REH wrote:
> So feeling bad gives you cancer. Rather than Cancer makes you feel
> bad.
I'm not up to date on my science so I'm open to correction. That
said:
+ The immune system is complex (in the technical sense) and not
fully understood. But there is indication that ongoing emotional
states influence its performance.
+ The role of the immune system in controlling cancerous or
potentially cancerous cells is also not fully understood but such
effects exist.
It's easy to infer from those observations that prolonged episodes of
feeling bad may predispose your immune system to fail, both in
resistance to exogenous infection and to endogenous deviant, malignant
and potentially metastatic cells.
Of course, *knowing* you have identifiable, diagnosable cancer will
make you feel bad so there's the possibility for harmful positive
feedbac there.
- Mike
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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