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Stress stops ‘immune cells dead in their tracks’ – ABC News
Melbourne medical researchers have confirmed that stress is bad for our physical health and can stop our immune system from doing its job.
Researchers from Melbourne’s Doherty Institute have discovered that signals produced by nerves in response to stress can stop immune cells from effectively fighting pathogens or tumours.
“When you get stressed your immune cells stop dead in their tracks”, Professor Scott Mueller, Lab Head at the Doherty Institute told Raf Epstein.
While researchers knew anecdotally that people are more likely to get sick when they are stressed, exactly why had been difficult to define, until now.
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