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An article on your immune system is your greatest asset

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When the body’s immune cells receive the nutrients they need, they function crisply and efficiently, warding off threats and not allowing harmful pathogens to take root.

We have come a long way in understanding pathogens.

One hundred and 60 years ago, we still believed in the spontaneous generation of microbes, including viruses. The word “spontaneous” in this context means “without cause.” We believed that infections appeared in our bodies out of the blue. We also still had more of a tendency to see illness as a moral affliction, a judgment from God.

The French chemist Louis Pasteur helped us take a huge step forward fromthese lines of thought when, in the 1860s, he definitively proved the existence of germs as the cause of disease. Our takeaway from this discovery was “kill the germ.” Simple, right?

But sometimes simple is too good to be (completely) true and, in this case, there’s more to the story.

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