Stress is like Mark Twain’s comment on weather. “Everybody talks about it, but no one does anything about it.” That is not quite a fair accusation. At one level we address stress and treat it aggressively, but most of the time I am not satisfied with either our recognition of stress, or our understanding of it. That leads to our less than adequate treatment of it. I think that a major oversight in our approach to stress is not connecting stress with Thymus function. The Thymus gland (I capitalize Thymus for emphasis, even though it is incorrect grammar). The Thymus gland is the quarterback of the immune system. It tells the white cells what to attack and what to ignore. White cells (lymphocytes) are major factors in the immune response. They make anti-bodies, good and bad. The good anti-bodies protect us. That means the good antibodies attack and neutralize invading microbial organisms like bacteria and virus. It gets complex when our immune system needs to neutralize our “bad white cells” that are tuned to attack our own healthy tissues in our body. This is called auto-immune disease; the wartime analogy would equate to attack by “friendly fire.” An oxymoron if I ever heard one. Nevertheless, The Thymus tells the immune system which cells should attack invaders and which cells should be neutralized to avoid auto-immune responses. You can see that is critical to our health and well being. The Thymus gland struggles when we are under attack by toxins like those from bacteria or environment forces such as hidden infection like Lyme Disease, heavy metal toxicity, electro-magnetic radiation, toxic foods, fumes, emotional stress like a death of a loved one, loss of income, drug use, surgery with anesthetic. It goes on...... continues on page... murraysussermd/thymus-stress-and-just-being-sick/
Posted on: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 18:08:53 +0000
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