Question

"your immune system is your greatest asset" from 100 to 120 words

Answer 1

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We live in a hyper-connected world where there are always going to be pathogens that come into our lives in one way or another. This is not the first time in recent years that we’ve faced a sweeping viral enemy, and it won’t be the last. Vaccinations can be lifesaving when available, but they don’t come close to eradicating the flu, for instance. The development of a coronavirus vaccine will be an enormous step forward, no doubt. However, in the meantime, there is work to be done to care for our bodies. Giving the brilliant, highly specialized cells of your immune system all they need in order to flourish can’t guarantee you won’t get the virus, but will help you build a strong baseline of health and recover faster if you do become sick.

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 from these 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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