Sentences with phrase «immune system thinks»

Over time, this can turn into an autoimmune issue by which your immune system thinks your thyroid — or any other gland or tissue, for that matter — looks like the piece of steak molecule it's been fighting off for the past few years.

«My immune system thinks I have a wound there,» he says.

It not only helps to balance out the immune system functions but works as an anti-inflammatory to help calm down the systemic inflammation response in the body, for people like me, whose immune systems think it's a great idea to attack itself!

If it does, then you might use the approach of making more beta cells right at early onset of the type 1 disease to try and stop or reverse the immune attack, making the immune system think its made a mistake, inducing something called anergy by making more beta cells.

Not exact matches

For example, we haven't spent as much thinking about how a healthy immune system engages with the neurologic system, but it clearly does have a role as we look at neurodegenerative diseases.

To understand why this is problematic, think about what happens to your body if bacteria get through your skin and into your bloodstream: Your immune system goes on the offensive.

Some folks even think that living in an environment that is too sterile, where the immune system doesn't get enough exposure to pathogens, can cause it to respond negatively to harmless things like tree nuts or dust or...»

They help boost your immune system, prevent bloating and gas, and have been thought to fight cancer.

I think this is unwise, personally, because the role of fermentable fibers, including RS, in the evolution of the human gut biome / immune system has been monumental and frankly irreplaceable.

I was just thinking how I really, really want some comforting pasta for dinner, but I also really really need to use up my kale and get my immune system back to normal....

It's full of vitamins A and C, which are helpful in maintaining good vision and a healthy immune system, and boasts loads of antioxidants, specifically carotenoids (think orange and yellow fruits), which can prevent cancer and heart disease.

I think the symptoms initially became worse because my immune system started to recover with the gluten free and elimination diet.

I think my immune system is still trying to figure out what the heck happened.

Sugar and lack of activity weakens the immune system, so that is what I think happened.

Stress often impacts our ability to think clearly and can lead to health - related problems such as a weakened immune system.

«Coconut flour is also a good source of lauric acid, a saturated fat thought to support the immune system and the thyroid.

I think it limits our children's exposure to the germs they need to be exposed to in order to develop healthy immune systems.

There are several possible benefits of eating chocolate, too: it's thought to regulate blood pressure and elevate your mood, plus it could help prevent pre-enclampsia (premature birth) and is full of antioxidants that help boost your immune system.

The average baby gets sick 6 - 12 times per year just as the twins» father and I (according to our mothers) did when we were babies, so I don't think my sons have inherited a super immune system.

I was thinking along the lines of how very multi-faceted the immune system is.

Being entirely without an immune system is exceedingly rare although being with an immune system that is combined «natural» AND supplemented with pharmacotherapies to enhance or maintain some function of it is not (especially if you consider those who have been vaccinated to belong to this category, which I'm sure is Lemay's thought).

Some experts even think that exposure to dogs — and dog slobber — can help kids avoid asthma and allergies later in life by challenging their immune systems.

One thing I think you forget to mention, is that a child's immune system has a lot of gaps.

There is something wrong with a scientific approach that thinks it has to be proven with randomized experiments that a paltry human - made substance doesn't match up with the elixir of human breast milk (thousands of ingredients in the right proportions for that particular baby to build the brain, body, immune system).

Scientists don't know exactly how breast milk reduces the risk, but they think antibodies in breast milk may give a baby's immune system a boost.

Having just watched Microbirth I thought I would point out the much of the film is about microflora in the gut and on the skin and the longterm health outcomes of early immune system damage / lack of development.

Turns out they're powerful antioxidants that are thought to help your immune system stave off colds, coughs, and the flu, among other ailments.

It is thought that exposure to bacteria, viruses and parasites is important for the healthy development of the immune system.

«We think of it as nutrition, but it is really integral to the immune system.»

Alinia is not thought to be very effective in children with crypto and immune system problems, such as AIDS, though.

Therefore, the complex and dynamic nature of breast milk is thought to be in synchrony with the infant's changing needs and has important implications on immune system development.

Alterations in this interaction between breast milk and the infant's immune system are thought to contribute to disease development.

Linda: The only thing that is really making me think should I be breastfeeding is this immune system.

Simberg and colleagues also tried turning off the complement system — a facet of the immune system responsible for clearing microbes and damaged cells — thinking that this complement system might be attacking, transporting or otherwise accidentally pushing liposomes from blood to cells.

«I don't think our paper or this paper adequately addresses the issue of long - term toxicity due to the immune system,» Verma says.

«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.

For this reason, it was thought to be a natural sunscreen and was even added to skin lotions until about 15 years ago, when it was found to suppress the immune system.

You can think of them as the glue in immunoglobulin molecules, the warriors of the immune system.

«You can think of these fungi as an environmentally acquired immune system,» Herre says.

Coeliac disease involves the immune system treating gluten as an antigen and attacking it and has generally been thought to be a genetic disease.

«These results could fundamentally change the way we think about how the brain and immune system inter-relate,» said Walter J. Koroshetz, M.D., NINDS director.

Such «old friends» are thought to prime the immune system in interesting ways.

Researchers have revealed the molecular structure of a protein produced by the Zika virus that is thought to be involved in the virus's reproduction and its interaction with a host's immune system.

«Instead of using non-targeted drugs that have lots of collateral damage we thought we could take advantage of the precision of the immune system, in particular, antibodies,» said David Scadden, MD, Co-director of HSCI, the Gerald and Darlene Jordan Professor of Medicine at Harvard University, and senior author on the paper.

Chitinase is normally used by some parasites and insects to break down chitin; excess chitinase in asthmatics suggest that their immune systems are somehow tricked into thinking chitin is present when it's likely not.

He thought the immune system had antibodies that could eliminate tumors.

«It was thought that during pregnancy, their immune systems no longer destroyed the myelin,» says Samuel Weiss of Hotchkiss Brain Institute in Calgary and co-author of the study published in The Journal of Neuroscience.

By chemically removing the gut microbiome in zebrafish in the lab and then repopulating the gut with two to three bacterial species, University of Oregon biologist Karen Guillemin has shown that certain microbes are especially skilled at suppressing the host immune system and preventing inflammation — a discovery she thinks may have implications for human health.

Epigenetic therapies are thought to work in two ways to fix these errors in cancer cells — by correcting the «position» of the gene switches and by making the cell appear as though it's infected by a virus, triggering the immune system.

Not so long ago, the blood - brain barrier was thought to isolate the brain from the immune system.