Consistent practice of this journaling method leads to measurable improvements in the immune system's ability to respond to infection threats.

“people that did this four bouts of writing protocol experienced greater degree of tlmy activation from The concanavalin mitogen Challenge which mimics infection then did people who wrote about something that wasn't stressful or traumatic”

Insufficient sleep significantly impairs the body's ability to mount an effective antibody response to vaccinations.

“if you're not getting sufficient sleep in the week before you get your flu shot you end up producing less than 50 percent of the normal antibody response therefore rendering that flu vaccination significantly less effective”

Targeted mTOR inhibition can enhance innate immune responses and potentially reduce infection rates in elderly populations.

“we identified a candidate mechanism and it makes a lot of sense so to put that in english it's not that the response was mediated by better recognition of viruses it was mediated by more efficient targeting of and or disposing of viruses”