The immune system

It occurs to me that right now, a great deal of trouble results from public misunderstanding of the immune system. It would actually be impossible for most of the public to understand very much about the immune system because it is extremely complicated. It depends on elaborate correlation of literally dozens of different kinds of cells, along with complicated features of all other human cells and of pathogens. Understanding how all of this works further depends on fairly deep understanding of basic biology, which believe me very few people have.Into this immense gulf of ignorance wade opportunistic charlatans who want to sell you snake oil, undermine trust in scientists, physicians and politicians, or achieve fame and fortune by persuading people to believe insane stories and act against their own and their families ' interests. I ' m not going to try to teach immunology 101 here, that would be futile.* But I think there are a few basic points that people can understand, that will be very helpful. First, it ' s very unlikely that you want to boost or enhance or whatever word you want to use to make your immune system more powerful. Unless you are malnourished, or a smoker, or immunocompromised for some medical reason you very likely already know about, your immune system is as powerful as you want it to be. It ' s important to your long-term well being that the immune system respond to threats with sufficient aggression, but no more. Immune responses hopefully will get ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs