The Immune System and The Organ Systems!
Just One Of Those Days – Gabrielle Aplin (Official Audio)
One of the most powerful ways to educate yourself, to open your mind to alternative ways
of experiencing the world, and thus to counteract the influence of social conditioning and the mass media,
is to read backwards—to read books printed about what happen 10 years ago,
20 years ago, 50 years ago, 100 years ago, 200 years ago, 500 years ago, 1,000 years ago,
even 2,000 years ago and more.
When you do so, you can step outside the presuppositions and ideologies of the present day and develop an informed world perspective. When you read only in the present, no matter how extensively, you are apt to absorb widely shared misconceptions taught and believed today as the truth. The following is a sampling of authors whose writings will enable you to rethink the present, to reshape and expand your worldview.
Stress and Cancer 101: Why Stress Reduction Is Essential
There are epidemiological studies conducted to date, that are inconclusive about the effects of stress on the development and progression of cancer, evidence emerging from the science of psychoneuroimmunology, The study of the interaction among behavior, the brain and the body’s immune system–shows that psychological and social stressors can interfere with the working of the body’s organ systems, In particular the neuo-endrocine and immune system. The effects are thought to mediate the influence of psychosocial stressors on health in general and could potentially play a role in the progression of cancer.
Psychobiology of social support: The social dimension of stress buffering!!
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The body’s sympathetic-adrenal medullary (SAM) system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-
adrenocortical (HPA) axis are two neuro-endrocrine systems that are highly responsive to psychological stress. The SAM system reacts to stress in part by increasing the production of certain hormones called catecholamines. In HPA stimulation, the pituitary secretes a hormone that activates the adrenal gland to secrete additional hormones that is called glucocorticoids (primary cortisol in humans.)
Although the release of these hormones is a healthy response to an environmental stressor. Their progressive and prolonged production under ongoing stressful stressful–conditions is associated with impaired functioning or dysregulation of various organs and organ systems (McEwens, 1998; Anton and Langendorf, 2007). These effects can have a cascading effect on the immune system (Kielcolt-Glaser et al., 2002.)
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Immune system processes play a central role in protecting against infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, coronary artery disease and at least various cancer by identifying organisms and cells that are atypical, attacking them, and preventing their replication.
Under chronic stress, however, key immune system can be disrupted.
Chronic Stress in depression, inadequate social support and other psychosocial stressors can create disequilibrium in immune system functioning by either overstimulating some immune system functions or suppressing others. (Miller et al., 2007.) For example, the unbalanced of certain proteins (cytokines) help regulate the body’s immune system can create a pathological state of inflammation that have been linked to certain cancers, as well as a number of chronic conditions, such as CVD, arthritis, Type 2 Diabetes and frailty and functional decline in older adults.
Prolonged exposure to cortisol and catecholamines under chronic stress also can adversely affect cellular replication and several regulators of cell growth. Some of the observed effects on cancer cells–such as accelerating tumor growth, enhancing tumor metabolism, assisting tumor cells in migrating and adhering to distant sites, increasing blood vessel growth in tumors and helping tumors evade the immune system’s natural killer (NK) cells. Which could help cancer cells to progress
(Antoni and Lutgendorf, 2007; Thaker et al., 2007.)
Multiple studies have shown that positive social support, in particular the provision of emotional support, is related to better immune system function and resistance to disease (Uchino et al., 1996; IOM, 2001; Uchino 2006.) In women with ovarian cancer, higher levels of social support predicted higher levels of NK cell activity, while patients with greater distress had impaired NK cells (Lutgendorf et al., 2005.) Findings from two randomized controlled trials of psychosocial interventions in breast cancer patients all had found improvements in immune system functioning using a variety of measures of immune system competency (Andersen et al., 2004; McGregor et al., 2004.)
Impact of stress on cancer metastasis!!!
Studies with animals also have found increased stress to be associated with higher levels of stress hormones (catecholamines) and increased tumor mass and metastases (Thaker et al., 2007.) For example, mice with mammary tumors randomly assigned to more stressful housing conditions showed greater tumor growth as well as shorter survival following chemotherapy (Kerr et al., 1997; Strange et al., 2000.) Higher levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines (interleukin) also have been found in people living high-stress situations, for example,
female caregivers of relatives with Alzheimer’s disease.
