Short-term stress primes the immune system to combat infection and prepares the body for fighting stressors.

“So, short-term stress and the release of adrenaline in particular or epinephrine, same thing, adrenaline and epinephrine, is good for combating infection.”

“it primes your immune system to combat infection and that all makes sense when you think about the fact that famine thirst bacterial infections viral infections Invaders all of this stuff liberates a response in the body that's designed to get you to fight back about against whatever stressor that happens to be psychological physical bacterial viral again the stress response is generic”

“in that conversation unfortunately it's a lipsed some of the really positive things that stress does for us in the short term when the stress response hits that is good for your immune system I know that might be a tough pill to swallow but it's absolutely true in fact stress often comes in the form of bacterial or viral infection and the stress response is in part organized to combat bacterial and viral infection so short-term stress and the release of adrenaline in particular or epinephrine same thing adrenaline epinephrine is good for combating infection”