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You briefly discussed how being a smoker compromises your immune system, making getting sick harder on the body. Would you consider doing a video showing what smoking does to the whole body on the macro and micro level?
It’s insane the number of diseases which aren’t caused by a virus/bacteria - but your body turning against you for one reason or another. The body is scary whatever it’s targeting
Autoimmune disease is the worst because the only way to diagnose something like, say, Lupus is to literally rule everything else out. This can be several months to years getting expensive and painful exams until they shrug and say “Guess you got lupus.”
This hits home in a big way. I have a rare cancer that we treated with chemotherapy for 17 months with good results. My doctor and I decided to try immunotherapy. So six months into that, my blood sugar suddenly goes ballistic....635. Next thing I know, I'm in the ER and they are bringing my glucose level down in a safe manner. Two days in the hospital and they tell me that my amped-up immune system attacked my pancreas. So now, I have Type 1 diabetes and am insulin dependent.....and still have the cancer. But it's just another obstacle to overcome.
That must be too much to suffer. And here I am who gets dramatic over a sore throat (which I currently have at the time of writing this comment). I wish you get well soon!
Because it is operating in an environment it was not designed for. Stop feeding it sugar and refined grains and it will work a lot better. And fast a couple days a week. Helps with those grocery bills and activates your body's natural repair routines.
@@jakobkristensensandvik5588 Show me the studies. Or even the anecdotes. Every medical miracle Jesus Christ was said to have performed was literally just him telling people to fast. All of the ancient doctors of Rome and Egypt knew that fasting was the best medicine. 2000 years later, we finally caught up, but most people don't want to hear it. They want a pill, not a minor modification to their habits. And the pill pushers are all too happy to oblige. They can't make money off of you NOT consuming something.
Mom had a very strong immune system (barely got really sick) and was only sick for 2 days at most when she did get sick. She developed an autoimmune disease a few years back and her immune system destroyed almost every organ systematically. The body is terrifying.
im sorry to hear about your mom, But also this terrifies me as I very very rarely get sick, I didnt even get covid without having any jabs (im not an anti vaxer, im just lazy 🤦♂) so i guess my immune system is gonna turn on me eventually.
Well this sort of makes sense. A military dictatorship with no regard for civilian casualties will do pretty well in war for awhile after its creation, but, you know, also has no regard for civilian casualties. It's not surprising that unleashing the stronger the immune system, the more dangerous it is to the body.
The subject is so interesting and always makes me want to cry, I had numerous discussions with my wife's vaccine hesitancy, especially when it came to our children. It contributed to our divorce. Thank you for creating such a informative video that portrays such a serious subject in a positive light. My compassion goes out to all of us that have suffered from disease that could have been prevented from vaccines.
I'm pro vaccine except for the covid one. Everything just seemed so fishy about it. Untested and mutating but they found a vaccine so quick. I never got it
When I was 12 years old I contracted glandular fever (ie, the epstein-barr virus) and since then my body has never been the same. It completely destroyed my life. I'm now in my 20s and suffer from multiple autoimmune disorders, unable to work, have chronic pain, etc. So... yeah. Amazing what one small, pesky virus can do and how devastating the immune system can be when it turns on you.
Same thing happened to me. Glandular fever and then years later, boom, autoimmune diseases. Fortunately, they are finally studying the role viruses play in triggering autoimmune diseases, and contracting MS has been confirmed to be correlated with acquiring an epstein-barr virus infection.
I'm sorry to hear this. My daughter had epstien-barr virus and a year later starting suffering from CFS/ME. It hasn't been as severe as some other cases I've read about but it still impacts on her life all these years later. You feel absolutely helpless. I can only hope that long COVID helps trigger more funding/research into auto immune responses. It's obviously a very complex issue
Just few days ago, I had a CT scan after having a long Covid disease. I didn't know how to read the results of the CT scan, but the doctor explained me that although I had not suffered any serious damage, my lungs still had some "scars". This was quite shocking to me, the idea that a "simple" flu could cause me permanent injuries had never even crossed my mind
The flu cannot cause those injuries. You were injured by something else. Something that we are not allowed to say on this platform - but you should also know, that the producer of this video has received half $1 million in funding from the Bill Gates foundation
And yet some commenters claim that the mention of covid is propaganda. It's just facts that they don't like, and as they say, facts don't care about your feelings.
I wish we could get to the point where we’re allowed to listen to our bodies telling us to slow down and rest when we’re fighting off and infection, rather than pushing through because we must be productive at all costs.
You make a very valid point. In many societies, there is a culture of valuing productivity and pushing through illness or discomfort to meet obligations and responsibilities. However, listening to our bodies and taking the time to rest and recover when we are sick is important for our overall health and well-being. When we are fighting off an infection, our immune system is working hard to combat the invading pathogen. This can take a toll on our body, resulting in fatigue, pain, and other symptoms. Pushing through these symptoms and continuing to go to work or school can prolong the illness and make it more difficult to recover. Taking the time to rest and care for ourselves when we are sick can help us recover more quickly and prevent the spread of illness to others. It is important to prioritize our health and well-being, even if it means taking a break from our usual responsibilities for a short time. While it may be difficult to change societal attitudes towards productivity and illness, we can start by setting boundaries for ourselves and prioritizing our health. This can involve communicating our needs to others, taking sick days when necessary, and practicing self-care to promote healing and recovery.
My dad had to take 10 sick days last year, and because of that he has lost not only his monthly markup but also a markup for the entire year. That was two months worth of wages. That's insane. Now he takes paid leaves whenever he feels ill. Old man barely sleeps these days, overworking himself to death, and that's how the employer treats him. Ugh.
Another thing to consider when it comes to boosting your immune system: _sleep more_ . Sleep deprivation induces a state of immunodeficiency because your body restocks its circulating immune cells while you sleep.
Also, when you sleep, the body makes more cells that identifies what's a pathogen and what's not. That's part of the reason why you die if you don't sleep for a few days, because your body won't be fighting the pathogens in your body if no cell told the immune system that certain micro-organisms are hostile to the body.
I hope you guys do a video of the Immune system going wrong. As someone with Type 1 Diabetes and Vitiligo, both caused by a hyper-active immune system response, it would be great to see you guys show the light on this subject
I’ve been watching these guys for a while now but I find the fact that they didn’t even mention having a healthy lifestyle which has been proven to immensely boost your immune system and health in general, quite disappointing. Eating unprocessed, natural, healthy foods while getting regular excessive can decrease your chances of dying to illnesses drastically, I mean just by not being obese you are 40% less likely to contract covid when exposed to it. The fact that 41.9% of adults in America are obese and they didn’t even clarify this in their video, only focusing on vaccines despite the covid vaccines being very controversial due to the shady nature of Phzier and the censorship of information on lobbying ect. and also 16.0% of female participants reporting LTAEs which were mainly fatigue, menstrual disturbances, myalgia, arthralgia, dizziness, and headaches, is just shocking and seems misinformative to be putting this out.
@@Fleetstreetbestone Which is totally related to autoimmune diseases like type 1 diabetes. Also, did you know 17.4% of statistics are made up on the spot? Crazy, I know.
@@pyrodrayson3216 Did you know that being a fat fuck isn’t healthy for you crazy I know but 41.9% of people are, that’s capitalism and misinformation at its finest.
@@Fleetstreetbestone Because unfortunately even if you have a healthy lifestyle you can still develop auto immune disease. People can be in perfect health and get an Ebola infection, mould infection or a covid infection and develop auto immune disease. Could largely be based on complete random factors like genetics, variants, stress, environment etc
Videos like this have made me much kinder to myself. Realising just how much work my body puts into staying alive and how mind-bogglingly complex it all is has given me a much deeper apprecition for a body that I always resented for being chronically ill and "broken". Now I feel like it's miraculous I'm here at all! I also really appreciate the reminder that activating your immune system requires a huge amount of energy. I've been feeling really tired and down and have zero motivation for anything since I suffered some significant burns last week. I just keep having to remind myself that it's perfectly normal and healthy to not feel up to anything while my body is busy taking care of me.
I literally just got to this part in the Immune Book. It’s really great companion to the video and I highly suggest you read it if you have it. It’s broken in sections that takes like 5 minutes tops. For example, I learned that Measles attacks your immune memory cells so you can actually LOSE your immunity to certain diseases. Which is why it’s so important that we vaccinate against it and eradicate it. I hope they do a video on that one day. EDIT: Apparently measles was covered 8 years ago!
Honestly when I read that part in the bhook it not only surprised me but also scared me. This book honestly made me learn a lot about the immune system that I didn'T knew about and that'S honestly a game changer
I've been on a particular medication for an autoimmune condition and actually lost my measles immunity! I can't get re-vaccinated because I cannot have live-attenuated vaccines, means I have to be extra careful if there is ever a local outbreak
While the book has some incredible insights and cool bits of information about the way the immune system is set up, I personally hated the writing style. It takes several detours and makes several unnecessary analogies to get to every single, fairly straightforward point. It's like it was written for primary school students, not all ages. It's still a great way to support the channel and I don't regret buying it, but unfortunately, it's pretty bad both as a pastime and as a source of information.
Can confirm this! Outside of when I was a small kid, I've had severe diarrhoea (as in, several days of going to the toilet every 30 minutes) twice in my life. And both of those times were within three years after I got measles. (and I didn't even get them all that severely because I'd received my first measles vaccination a week or two before I was infected - and for those who are no doubt going to wonder, there were medical reasons why I didn't receive the measles vaccination as a kid, and the decision predated that fraud paper anyway)
@Sebo that's very strong correlation but still can't be called causation bc you need some kind of theory that explains the process. You can find strong correlation between many other things and still no causation.
As someone that unfortunately has an autoimmune disease I’d love to see you guys do a video about that topic if you haven’t already. You always do such great videos sharing information and educating others.
I have lupus. Every time I get sick, like a simple cold takes 1 week for me to get better. I caught a cold once that turned into the flu which turned int pneumonia. I spent 4 days in the hospital as my lungs were completely filled with fluid. And I was even under a doctor's care at the time who refused to give me antibiotics. I have found that antibiotics help by increasing my immune system, or helping it along. In a way the pandemic was a bit of godsend. For 2 years I never got sick because I almost never went outside except for the supermarket. This last year I have gotten sick a couple of times, but I've had all my booster for Covid and the flu shot. The most I was sick was 2 days which I cannot remember ever happening. I wish, though, that I didn't have to live in a bubble. I wish people would take common sense precautions. If you're sick, stay home! I'm a tutor and cannot tell you how many times students show up sick. Sure I lose money if they don't come to class, but if I get sick my loses are even greater. Or if you are sick and must go out, wear a mask! Wearing a mask has nothing to do with your personal freedom, it is simply common sense.
