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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 Jason Greenstein, a forty-seven-year-old man with late-stage cancer, was on his way to a miracle. He was going to defy death by standing on its precipice.
#2 The attack on Jason’s left hand was particularly cruel. When Jason was a kid, he was a phenomenal athlete. He had the looks to match, with dark hair and dark eyes. But his laugh was his defining characteristic. It was pure delight.
#3 The immune system is a bodyguard that protects us from disease. It is constantly on guard, and it is largely invisible to us. It attacks each cold virus, millions of malignancies, and hundreds of millions of cases of food poisoning.
#4 The immune system is not a war machine, but a peacekeeping force that seeks to create harmony. It is not just concerned with protecting its own tissue, but also the foreign organisms that live on and in us.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	19 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669353973
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Jason Greenstein, a forty-seven-year-old man with late-stage cancer, was on his way to a miracle. He was going to defy death by standing on its precipice.

#2

The attack on Jason’s left hand was particularly cruel. When Jason was a kid, he was a phenomenal athlete. He had the looks to match, with dark hair and dark eyes. But his laugh was his defining characteristic. It was pure delight.

#3

The immune system is a bodyguard that protects us from disease. It is constantly on guard, and it is largely invisible to us. It attacks each cold virus, millions of malignancies, and hundreds of millions of cases of food poisoning.

#4

The immune system is not a war machine, but a peacekeeping force that seeks to create harmony. It is not just concerned with protecting its own tissue, but also the foreign organisms that live on and in us.

#5

As a New York Times journalist, I wanted to understand the immune system. I found that the story of scientific discovery and heroics is a tale of heroes who have stacked one hard-earned revelation on top of another.

#6

The immune system story is about life and death, the struggle for peace and harmony, successful integration, and evolution. It is a story of friendship.

#7

When Jason was in eighth grade, he had a life philosophy that would define him for a few years. He called his group of friends the Concerned Fellows League. The CFL philosophy was the opposite of what it seemed to express. They were not particularly concerned.

#8

The author’s father, Joel, died in 1984. Jason was five-nine in high-tops, not the lone star on the team, but he was the glue and point guard. He helped the Boulder High School Panthers win the 1984 basketball state play-offs.

#9

By the late nineties, I had formed a deep, authentic friendship with Jason. We were always excited about new business ideas, and he loved driving in the desert and being in the open road. When he landed in Phoenix on May 9, 2010, his airline had misplaced his luggage, which included his sample kits of trinkets. He had to stand there, waiting.

#10

Jason had a platonic relationship with a stripper, whom he had met in Vegas. He was constantly getting sick, and when he went to the doctor, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. His immune system was being swamped by malignant forces.

#11

On Halloween night, 1977, Robert T. Hoff became an immune system marvel. He was dressed as a mummy, and he met John, a very fit redhead, upstairs at the party. They had unprotected sex, and two weeks later, Bob felt dizzy and lethargic. He had hepatitis.

#12

Robert Hoff, a man who had contracted the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, was able to resist it and die from it, which no one had ever done before. His body provided insights and promise for the rest of us.

#13

Linda Bowman, a professional golfer, was the best competitor in the barn. She had never won a professional golf tournament, and she was up against a woman who was the leading money winner for two years running on the European tour.

#14

Linda Bowman, a woman who suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, was unable to fly to Los Angeles to meet with a major client because of her swollen left big toe. She had been taking Vicodin to deal with the pain, but the pills didn’t work.

#15

Linda’s case was easier to diagnose, as her family history and the many autoimmune illnesses she suffered from made it clear. But Merredith’s case was more difficult to diagnose, as she suffered from at least three autoimmune disorders.

#16

The immune system is a complex system that is constantly attacking and defending us. It is constantly attacking and defending us, but in different combinations, depending on what we are dealing with.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The field of immunology originated with a chicken. In the sixteenth century, a researcher named Fabricius noticed an odd region beneath the chicken’s tail. He found a saclike organ, which he called the bursa, and it seemed to have no purpose.

#2

Metchnikoff’s research led to the development of the phagocyte theory, which states that cells like these wander throughout the body and eat away at any harmful or troublesome tissue.

#3

Metchnikoff’s research showed that the body has an initial reaction to infection that is not always pleasant. This is what we call inflammation. The body is built around a lock-and-key mechanism that allows special cells to attach to and destroy dangerous foreign agents called pathogens.

#4

The immune system is one of the most complex organic systems in the world, and it has been around for quite a long time. It is a peacekeeping force in the Festival of Life.

#5

The immune system is made up of many different types of cells that swarm the body and hunt for unwanted invaders. When the immune system identifies an invader, it activates inflammation to eliminate it.

#6

The immune system is designed to keep the peace, and it is constantly trying not to overreact in the face of pathogens that are also evolved to survive.

#7

The villains and challenges that we face are extremely varied. They range in number from the thousands to the hundreds of thousands. They take many shapes and have their own array of tactics and weapons.

#8

There are three types of organisms that can infect us: bacteria, viruses, and parasites. The most common are the latter two, which are eukaryotic organisms not quite evolved enough to be plants or animals. They can be very dangerous if not kept under control.

#9

The human body is prepared to deal with many threats, including ones that may not even exist yet, because it has a limited number of genes.

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