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Angstrom Minerals

Over 75% of people report feeling #stress that negatively affects their #physicalhealth. When the body is under that kind of #strain, #corticosteroids flood the system and lower #lymphocyte levels. When stress is #chronic, it affects all aspects of life, including #sleep and #diet. Managing stress through mindful #meditation and practices like #yoga protects the #immunesystem by stemming the levels of #cortisol and reducing the risk of #inflammation.

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magnus (he/him)

"For the longest time in the field of immunology, there was the sort of adage that your immune system needs to be tested every now and again to stay strong. That's an old-fashioned idea.

The more new-fashioned and evidence-based idea is that, although your immune system can take on [a COVID] infection, you want to avoid testing it as much as possible because your body is sustaining damage with each infection that it survives."

#covid #immuneSystem

cbc.ca/radio/quirks/beyond-lon

CBCBeyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage | CBC RadioScientific evidence is painting an unsettling picture: COVID infections, even if mild or asymptomatic, may be causing long-term cellular and organ damage, as well as increasing your risk of developing long COVID.
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Universität zu Köln

🧬💡 mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines train the ‘long-term memory’ of the #immunesystem📚
A study by researchers from the #UniCologne and the University Clinic Cologne shows that mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 not only trigger classical #immuneresponses, but also have a persistent effect on the innate immune system. These changes may enable the human body to respond faster and more broadly to future #infections. 🦠

Learn more ➡️ uni.koeln/43N7Y

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#UniKöln#Uniklinikkoeln#mRNA
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JADe (he, him)

Today is international #LongCovid Awareness Day

Check this canadian interview with a Mount Sinai (NY) chronic disease specialist. Up to one in five people with COVID-19 develop LONG COVID, meaning three months after having the disease they still do not recover their full abilities.

The specialist affirms that each reinfection, even moderate, of COVID-19 subtracts between 2-6% of IQ.

LONG COVID is a disease that causes systemic damage, especially to the immune system, causing T-cell exhaustion and triggering latent diseases or exposing the body to new pathogens from which it would have been able to defend itself before. Worth a listen:

cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.668

#CovidLong #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
#CovidIsntOver
#ImmuneSystem #ImmuneDysfunction
#autoimmune #TCell
#chronicillness
#ChronicIllnesses

Illustration of a Long Covid awareness ribbon next to this message "Today is International Long COVID Awareness Day! March 15"
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PoLiTiPeT

Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds
▻ thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-g

It’s not debatable: people are sicker.

Meanwhile, scientists have been looking closely at SARS-COV-2’s impacts on the immune system since the very beginning, though you might not know it to read the newspapers. Studies continually find that yes, #COVID is impacting the #immuneSystem.

seenthis.net/messages/1102648

www.thegauntlet.newsKids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage buildsAs the press pushes "immunity debt" past the breaking point of believability, are parents ready to wake up to the illness crisis?
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Technische Universität München

Researchers discovered that too much #nitrogen weakens a plant's #immunesystem by limiting a #protein that makes the plant resistant to certain #bacteria: go.tum.de/821717 🌱

#Phytopathology

📷H.Leicher / Nature Communications / Creative Commons License

go.tum.deWhy too much nitrogen is harmful to plantsEven for plants, there can be too much of a good thing. When nitrogen levels are too high, for example due to excessive fertilization, plants become more susceptible to certain diseases. However, the exact reasons are not yet fully understood. A group of researchers involving the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now taken the first steps towards answering this question. They identified a small protein (peptide) that makes the plant resistant to certain bacteria. However, its effect is limited when there is a high nitrogen supply.
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