Although more research is needed to understand the extent to which, and how, these stress-induced physiological changes can influence cancer, it is clear that stress can induce pathology in several aspects of body function that affect health. Research findings also indicate that stress, mood, coping, social support, and psychological interventions affect neuro-endocrine and immune system activity and can influence the underlying cellular and molecular processes that facilitate the progression of cancer. For all these reasons, psychosocial stressors should not be ignored in the delivery of high-quality health care for people living with cancer.
What is empathy?
Empathy entered English a few centuries after sympathy—in the late 1800s—with a somewhat technical and now obsolete meaning from the field of psychology. Psychologists began using empathy as a translation for the German term Einfühlung and the concept that a person could project their own feelings onto a viewed object.
Unlike sympathy, empathy has come to be used in a broader way than it was when it was first introduced; the term is now most often used to refer to the capacity or ability to imagine oneself in the situation of another, experiencing the emotions, ideas, or opinions of that person.
Consider the following examples:
“As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship
with both of them.” – Hugh Jackman
“I’ve always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You’re trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and
try to figure out what that’s about so you can represent it.” – Edward Norton
To sum it all up … The difference between the most commonly used meanings of these two terms is: Sympathy is feeling compassion, sorrow, or pity for the hardships that another person encounters.
Empathy is putting yourself in the shoes of another, which is why actors often talk about it.
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How Economic Inequality Harms Society
https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson/transcript
Public health expert Richard Wilkinson surveyed social and economic data from across the globe and discovered a startling pattern: Countries with the largest income inequality experience more severe social and health problems than nations with a narrow inequality gap. Wilkinson presents plentiful examples, hammering his message home. Wilkinson explains the many ways that a widening gap between the rich and poor can have harmful effects on health, lifespan, and basic human values. He proves through ample research that societies with more equality socially and economically are healthier and happier. He proves that inequality is a detriment to all levels of society, ranging from mental health, infant mortality, homicide, and life expectancy.
More importantly, to answer the key question of how economic inequalities harm societies, it is important to note the relationship between factors that were earlier assumed to be independent. For example, poor countries with unequal distribution of income face greater political instability, lower investment in human development, higher taxation, less secure property rights and negative impacts on growth. Economic inequality is bad, even for the rich. The TED talk “ How economic inequality harms societies ” by Richard Wilkinson explains an interesting fact: Beyond certain basic wealth, the well-being of a society depends much more on income differences being small than on incomes being high on average. The difference in average income between countries has no influence on life expectancy.
Determining whether chronic stress is related to cancer in some way, let alone how that relationship plays out in the body, continues to challenge researchers. “It’s hard to show causality because there are many factors that go into the development of cancer — environmental (stress included), but also genetic factors and unknown factors,” says Allyson Ocean, MD, oncologist at NewYork-Presbyterian
and Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.
Ditto for the range of issues that may influence the course of cancer once it has occurred. That said, experts in the field of psycho-oncology, which concerns itself with the psychological, behavioral, and social factors that may affect cancer, say that a growing body of literature suggests that stress does play a role in
cancer causation and recovery.
The Link Among Stress, Your Immune System, and Cancer
Cancer occurs when a cell acquires a number of mutations in genes involved in the regulation of cell division, proliferation, and programmed cell death (a phenomenon in which a cell, recognizing that it’s damaged, self-destructs). It’s a “multi-hit” phenomenon, meaning that many genes need to be affected before a cell turns cancerous. When enough genes controlling these functions are disabled, a cancer cell is free to divide relentlessly and endlessly.
The “hits” take various forms. Some people may inherit a gene that predisposes them to cancer, such as the BRCA1 gene, which has been linked to many cancers, including breast cancer. But a cell requires more genetic hits to trigger cancer. “If, on top of that, someone has a very stressful lifestyle, or they smoke, or are very overweight; over time, those might all be additional hits to the system,” says Dr. Ocean.
