Speaker: Jason Miller, DACM, LAc  The intimate relationship between stress and immune system function is often linked to the key role the HPA axis plays in regulating inflammatory signaling networks. Over the past 40 years, the evolution of psychoneuroimmunology has revealed how profoundly the state of one’s mind affects one’s state of health. In patients with even mild depression, T cell responses to certain immune-stimulating molecules (mitogens) were weakened. In cases of both anxiety and depression, the production of white blood cells was reduced and patients exhibited increased susceptibility to infection. Recent research has also revealed that negative emotions can stimulate the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, pushing the immune system into an excitatory state and exacerbating autoimmune conditions.

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