Research
Boost Immune System
Part 2
Non-Physical Factors

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Here is some of the latest medical and scientific research on non-physical influences that lower or strengthen immunity:

Article 17: A Little Stress May Go A Long Way Toward Boosting Skin's Immunity Studies in rats and mice suggest that short bouts of stress increase the skin's ability to fight infections and heal minor wounds and acute stress boosts the immune system even more. An antigen is any substance that the immune system reacts to by producing cells and antibodies. Stress plus exposure to the antigen triggered an immune response that remained strong for weeks to several months later, when the animals were re-exposed to the irritant without further restraint...

Article 16: Century Of Research Confirms Impact Of Psychosocial Factors On Health Psychologist Oakley Ray, Ph.D. reviewed the last century of research on psychosocial factors and health to see what lowers or boosts the immune system and found that over 50 percent of deaths in the United States can be attributed to behavioral and social factors while maintaining a positive frame of mind can help a person boost the immune system and ultimately delay death...

Article 15: Shyness Can Be Deadly How you react to stress can lower or boost the immune system, enough to even help you fight viruses like HIV. "During the AIDS epidemic, researchers found that introverted people got sick and died sooner than extroverted people," said Bruce Naliboff...

Article 14: Tai Chi Chih Boosts Shingles Immunity In Older Adults Fifteen weeks of tai chi chih practice may have helped a small group of older adults boost their immune systems to help protect against the shingles virus. The report in the September issue of Psychosomatic Medicine is the first study to show that a behavioral intervention can influence the virus-specific immune response, says Michael R. Irwin...

Article 13: Scientists Focusing On How Exercise Raises Immunity Jeffrey Woods and his colleagues are conducting research to see if exercise training will boost the immune system. Health experts generally recognize that this population benefits from physical fitness. What they don't know is why exercise appears to have certain preventive and restorative health effects. Also unknown is what -- if any -- relationship exists between exercise and immune functioning...

Article 12: Searching For Meaning In Life May Enhance Immunity Pursuing goals related to living a meaningful life may boost the activity of certain cells in the immune system, according to a small study. Women who placed more importance on these goals at the beginning of the study had higher levels of activity among their "natural killer" immune cells. In addition, women who elevated the importance of these goals over a one-month period showed increases in natural killer cell activity, compared to women who said that the importance of these goals had decreased for them...

Article 11: Heart-Felt Stress Can Be More Dangerous To Immunity People who react to stress more in their heart than in their vascular system are more likely to suffer immune system problems, according to a new study. Public speaking and similar stress-inducing situations stimulate a physical reaction in two ways: The heart pumps harder and the blood vessels stiffen, leading to a rise in blood pressure. In some people the rise is mainly due to the increase in heart output, while in others it's due to the increased resistance to blood flow in the vessels...

Article 10: Work Pressures Help Strengthen The Immune System, Gory Videos Do The Opposite Engaging in stressful tasks like trying to meet a deadline may boost the immune system while exposure to stress that must be endured passively may weaken it. The conclusion is based on a study that was designed to draw out the different effects that active and passive coping might have on the body's defenses. It presents some of the strongest evidence yet that certain kinds of stress can promote good health...

Article 9: Chronic Stress May Influence Effectiveness Of Vaccines Chronic stress can have an impact on the overall effectiveness of immunizations designed to protect against infectious diseases. The news could be important to people who need to boost their immune system, especially the elderly...

Article 8: Personality Trait May Influence Immune System Response Individuals may vary in how well they can protect themselves from illness, depending on personality traits as well as on physiological differences. Researchers tested how 84 study participants responded to a vaccine for the viral infection known as hepatitis B. This vaccination prompts the immune system to mount a defense by introducing a tiny amount of the infectious agent into the body...

Article 7: Moderate Aggression May Lead To Stronger Immune Systems Men who are moderately aggressive have a stronger immune system and the study suggests that people who are aggressive may boost their immune system so it is more prepared to deal with infections, viruses and bacteria...

Article 6: Well-Nourished Women Maintain Ability To Ward Off Disease In Old Age Contrary to previous reports, healthy, well-nourished older women, 60 to 80 years of age, have immune systems that function at levels similar to young women, 20 to 40 years old...

Article 5: Depression Alters Immune Systems By Decreasing Physical Activity A woman with mild to moderately severe depression shows alterations in her immune system and is not able to boost her immune system easily...

Article 4: Light Physical Training Best For Boosting Immunity Light physical training is the best way to boost the immune system of people beginning an exercise program for the first time...

Article 3: Stress May Increase Susceptibility To Infectious Disease Dozens of studies have shown that stress can alter the levels of certain biochemical markers in the body...

Article 2: Carnegie Mellon Researcher Say Stress Reduction May Help Our Bodies Defend Against Illness, Disease Can stress reduction help our bodies defend against cancer? Researchers addressing this question are optimistic but not yet sure if this will boost the immune system enough...

Article 1: Regular Exercise May Protect Against Negative Effects Of Stress People who exercise regularly are less likely to get sick after stressful situations than people who don't exercise...