I was procrastinating with this instead of studying for an immunology exam. This basically summarised all the subjects needed. Thanks for making it enjoyable
I've just read your book 'immune' and honestly there isn't single book out there in the market where you can find such simple elaboration of such complex immune system I really enjoyed it.
I disagree. Still a good book, but not the best one out there. However, for that level it is probably. If you go up a bit on the complexity scale, then there's other books which are great out there.
Your Immune book seriously helped me pass Microbiology and Pathology/Pharmacology in nursing school. The Immune system is seriously a complex system, and you made it easier to understand.
@@emilie6466 their book alone did not help me pass. The Immune System is a specific unit in each of those classes, and this book helped me when it came to that unit because i had a better understanding. I never said their book was my sole resource.
I truly love and respect the team behind this youtube channel. Your "bacteriophage therapy" video had a profound impact on my life inspiring me and literally changing my life in the process. I am currently in my second year of pursuing a doctorate degree, focusing on chemical genomics research all started with a youtube video.
Same! I'm pursuing my degree in biotechnology, and I will be getting my associates in 3 months. I'm glad I'm not the only one looking to expand the field of bacteriophages in human medical care.
@@dragon-like-tendencies9519 best of luck! Me too! Initially my research proposal was about isolation and analysis of bacteriophages but then it was changed to drug target identification. But truly the initial inspiration for me was that video!
Infectious Diseases doc here - this was a joy to watch. Loved the Neutrophil analogy cus I refer to them as "Toddlers hopped up on sugar, running around with shotguns". Please keep up the fantastic, always informative work!
@@imperius1490 it's not based in science. Just a common stereotype. I think the simplest explanation is that kids eat a lot of sugary foods at parties, and also happen to be pretty excitable at parties. It's not the Sugar. Of course eating lots of calories can also make you crash later on which is why sugar is also associated with mood
Kurzgesagt has actually done many immune system videos in the past, but it is so committed to make them even better each time. Still, I do kinda miss the old artstyle and colored circles though.
I was once brought to tears reading the Wikipedia page for smallpox, for the simple fact that it is written in past tense. Like, "Smallpox was a disease that killed 20% of those who caught it. It was a menace for humankind from time immemorial up until the 1970s." How much can one wish that the articles for polio, measles and many other awful diseases would one day be converted into past tense too.
About a year ago I bought your book about the immune system and I found it really fascinating. I wondered if you would ever make a video about it since in my opinion it's something everyone should know about. I love the way you explained it, it makes it easy to understand and truly entertaining. Your channel is really great, I've learned a lot from you and I'm always looking forward to the next video. Keep going just like this 💪
They already have released several instalments in their immunology series, including one about the book. I do agree tho, its a fascinating topic and Dettmer writes extremely well
>Funded by Gates Foundation >Exaggerates Covid's lethality >Presents a black and white fallacy implying your only two options are getting a vaccine or getting the disease >Glosses over the potentially dangerous and lethal side-effects of vaccines, both short and long term >Zero mention of how exercise and healthy dieting drastically boost your immune system How anyone can watch this channel without having even a hint of skepticism or mistrust is beyond me.
During hospital visits, I was repeatedly asked two questions: 1) am I a smoker? 2) do I have Type 2 Diabetes? That was really what every nurse, doctor was concerned about. These things change the nature of the treatment, care and the expected outcomes. Please do a video on what smoking and diabetes do to the body.
That part about your body using amino acids from your muscles to help rebuild the immune system because you’re not eating makes so much sense now because I always wondered why my muscles ached when sick
You shouldn't just make theories going from your personal experience. By that theory it would make just as sense for your body to make moving hard so you don't waste energy. "Common sense" arguments without further proof are quite useless...
I was literally just doing research on vaccines for an essay and the last vaccine video's source list saved my life. Thank you so much. I'll be sure to check out the Immune book some time.
If you liked this video, you will really love the book. I have read it myself and highly reccomend it. It goes more in depth and still remains easy to understand like any kurzgesagt video.
You may want to do some research on the funding this channel receives from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and its effect on the type of content they now produce.
Riding the Long COVID train after a mild infection, and now every little thing my body and brain can do makes me happy and grateful. And animated science and history videos have been vital for rehabbing my short-term and working memory. 😊
This video hits home for me. 2 years ago my Mom passed due to COVID. It caught us all by surprise. She was the one who rarely ever got sick. She would be the one who took care of my siblings and I (especially me) whenever we were sick. Sadly, her immune system was weak against covid. She went to the hospital a day before she was scheduled to get her vaccine. Fuck covid
The Immune book was the most interesting book about biology I've ever read. The perfect combination between facts and entertaining metaphors made it so fun to read. And I actually learned a lot too. I wish more books were written in a fun way like that! Great job to y'all who have been working on these videos and the book, I was a little curious about microbiology to begin with, but now I'm totally fascinated by it, thanks to the book especially :)
I'm living this now. I got pneumonia just over a year ago and was hospitalised. By the time they diagnosed it and got antibiotics in me, it had spread across half of my left lung. Before that I was relatively healthy, but ever since - even over a year later - I now struggle to breathe sometimes and any little cold makes it hard to get enough oxygen. I'm only in my late 20s but I'll probably have weakened lungs for the rest of my life now, all because I picked up a bug from the electrician who came to repair the light switch.
I feel you. I’ve had pneumonia 3 times in the past 6 months and probably 15 times since 02/16 due to CVID. I have had sepsis 4 times with the first being nearly fatal. All resulted in hospitalizations for 5 days to 1 month. My pneumonia’s have been nasty lately and all of them required IV antibiotics. I also have autoimmune issues so I’m immunocompramised and also autoimmune. I think I pissed someone off in my past life. So many hospitalizations and multiple bronchs as well. My last pneumonia I had double septic pneumonia. A week in the hospital with a bronch. One week isn’t bad though. A month had me so depressed and I missed 3 Christmas holidays out of 6 due to being in the hospital. I feel your pain. I hope you are doing better now. I get IVIG every 4 weeks and my next one is Friday.
you're young enough that you have a chance to fully recover from this. pay close attention and remember the way the scar tissue looks in your x-ray. try to keep that in your memory when you look at another x-ray ten years from now. i think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the improvement.
Watching this while my immune system is spooling up in response to ..... something, is strangely satisfying. I don't yet know if it's allergies (yay >.
@@nishant54 Some diseases specifically target your immune system, like HIV, certain cancers and even Measles, or people on suppressors for transplants.
I find these videos so comforting, and not just because of the video's theme, and gentle voice. A year ago I decided to take another year of biology, and I have learned lots. It's videos like these that prove to me, that I have learned something new, and it is that, that is comforting.
Honestly, the biology-related episodes of Kurzgesagt are my favorites, especially when they specifically center around Microbiology and Cytology- Immune System videos, ones about specific bacteria or virus and what they do, so on and so forth.
they were for me too, until I found out that they're basically sponsored productions by people and corporations with commercial interests. (fwiw, I do agree wit hthe spirit of this video too. The conflict of interest just muddys the water a lot, sadly)
@@MossyMozart I think they're talking about corporations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Open Philanthropy, and especially with videos on controversial or subjective topics that have room for biased data (e.g. climate change, vaccines, etc). I doubt this video is one of those though, as the main topics presented are based on solid facts rather than subjective personal preference. They do talk about climate change in the sponsorship part though, but that has nothing to do with the video itself (or at least I think it doesn't, I can't think of how a sponsorship about a totally different subject can affect the overall video and the things its trying to present).
Same here :D it's why I started studying microbiology in university, it's crazy how there's only 11 people on my course out of the hundreds that do biological sciences
@@Ben-gq9tx well, while i won't comment on the corporate sponsorship issue, you can at least feel better knowing the channel itself was originally created in the interest in this specific topic (immunology)
Yea another immune system video! I have to thank you guys so much. You guys are the reason I now have a love for the immune system and a dream of pursing it as a job in the future. Thank you guys so so much
Yet another video telling us that vaccines are nothing but good and that completely brushes off all side effects as such a tiny problem that it's not worth even considering the alternative.
This is ocean of knowledge. I already knew many things from your videos. 3 new things I learn. 1. How permanent scaring happen. 2. Why we can't eat while getting sick. 3. Why we get slim after falling sick.
It would be fantastic if you do a part 2 video about the immune system in the context of autoimmune disorders to explain how the body attacks itself and what happens in these situations.
@@Martin-df4xk The title says the "best" way to boost your immune system. Vaccines are without a doubt the best way to do that. Better sleep, vitamins, and exercise are also great ways, but they're not the best.
@@RippedWarrior I would rather have good sleep, adequate nutrition, and be at a healthy weight while unvaccinated than be vaccinated but sleep-deprived, nutrient-deficient, and obese.
@@ItisNoe27 My bad ignore my last comment. I was replying to some dumbass who was hating on this person for studying the immune system. He deleted his comment so my reply went to you, but I deleted it
I’ve been watching these guys for a while now but I find the fact that they didn’t even mention having a healthy lifestyle which has been proven to immensely boost your immune system and health in general, quite disappointing. Eating unprocessed, natural, healthy foods while getting regular excessive can decrease your chances of dying to illnesses drastically, I mean just by not being obese you are 40% less likely to contract covid when exposed to it. The fact that 41.9% of adults in America are obese and they didn’t even clarify this in their video, only focusing on vaccines despite the covid vaccines being very controversial due to the shady nature of Phzier and the censorship of information on lobbying ect. and also 16.0% of female participants reporting LTAEs which were mainly fatigue, menstrual disturbances, myalgia, arthralgia, dizziness, and headaches, is just shocking and seems misinformative to be putting this out.
forever grateful for my mom for explaining this to me since i was very young while not sugarcoating it or give me books that explains this stuffs. she is also a science teacher. God bless her
Being a super responder isn’t necessarily a good thing. No disease ever managed to make my mom sick before cancer, but when her own cells turned against her it wound up becoming a curse. She developed an immunity to all the medication she was given over time, and once that happened there was nothing anyone could do. She was always like that, no disease never got to her and even Benadryl stopped working after a couple of uses. It used to be such a good thing for her… But it wasn’t in the end.
I always found it interesting that fevers or colds can be a ton of different illnesses, you just don't know which since all the symptoms you have are those of your immune system successfully defeating it
i never tire of watching this channel. good explainations in a concise manner and fairly good accuracy. also the animations and music are just phenominal and give me a good chuckle now and then. they've got me started reasearching other topics i normally wouldn't just because they had a video on said subject.
