Scientists have identified cells in the brainstem that sense immune cues from the periphery of the body and act as master regulators of the body’s inflammatory response, a finding that could lead to treatments for autoimmune diseases and other conditions caused by an excessive immune response.
This is a comprehensive message from Yale School of Public Health about how COVID affects the immune system. The graphics from Yale SPH explain what we do (& don’t) know about Covid’s effect on the immune system.
Much of this is informed by the work of Dr Akiko Iwasaki, recognized on Time Magazine's annual list of 100 most influential people.
Periodic #reminder that #longCOVID establishes persistent viral reservoirs and fucks with your T cells, damaging your learned #ImmuneSystem over the course of years. It reduces your CD4 T cell counts.
What other virus do you know that does this? 🤔
Our governments have abandoned us to #COVID. Stay safe as you can out there, and #MaskUp
A developer of treatments for cancer and autoimmune disorders from stem cells says FDA cleared its request to start a clinical trial of its therapy for systemic lupus erythematosus.
The Paradox of the Immune System
Protection, Chronic Inflammation, Autoimmune Disease, Cancer and Pandemics
provides a provocative approach to immunology as a "double-edged sword." While it is our greatest protector, it is also the cause of chronic inflammation that leads to autoimmune disease, cancer and infectious diseases like COVID-19.
"We're starting to see forms of tuberculosis that resist antibiotics. Those have been rising since the 1980s, but now they're becoming more common. If you catch one of those, your odds of dying go up to about 30 percent compared to TB's normal 90 percent survival rate (with treatment). Researchers at Washington University found that drug-resistant tuberculosis disarms your #ImmuneSystem. You don't just get over #tuberculosis. It takes months to fight off the infection and recover. Even if you survive, there's often lasting damage.
You might already have #TB and just don't know it. Health agencies estimate that up to 13 million people in the U.S. alone have latent (hidden) tuberculosis infections. They have the bacteria in them, but they don't feel sick. A latent infection can always become active. "For persons whose immune systems are weak, especially those with HIV infection, the risk of developing TB is considerably higher than for persons with normal immune systems."" #covid https://www.okdoomer.io/covid-trashed-our-immunity/
Electric Pulses Induce Lung Cancer Immune Response
Results of a clinical trial show a lung cancer therapy using highly focused pulses with electrical energy show signs of immune responses that can treat the patients' tumors.
The U.S. government's health preparedness agency awarded a contract with a university lab to explore organ models on chips to document effects of radiation sickness.
By the early 1990s, New York City was the epicenter of a nationwide tuberculosis epidemic. The city spent $1 billion to expand its TB control program, staffing the bureau with over 600 people to treat well over 3,000 cases a year.”
Last year there were 536 cases..
Now technically TB despite being #airborne should be kind of difficult to catch. My friend & his business partner got it from working in the same small office w/a🇬🇧intern who he also smoked pot with. However if your immune system is decimated by say having low #tcells you’re far more susceptible
Those #antibiotics were surreal looking; giant huge pink pills➕➕& you had to take them for a long time
#Turmeric powder + ginger/apple/lemon juice + black pepper + hot water :
💛 #AntiInflammatory
💛 Magnesium-rich
💛 Invigorating yet inflammatory-'Nightshade'-free
A company with a process to generate new thymus tissue for immune system functions is receiving a $37 million award from the government's health breakthrough agency.
"However, nonmalignant clones that withstand the myelosuppression of inflammation can persist and expand in a manner that is markedly dependent on age (Jaiswal et al., 2014). In turn, this clonal hematopoiesis promotes inflammation, notably in the cardiovascular system (Libby and Ebert, 2018). In this sense, inflammation imprints a memory of itself in hematopoietic cells that is recalled and amplified in later years. Clonal hematopoeisis may be one of the major explanations for the association of age with an inflammatory diathesis, sometimes called “inflammaging,” other features of which are discussed further below."