The mind and the immune system have been shown to be intimately linked, and scientists are consistently finding that doing good deeds benefits one’s immune system.
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The mind and the immune system have been shown to be intimately linked.
Scientists are consistently finding that doing good deeds benefits one’s immune system.
The bone marrow and spleen, which produce the white blood cells needed to fight infection, are both connected by neural pathways to the brain.
Recent research has shown that the activity of these white blood cells is stimulated by beneficial chemicals produced by the brain as a result of magnanimous behavior.
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What the heck does "magnanimous" mean? Do I need to know? I know the prefix "magna" sounds like "magnum" or big. I know "animous" sounds like "animal" or "animate". So is magnanimous behavior acting like a big animal? Or being big and animated in your actions? And how does that relate to the rest of this content?
It's uncommon for Most Supported stimuli to read like arguments, but when they do, the right answer tends to read like a Necessary Assumption. In this stimulus, we're told that the recent reseach about magnanimous behavior is an example of a finding that shows doing good deeds benefits your immune system. We're also told that magnanimus behavior stimulates the white blood cells, which are immune cells. OK, so if being magnaniums is good for your immune cells, and that supposedly proves that doing good deeds is good for your immune system, it seems like the author is assuming that magnanimous behavior involves doing good deeds.
That being said, we always try the answers on for size with an open mind in Most Supported questions. There are a lot of ways we might derive a well supported inference in the correct answer.