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The Effect of Fear on the Immune System
In an immune response that is actually healthy, you get kind of flailing about on the part of the immune system to begin with as it attempts to get a purchase on the virus or the bacteria. But as the immune system learns, the response gets more and more targeted and more specific. What drove the opposite response? And we want to accrue power to ourselves narrative and we'll use fear to do it. That's the million-dollar question.