{"id":2673,"date":"2019-01-16T14:11:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T20:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2019-09-11T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:15:23","slug":"aging-and-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/2019\/01\/16\/aging-and-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Aging Changes in Immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we age, our immune system begins to not function as well compared to our younger years. As a result, our immune system does not respond as well, and we become sick faster and easier.<\/p>\n<p>Changes that can occur include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vaccines may not work as well<\/li>\n<li>Slow body healing<\/li>\n<li>An increased risk of cancer due to the immune system not being able to detect unhealthy cells as efficiently<\/li>\n<li>An autoimmune disorder develops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To reduce risks, it is encouraged to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exercise regularly<\/li>\n<li>Eat healthy<\/li>\n<li>Receive vaccines annually (flu vaccine, )<\/li>\n<li>Avoid being around the sick<\/li>\n<li>Stop smoking<\/li>\n<li>Wash hands regularly<\/li>\n<li>Sterilize public items (grocery carts, door handles)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Work Cited:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/ency\/article\/004008.htm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we age, our immune system begins to not function as well compared to our younger years. As a result, our immune system does not respond as well, and we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[200980],"tags":[163248,161655,195080,152412],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging-resources","tag-acupgc","tag-pgcacu","tag-acu-pgc","tag-aging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}