Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0593241312 ISBN13: 9780593241318 Release Date: November 2021 Publisher: Random House Length: 368 Pages Weight: 2.50 lbs. Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.4" x 9.3" You wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You're mildly annoyed as you get the kids ready for school and dress for work yourself. Meanwhile, an epic war is being fought, just below your skin. Millions are fighting and dying for you to be able to complain as you head out the door. So what, exactly, is your immune system? Second only to the human brain in its complexity, it is one of the oldest and most critical facets of life on Earth. Without it, you would die within days. In Immune, Philipp Dettmer, the brains behind the most popular science channel on YouTube, takes readers on a journey through the fortress of the human body and its defenses. There is a constant battle of staggering scale raging within us, full of stories of invasion, strategy, defeat