Fear of disease makes you ill

Colourbox anxiety can weaken the immune system

The American physician Christiane Northrup believes that only the fear of being sick, may be sufficient to infect really. The explanation Christiane Northrup takes place in the subconscious stress, which leads to the release of the hormones cortisol and adrenaline. If your level over a longer period weaken constant high, the immune system and pathogens have an easy time. Similar results, a study by psychologist Sheldon Cohen of Carnegie Mellon University does. He found that positive-thinking people develop less rapidly.

Subjects who are optimistic about the future could and had no worries infected, less frequently with influenza viruses and respiratory disease defied. It was important, however, says Cohen, that persons are permanently happy and optimistic and not only on the day of the investigation would have a good mood. The whole attitude to life, according to Cohen determines whether someone is susceptible to disease or not.

Not everyone infected to be Concerned

Representative studies are time on this subject, however. To reap the immune system affected, the fear persists that is very extreme and over several months. "While it is true that chronic stress can weaken the immune system," says Hannelore Weber of the University of Greifswald. The risk of becoming infected, but just with the disease, before the fear, the person just is not, however, "Those who short-term thinking does, whether he in a flu outbreak would rather not go with the sick friend drinking coffee will not necessarily end up at the doctor.