Nor, despite St Paul's aphorism, was the lure of lucre during the experiment (as opposed to the effect of thinking about it as a result of being primed) necessary as a corrupting influence.
The trade off is that the adaptive response relies on cells being primed or activated, so they can fully differentiate into the right kind of fighter to kill that pathogen, and that can take a few weeks.
So these special pathways that they've developed in order to mitigate the intense effects of flying have likely made them extremely tolerant to viruses or at least primed them to successfully fight them off.
A study on competitive golfers compared their performance when instructed to simply focus on putting as accurately as possible, versus when they were primed to be acutely aware of the mechanics of their putting stroke.
Subjects primed to think of themselves as powerful were three times more likely to draw the " E" as though they were looking at it themselves, making it appear backwards to anyone else.
Stacy Sims, a researcher at Auckland University of Technology, in New Zealand, recommends athletes increase intensity in the low-hormone follicular phase of the cycle, when the body is primed to bear heavy loads.
The real challenge for us and from a vaccine point of view is to ensure that the immune system is primed in advance of the virus as opposed to after HIV infection.
Anything that we can do to help our body to move because that's what our bodies are primed to do when we have that stress response is going to help us to feel calmer.