My Immune System Quotes

#1. On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system. I guess I just didn't find time to eat. I am much more healthy these days.

Calista Flockhart

#2. My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.

A. J. Jacobs

#3. I take goldenseal, Echinacea and cod liver oil when flying to boost my immune system.

Janelle Monae

#4. Grayson Dunn is in my head. He's under my skin. He's invaded me like a deadly disease and hijacked my immune system until I don't even bother fighting it anymore. I look at him, and I'm twisted into knots. Tangled into a messy spool of desire and desperation.

Julie Johnson

#5. My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless ... I'm not going to have a happy ending.

Marya Hornbacher

#6. The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn't know who I was.

Corey Taylor

#7. Americans are grossly deficient in basic micronutrients and especially those phytochemicals that arm our immune system to fight cancer.

Joel Fuhrman

#8. The psychologist Mark Schaller has shown that disgust is part of what he calls the "behavioral immune system" - a set of cognitive modules that are triggered by signs of infection or disease in other people and that make you want to get away from those people.40

Jonathan Haidt

#9. It's my personal opinion, and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.

George Hamilton

#10. The physical demands of cycling is that it actually lowers your immune system, and you expose yourself to a tremendous amount of elements - so certain people might get a chronic overload and develop, say, bad asthma.

Greg LeMond

#11. Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from within and attacks the immune system. When you have hatred inside you, it always crushes you in the end.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#12. If you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from that travel? Would you be well? Would you be ill? Would you be affected by micro-organisms of the time period and be hiding out in a basement? How would it all work, practically?

Brit Marling

#13. Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#14. Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.

Bernie Siegel

#15. The press is our immune system. If it overreacts to everything, we eventually get sicker.

Jon Stewart

#16. Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

Helen Fisher

#17. That also means the antivirus software you are running on your own computer is likely only catching 5 percent of the emerging threats targeting your machine. If your body's own immune system had a batting average like that, you would be dead in a matter of hours.

Marc Goodman

#18. I take these vitamins that make my hair grow like crazy. They're called Herpanacine, and I get them on Amazon - they've got echinacea and vitamins A and E. They're really good for your immune system, too. You don't get sick, and they really help your skin, hair, and nails.

Kacy Hill

#19. humans appear to have a built-in immune system for threats to their own well-being. If we're about to blame ourselves for bad behavior, our minds intervene with a whitewash.

David DeSteno

#20. Millon and Davis analogize the personality as one's psychological immune system.

Frank M. Dattilio

#21. The claim that somehow raw foods give you better energy, are more healthful, improve your immune system and all of that is simply not substantiated. And moreover, it's not biologically plausible.

Dennis Miller

#22. Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing.

Chris Prentiss

#23. I believe [images] are the soul's immune system and transit system.

Lynda Barry

#24. There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally.

Deepak Chopra

#25. Vaccines are little pieces of bacteria or viruses injected into the body to give the immune system an education. They work by ramping up your own defensive system so that you're ready to fight the bacteria or virus upon first contact, without becoming sick first.

Rene Fester Kratz

#26. We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build a global immune system.

Nathan Wolfe

#27. Through depression and many other dark low emotions, our Light dims and our immune system declines along with it. White blood cells are the physical Light of our body.
Colors can be used to heal, restore and to uplift us.

Jacqueline Ripstein

#28. We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders.

Joel Salatin

#29. If your positivity immune system is low, any exposure to a person afflicted with negativity can poison your life.

Bryant McGill

#30. I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I'm taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.

Jimmy Carter

#31. Oh, please, I never get sick. I've had my flu shot." I roll my eyes and snort, which really isn't advisable with a stuffed nose. "And have the immune system of a god," he adds.

Kristen Callihan

#32. My strategy is to stop the assaults--to reduce the number of factors your immune system has to deal with by cleaning up your diet, healing your gut, lightening your toxic burden, treating your infections, and reducing your overall stress.

Amy Myers

#33. My idea right from the beginning, I guess, was to dismantle the immune system one gene at a time so we could track the mutations that cause problems.

