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Stress May Speed Up the Aging of the Immune System: How to Slow That Down Source Why does our immune system deteriorate as we get older? A new study backs up what immunologists have long suspected: stress may be a major stressor for our immune systems as we age. "Immune ageing may help explain why older people benefit less from vaccines and have more serious complications associated with infections like COVID-19," said Erik Klopack, Ph.D., the study's lead author and a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Southern California's Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. He said, "Our research demonstrates that social stress may hasten immunological ageing." Immunologists who study immunity and ageing, also known as immunosenescence, have long recognised that as people age, their immunological protection decreases. Klopack, on the other hand, believes that the reason why certain people's immune systems deteriorate at a faster rate has yet to be discovered. ...