Immune System 3 - MT3 - Part 2

Question 1

What are 2 things drugs should be?

Answer 1

1. Poly-pharmacy
   - complex
2. Pure as possible and defined

Question 2

What can active ingredients vary according to? (4)

Answer 2

1. Dont know how much of the active ingredient there is
2. Hard to isolate
3. Amounts can carry
4. Stress on plants can effect the kind of molecules

Question 3

What are 2 cautions in immune boosting herbs?

Answer 3

1. Is that there can be wide variation in different preparations from the same plant species at different times and places
2. Is that manufacturing quality and honesty can vary
   - DNA barcode study of herbal medicine

Question 4

What are 4 examples of herbs that are used as immune boosters or disease fighters?

Answer 4

1. Aloe vera
2. Echinacea
3. Garlic
4. Ginseng

Question 5

Aloe vera

Answer 5

Good for minor cuts and burns

- but thats it

Question 6

Echinacea

Answer 6

Studies have failed to find good evidence of an effect on the likelihood or duration of colds

Question 7

Garlic

Answer 7

Epidemiological studies have shown a link between garlic and onion consumption, lowering rates of some cancers

Question 8

Ginseng

Answer 8

No large, high quality studies exist to support the claims for ginseng as an immune system stimulant

Question 9

What is there accumulating evidence of?

Answer 9

Interaction between our immune system and the hundred of species of beneficial bacteria your body hosts (your microbiome)
- varies on your health, where you are living

Question 10

Probiotics

Answer 10

Are commercial products that consist of bacteria already present in you digestive tract
- they are substances alleged to nourish and multiply your good bacteria

Question 11

What are 2 examples of probiotics?

Answer 11

1. Lactobacillus

2. Bifidobacterium

Question 12

What do many animal studies show regarding stress?

Answer 12

They show negative effects of stress on various immune system indicators

Question 13

What are 4 different types of stress?

Answer 13

1. Physical
2. Social
3. Acute
4. Chronic

Question 14

What happened in the experiment when both a physical and social stress was applied?

Answer 14

It resulted in higher mortality when the mice were subsequently exposed to a bacterial toxin
- the stress of mice would be more effected by this toxin

Question 15

What have they related human studies and chronic stress to?

Answer 15

Depressed immune system indicators

Question 16

What did they discover for caregivers of relatives who had Alzheimers disease?

Answer 16

They have higher levels of cortisol, lower antibody response to flu virus infection and T cell function
- especially if they are socially isolated

Question 17

What is cortisol?

Answer 17

A stress related hormone

Question 18

What do people who were the worst affected by after a natural disaster show?

Answer 18

Several markers of reduced immune system activity

Question 19

Is there strong evidence for placebos having an effect on your immune system?

Answer 19

Yes

Question 20

Placebo effect

Answer 20

A beneficial effect, produced by a placebo drug or treatment, that cant be attributed to the properties of the placebo itself and must therefore be due to the patients beliefs in that treatment

Question 21

What does the placebo effect highlight?

Answer 21

The role of the brain in the immune function

- there is a strong connection between your brain and your immune system

Question 22

What is the truism among athletes?

Answer 22

The moderate exercise carries health benefits, but intense exercise leaves a person more prone to infection

Question 23

Truism

Answer 23

Is a statement that is obviously true and says nothing new or interesting

Question 24

What have the studies of the effect of exercise on the immune system components tell us?

Answer 24

That it is still inconclusive