Bruce Beutler

#34. In 1981, after ten years in Basel, I returned to the United States to continue my research on the immune system at the Center for Cancer Research of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where Director Salvador E. Luria provided me with an excellent laboratory.

Susumu Tonegawa

#35. Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

Eddie Van Halen

#36. It took me three and a half years to become a mom, so it makes me feel so good to know I'm giving my baby the best chance I can to develop a strong immune system and live a healthy life.

Constance Marie

#37. As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.

Baruj Benacerraf

#38. about the biology of stress and recovery, stress seems to have an effect on the brain similar to that of vaccines on the immune system. In limited doses, it causes brain cells to overcompensate and thus gird themselves against future demands. Neuroscientists call this phenomenon stress inoculation.

John J. Ratey

#39. Psychoneuroimmunology is concerned specifically with the impact of mental attitudes on the body's resistance to disease, especially exploring the links among and between the mind, the brain and the immune system.

Karol K. Truman

#40. Anger is the immune system of the soul.

Stefan Molyneux

#41. A flu shot just compromises your immune system.

Bill Maher

#42. I find that low protein diets often contribute to improvement in patients with immune system problems ... In fact, it would be hard to become deficient in protein in our country even if you tried.

Andrew Weil

#43. From my perspective, it appears that a great thrust of research on health and longevity is pointing towards improving our immune system - that within an empowered immune system are the health solutions and longevity answers we're looking for.

David Wolfe

#44. I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.

Bryan Adams

#45. If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.

Kris Carr

#46. Oxygen plays a pivotal role in the proper functioning of the immune system. We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single greatest cause of all diseases.

Stephen Levine

#47. The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus.

Anthony Fauci

#48. Berries are the healthiest fruit, offering potential protection against cancer and heart disease, boosting the immune system and acting as a guard for the liver and brain.

Michael Greger

#49. Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.

Stuart Stevens

#50. Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

Norman Cousins

#51. Gay sexuality inevitably involves brutal physical abusiveness and the unnatural imposition of alien substances into internal organs, orally and anally, that inevitably suppress the immune system and heighten susceptibility to disease.

Rod Parsley

#52. Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead role in bringing down scn, that task falls to you and me.

Keith Henson

#53. The right raw materials can ... double or triple the protective power of the immune system.

Joel Fuhrman

#54. The only thing weaker than a toddler's handshake is their immune system.

Jim Gaffigan

#55. The immune system, the hypothalamus, the ventro-medial frontal cortices, and the Bill of Rights have the same root cause.

Antonio R. Damasio

#56. I like to read general biology - things about the immune system and advances in that area - because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue.

Bill Gates

#57. I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.

Tammy Faye Bakker

#58. Strong ethics keep corporations healthy . Poor ethics make companies sick. Values are the immune system of every organisation.

Patrick Dixon

#59. Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.

Howard Gardner

#60. HeartMath found that five minutes of feeling love and care can strengthen your immune system for up to six hours, whereas five minutes of feeling angry can weaken and suppress the immune system for six hours. Love releases very powerful, beneficial chemicals into the body.

Marci Shimoff

#61. We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.

Susumu Tonegawa

#62. The adaptive immune system consists of lymphocytes and their products, such as antibodies.

Abul K. Abbas

#63. Holding on to resentments and anger can ruin your quality of life. The only person who suffers from your failure to forgive is you - it is not the other guy. When you stay hostile or resentful, it tears down your immune system and increases your risk of disease.

Deborah King

#64. I believe the best way to activate genius within the immune system is by ingesting certain superherbs and superfoods, taking probiotics and cultured foods, minimizing toxic food exposure by eating pure organic raw-living foods, and making appropriate healthy lifestyle improvements.

David Wolfe

#65. No doctor has ever healed anyone of anything in the history of the world, The human immune system heals and that's the only thing that heals

Bob Wright

#66. Without this balance, a body's immune system will not have the desired response when faced with infection. These findings could aid the development and production of vaccines and lead to further research on how the body fights specific infections, such as HIV.

Bill Vaughan