The body resists the attack from sugar by producing insulin.

My dad once told me how a body can resist a transplant.

Atticus grunted with pain as his body resisted another's control.

The body must resist gravity while moving in a direction, and balancing itself on uneven ground.

Inertia, as you know, is how bodies resist a change in their motion.

The body resists foreign objects inside itself, and that includes piercings.

He hurt all over, and his body resisted putting itself through that again.

His body resisted, acting as if governed by an external force.

A vaccination is a treatment which makes the body resist a particular infection.

But then maybe the body was just resisting the role it knew was coming.