The book of William Clark In Defense of Self will give us a refreshing and accessible tour to the Immune System, putting into layman’ terms essential information that for too long leaving a big question mark to us. This book explains how the immune system works using its powerful genetic, chemical, and cellular weapons that will protects us to the vast causing diseases. Microbes that our bodies need to help us digest food and process vitamins are those that are admitted but there are some cases that this system can endanger us by rejecting a potential |
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life saving organ transplants or by overreacting and giving too much force against foreign invaders that will cause an occasionally collateral damage to our tissues that will result to autoimmune disease.
This book covers everything you need to know about how the antibodies work and the strategies the body uses to identify the self to none self when it comes to immunological memory, the latest approach in vaccination and how the immune system will react if ever our body is subjected to bioterrorist attack. This book also offers insights that are important on the vital role of the immune system in cancer, AIDS, autoimmunity, rheumatoid arthritis, allergies, asthma and other diseases. In Defense of Self lucidly explains a system that we could live without especially for those who suffers from the disease related to the immune system. This book summarizes the facts about the immune system into a more readable and interesting explanation of big picture ideas to general readers without a scientific or technical background.