{"id":104138,"date":"2020-03-23T01:03:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T08:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/augmenting-your-immunity-fighting-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-03-23T01:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T08:03:05","slug":"augmenting-your-immunity-fighting-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/augmenting-your-immunity-fighting-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Augmenting Your Immunity: Fighting COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/augmenting-your-immunity-fighting-covid-19.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>#Interesting opinion from a #Futurist<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Why do the young survive, and older individuals fall ill?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Likely because our immune systems degrade as we age. It\u2019s the same reason that humans see increased cancer rates as we age\u2014 as we grow older, our immune systems, which normally find and destroy cancers in our bodies, become overwhelmed, exhausted, depleted.<\/p>\n<p>As researchers are racing to develop vaccines and antiviral therapies to treat the COVID-19 pandemic, one promising option is <strong>immunotherapy<\/strong>. This technology uses components of our immune system to alter or boost a patient\u2019s immune response. Immunotherapy has been used successfully to treat other viral diseases as well as cancer and diseases of the immune system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Interesting opinion from a #Futurist Why do the young survive, and older individuals fall ill? Likely because our immune systems degrade as we age. It\u2019s the same reason that humans see increased cancer rates as we age\u2014 as we grow older, our immune systems, which normally find and destroy cancers in our bodies, become overwhelmed, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}