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Self & Other

A Field Guide to Your Immune System

A field guide to the body's defenses — the first responders and specialists, how it remembers and learns tolerance, and what goes wrong in inflammation, allergies, autoimmune disease, and cancer — plus an honest look at what truly strengthens it and what only sounds like it does.

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21chapters
57pages
62kwords

Contents

  1. Prologue
  2. Self and Other
  3. The First Responders
  4. The Specialists
  5. The Memory Library
  6. The Border Towns
  7. The ID Check
  8. The Schools of Tolerance
  9. Inflammation: The Double-Edged Sword
  10. Allergies: When the Guards Panic
  11. Autoimmune Disease: Friendly Fire
  12. When the System Is Quiet
  13. Cancer and the Immune System
  14. The Things That Actually Help
  15. The Things That Sound Like They Help (But Mostly Don’t)
  16. Stress, Loneliness, and the Vagus Nerve
  17. The Honest Chapter
  18. mRNA, and What COVID Taught Us
  19. The Microbiome Decade
  20. A Glossary of Medical News
  21. Epilogue