Nutrition has a direct influence on the immune system

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 15:35 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have discovered an elementary mechanism which regulates vital immune functions in healthy people. In situations of hunger which mean stress for the body's cells, the body releases more antimicrobial peptides in order to protect itself.

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