• Question: could their be a drug made to inhance your amune system dramatically?

    Asked by macklev2 to Asif, Laura, Lena, Sean, Viv on 14 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Laura Waters

      Laura Waters answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Your immune system is already very strong and can keep you healthy. In some people they have a low immune system and need drugs to help protect them. Also, sometime we have to reduce our immune system with drugs.
      For an average person though, your immune system is more than adequate.

    • Photo: Sean Murphy

      Sean Murphy answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      As people age their immune system decreases in efficiency. Some groups are developing drugs to increase the immune system in aging people by stimulating activity in the thymus, an important organ for immunity.

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