How does God play a part in our Immune Systems?

He gives us a reason to remain healthy and stay alive .

He created it when he created man.

"So what explanation do the experts give for viruses and bacteria not ‘getting’ certain people?

‘We all recognise that there are some people who drift from illness to illness while there are others who never seem to catch a thing,’ says Dr Nick Beeching, a consultant in infectious diseases at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

‘The tricky thing is pinning down why certain people are this way.’

Certainly there is a lengthy list of things that can impact on how likely you are to catch an infection.

This includes everything from how often you wash your hands (in my case, not very often) to if you mix with young children, who invariably pick up every bug going (not any more) to the medication you take: antacids make people more vulnerable to stomach infections for example (I don’t take them).

It could even go back to childhood. The theory is the bigger or more sociable a family is, the more bacteria and viruses you come into contact with at a young age and the more resilient your immune system is as a result.

Here, I think Dr Beeching may have struck a chord. My mother was the nurse at the local doctors’ surgery, where she came into daily contact with all manner of horrible bugs, all of which she brought home, and never got ill herself.

She was also of hardy, farming stock who thought antibiotics were for wimps, hence my sister and I were left to fight off all but the most severe illnesses without medical intervention. Frame of mind can influence your chance of getting ill, too, say experts.

For it seems how well your immune system functions can even depend on whether you are a glass half-full or glass half-empty type.

‘If your psyche is good — if you are in a positive state of mind — then that does seem to help,’ says Dr Beeching.

‘People who are often stressed and feel run down by that stress are more likely to get ill. It’s possible that is because it has an effect on the endocrine system, i.e. how our hormones, such as the stress hormone cortisol, behave.’

Here, the argument doesn’t stack up for me, for I have a very stressful job and consider myself a natural born pessimist. Yet Professor Peter Openshaw, president of the British Society for Immunology, argues that in some cases, stress can actually bolster defences. ‘There was a study done with dental students in the run up to exams that found that the immune system could be rather empowered by a certain amount of stress for a short amount of time — but after the exams they crashed.’

But as our moods can come and go, the most likely explanation for my life-long good health is that I was born with lucky genes.

‘We are increasingly recognising that genetics are involved in the efficiency of the immune system — and some people are, in effect, pre-programmed to fend off illness better than others,’ says Dr Beeching.

The fact that I can fight off tummy bugs as well as colds means I must have especially lucky genes, according to Professor Openshaw.

Yet scientists are only just starting to unravel the true impact genetics have on our immune system.

‘Over the past five years we have been trying to identify certain genes in the digestive tract that help regulate the surface lining of the gut — as these are thought to be very important in fighting infections there,’ adds Dr Beeching, ‘Yes, if you are actually deficient in certain nutrients — and living on burgers and chips — then your diet is unlikely to provide the full range of nutrients you need.

'But if you eat the basic essentials of a balanced diet most of the time then that is likely to be adequate for the needs of your immune system.’

Yet there will be some unlucky souls who don’t smoke, who exercise and do all the right things and still get ill.

‘As an infectious diseases specialist, I get referred people who have, for example, recurrent tonsillitis and often I can find no good reason why this is happening to them,’ adds Dr Beeching.

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