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You Are Immune Against Every Disease

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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For anyone, no background needed. Education, not medical advice.

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An animated explanation of the human immune system and how it protects the body against constant threats of infection.

Order IMMUNE here: kgs.link/ImmuneBook – It’s available in English and German and at online retailers it should be available in pretty much all countries too. Sources & further reading: sites.google.com/view/sources-immune2/ You are not a person, you are a planet, made of roughly 40 trillion cells. There is so much of you, that if your cells were human-sized, you would be as big as 20 Mount Everests. For your creepy-crawly inhabitants, this makes your body an ecosystem, rich in resources and warmth and space. A perfect place to move into and have a family. While some of these guests are welcome, most are not. Your immune system is the guardian of this planet, the force tasked with protecting yourself against the constant danger of invasion. OUR CHANNELS ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ German Channel: kgs.link/youtubeDE Spanish Channel: kgs.link/youtubeES HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT US? ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ This is how we make our living and it would be a pleasure if you support us! Get Merch designed with ❤ kgs.link/shop-153 Join the Patreon Bird Army 🐧 kgs.link/patreon DISCUSSIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Reddit: kgs.link/reddit Instagram: kgs.link/instagram Twitter: kgs.link/twitter Facebook: kgs.link/facebook Discord: kgs.link/discord Newsletter: kgs.link/newsletter OUR VOICE ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ The Kurzgesagt voice is from Steve Taylor: kgs.link/youtube-voice OUR MUSIC ♬♪ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 700+ minutes of Kurzgesagt Soundtracks by Epic Mountain: Spotify: kgs.link/music-spotify Soundcloud: kgs.link/music-soundcloud Bandcamp: kgs.link/music-bandcamp Youtube: kgs.link/music-youtube Facebook: kgs.link/music-facebook The Soundtrack of this video: Soundcloud: bit.ly/3mt6Rn0 Bandcamp: bit.ly/317OtYC If you want to help us caption this video, please send subtitles to subtitle@kurzgesagt.org You can find info on what subtitle files work on YouTube here: support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734698?hl=en-GB&ref_topic… Thank you! 🐦🐧🐤 PATREON BIRD ARMY 🐤🐧🐦 ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Many Thanks to our wonderful Patreons (from kgs.link/patreon) who support us every month and made this video possible: Hex5ter 99, Sheeran, Shaun Loh, Umo Jami, Claudio Catarinella, Noah Costello, Dylan West, Kyla de Villa, Alex Graham, Larry Apolonio, The Pixel Life, Douglas Steel, Bernhard Wiedemann, Ryantsang, Michael Enrico, JV, Mark Goldberg, Patryk Borkowski, Pilar Amador Cortés, Rafi Khan, Val, Egidijus Grygolaitis, Kageetai, Yasmin Muryadi, Elyse Endlich, Liam Sheppard, Henrique Borsatto de Campos, Corheu, PicaHud, ATTILA VONDORKOVICS, Jessica Abood, Kim Martin Jensen, Christian Larmann, Gentatsu Sakakibara, Red Ryan, Jazz, Iain Cuthbertson, Ben Price, Kyle T Da

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What people say. Recommended as an exceptionally clear and mind-blowing animated explanation of how the immune system functions.

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On “BNT162b2 Vaccine Booster and Mortality Due to Covid-19”

Vaccines are different from antibiotics in that they are designed to use your own immune system. Whereas an antibiotic targets a bacterial weakness which the bacteria can fix, the immune system watches for both specific invaders and possible variations of those invaders . Kurzgesagt made a good explainer video on this recently: link to this video

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On “Multiple Sclerosis Causality”

I don't see many YouTube links posted here, but this Kurzgeasgt video blew my mind on this topic. Our immune system really is amazing. link to this video

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On “What if you did the exact opposite?”

> Some fraction may not go through the normal cycle, but it can't be many. Maybe it is because I just saw an animated video on cancer (I’ll find the link when I get home) on YouTube but then so are we thinking of a bee hive as one individual? Like in the video, they talk about how cancer cells refuse to die when something bad happens like they are supposed to… So this is going to sound cheesy but now I have to wonder, could you zoom out on humans as well? On earth? Are what we call “living beings” what we would call “malignant cells” or at best mutations? Now that’s a scary thought. Edit: I think it is this one link to this video

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On “Rejuvenating the blood cell population”

Does this relate to the shutdown of the thymus (the "murder university")? The thymus goes dormant at the age of 85,as I've read. The lymphoid strain can specialize into t-cells, which is the speciality of the thymus. link to this video The myeloid does provide macrophages, but they are of little value compared to an activated b-cell on a mission.