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hey guys today we’re going to talk about

the thymus gland in relationship to

stress now what is this thymus gland

well it’s part of the immune system and

you have a lot of different immune

glands you have the spleen you have

certain immune cells in your bone marrow

there’s part of the immune system in

your all your lymph nodes around the

body in your liver so the thymus being

an immune clan has these cells called

thymus sites which make T cells and T

cells are white blood cells and they

help protect you against certain foreign

invaders and the thymus gland is like a

training camp for T cells so what’s

happening is especially early on when

the thymus is very very large when

you’re a baby your thymus is very very

large okay as you get older it shrinks

to the point where you’re you get really

old and it’s barely there but when your

baby as your body becomes exposed to the

environment it’s constantly adapting

itself to protect against foreign

invaders so if there’s any weakness

within the thymus gland you’re gonna be

predisposed to getting viruses and

bacterial infections because you can’t

fight them off as well also it increases

your risk for cancer because the immune

system is very very important in not

just fighting off cancer but disease in

general so the thymus gland is also

involved in getting rid of the T cells

that are attacking itself in autoimmune

conditions so they’re constantly trying

to get rid of this self attack now when

you have an allergy you have a hyper

sensitive immune system when you have an

autoimmune disease you have a

hypersensitive immune response and on

the flip side there are other conditions

which are hypo sensitive or immune

deficient which just the opposite it’s

not a hyper reaction it’s a hypo like

the immune system is just not able to

respond like in an HIV for example but

the biggest tip that I can give you

related to the thymus gland is this

cortisol which is a stress hormone

lowers the thymus

okay so I’m going to show you in this

book right here Frank knitters

encyclopedia of endocrinology on page

eighty-four it talks about the

biological actions of cortisol cortisol

suppresses that thymus gland and this is

why for example in allergies or

autoimmune they give a person prednisone

or a type of cortisone shot because

it’ll get rid of that inflammatory

response because of the fact that

cortisol decreases this hypersensitivity

so there always seems to be right after

a stress event a susceptibility to

pulling in this infection so if you have

a room of people that are exposed to a

certain virus some people will get the

infection and other people won’t and I

really believe it has to do with

cortisol and stress those people that

have lost their tolerance to stress or

are more overly stressed tend to pull in

that virus way more than those people

who are not affected by stress in fact

over the last twenty nine years of

practice the people that I talked to not

just getting sick but developing

autoimmune conditions when you interview

them they always happens after some a

stress event whether it’s a loss of a

loved one or a traumatic experience and

boom they start developing this immune

condition which is interesting so the

reason I’m telling you this is that if

you have chronic infections for example

if you have some type of autoimmune

condition this is where you need to

focus right here eliminating this stress

as much as possible yes you need to

increase your vitamin C and your zinc

and your foods but don’t forget about

addressing this very important factor of

stress because I believe unless this is

dealt with no amount of nutrition is

going to really make an impact alright

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