Most of us have to go to work even when we’re sick. When I am sick, what is our reaction when colleagues at work or when a sick colleague comes to work?
New research suggests that when you’re surrounded by coworkers who sniff and sneeze over and over, your body is already preparing to fight. It means that the immune system is already activated just by seeing a sick colleague.
“Our physiology, particularly the immune system that protects us from invaders, is tightly controlled,” said Patricia C. Lopez, assistant professor of life sciences at Chapman University’s Schmidt School of Science and Technology. Change radically to recover “.
The study, led by Professor Lopez, shows that when we are at high risk for the disease, our physiology changes even before we get sick. “Our brains can get information from sick people and it can lead to changes in our physiology,” Lopez said. For example, witnessing a sick person can already activate the immune system.
According to Professor Lopez, in general, this means that parasites affecting the body have a greater impact on our lives than previously thought. This is because it is already affecting our physiology before it even enters the body.
It is not known how the ability to change one’s physiology before getting sick helps the body fight or recover from the disease, but it is believed to have profound implications for how the disease spreads and how sick people and animals are treated. and studied. ‘ explanation.
The results of this study were published in the British Ecological Society’s journal “Functional Ecology” under the title “Anticipating Infections: How Parasitic Risk Changes Animal Physiology”.
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