Under normal circumstances, the body is exquisitely primed to prevent those multiple hits from leading to cancer. “Cells are constantly mutating, but many biological processes exist to keep those mutating cells from turning into tumors,” says Lorenzo Cohen, PhD, director of the Integrative Medicine Program at
MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
One of those processes is performed by the immune system. “Typically, the immune system is constantly surveying the body, on alert to kill invading or mutating cells, a process known as ‘cell-mediated immunity,”
Dr. Cohen says. When the body is under chronic stress, that safeguarding process may become less dependable. “It’s pretty clear that chronic stress disrupts the immune system, making us vulnerable to everything from a cold or flu to the uncontrolled growth of mutated cells,” says Cohen, who with his wife, Allison Jeffries, master of education, coauthored the book Anti Cancer Living: Transform Your Life and Health With the Mix of Six.
More Studies Suggest a Chronic Stress–Cancer Connection
It’s easier to see this chronic stress–cancer connection in animals than it is in human beings, mainly because scientists are able to induce both stress and cancer in their animal subjects (something they can’t ethically do in people). “We’ve shown that stress can cause cancer to metastasize in animals,” says Cohen.
“For instance, a study published in December 2017 in the journal Cancer Cell found that if you put mice genetically predisposed to develop pancreatic cancer in an isolated, deprived environment separate from other mice, their tumors grow faster than in the same breed of mouse raised in normal housing.”
Conversely, the researchers found that mice with pancreatic cancer that were given beta-blockers — drugs that block the release of the stress response and hormones, including adrenaline — in addition to chemotherapy survived longer than mice given only chemotherapy. “When you block the stress hormones with a drug, you can short-circuit their tumor-enhancing effects,” says Cohen.
Indeed, when researchers who conducted the pancreatic mouse study looked at 631 patients with advanced pancreatic cancer who had surgery to treat their condition between 2002 and 2013, they found that those who were on a form of beta-blockers that interact with a large number of targets in the body lived about two thirds longer than those who weren’t taking beta-blockers or were taking a form that affects only a limited number of targets.
One small human study, published in May 2018 in the journal Cancer, also appears to bear out the theory that stress may worsen disease. The study, which followed 96 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), found that those who felt more stress and anxiety about about their condition also had a higher volume of cancer cells in their blood and higher blood levels of markers for advanced disease.
The results held true even after the researchers controlled for other factors, such as gender, prior treatment, and carrying a genetic marker for the disease. “The current results indicate that stress is related to immune and inflammatory processes that contribute to cancer cell proliferation and survival,” wrote lead author Barbara L. Anderson, PhD, professor of psychology at The Ohio State University in Columbus, along with her coauthors. “It’s more evidence of the importance of managing stress in cancer patients,” said Dr. Anderson, in a release issued by her institution.
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Stress Hormones Trigger Inflammation Linked to Cancer
When you’re experiencing acute or chronic stress, the body is flooded with what’s known as the stress-response hormones — epinephrine, norepinephrine, and cortisol, which can suppress the immune system’s response to mutated cells. The trouble occurs when you’re under chronic stress — that is, prolonged, unremitting — or when you experience acute stress several times a day over a period of time. Your body is then constantly being flooded with these stress hormones.
Some research seems to buttress the stress-inflammation-cancer connection.
A Canadian study published in November 2017 in the journal Frontiers in Oncology, for example, included work history interviews with nearly 2,000 men, age 75 or younger, who were newly diagnosed with prostate cancer, and approximately the same number of matched controls. They found that those men who reported having had at least one stressful job over the course of their lifetime were more likely to develop prostate cancer before age 65. The average age of diagnosis is about 66, according to The American Cancer Society.
(Other studies attempting to link work stress and cancer risk have yielded conflicting results.)
There’s another way in which the stress hormones might promote cancer: Norepinephrine may bind with beta receptors that live on the surface of some tumor cells, causing them to proliferate. “Norepinephrine can fuel a tumor’s ability to form new blood vessels,” Cohen says. “New data shows that stress hormones might also increase nerve growth and density at the tumor site, which are associated with worse outcomes in people.”
RELATED: How Stress Affects Your Body, From Your Brain to Your Digestive System
More Stress Means Unhealthful Habits That Contribute to Cancer Mutations
In a kind of double whammy, people who are stressed-out are less likely to exercise and eat healthfully. In fact, unhealthful eating (think sugar and fat) may be triggered by stress-induced hormones and other chemicals flooding the body. Being overweight or obese is responsible for approximately 8 percent of all cancers, according to the American Cancer Society.