Understanding how my body works as an individual entity makes me on one hand partially scared (specially that I suffer autoimmune sickness) but also for some reason I feel really warm and hugged from inside. I'm practically a guest in my body.
My grandma is 88 with health issues. She got covid and was essentially asymptomatic with a bit of a cough for a day. Meanwhile I’m in my 20s and healthy and when I got it, it was the sickest I’ve ever been. Our immune system is wild!
That can be explained though. Some of the worst types of covid symptoms are caused by the 'cytokine storm' that your immune system generates when fighting the virus. Your grandma having a weaker immune system means that she receives less collateral damage by the immune response.
The reason is because of a cytokine storm It's basically where your immune system starts to throw EVERY single weapon in their arsenal kamikaze style This hurts the virus, but causes collateral damage The stronger the immune system, the more damage it can do to itself
I love how Kurzgesagt can always turn even the most intimidating topics of medicine into these amazing and easy to understand videos. Thank you so much!
I got to experience a virus that made me weaker when I was 20. This is a long story that took/takes place over 6 years so far. I got sick while on vacation in Florida and I did something you should never do. I took medicine while drinking some beers(also yes it was underage drinking I know). Sickness seams to go away mostly but then on the drive back home I was getting really dizzy in the car but that got better. Then when I went back to work I was having trouble standing for more than 5 min before getting dizzy. I went to the doctor the next day because it had then been 3 days of dizziness they did the normal thing and weighed me and all that. I weighed in at 149 lbs which was low from my normal, but still low for a 5'11" guy, 160 at the time. They gave me a shot, told me to go to the ER if it got worse, and sent me on my way. 3 days later I got a friend to bring me to the ER because I was getting really dizzy even when sitting down and laying down made it worse, I got the first of many migraines, and my hands had started to shake a little bit. Got there and they weighed me in at 141 lbs. Which I didn't believe and I showed them the paper work from the doctor of the tests they did that I brought along just in case it would help. That plus the dizziness got me scheduled for a CT scan. Now the radiologist aren't supposed to tell you anything really and she didn't but the look on her face when she saw the scan and how she just left the room was quite worrying. I get put into a room so I can get an MRI in the morning after a second CT scan. All the doctor says and shows me is that there is a weird spot in my brain around the base of the skull about the size of a thumb. That night I get weighed again and weigh in at 138 lbs. That made the nurse rush out and get the doctor to show him. They then told me they were going to weigh me a couple more times throughout the next day. Got weighed first thing in the morning and weighed in at 131 lbs. Got an MRI and got brought back to my room. Learned I couldn't walk without holding onto something anymore and my hands shook enough that I couldn't hold the fork for lunch. The migraines blurred my vision more than it already is(I wear glasses). They felt like someone was running knives over my head branching from the back of my head forward. Doctor came in and weighed me again after a second MRI. I was down to 128 lbs. They also got a neurologist to come in he then took all the data to a team 3 neurologists(that turned to 9 later). He told me not to worry because from what he could see it was just some minor inflammation with no signs of getting worse over the couple of scans they did. Blood work was done as well and that showed that there was no virus present anymore so we never found out what I got exactly. The next day I get weighed in the morning again and weighed in at 124 lbs. Did another MRI and then the neurologist came in with what was basically a drawn and printed out powerpoint presentation and he got one of the other neurologists on a video call. He went through explaining a lot of what they found and how the only case they found similar to mine was some lady in 1993. He told me what happened to me was about a 1 in 300million chance and in part I was lucky because it could've been much worse. The virus had gotten past the blood brain barrier which was probably weakened by the alcohol and medicine combo. That caused a slight over reaction in my immune system which led it to keep fighting even after the virus was gone. He told be the inflammation would go down in a couple of weeks or months but the nerves where permanently damaged. Good thing was that I was young so my brain would eventually learn to use other pathways to do the same jobs. I asked him how long he thought that would take and he told me that if I agreed to do some physical therapy then it would probably take about 8 years to "heal". If I was younger the damage done probably wouldn't have affected me for that long but because my brain was almost done developing it needed more time. If I was older there would have probably been no hope for going back to normal. When I got weighed in the afternoon I was still 124 lbs. I had lost basically all my fat and about 40% of my muscle mass. The doctor then told me that if I had lost even 1 more pound he was going to put me in the ICU but then he gave me the option to go home as long as I would come back if I felt anything getting worse. I also had to come in for tests and MRIs the next week and every 2 weeks after that for a couple of months. They gave me a couple of medications and even wrote on a note attached to the prescriptions that i should use protein powder to help gain my weight back. I then started 6 months of physical therapy. The dizziness became persistent while I was in the hospital and got worse over time. The physical therapy made it better but for about a year straight I was always dizzy. Couldn't even watch TV without feeling like I needed to puke. Looking over at something to quickly made it feel like I did a flip. I couldn't write easily but I kept practicing and part of that was the muscles in my hands being so weak that holding things became painful after a little while. After a year I was doing a lot better. The migraines became very rare and I could walk around for a couple of hours before feeling to light headed. Now 6.5 years later I'm basically back to normal. Sometimes my sense of balance just "turns off" so I can't feel if I'm standing upright or not. It is usually followed by a sense of falling when it comes back. My hand shaking and all that was getting rarer but recently came back for another extended round of annoyance. So every once in while I drop things and typing this out I would hit the same letter like 3 extra times (good thing for auto-correct). At the rate it's going idk if I will ever get back to normal but it is a lot better than what it was. Though I don't have that weight problem anymore as I am now around 200 lbs and am physically stronger than I've ever been but even with that sometimes I walk like a drunk man and can't do any kind of task requiring fine motor control efficiently.
Sir, you was sick, you took so called medicine (ultra high dose of vitamin C, paracetamol and caffeine), you went partying sick, deliberately spread the virus, in post cov mentality, you are a bad person.
Some already suggested a deep dive on smoking's effect on the immune system. I think that is a great idea, but I also really hope for a video on how obesity and poor sleep also depress immune function. Thanks!
never gonna happen, will only make more people realize COVID only affected the elderly and obese. Especially when public figures like Joe rogan, who the left hate because its a white guy forming personal opinions, always said since the beginning all u need is exercise, healthy diet, sleep, and spending some time in the sun but he was attacked because that wasn't the narrative and having a natural cure to COVID after beating it wasn't part of the forced vaccinations narrative either. Plus we will be offending all the fat people because fat people are just as healthy as people who don't have diabetes.
Did you read "Immune" by Phillip Dettmer (the first "Kurzgesagt-book", he is the founder). It is god-tier-level good in explaining the Immune System. As reference, I studied Biology and I was stunned by how well the book was made. Enjoyed every minute of reading it despite knowing almost everything. :)
I repeat it again: I would love a videogame with the Kurzgesagt art in it about a real time strategic fight of immune cells vs virus/bacteria/prions/fungi/parasites/etc. Imagine a field with thousands of immune cells vs hundreds of thousands of invaders 🦠
I'd love to see a video on how psychedelics and other psychoactive compounds are being used to treat things like depression, anxiety, PTSD, drug addiction etc :)
human brain is soooo complex that even many drugs are not known exactly by whitch pathway it functiones and some brain drugs were "discoverred" by accident :D and from what i know it is more like an ezotheric style, not medicine cos in my country u usually get some benzodiazepane instead of blunt XD
at least for magic mushrooms, every experience no matter the dose, will always end with a deep humbling realization that life isn't serious. That life isn't all that significant. And that your personal issues and gripes do not matter. During the experience or trip, your brain has more plasticity similar to children, and if you take advantage of this, you can cure and resolve any traumas and experiences that causes depression and ptsd. Essentially, during this moment of plasticity, you can really change your personality if you put alot of focus on this during your trip.
For the past 2 days,I've been throwing up violently every 30 minutes and almost felt like passing out every second.But I took my medicine and im feeling much better
Try an elimination diet if you haven't already. Eating nothing but meat and salt for a couple of weeks would probably fix you up. Anti-inflammatory diet.
I’ve been watching this channel since undergrad. Now I’m graduated and a dr and it impresses me even more how well you all are able to present such complex topics in an easily understandable way.
As a doctor I'm suprised you aren't upset by how they jumped to vaccines and ignored overall wholistic health (not being obese, eating right, exercise, sleep, drinking plenty of water, getting all your vitamins and minerals, etc. etc.) as the best thing to do for your immune system.
3:02 is why females live longer than males on average during food scarcity, because on average we have more body fat than muscle mass, and muscle mass needs more calories to maintain, whereas body fat can be used as a source of calories by the body in emergencies
The ability of the immune system to learn is absolutely incredible to me. I'm a high-school based singing teacher, and despite that high-risk setting, I've only caught COVID once so far. (I was vaccinated, and so had a mild case.) Since then, I've been exposed to it a few times, and it just doesn't stick to me. There's a particular type of sore throat I get which I now associate with a COVID exposure. But that's all that happens. Sore throat, maybe a slightly stuffy nose, and it's gone within 24 hours. What's more, I don't shed the virus. It doesn't show up on RAT tests, and my partner never catches it from me. It's like my body was trained at the vaccine dojo, faced down the real deal after that training, and is now just an anti-COVID fortress.
I was never vaccinated, only caught CoViD once. I was exposed to it about six or seven times before I finally contracted it (even with someone literally coughing on me) and I ignored all guidance from the CDC. (No mask, no changes in hygiene habits, etc.) After 2.5 years, it finally got me... I had aches and pains with a fever for about 12-18 hours, and then I was back to normal. I barely tested positive... I had to take three tests to be sure, each one the T line was just barely there.
The line used to describe neutrophil cells: "Imagining chimps with machine guns", was also used to describe them in the Immune Book by Philipp Dettmer! I recognized the line the second it was heard and got so happy. Your team is absolutely incredible, keep up the amazing work!
10:15 I work with appliances and while the refrigerant put inside those fridges may harm the atmosphere, 1. they shouldn't be finding their way into the atmosphere and 2. the damage they cause is very overexaggerated. Just because it can be harmful doesn't mean that it's currently harming the atmosphere whenever you are putting it into (hopefully) a fridge with a sealed system where it is being cycled through. The reason why we hear a lot about this is because the refrigerant industry is using it as a reason to replace all of the old fridges or force people to buy a newer, more expensive version of the refrigerant. This is because it was just getting too cheap for someone to be able to replace their fridge's coolant. Well, you may ask why does that matter? I have seen the results first hand. Customers would come to the store and whenever we told them the price of their coolant they just said to forget about it, that they'd just buy a new fridge. If we did end up replacing it, they often had some other problem not too long after we got done replacing it. Now, this could be because the fridge is old but it could also mean maybe the new coolant isn't playing nice with the fridge as well. Either way, the company wins. They either sell very expensive trashy coolant or a whole new fridge. Whenever we go out to repair them it's a similar circumstance, and some people just can't afford it due to their living circumstance. It's really sad. Additionally, because of this, you get a bunch of fridges that people throw away (creating trash) that could otherwise have a bunch of useful parts in them. Old fridges used to last for years and the newer ones get thrown away even faster because they aren't worth a flop.
