Sentences with phrase «threat to the body»

The immune system's job is to identify threats to the body and fight them off, but it doesn't always pick the right targets.

Cortisol secretion is triggered when there is a perceived threat to the body, such as:

Continually training in this state becomes a survival threat to your body because our anaerobic (glycogen fueled) energy pathway is what our body turns to in those fight to the death type scenarios.

In coeliac disease, the immune system mistakes substances found inside gluten as a threat to the body and attacks them.

If we could snatch this one tool out of the hands of cancers, we would cause any and all the aspiring cancers we developed to fizzle out before they became life - threatening — indeed, before many of them even became actual cancers, because they wouldn't get the opportunity to undergo the full spectrum of mutational events needed to give rise to the kind of renegade cell that can truly pose a threat to the body.

The use of a static magnetic field to cause the reaction is important because it poses no threat to the body, said Sergiy Minko, the Georgia Power Professor of Fiber and Polymer Science within the FACS department of textiles, merchandising and interiors and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences department of chemistry.

It was thought that the immune system would prioritize this over allergens, and with enough doses it would eventually learn that peanuts pose no threat to the body.

It's because people with allergies have an immune system that is launching an immune response to harmless substances (like pollen), as if they are a threat to the body.

This suggests that the immune system «learns» that peanut is not a threat to the body, and kids won't have to keep eating peanuts for the rest of their lives to maintain their tolerance, said Dr. Scott Sicherer.

In a separate study, the researchers then made use of functional magnetic resonance imaging to localize the brain areas which show increased activity just before the interruption of tiring and strenuous activity, namely the insular cortex and the thalamus, both regions which analyze information which indicate a threat to the body, like hunger or pain.

When we accept that we're already whole and that this truth can not be threatened, we can finally release the fear we feel when we perceive a threat to our body.

When there isn't a threat to the body, however, inflammation can cause weakening of the joints and a breakdown of cartilage.

It must be able to tell the difference between things that belong in your body and things that might pose a threat to your body.

Echinacea works the same way... but it actually offers no threat to the body at all.

To keep a body healthy, the immune system must do three very important things each time your body comes in contact with a pathogen: First it must first recognize the pathogen as a threat to the body; second, it must then attack and kill off the threat; and third, it must remember that pathogen so that your body can rid itself quickly of it the next time it is attacked.

First, children know when you're hiding something and signs of incongruence in the environment register as a threat to our body's nervous system.