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Elegance Of The Immune System

Have you ever wondered how our body can recover from almost every disease in existence?

Granted we do have the largest medical library in existence, but most drugs help/assist in our recovery.

An analogy would be how tanks could change the fate of a war, but they'd be irrelevant if there weren't any soldiers to man them.

In order to combat a disease, our immune system need to know it's weaknesses before it can multiply enough in our body to kill us.

That'd be equivalent to you unearthing a complex bomb in your garden, and you defusing it before it's timer of 2 seconds runs out.

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The Thymus

Since your immune system creates an infinite amount of cells, it also creates cells that can kill your own cells. Your thymus is crucial for identifying identification.

Your thymus contains a sample of every possible cell in your body, and ...

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How Can It Do That?

In order to create such a vast library of solutions for every possible disease that could exist, your immune system does something extraordinarily brute force yet elegant.

It has a small number of gene fragments , each granting the cell the ability to identify a specific type of pr...

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PHILIPP DETTMER

For every possible antigen that is possible in the universe, you have the potential to recognize it inside you right now

PHILIPP DETTMER

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So How Does The Immune System Do It?

A bacterium inside you can multiple and mutate over generations in the time it takes for you to finish a cup of warm tea for that sore throat.

So how do you counter a weapon that itself adapts multiple times?

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In awe of how amazingly complex our immune system is, and how it functions on a cellular level.

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