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Do stressful life events trigger disease simply through cortisol spike or is there something else going on?
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Anxiety vs immunity: Stress can impair your immunity. It does so through a very complicated process involving cortisol and the inflammatory cytokines. The field of psychoneuroimmunology is devoted to the study of this. There are some excellent online sites were you can read about this and i will reference one below for you. Best wishes. www.calmclinic.com/anxiety/immune-system.
Answered 12/9/2013
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