@@idontneedaname318 It's likely that the body reinforces itself to protect the baby, while still putting a ton of energy into said baby, making it seem like the immune system is weaker overall, while the baby's is supercharged.
I literally say all the time that if what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is true then tell that to Polio survivors. I had a teacher in fifth grade with leg braces that he got when he was younger because he had polio. Antivaxxers scare me because of their vehement determination that it will do more harm than good.
Polio was caused by environmental factors, like the absolute batshit insane excessive, obsessive use of toxic pesticides all around the crops (the things we eat), outside and INSIDE the houses and workplaces. They used pesticides INSIDE homes. All relevant historical events point towards environmental factors, not a virus. Polio is the name given to several neurological ailments caused by environmental pollutants.
I would love to see a video that specifically covers autoimmune diseases. Maybe explaining the difference between allergies and autoimmune diseases in a digestible way. That's something I can never seem to get people to understand which I had hoped would be covered in this video.
Really pleased that while I served in the U.S. military, I was vaccinated for virtually everything. Also pleased with never having had a seriously bad reaction to any vaccine. Just sore arm syndrome, with an occasional fatigue and very occasional light fever.
In the "training" part you should've mentioned a generally healthy life style as well. Vaccines are all fine and dandy but rely on us knowing what's comming our way. Working out, not smoking, not being obese, ect. all the things that contribute to a healthier body are catch all's aside from their various other benefits and should definitely be covered when you have a dedicated part about increasing the immune systems efficiency.
Definitely should be the focus of all health. There's not enough stress on the proactive nature of living a strong, healthy life. People want to look for an easy fix like getting a vaccine or taking medicine, which can help, but is at the end of the day, not the most resilient you could make your body.
@@iainbrady3629 Indeed, sadly most people these days look for the easy fix in everything. Ups and downs of progress i suppose, we're so well off that there are easy fixes for most problems so people don't even have to learn how to deal with real issues anymore.
It makes sense that they would focus on vaccines. Many people have been discounting how much they can help over the last 3 years. A healthy body is always good, but as the video points out - you don't know whether your immune system may be strong against some diseases, but weaker against others until it is put to the test. Many extremely healthy and fit people such as athletes and gym trainers still succumbed to diseases like Covid. My friend who runs marathons, attends sword fighting classes, and is significantly more fit than I am responds horribly to Covid, where as my family is lucky and doesn't respond much to it at all. Its a roll of the dice.
@@DrunkenRhyin It's not though, if your friend was less fit, maybe even obese he'd keel over and die... If he has that rough of a time with covid, so depending on quit ehow rough it was him being that fit might have saved his life.
@@123FireSnake Yes, but lots of people over the past 3 years talked as though healthy living alone would protect you when its not enough. And between healthy living and vaccines, people discount the value of vaccines more.
I have CIDP, and I’m only 25!! I thought I had Lyme disease or something else, I was totally shocked when my neurologist diagnosed me with CIDP, it’s a rare autoimmune disease similar to GBS but it is the long lasting version of it. But it’s scary how fast and unexpected something like this can happen to you. One day I was perfect healthy and then next thing I knew I couldn’t shoot basketball anymore (like I couldn’t get the ball up to the hoop) and then 2 weeks later I was barely able to climb up the steps, and I couldn’t open my water bottles or cut my nails. I wouldn’t wish this disease on my worst enemy!!
This makes so much sense. I got COVID this past December after going three years without getting sick, and now have been sick twice since. My system totally got weakened and hasn't yet recovered because winter takes such a toll on my health.
There's no such thing as a cold and flu season its a vitamin D3 deficiency season. Take some vitamin D3 and K2 with food and eat healthy and maintain a healthy weight you won't get sick so often.
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You briefly discussed how being a smoker compromises your immune system, making getting sick harder on the body.
Would you consider doing a video showing what smoking does to the whole body on the macro and micro level?
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It’s insane the number of diseases which aren’t caused by a virus/bacteria - but your body turning against you for one reason or another. The body is scary whatever it’s targeting
my body is targeting me lol I have to take a needle injection to basically weaken my immune system.
Autoimmune disease is the worst because the only way to diagnose something like, say, Lupus is to literally rule everything else out. This can be several months to years getting expensive and painful exams until they shrug and say “Guess you got lupus.”
Many diseases are just the body’s normal processes “breaking”. This happens in autoimmune, cancer, and most neurodegenerative diseases.
Like we've done to planet Earth.
@@Linkwii64 I think in that case, we are the infection. So the earths immune system is getting rid of us.
This hits home in a big way. I have a rare cancer that we treated with chemotherapy for 17 months with good results. My doctor and I decided to try immunotherapy. So six months into that, my blood sugar suddenly goes ballistic....635. Next thing I know, I'm in the ER and they are bringing my glucose level down in a safe manner. Two days in the hospital and they tell me that my amped-up immune system attacked my pancreas. So now, I have Type 1 diabetes and am insulin dependent.....and still have the cancer. But it's just another obstacle to overcome.
LORD Jesus, please help Steven 🙏🏻
Stay strong 💪
Well-wishes to you, friend.
That must be too much to suffer. And here I am who gets dramatic over a sore throat (which I currently have at the time of writing this comment). I wish you get well soon!
Wish you well!
Who else watches this whenever you're sick so you feel normal
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[Curles up in blanket while trying to force myself to eat] ❤
This was recommended to me and I'm becoming sick
@@FanniLukkari😂😂😂
One thing I learned. The immune system is going to do everything to stop a disease or illness. Even if it means killing you.
My Immune system loves me so much that it's willing to kill me to protect me
"I'm sorry little one" *kills me and himself but he saved us all*
Because it is operating in an environment it was not designed for. Stop feeding it sugar and refined grains and it will work a lot better. And fast a couple days a week. Helps with those grocery bills and activates your body's natural repair routines.
@@grugnotice7746 Immune systems still killed people before the modern world. In fact, a lot more often.
@@jakobkristensensandvik5588 Show me the studies. Or even the anecdotes.
Every medical miracle Jesus Christ was said to have performed was literally just him telling people to fast. All of the ancient doctors of Rome and Egypt knew that fasting was the best medicine. 2000 years later, we finally caught up, but most people don't want to hear it. They want a pill, not a minor modification to their habits. And the pill pushers are all too happy to oblige. They can't make money off of you NOT consuming something.
Mom had a very strong immune system (barely got really sick) and was only sick for 2 days at most when she did get sick.
She developed an autoimmune disease a few years back and her immune system destroyed almost every organ systematically. The body is terrifying.
Sorry to hear that
My dad's immune system attacked a protein in his skin, horrible disease called bullous pemphigoid, unfortunately he didn't make it
My immune system was good now I get sick every couple of months
im sorry to hear about your mom, But also this terrifies me as I very very rarely get sick, I didnt even get covid without having any jabs (im not an anti vaxer, im just lazy 🤦♂) so i guess my immune system is gonna turn on me eventually.
Sorry for you both
Well this sort of makes sense. A military dictatorship with no regard for civilian casualties will do pretty well in war for awhile after its creation, but, you know, also has no regard for civilian casualties. It's not surprising that unleashing the stronger the immune system, the more dangerous it is to the body.
The Immune book was the most interesting book about biology I've ever read
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The subject is so interesting and always makes me want to cry, I had numerous discussions with my wife's vaccine hesitancy, especially when it came to our children. It contributed to our divorce. Thank you for creating such a informative video that portrays such a serious subject in a positive light. My compassion goes out to all of us that have suffered from disease that could have been prevented from vaccines.
Enjoy your divorce. It's a blessing in this case😂
I'm sorry for your children, I hope you've raised well enough for them to understand how important vaccines are. Ignorance is hell.
I’m so sorry to hear that. This has also ruined my family relationships bc some of them love getting information from Facebook or Instagram…
You dodged half a bullet, that banshee gave you a kid, which is beautiful....unfortunately, you have to deal with said harpie till the kid is 18.
I'm pro vaccine except for the covid one. Everything just seemed so fishy about it. Untested and mutating but they found a vaccine so quick. I never got it
When I was 12 years old I contracted glandular fever (ie, the epstein-barr virus) and since then my body has never been the same. It completely destroyed my life. I'm now in my 20s and suffer from multiple autoimmune disorders, unable to work, have chronic pain, etc. So... yeah. Amazing what one small, pesky virus can do and how devastating the immune system can be when it turns on you.
I'm so sorry to hear this
I had the same thing… contracted it from playing spin the bottle. I got to kiss my crush, but at what cost…
Same thing happened to me. Glandular fever and then years later, boom, autoimmune diseases. Fortunately, they are finally studying the role viruses play in triggering autoimmune diseases, and contracting MS has been confirmed to be correlated with acquiring an epstein-barr virus infection.
I'm sorry to hear this. My daughter had epstien-barr virus and a year later starting suffering from CFS/ME. It hasn't been as severe as some other cases I've read about but it still impacts on her life all these years later. You feel absolutely helpless. I can only hope that long COVID helps trigger more funding/research into auto immune responses. It's obviously a very complex issue
Yeah it got me CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). Not fun
Just few days ago, I had a CT scan after having a long Covid disease. I didn't know how to read the results of the CT scan, but the doctor explained me that although I had not suffered any serious damage, my lungs still had some "scars". This was quite shocking to me, the idea that a "simple" flu could cause me permanent injuries had never even crossed my mind
Thats why we should listen to doctors and cdc guidelines when they tell us its best to mask up
The flu cannot cause those injuries. You were injured by something else. Something that we are not allowed to say on this platform - but you should also know, that the producer of this video has received half $1 million in funding from the Bill Gates foundation
@@xasia_ except studies have come out that state masks weren't even helpful
And yet some commenters claim that the mention of covid is propaganda. It's just facts that they don't like, and as they say, facts don't care about your feelings.
Lol
I wish we could get to the point where we’re allowed to listen to our bodies telling us to slow down and rest when we’re fighting off and infection, rather than pushing through because we must be productive at all costs.
