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Doctor Robert ‘Bob’ Lahita is Clinical Professor of Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, a Professor at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine and the Director of the Institute for Autoimmune and…
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I think everyone should meditate. It's important to relax your brain and body, even just 10 minutes a day. You can do a lot to protect and build your immune system by controlling your stress and living a well-rounded life.
— Dr. Bob LahitaRheumatologist and lupus researcher; author on autoimmune diseases
There's a direct link between mental health and immunity. If you go through a divorce, if you are in a car accident, or if you suffer some major trauma to your body… your cortisone rises, adrenaline goes-up. You could have enough of an immune response to get pneumonia.
— Dr. Bob LahitaRheumatologist and lupus researcher; author on autoimmune diseases
You are the custodian of your body. Billions, perhaps trillions, of organisms live in your bowel and your immune system is formed and informed by those organisms.
— Dr. Bob LahitaRheumatologist and lupus researcher; author on autoimmune diseases
If you take care of this dualistic biological soul, your immune system, and nurture it, you can live to well-beyond 100 years of age. In fact, my belief is that in the next 50 years we'll see people easily living to 130-150 based on sheer medication availability and nurturing their biology.
— Dr. Bob LahitaRheumatologist and lupus researcher; author on autoimmune diseases
There is a biological force within your body that wants you to live to old age… you could call it your immune system, or your biological soul!
— Dr. Bob LahitaRheumatologist and lupus researcher; author on autoimmune diseases
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