Chronic stress is also likely to induce us to take up cancer promoting habits, such as smoking and excessive drinking. “It leads to lifestyle changes that are pro-inflammatory and pro-carcinogenic,” says Ocean.
“Keep these habits up for a long time and your risk of developing cancer goes up, too.”
The Stress and Cancer: What Can You Do About It?
“At the end of the day, all you can do is to try and create as inhospitable a terrain for cancer as possible, so that regardless of the triggers, the cancer cells don’t grow,” says Cohen. It makes sense, for instance, to handle high-stress times with healthful habits that not only reduce your agita, but also lower your risk of a host of diseases besides cancer, including diabetes, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s.
Healthful habits, Ocean says, “means exercising instead of pigging out, or doing yoga rather than throwing down a few shots over the weekend.” Also crucial: “A good support network, and prioritizing what’s important and meaningful in your life,” says Cohen. “If you can figure out what you care about, you can use those core values to guide your decision-making, which makes for a less stressful, higher quality of life in anyone, with or without cancer.”
Experts also recommend engaging in some kind of mind-body practice, including deep, diaphragmatic breathing for a few minutes a day. “Studies have shown this kind of breathing actually stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system,” which tends to calm the body, says Cohen. (You can tell you are doing diaphragmatic breathing correctly by putting your hand on your belly: You should feel it rise and fall as you inhale and exhale.)
Ten minutes of daily meditation with a free app, such as Calm or Headspace, can be very useful, as can any practice that involves breathing and stretching (think tai chi or yoga). Finally, consciously sitting less; getting regular exercise (30 to 40 minutes five or six times a week) and sleeping for at least seven or eight hours a night are also great stress reducers, and may even have a dramatic effect on cancer and mortality.
A meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Cancer looked at the link between exercise and colon cancer risk and found that the most physically active people had a 24 percent lower risk of colon cancer than those who were the least active. Studies focusing on the occurrence of breast cancer have shown similar benefits of exercise.
Even patients who already have advanced cancer may benefit from stress- and inflammation-reducing activities, such as moderate exercise and yoga. One meta-analysis published in January 2018 in the International Journal of Yoga, for instance, included more than 10,000 cancer patients from 20 different countries, and found that those who practiced yoga reported fewer symptoms from treatment, such as postoperative breathing issues for lung cancer patients; better quality of life; reduced anxiety; improved sleep; and better physical and emotional health.
They also showed stronger markers of immunity, such as lower markers of inflammation. “The key, really, is finding activities that you like, that you’ll be willing to do on a daily basis,” says Cohen.
There are multiple ways that stress might play a role in cancer.
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I repeat: One of the most powerful ways to educate yourself, to open your mind to alternative ways of experiencing the world, and thus to counteract the influence of social conditioning and the mass media, is to read backwards—to read books printed about what happen 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 50 years ago, 100 years ago, 200 years ago, 500 years ago, 1,000 years ago, even 2,000 years ago and more.
When you do so, you can step outside the presuppositions and ideologies of the present day and develop an informed world perspective. When you read only in the present, no matter how extensively, you are apt to absorb widely shared misconceptions taught and believed today as the truth. The following is a sampling of authors whose writings will enable you to rethink the present, to reshape and expand your worldview.
Max Gerson was born to a Jewish family in Wongrowitz, German Empire (Wągrowiec, now in Poland), on October 18, 1881. In 1909, he graduated from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. He also began practicing medicine at age 28 in Breslau (Wrocław, now in Poland), later specializing in internal medicine and nerve diseases in Bielefeld. By 1927, he was specializing in the treatment of tuberculosis, developing the Gerson-Sauerbruch-Hermannsdorfer diet, claiming it was a major advancement in the treatment of tuberculosis. Initially, he used his therapy as a supposed treatment for migraine headaches and tuberculosis. In 1928, he began to use it as a claimed treatment for cancer. When the Nazis came to power in 1933 Gerson left Germany, emigrating to Vienna, where he worked in the West End Sanatorium. Gerson spent two years in Vienna, before moving to France in 1935, associating with a clinic near Paris before moving to London in 1936. Shortly thereafter, he moved to the United States, settling in New York City.
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