You make a very valid point. In many societies, there is a culture of valuing productivity and pushing through illness or discomfort to meet obligations and responsibilities. However, listening to our bodies and taking the time to rest and recover when we are sick is important for our overall health and well-being.
When we are fighting off an infection, our immune system is working hard to combat the invading pathogen. This can take a toll on our body, resulting in fatigue, pain, and other symptoms. Pushing through these symptoms and continuing to go to work or school can prolong the illness and make it more difficult to recover.
Taking the time to rest and care for ourselves when we are sick can help us recover more quickly and prevent the spread of illness to others. It is important to prioritize our health and well-being, even if it means taking a break from our usual responsibilities for a short time.
While it may be difficult to change societal attitudes towards productivity and illness, we can start by setting boundaries for ourselves and prioritizing our health. This can involve communicating our needs to others, taking sick days when necessary, and practicing self-care to promote healing and recovery.
It is not just productivity that makes humans RESTLESS 😖. 🥲
@@ReplyGPT wtf, thought this was an actual person 😭 that s is pretty ironic
My dad had to take 10 sick days last year, and because of that he has lost not only his monthly markup but also a markup for the entire year. That was two months worth of wages. That's insane. Now he takes paid leaves whenever he feels ill. Old man barely sleeps these days, overworking himself to death, and that's how the employer treats him. Ugh.
@@ReplyGPT fun bit deserves a sub
Kurzgesagt: "Your immune system is a jerk"
Me: "Praise. Someone gets it" 🤣
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You wonder why the title of the video changed? Because it was so controversial.
A message to future generations: Please keep this channel and others like it alive. They are the champions of free education. 😇
This channel is a propaganda piece for billioniares lmao.
Paid by billionaires...
@@sarinenjoyer946 and you've been propagandized by the same video that said they are a propaganda piece for billionaires. lmao
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Nothing is free
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Another thing to consider when it comes to boosting your immune system: _sleep more_ . Sleep deprivation induces a state of immunodeficiency because your body restocks its circulating immune cells while you sleep.
God so true, when i was sleep deprived i was getting sick every 2 months it was horrible
most valuable comment ;)
And laugh. Your natural killer cells are more active when you're happy.
Sadly I struggle to sleep and I've done everything to try & stop it but nothing works so
Also, when you sleep, the body makes more cells that identifies what's a pathogen and what's not. That's part of the reason why you die if you don't sleep for a few days, because your body won't be fighting the pathogens in your body if no cell told the immune system that certain micro-organisms are hostile to the body.
I hope you guys do a video of the Immune system going wrong. As someone with Type 1 Diabetes and Vitiligo, both caused by a hyper-active immune system response, it would be great to see you guys show the light on this subject
I’ve been watching these guys for a while now but I find the fact that they didn’t even mention having a healthy lifestyle which has been proven to immensely boost your immune system and health in general, quite disappointing.
Eating unprocessed, natural, healthy foods while getting regular excessive can decrease your chances of dying to illnesses drastically, I mean just by not being obese you are 40% less likely to contract covid when exposed to it. The fact that 41.9% of adults in America are obese and they didn’t even clarify this in their video, only focusing on vaccines despite the covid vaccines being very controversial due to the shady nature of Phzier and the censorship of information on lobbying ect. and also 16.0% of female participants reporting LTAEs which were mainly fatigue, menstrual disturbances, myalgia, arthralgia, dizziness, and headaches, is just shocking and seems misinformative to be putting this out.
@@Fleetstreetbestone Which is totally related to autoimmune diseases like type 1 diabetes. Also, did you know 17.4% of statistics are made up on the spot? Crazy, I know.
@@pyrodrayson3216 Did you know that being a fat fuck isn’t healthy for you crazy I know but 41.9% of people are, that’s capitalism and misinformation at its finest.
@@Fleetstreetbestone Triggered. XD
@@Fleetstreetbestone Because unfortunately even if you have a healthy lifestyle you can still develop auto immune disease. People can be in perfect health and get an Ebola infection, mould infection or a covid infection and develop auto immune disease. Could largely be based on complete random factors like genetics, variants, stress, environment etc
Videos like this have made me much kinder to myself. Realising just how much work my body puts into staying alive and how mind-bogglingly complex it all is has given me a much deeper apprecition for a body that I always resented for being chronically ill and "broken". Now I feel like it's miraculous I'm here at all!
I also really appreciate the reminder that activating your immune system requires a huge amount of energy. I've been feeling really tired and down and have zero motivation for anything since I suffered some significant burns last week. I just keep having to remind myself that it's perfectly normal and healthy to not feel up to anything while my body is busy taking care of me.
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I literally just got to this part in the Immune Book.
It’s really great companion to the video and I highly suggest you read it if you have it. It’s broken in sections that takes like 5 minutes tops.
For example, I learned that Measles attacks your immune memory cells so you can actually LOSE your immunity to certain diseases. Which is why it’s so important that we vaccinate against it and eradicate it.
I hope they do a video on that one day.
EDIT: Apparently measles was covered 8 years ago!
*LOSE
Honestly when I read that part in the bhook it not only surprised me but also scared me.
This book honestly made me learn a lot about the immune system that I didn'T knew about and that'S honestly a game changer
I've been on a particular medication for an autoimmune condition and actually lost my measles immunity! I can't get re-vaccinated because I cannot have live-attenuated vaccines, means I have to be extra careful if there is ever a local outbreak
While the book has some incredible insights and cool bits of information about the way the immune system is set up, I personally hated the writing style. It takes several detours and makes several unnecessary analogies to get to every single, fairly straightforward point. It's like it was written for primary school students, not all ages. It's still a great way to support the channel and I don't regret buying it, but unfortunately, it's pretty bad both as a pastime and as a source of information.
Can confirm this!
Outside of when I was a small kid, I've had severe diarrhoea (as in, several days of going to the toilet every 30 minutes) twice in my life. And both of those times were within three years after I got measles. (and I didn't even get them all that severely because I'd received my first measles vaccination a week or two before I was infected - and for those who are no doubt going to wonder, there were medical reasons why I didn't receive the measles vaccination as a kid, and the decision predated that fraud paper anyway)
I'd love to see a video on how stress/anxiety affects the immune system and can cause or aggravate certain conditions
Very difficult to do/prove causality
Yes! The subject that studies this is called psychoneuroendochrinoimmunology (PNEI)
stress made people stupid and weak, like the whole covid and vaccination BS
@Sebo You're getting confused between correlation and cause & effect. Easily done.
@Sebo that's very strong correlation but still can't be called causation bc you need some kind of theory that explains the process. You can find strong correlation between many other things and still no causation.
As someone that unfortunately has an autoimmune disease I’d love to see you guys do a video about that topic if you haven’t already. You always do such great videos sharing information and educating others.
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They do videos on things that affect the majority of the planet, unfortunately (or more accurately, fortunately), autoimmune diseases don't.
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Thats just untrue
I have lupus. Every time I get sick, like a simple cold takes 1 week for me to get better. I caught a cold once that turned into the flu which turned int pneumonia. I spent 4 days in the hospital as my lungs were completely filled with fluid. And I was even under a doctor's care at the time who refused to give me antibiotics. I have found that antibiotics help by increasing my immune system, or helping it along. In a way the pandemic was a bit of godsend. For 2 years I never got sick because I almost never went outside except for the supermarket. This last year I have gotten sick a couple of times, but I've had all my booster for Covid and the flu shot. The most I was sick was 2 days which I cannot remember ever happening.
I wish, though, that I didn't have to live in a bubble. I wish people would take common sense precautions. If you're sick, stay home! I'm a tutor and cannot tell you how many times students show up sick. Sure I lose money if they don't come to class, but if I get sick my loses are even greater. Or if you are sick and must go out, wear a mask! Wearing a mask has nothing to do with your personal freedom, it is simply common sense.
T1D here so I feel that
I was procrastinating with this instead of studying for an immunology exam. This basically summarised all the subjects needed. Thanks for making it enjoyable
I've just read your book 'immune' and honestly there isn't single book out there in the market where you can find such simple elaboration of such complex immune system I really enjoyed it.
I disagree. Still a good book, but not the best one out there. However, for that level it is probably. If you go up a bit on the complexity scale, then there's other books which are great out there.
@@ItsKoryn for example which one
@@marcusstone6273 would love to buy that book if he/she tells.
@@ItsKoryn Which other books would you recommend?
@@marcusstone6273 The Song of The Cell and all. However, there's also text books.
Your Immune book seriously helped me pass Microbiology and Pathology/Pharmacology in nursing school. The Immune system is seriously a complex system, and you made it easier to understand.
That’s concerning that their textbook was sufficient to pass nursing school classes.
@@emilie6466 it helped her with understanding it better. Read before you comment
@Somar in the first sentence or so it says that she passed microbiology and pathology with the book
@@emilie6466 their book alone did not help me pass. The Immune System is a specific unit in each of those classes, and this book helped me when it came to that unit because i had a better understanding. I never said their book was my sole resource.
@@pjkarate9974 don't take things out of context. Correct yourself
I truly love and respect the team behind this youtube channel. Your "bacteriophage therapy" video had a profound impact on my life inspiring me and literally changing my life in the process. I am currently in my second year of pursuing a doctorate degree, focusing on chemical genomics research all started with a youtube video.
Same! I'm pursuing my degree in biotechnology, and I will be getting my associates in 3 months. I'm glad I'm not the only one looking to expand the field of bacteriophages in human medical care.
@@dragon-like-tendencies9519 best of luck! Me too! Initially my research proposal was about isolation and analysis of bacteriophages but then it was changed to drug target identification. But truly the initial inspiration for me was that video!
Yeah the quality of these videos has always been good, but this one really shows how advanced the animation and writing has become.
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Infectious Diseases doc here - this was a joy to watch. Loved the Neutrophil analogy cus I refer to them as "Toddlers hopped up on sugar, running around with shotguns". Please keep up the fantastic, always informative work!
Excuse-me doc, genuine question: is this “sugar causing energy peaks” thing real or fake? I’ve heard both versions and have no idea what to believe
@@imperius1490 it's not based in science. Just a common stereotype. I think the simplest explanation is that kids eat a lot of sugary foods at parties, and also happen to be pretty excitable at parties. It's not the Sugar.
Of course eating lots of calories can also make you crash later on which is why sugar is also associated with mood
war is actually extremely profitable and has been throughout history so thats a poor analogy
@@ShaunYoung makes sense. Ty!
