The Slim Book of Health Pearls: Man the Barricades - The Story of the Immune System

The immune system, an intricate network of organs, cells, and proteins, has evolved over billions of years to protect us against both visible and invisible threats. It orchestrates a remarkable communication network, enabling cells to unite, share information, and combat invaders like bacteria and viruses. However, when this system malfunctions and attacks the body's own cells, it leads to various autoimmune diseases, once mysterious ailments of the past.

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About the Author: Sheldon Cohen M.D.,
Sheldon Cohen M.D. FACP is a specialist in internal medicine, has served as Medical Director of a large suburban Chicago medical center and two Health Maintenance Organizations, taught physical diagnosis and internal medicine at two Chicago area medical schools, and served as a quality consultant to hospitals in the United States, Europe and South America.
The immune system is a complicated mechanism whose principle actors are organs, cells, chemicals and a vast collection of proteins tuned by billions of years of evolution to work in a harmonious manner for the good of the whole. Its purpose is to keep us alive in a world where visible and invisible predators intending to usurp our bodies attack us on a daily basis.

By virtue of an amazing communication network, millions of cells gather, exchange information, become activated and respond to bacteria, fungi, parasites and viruses preventing them from causing infection.

A malfunctioning immune system, when immune cells attack "self," results in numerous auto-immune diseases, the "God only knows" diseases of sixty years ago.

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