Eli5: why can’t your brain stop you from getting sick?

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When someone has an autoimmune disease, their brain is sending electrical waves to tell the immune system to attack what it believes to be bad cells. So why can’t you just tell your brain to stop sending those messages, since it’s the one sending them in the first place?

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They used to think your immune system was completely independent from your brain but that’s not true.

You can control your immune system response through specific type of breathing. There are various studies around Wim Hoff style breathing and how that can impact the immune response to endotoxin.

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