@@imperius1490 Shaun's right. It's a misconception, but people make the connection in the analogy none-the-less. * Thumbs Up *
Kurzgesagt has actually done many immune system videos in the past, but it is so committed to make them even better each time. Still, I do kinda miss the old artstyle and colored circles though.
@@Gg-ij7li god is dead.
@@Gg-ij7li yes I believe and I know Jesus
@@polygontower me too!
No it's a better art style now
Man the nostalgia
I was once brought to tears reading the Wikipedia page for smallpox, for the simple fact that it is written in past tense. Like, "Smallpox was a disease that killed 20% of those who caught it. It was a menace for humankind from time immemorial up until the 1970s." How much can one wish that the articles for polio, measles and many other awful diseases would one day be converted into past tense too.
About a year ago I bought your book about the immune system and I found it really fascinating. I wondered if you would ever make a video about it since in my opinion it's something everyone should know about. I love the way you explained it, it makes it easy to understand and truly entertaining. Your channel is really great, I've learned a lot from you and I'm always looking forward to the next video. Keep going just like this 💪
Indeed Philipp Dettmer is very good at writing scripts, especially his book,
They already have released several instalments in their immunology series, including one about the book. I do agree tho, its a fascinating topic and Dettmer writes extremely well
>Funded by Gates Foundation
>Exaggerates Covid's lethality
>Presents a black and white fallacy implying your only two options are getting a vaccine or getting the disease
>Glosses over the potentially dangerous and lethal side-effects of vaccines, both short and long term
>Zero mention of how exercise and healthy dieting drastically boost your immune system
How anyone can watch this channel without having even a hint of skepticism or mistrust is beyond me.
I love kurzgesagt, always trying to looking for the best route, thinking the most people have good intentions.
During hospital visits, I was repeatedly asked two questions:
1) am I a smoker?
2) do I have Type 2 Diabetes?
That was really what every nurse, doctor was concerned about. These things change the nature of the treatment, care and the expected outcomes.
Please do a video on what smoking and diabetes do to the body.
To the first one: Collateral damage everywhere in the body.
Also need to incorporate how diet and exercise really boost your chances of surviving infections as well.
And by "diabetes", it means how excessive sugar disrupts many body functions.
That is called "taking a medical history" and the questioning justifies billing you for the "visit". Cha-ching!
@@beepbop6697Other than that trickery, the answers should be on the patients chart after the first two people asked.
That part about your body using amino acids from your muscles to help rebuild the immune system because you’re not eating makes so much sense now because I always wondered why my muscles ached when sick
Probably pain caused by inflammation too
You shouldn't just make theories going from your personal experience.
By that theory it would make just as sense for your body to make moving hard so you don't waste energy.
"Common sense" arguments without further proof are quite useless...
@@cyan_oxy6734 that’s makes sense also🤷🏿♂️
Or why I’m not hungry when I have the flu
@@cyan_oxy6734 That also makes sense. -_-
I was literally just doing research on vaccines for an essay and the last vaccine video's source list saved my life. Thank you so much. I'll be sure to check out the Immune book some time.
Really, the video resource list saved your life?
@@Threedog1963 suspension of disbelief
also metaphors
@@lifeiscats1337 Isn't it hyperbole?
If you liked this video, you will really love the book. I have read it myself and highly reccomend it. It goes more in depth and still remains easy to understand like any kurzgesagt video.
You may want to do some research on the funding this channel receives from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and its effect on the type of content they now produce.
Riding the Long COVID train after a mild infection, and now every little thing my body and brain can do makes me happy and grateful.
And animated science and history videos have been vital for rehabbing my short-term and working memory. 😊
This video hits home for me. 2 years ago my Mom passed due to COVID. It caught us all by surprise. She was the one who rarely ever got sick. She would be the one who took care of my siblings and I (especially me) whenever we were sick. Sadly, her immune system was weak against covid. She went to the hospital a day before she was scheduled to get her vaccine. Fuck covid
My dad died 5 minutes before getting the vaccine. If only Fauci and Pfizer would have been a little faster!
@@dimeoblade that sucks
Fuck covid
@@dimeoblade If only Fauchi hadnt funded the gain of function testing on covid in the frist place none of us would have lost relatives :(
Damn in sorry about that James. Your mom sounds like a dope person.
The Immune book was the most interesting book about biology I've ever read. The perfect combination between facts and entertaining metaphors made it so fun to read. And I actually learned a lot too. I wish more books were written in a fun way like that! Great job to y'all who have been working on these videos and the book, I was a little curious about microbiology to begin with, but now I'm totally fascinated by it, thanks to the book especially :)
I need to get that book.
Hard agree. Before that book, I didn't even know what the lymph system was or what it did, beyond the existence of lymph nodes.
@@Casocki what's the book's name?
Agree. The book was the best.
Which book?
I'm living this now. I got pneumonia just over a year ago and was hospitalised. By the time they diagnosed it and got antibiotics in me, it had spread across half of my left lung. Before that I was relatively healthy, but ever since - even over a year later - I now struggle to breathe sometimes and any little cold makes it hard to get enough oxygen. I'm only in my late 20s but I'll probably have weakened lungs for the rest of my life now, all because I picked up a bug from the electrician who came to repair the light switch.
I hope you can get most of what youve lost back.
I feel you. I’ve had pneumonia 3 times in the past 6 months and probably 15 times since 02/16 due to CVID. I have had sepsis 4 times with the first being nearly fatal. All resulted in hospitalizations for 5 days to 1 month. My pneumonia’s have been nasty lately and all of them required IV antibiotics. I also have autoimmune issues so I’m immunocompramised and also autoimmune. I think I pissed someone off in my past life. So many hospitalizations and multiple bronchs as well. My last pneumonia I had double septic pneumonia. A week in the hospital with a bronch. One week isn’t bad though. A month had me so depressed and I missed 3 Christmas holidays out of 6 due to being in the hospital. I feel your pain. I hope you are doing better now. I get IVIG every 4 weeks and my next one is Friday.
hogwash
you're young enough that you have a chance to fully recover from this. pay close attention and remember the way the scar tissue looks in your x-ray. try to keep that in your memory when you look at another x-ray ten years from now. i think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the improvement.
Watching this while my immune system is spooling up in response to ..... something, is strangely satisfying.
I don't yet know if it's allergies (yay >.
The immune system is like our mother, always there to protect us but it's terrifying when enraged
At least in theory.
🤣
@@Toonrick12 Nope always in practicality.
@@nishant54 Some diseases specifically target your immune system, like HIV, certain cancers and even Measles, or people on suppressors for transplants.
And for some people it's abusive, so realistic!
I find these videos so comforting, and not just because of the video's theme, and gentle voice. A year ago I decided to take another year of biology, and I have learned lots. It's videos like these that prove to me, that I have learned something new, and it is that, that is comforting.
Say comforting again, go on, I dare you.
@@cy-villian comforting!
@@cy-villian COMFORTING!!
@@cy-villian comforting.
@@cy-villian COMFORTING?
Honestly, the biology-related episodes of Kurzgesagt are my favorites, especially when they specifically center around Microbiology and Cytology- Immune System videos, ones about specific bacteria or virus and what they do, so on and so forth.
they were for me too, until I found out that they're basically sponsored productions by people and corporations with commercial interests.
(fwiw, I do agree wit hthe spirit of this video too. The conflict of interest just muddys the water a lot, sadly)
@@Ben-gq9tx - How did that Wren organization create a conflict of interest for you?
@@MossyMozart I think they're talking about corporations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Open Philanthropy, and especially with videos on controversial or subjective topics that have room for biased data (e.g. climate change, vaccines, etc).
I doubt this video is one of those though, as the main topics presented are based on solid facts rather than subjective personal preference. They do talk about climate change in the sponsorship part though, but that has nothing to do with the video itself (or at least I think it doesn't, I can't think of how a sponsorship about a totally different subject can affect the overall video and the things its trying to present).
Same here :D it's why I started studying microbiology in university, it's crazy how there's only 11 people on my course out of the hundreds that do biological sciences
@@Ben-gq9tx well, while i won't comment on the corporate sponsorship issue, you can at least feel better knowing the channel itself was originally created in the interest in this specific topic (immunology)
I swear the immune system is like that one villain that blows up the planet because hes losing the fight
Yea another immune system video! I have to thank you guys so much. You guys are the reason I now have a love for the immune system and a dream of pursing it as a job in the future. Thank you guys so so much
I bought their book on it. It's amazing!
@@ammaranwar5343 I know right? Amazing drawings and images and very good facts that are easy to understand and digest
Yet another video telling us that vaccines are nothing but good and that completely brushes off all side effects as such a tiny problem that it's not worth even considering the alternative.
@@gideonc847 yeah. I really want a part 2! Hope they release one soon.
@@ammaranwar5343 me too!
"What doesn't kill you makes you smaller"
- Mario Mario, 1985
This is ocean of knowledge.
I already knew many things from your videos.
3 new things I learn.
1. How permanent scaring happen.
2. Why we can't eat while getting sick.
3. Why we get slim after falling sick.
It would be fantastic if you do a part 2 video about the immune system in the context of autoimmune disorders to explain how the body attacks itself and what happens in these situations.
Yes, please!
I was hoping you'd talk about big lack of some vitamins, and how we often make ourselves vulnerable (by abusing some substances, lack of sleep)
If you don't have a vitamin deficiency vitamins don't help you.
Don't forget other highly influential comorbidities like obesity.
Yea, kind of video that misses to point absolute badly, wonder who payed for it.
@@Martin-df4xk The title says the "best" way to boost your immune system. Vaccines are without a doubt the best way to do that. Better sleep, vitamins, and exercise are also great ways, but they're not the best.
@@RippedWarrior I would rather have good sleep, adequate nutrition, and be at a healthy weight while unvaccinated than be vaccinated but sleep-deprived, nutrient-deficient, and obese.
As a student studying the immune system right now, this is so unbelievably intuitive and helpful!
Update us on how much better equipped you are for that class using this channel will you?
You should buy their book Immune. It's fantastic.
I’d recommend their book, Immune!
@@ItisNoe27 My bad ignore my last comment. I was replying to some dumbass who was hating on this person for studying the immune system. He deleted his comment so my reply went to you, but I deleted it
I’ve been watching these guys for a while now but I find the fact that they didn’t even mention having a healthy lifestyle which has been proven to immensely boost your immune system and health in general, quite disappointing.
