Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.

  Bill Gates

  Fun, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Pain, Self Esteem, Adversity

  Nathaniel Branden (1992). “Power of Self Esteem”

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• 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

  Cancer, Cells, Challenges

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 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

  Children, Medicine, Risk

  "My bright idea: Robert Winston". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2010.

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• 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

  Heart, Erratic, Useless

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• 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

  Perspective, Research, Answers

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• Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism that creates the foundation for sapping democracy of any political substance and moral vitality. The predominance of the disimagination machine in American society, along with its machinery of social death and historical amnesia, seeps into in all aspects of life, suggesting that young people and others marginalized by class, race and ethnicity have been abandoned.

  Henry Giroux

  Race, Ethnicity, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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

  Believe, Exercise, Way

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• 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

  Blood, Dna, Brain

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• ... we find ourselves facing a rising tide of biologically active, synthetic organic chemicals. Some tinker with our hormones. Some attach themselves to our chromosomes and trigger mutations. Some cripple the immune system. Some light up our genes and so enhance the production of certain enzymes. If we could metabolize these chemicals into completely benign breakdown products and excrete them, they would pose less of a hazard. Instead, a good many of them accumulate.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Light, Good Man, Environmental

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• Cancer vaccines are in the future. And they could be very effective. Checkpoint blockade, which is acting your immune system to recognize those cancer cells and kill them is another very promising approach and there have been some checkpoint blockade drugs out in the market now that will release the brake on T lymphocytes, the T lymphocyte is your major killer of tumor cells.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Cancer, Cells, Vaccines

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• 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

  Thinking, Oil, Lasts

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• Shiitake and reishi offer a diverse range of potential health benefits. You can take all of these supplements in perhaps eight to ten pills or capsules daily. If you take just three or four of these natural supplements at breakfast and the same number later in the day, you will have substantially increased your energy levels, boosted your immune system, lowered your risk of heart disease and cancer, and strengthened and balanced your overall system.

  Mark Plotkin

  Cancer, Heart, Medicine

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• 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

  Thinking, Personal Opinions, Healthy

  "QA: George Hamilton Not Afraid of Skin Cancer, Says Women Don't Like Men Who Know They're Good Looking". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. December 14, 2011.

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• 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

  Zinc, Dancer, Healthy

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• 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

  Life, Memories, Lying

  Jared Diamond (2013). “The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee”, p.118, Random House

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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

  Fall, Government, Law

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