Description
The Paradox of the Immune System: Protection, Inflammation, Autoimmune Disease and Beyond provides a provocative approach to immunology as a "double-edged sword." While it is our greatest protector, it is also the cause of chronic inflammation that leads to autoimmune disease, cancer and infectious diseases like COVID-19. Sections cover the basic science of immunology and its intimate genetic associations, biomedical hypotheses asserting immunology as the basis of all human diseases, and elaborate on immunology as "the enemy within us." This engaging, original approach to a science so personal provides new and invaluable understanding on the bioscience that controls our lives.- Written in an expository style that allows for maximum understanding of the complex science presented- Presents the unfolding of immunology from a natural (innate) system into an adaptive system leading to chronic inflammation and ultimate disease- Provides readers with a unique perspective on health, wellness and disease
Table of Contents
Section 1: Our friendly immune system1. The innate (aka "natural") immune system and immunity2. The adaptive (aka "acquired") immune response3. Genetics and GenomicsSection 2: The enemy within us Introduction4. Chronic inflammation: Enemy #15. Autoimmune diseases: When "self" becomes Enemy #26. Cancer: Immunology's cruelest enemy and greatest challenge7. Immunology: The science of Pandemics, infectious disease, COVID-19 and Beyond
