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Quote:With the help of simple techniques like breathing exercises, meditation and repeated exposure to cold you can activate the autonomic nervous system and inhibit the response of your immune system. Researchers from the Radboud university medical center have provided the first scientific evidence for this in an article published May 6 in the leading scientific journal PNAS.

Quote:“The trained men produced more of the hormone epinephrine as a result of the techniques they had learned.” Epinephrine is a stress hormone that is released during increased activity of the sympathetic nervous system and it suppresses the immune response. “We indeed observed that in the trained subjects the release of inflammatory proteins was attenuated and that they experienced far less flu-like symptoms,” says Kox.

https://www.radboudumc.nl/Research/Pages...ceman.aspx

(05-16-2014, 09:35 PM)Sagittarius Wrote: [ -> ]

Quote:With the help of simple techniques like breathing exercises, meditation and repeated exposure to cold you can activate the autonomic nervous system and inhibit the response of your immune system. Researchers from the Radboud university medical center have provided the first scientific evidence for this in an article published May 6 in the leading scientific journal PNAS.

Quote:“The trained men produced more of the hormone epinephrine as a result of the techniques they had learned.” Epinephrine is a stress hormone that is released during increased activity of the sympathetic nervous system and it suppresses the immune response. “We indeed observed that in the trained subjects the release of inflammatory proteins was attenuated and that they experienced far less flu-like symptoms,” says Kox.

https://www.radboudumc.nl/Research/Pages...ceman.aspx

I wonder what accounted for gender differences in production of epinephrine, if there were gender differences to begin with?