Does our immune system reflect our state of mind and emotions?

Dr. Candace B. Pert, says, "I go back to health, to wholeness and integrity, and the body operating without overstressing, the way it was intended to operate. Take cancer, for example. We have mechanisms to destroy tumors that grow naturally in the body every day. Natural killer cells, part of our immune system, actually have receptors, and they squirt out peptides which are identical to the molecules of emotion. The cancer cell s themselves are actually squirting peptides and also being modulated by peptide receptors on their surface, telling them to divide or not divide, to metastasize or not metastasize. Since the tumors are part of our bodies, they are also in the psychosomatic network, the information flow. All of this is very much governed by our emotional state, our emotional molecules. There are many experiments to show how these tumor cells are being modulated by various growth factors, endorphins, peptides, and substances which are found in the brain and the immune system.

"So our immune systems do reflect our state of mind, our emotions. The immune system is important, not just in cancer, but for fighting off viruses. If we are not in an integrated, healthy home, being fed by the nurturing relationships that our bodies were designed to have, I think the immune system breaks down. It gets overactive, resulting in autoimmune disease, or it gets underactive, producing cancers. It just doesn't seem surprising to meat all that this happens."