Eating unprocessed, natural, healthy foods while getting regular excessive can decrease your chances of dying to illnesses drastically, I mean just by not being obese you are 40% less likely to contract covid when exposed to it. The fact that 41.9% of adults in America are obese and they didn’t even clarify this in their video, only focusing on vaccines despite the covid vaccines being very controversial due to the shady nature of Phzier and the censorship of information on lobbying ect. and also 16.0% of female participants reporting LTAEs which were mainly fatigue, menstrual disturbances, myalgia, arthralgia, dizziness, and headaches, is just shocking and seems misinformative to be putting this out.
3:46 I’d never thought that Kurzgesagt would do a Better Call Saul reference
I was looking for comments that mentioned this as soon as I heard it
YOU'RE SLIPPING JIMMY
As a sick person watching this video i can relate to this 😪
Edit: I'm all better now thanks immune system ☺️
Congrats! I'm sick too and I'm watching this lol💀😭
Bro same my stomache hurt on a 7 hour roadtrip and i hallucinate.
I'm sick I started thinking back to when my nose worked
Professionalism at it's best!
Hat's off to you guys for the animation and information. 🔥💯
Don’t be racist, I’m a building
@Don't Read My Profile Picture oh no not this.
Sponsored by Bill Gates. B-)
@ Don’t be racist, I am a building
forever grateful for my mom for explaining this to me since i was very young while not sugarcoating it or give me books that explains this stuffs. she is also a science teacher. God bless her
Being a super responder isn’t necessarily a good thing. No disease ever managed to make my mom sick before cancer, but when her own cells turned against her it wound up becoming a curse. She developed an immunity to all the medication she was given over time, and once that happened there was nothing anyone could do. She was always like that, no disease never got to her and even Benadryl stopped working after a couple of uses. It used to be such a good thing for her… But it wasn’t in the end.
These animations are amazing, thanks to everyone who works hard to make these videos possible.
they are the ones that should be thanking us ya goof
I love the main animated character in this video, she really conveys how you really feel when you’re sick.
God I wish my lectures on medical faculty were like this... I would finish it in 4 years instead of 8. Literally perfection!
yes definitely medical lectures should be this inaccurate and vague - we would have great immunologists then
I always found it interesting that fevers or colds can be a ton of different illnesses, you just don't know which since all the symptoms you have are those of your immune system successfully defeating it
So true! It's like our bodies know exactly how to fight off different illnesses without us even knowing.
i never tire of watching this channel. good explainations in a concise manner and fairly good accuracy. also the animations and music are just phenominal and give me a good chuckle now and then. they've got me started reasearching other topics i normally wouldn't just because they had a video on said subject.
Understanding how my body works as an individual entity makes me on one hand partially scared (specially that I suffer autoimmune sickness) but also for some reason I feel really warm and hugged from inside.
I'm practically a guest in my body.
My grandma is 88 with health issues. She got covid and was essentially asymptomatic with a bit of a cough for a day. Meanwhile I’m in my 20s and healthy and when I got it, it was the sickest I’ve ever been. Our immune system is wild!
That can be explained though. Some of the worst types of covid symptoms are caused by the 'cytokine storm' that your immune system generates when fighting the virus. Your grandma having a weaker immune system means that she receives less collateral damage by the immune response.
The reason is because of a cytokine storm
It's basically where your immune system starts to throw EVERY single weapon in their arsenal kamikaze style
This hurts the virus, but causes collateral damage
The stronger the immune system, the more damage it can do to itself
I love how Kurzgesagt can always turn even the most intimidating topics of medicine into these amazing and easy to understand videos.
Thank you so much!
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This is probably the most valuable information from this channel
I got to experience a virus that made me weaker when I was 20. This is a long story that took/takes place over 6 years so far.
I got sick while on vacation in Florida and I did something you should never do. I took medicine while drinking some beers(also yes it was underage drinking I know). Sickness seams to go away mostly but then on the drive back home I was getting really dizzy in the car but that got better. Then when I went back to work I was having trouble standing for more than 5 min before getting dizzy. I went to the doctor the next day because it had then been 3 days of dizziness they did the normal thing and weighed me and all that. I weighed in at 149 lbs which was low from my normal, but still low for a 5'11" guy, 160 at the time. They gave me a shot, told me to go to the ER if it got worse, and sent me on my way.
3 days later I got a friend to bring me to the ER because I was getting really dizzy even when sitting down and laying down made it worse, I got the first of many migraines, and my hands had started to shake a little bit. Got there and they weighed me in at 141 lbs. Which I didn't believe and I showed them the paper work from the doctor of the tests they did that I brought along just in case it would help. That plus the dizziness got me scheduled for a CT scan. Now the radiologist aren't supposed to tell you anything really and she didn't but the look on her face when she saw the scan and how she just left the room was quite worrying. I get put into a room so I can get an MRI in the morning after a second CT scan. All the doctor says and shows me is that there is a weird spot in my brain around the base of the skull about the size of a thumb. That night I get weighed again and weigh in at 138 lbs. That made the nurse rush out and get the doctor to show him. They then told me they were going to weigh me a couple more times throughout the next day.
Got weighed first thing in the morning and weighed in at 131 lbs. Got an MRI and got brought back to my room. Learned I couldn't walk without holding onto something anymore and my hands shook enough that I couldn't hold the fork for lunch. The migraines blurred my vision more than it already is(I wear glasses). They felt like someone was running knives over my head branching from the back of my head forward. Doctor came in and weighed me again after a second MRI. I was down to 128 lbs. They also got a neurologist to come in he then took all the data to a team 3 neurologists(that turned to 9 later). He told me not to worry because from what he could see it was just some minor inflammation with no signs of getting worse over the couple of scans they did. Blood work was done as well and that showed that there was no virus present anymore so we never found out what I got exactly.
The next day I get weighed in the morning again and weighed in at 124 lbs. Did another MRI and then the neurologist came in with what was basically a drawn and printed out powerpoint presentation and he got one of the other neurologists on a video call. He went through explaining a lot of what they found and how the only case they found similar to mine was some lady in 1993. He told me what happened to me was about a 1 in 300million chance and in part I was lucky because it could've been much worse. The virus had gotten past the blood brain barrier which was probably weakened by the alcohol and medicine combo. That caused a slight over reaction in my immune system which led it to keep fighting even after the virus was gone. He told be the inflammation would go down in a couple of weeks or months but the nerves where permanently damaged. Good thing was that I was young so my brain would eventually learn to use other pathways to do the same jobs. I asked him how long he thought that would take and he told me that if I agreed to do some physical therapy then it would probably take about 8 years to "heal". If I was younger the damage done probably wouldn't have affected me for that long but because my brain was almost done developing it needed more time. If I was older there would have probably been no hope for going back to normal. When I got weighed in the afternoon I was still 124 lbs. I had lost basically all my fat and about 40% of my muscle mass. The doctor then told me that if I had lost even 1 more pound he was going to put me in the ICU but then he gave me the option to go home as long as I would come back if I felt anything getting worse. I also had to come in for tests and MRIs the next week and every 2 weeks after that for a couple of months. They gave me a couple of medications and even wrote on a note attached to the prescriptions that i should use protein powder to help gain my weight back. I then started 6 months of physical therapy.
The dizziness became persistent while I was in the hospital and got worse over time. The physical therapy made it better but for about a year straight I was always dizzy. Couldn't even watch TV without feeling like I needed to puke. Looking over at something to quickly made it feel like I did a flip. I couldn't write easily but I kept practicing and part of that was the muscles in my hands being so weak that holding things became painful after a little while. After a year I was doing a lot better. The migraines became very rare and I could walk around for a couple of hours before feeling to light headed. Now 6.5 years later I'm basically back to normal. Sometimes my sense of balance just "turns off" so I can't feel if I'm standing upright or not. It is usually followed by a sense of falling when it comes back. My hand shaking and all that was getting rarer but recently came back for another extended round of annoyance. So every once in while I drop things and typing this out I would hit the same letter like 3 extra times (good thing for auto-correct). At the rate it's going idk if I will ever get back to normal but it is a lot better than what it was. Though I don't have that weight problem anymore as I am now around 200 lbs and am physically stronger than I've ever been but even with that sometimes I walk like a drunk man and can't do any kind of task requiring fine motor control efficiently.
Sir, you was sick, you took so called medicine (ultra high dose of vitamin C, paracetamol and caffeine), you went partying sick, deliberately spread the virus, in post cov mentality, you are a bad person.
Damn bro that's fucked
please, break this into paragraphs
thank you for sharing your amazing story.
bless you💪🏻
Some already suggested a deep dive on smoking's effect on the immune system. I think that is a great idea, but I also really hope for a video on how obesity and poor sleep also depress immune function. Thanks!
and the diet / diversity of your microbiome
@@kristofkozari9040 Yes, and exercise too. So many Great videos could be done on this.
@@kristofkozari9040 gut micro-flora is amazing topic to cover!
never gonna happen, will only make more people realize COVID only affected the elderly and obese. Especially when public figures like Joe rogan, who the left hate because its a white guy forming personal opinions, always said since the beginning all u need is exercise, healthy diet, sleep, and spending some time in the sun but he was attacked because that wasn't the narrative and having a natural cure to COVID after beating it wasn't part of the forced vaccinations narrative either. Plus we will be offending all the fat people because fat people are just as healthy as people who don't have diabetes.
Thank you for this! I'm a medical lab technician major and I'm taking immunology right now. This was a helpful visualization of what we're learning :)
Did you read "Immune" by Phillip Dettmer (the first "Kurzgesagt-book", he is the founder).
It is god-tier-level good in explaining the Immune System.
As reference, I studied Biology and I was stunned by how well the book was made. Enjoyed every minute of reading it despite knowing almost everything. :)
"iM a MedIcAl LaB tEcHnIcIaN"
@@TheSteveMeister well im not yet... :( im still in school just thought i'd say thank you. But hey go ahead and throw stones :)
@@thomaskositzki9424 I have not! I'll have to check it out :)
@@TheSteveMeister 🤡
I loved this, the animation was hilarious and totally on point, thanks so much!
Amazing how far they have come with this channel
Uploading more often then before
Animation keeps keeps getting better and better
I fell that they are uploading less often than before... But the animation is really better
@@troodoniverseQuality over quantity!
I repeat it again: I would love a videogame with the Kurzgesagt art in it about a real time strategic fight of immune cells vs virus/bacteria/prions/fungi/parasites/etc. Imagine a field with thousands of immune cells vs hundreds of thousands of invaders 🦠
I'd love to see a video on how psychedelics and other psychoactive compounds are being used to treat things like depression, anxiety, PTSD, drug addiction etc :)
The video: ”We have no idea, please subscribe! :)”
@@Padlock_Steve Meth AND crack
human brain is soooo complex that even many drugs are not known exactly by whitch pathway it functiones and some brain drugs were "discoverred" by accident :D and from what i know it is more like an ezotheric style, not medicine cos in my country u usually get some benzodiazepane instead of blunt XD
at least for magic mushrooms, every experience no matter the dose, will always end with a deep humbling realization that life isn't serious. That life isn't all that significant. And that your personal issues and gripes do not matter. During the experience or trip, your brain has more plasticity similar to children, and if you take advantage of this, you can cure and resolve any traumas and experiences that causes depression and ptsd. Essentially, during this moment of plasticity, you can really change your personality if you put alot of focus on this during your trip.
For the past 2 days,I've been throwing up violently every 30 minutes and almost felt like passing out every second.But I took my medicine and im feeling much better
As someone with Crohn’s Disease this episode hits close to home
Try an elimination diet if you haven't already. Eating nothing but meat and salt for a couple of weeks would probably fix you up. Anti-inflammatory diet.
2:37 No, that is alphabet soup, you can't convince me otherwise.
I really like the analogy of infections being like wars with collateral damage. I learn so much from this channel!
I like how I'm watching this when I'm sick and a really bad sickness
I’ve been watching this channel since undergrad. Now I’m graduated and a dr and it impresses me even more how well you all are able to present such complex topics in an easily understandable way.
I've been watching this since year 6 and now I'm in uni studying med science. It's helped me learn alot
As a doctor I'm suprised you aren't upset by how they jumped to vaccines and ignored overall wholistic health (not being obese, eating right, exercise, sleep, drinking plenty of water, getting all your vitamins and minerals, etc. etc.) as the best thing to do for your immune system.
3:02 is why females live longer than males on average during food scarcity, because on average we have more body fat than muscle mass, and muscle mass needs more calories to maintain, whereas body fat can be used as a source of calories by the body in emergencies
The ability of the immune system to learn is absolutely incredible to me. I'm a high-school based singing teacher, and despite that high-risk setting, I've only caught COVID once so far. (I was vaccinated, and so had a mild case.) Since then, I've been exposed to it a few times, and it just doesn't stick to me. There's a particular type of sore throat I get which I now associate with a COVID exposure. But that's all that happens. Sore throat, maybe a slightly stuffy nose, and it's gone within 24 hours. What's more, I don't shed the virus. It doesn't show up on RAT tests, and my partner never catches it from me.
It's like my body was trained at the vaccine dojo, faced down the real deal after that training, and is now just an anti-COVID fortress.
That is truly fascinating.
I was never vaccinated, only caught CoViD once. I was exposed to it about six or seven times before I finally contracted it (even with someone literally coughing on me) and I ignored all guidance from the CDC. (No mask, no changes in hygiene habits, etc.) After 2.5 years, it finally got me... I had aches and pains with a fever for about 12-18 hours, and then I was back to normal. I barely tested positive... I had to take three tests to be sure, each one the T line was just barely there.
@@Blitz6804 unless you rubbed your face with or licked wherever they coughed on you, someone coughing on you wouldn’t get you sick
@@mysterygamer2793 How about making out with someone who has it? Because I did that too.
You have a crappy ass immune system lmao
I am looking forward to every released video ❤❤❤ Thank you for this! As always!
Considering I’ve been sick for the past 5 days, this is honestly the best video that could’ve been posted.
Thank you Kurzgesagt ♥
Same!!!!!!!
It was very informative and I like knowing why we feel so crappy and tired
SAME!
@@arnavkhadkikar5684 dementia
@@christurner6330 MrHyperSkill may have Alzheimer's, but at least he doesn't have Alzheimer's.
The line used to describe neutrophil cells: "Imagining chimps with machine guns", was also used to describe them in the Immune Book by Philipp Dettmer! I recognized the line the second it was heard and got so happy. Your team is absolutely incredible, keep up the amazing work!
I instantly thought about that scene in better call saul, lmao.
@@bmv0746 bru me too. Slippin Jimmy with a law degree is like a chimp with a machine gun.
They usually put in fun cultural references. There are a LOT of Hitchhiker's Guide references.
10:15 I work with appliances and while the refrigerant put inside those fridges may harm the atmosphere, 1. they shouldn't be finding their way into the atmosphere and 2. the damage they cause is very overexaggerated. Just because it can be harmful doesn't mean that it's currently harming the atmosphere whenever you are putting it into (hopefully) a fridge with a sealed system where it is being cycled through.
The reason why we hear a lot about this is because the refrigerant industry is using it as a reason to replace all of the old fridges or force people to buy a newer, more expensive version of the refrigerant. This is because it was just getting too cheap for someone to be able to replace their fridge's coolant. Well, you may ask why does that matter?
I have seen the results first hand. Customers would come to the store and whenever we told them the price of their coolant they just said to forget about it, that they'd just buy a new fridge. If we did end up replacing it, they often had some other problem not too long after we got done replacing it. Now, this could be because the fridge is old but it could also mean maybe the new coolant isn't playing nice with the fridge as well. Either way, the company wins. They either sell very expensive trashy coolant or a whole new fridge. Whenever we go out to repair them it's a similar circumstance, and some people just can't afford it due to their living circumstance. It's really sad.
Additionally, because of this, you get a bunch of fridges that people throw away (creating trash) that could otherwise have a bunch of useful parts in them. Old fridges used to last for years and the newer ones get thrown away even faster because they aren't worth a flop.
imagine watching this video with all the facts simplified and still not believing how your body works.
Would be cool to see a pregnancy video and what it does to the body over the months. Because being pregnant also lowers your immune system.
Yeah no that's not true. The most recent research shows the opposite.
@@A_Stereotypical_Heretic Oh my bad. Thank you.
@@A_Stereotypical_Heretic what? That makes no sense
@@idontneedaname318 It's likely that the body reinforces itself to protect the baby, while still putting a ton of energy into said baby, making it seem like the immune system is weaker overall, while the baby's is supercharged.
@@idontneedaname318 I dunno, that's just what the latest research is saying. I'm not a scientist lol
I literally say all the time that if what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is true then tell that to Polio survivors. I had a teacher in fifth grade with leg braces that he got when he was younger because he had polio. Antivaxxers scare me because of their vehement determination that it will do more harm than good.
Polio was caused by environmental factors, like the absolute batshit insane excessive, obsessive use of toxic pesticides all around the crops (the things we eat), outside and INSIDE the houses and workplaces. They used pesticides INSIDE homes. All relevant historical events point towards environmental factors, not a virus. Polio is the name given to several neurological ailments caused by environmental pollutants.
Between 70 and 95% of people who contract polio exhibit zero symptoms.
good troll channel mate.
I got all my shots as a kid. But luckily for those that refused it, we still have herd Immunity
At 8:48, what the hell is wrong with the graph at points between 60% and 80%
He fell into a kerr black hole
This literally redefines the way of learning it’s beyond comprehension. It makes learning an actual enticement.🎉🎉😊
7:01 I'm sure so many people lost it right here. 😂
Yep
True
No i haven't
I would love to see a video that specifically covers autoimmune diseases. Maybe explaining the difference between allergies and autoimmune diseases in a digestible way. That's something I can never seem to get people to understand which I had hoped would be covered in this video.
I love the creators. Really appreciate your work ☺️☺️
this got recommended to me RIGHT WHEN I GOT SICK 💀💀
I love the Joker painting in the background at 1:40 ❤
Society
Kurzgesagt has helped me understand Immunity better than what my Biology teacher taught me
The consistency that Kurzgesagt just showed isn't a joke considering the amount they put behind each of their videos!
Best channel I subscribed so far.
Really pleased that while I served in the U.S. military, I was vaccinated for virtually everything. Also pleased with never having had a seriously bad reaction to any vaccine. Just sore arm syndrome, with an occasional fatigue and very occasional light fever.
In the "training" part you should've mentioned a generally healthy life style as well. Vaccines are all fine and dandy but rely on us knowing what's comming our way. Working out, not smoking, not being obese, ect. all the things that contribute to a healthier body are catch all's aside from their various other benefits and should definitely be covered when you have a dedicated part about increasing the immune systems efficiency.
Definitely should be the focus of all health. There's not enough stress on the proactive nature of living a strong, healthy life. People want to look for an easy fix like getting a vaccine or taking medicine, which can help, but is at the end of the day, not the most resilient you could make your body.
@@iainbrady3629 Indeed, sadly most people these days look for the easy fix in everything. Ups and downs of progress i suppose, we're so well off that there are easy fixes for most problems so people don't even have to learn how to deal with real issues anymore.
It makes sense that they would focus on vaccines. Many people have been discounting how much they can help over the last 3 years.
A healthy body is always good, but as the video points out - you don't know whether your immune system may be strong against some diseases, but weaker against others until it is put to the test. Many extremely healthy and fit people such as athletes and gym trainers still succumbed to diseases like Covid.
My friend who runs marathons, attends sword fighting classes, and is significantly more fit than I am responds horribly to Covid, where as my family is lucky and doesn't respond much to it at all.
Its a roll of the dice.
@@DrunkenRhyin It's not though, if your friend was less fit, maybe even obese he'd keel over and die... If he has that rough of a time with covid, so depending on quit ehow rough it was him being that fit might have saved his life.
@@123FireSnake Yes, but lots of people over the past 3 years talked as though healthy living alone would protect you when its not enough. And between healthy living and vaccines, people discount the value of vaccines more.
Science is my love ❤️
is it your religion too?
I love this channel so much i swear
I have CIDP, and I’m only 25!! I thought I had Lyme disease or something else, I was totally shocked when my neurologist diagnosed me with CIDP, it’s a rare autoimmune disease similar to GBS but it is the long lasting version of it. But it’s scary how fast and unexpected something like this can happen to you. One day I was perfect healthy and then next thing I knew I couldn’t shoot basketball anymore (like I couldn’t get the ball up to the hoop) and then 2 weeks later I was barely able to climb up the steps, and I couldn’t open my water bottles or cut my nails. I wouldn’t wish this disease on my worst enemy!!
This makes so much sense. I got COVID this past December after going three years without getting sick, and now have been sick twice since. My system totally got weakened and hasn't yet recovered because winter takes such a toll on my health.
Are you sure you haven’t got Long COVID?
There's no such thing as a cold and flu season its a vitamin D3 deficiency season. Take some vitamin D3 and K2 with food and eat healthy and maintain a healthy weight you won't get sick so often.
How does winter affect your health?
@@talleneagle1974 People don't need supplements. Just eat food that has those vitamins.
@@jasonnelson9141 yes but a d3 pill is easy and you know you're getting the correct amount. Eating the same foods gets old.