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# IMMUNE: A JOURNEY INTO THE MYSTERIOUS SYSTEM THAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE

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__________Pre-order now: The first book from the creator of the wildly popular science YouTube channel, Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell, a gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will change how you think about your body forever. 'A truly brilliant introduction to the human body's vast system for fighting infections and other threats'JOHN GREEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars'Reads as if it's a riveting sci-fi novel . . . a delightful treat for the curious'TIM URBAN, creator of Wait But Why__________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 utterly epic war is being fought, just below your skin. Millions are fighting and dying for you to be able to complain as you drink your cup of tea and 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 defences. There is a constant battle of staggering scale raging within us, full of stories of invasion, strategy, defeat, and noble self-sacrifice. In fact, in the time you've been reading this, your immune system has probably identified and eradicated a cancer cell that started to grow in your body.Each chapter delves deeply into an element of the immune system, including defences like antibodies and inflammation as well as threats like viruses, bacteria, allergies and cancer, as Dettmer reveals why boosting your immune system is actually nonsense, how parasites sneak their way past your body's defences, how viruses - including the coronavirus - work, and what goes on in your wounds when you cut yourself.Enlivened by engaging full-colour graphics and immersive descriptions, Immune turns one of the most intricate, interconnected, and confusing subjects - immunology - into a gripping adventure through an astonishing alien landscape.Challenging what you know and think about your own body and how it defends you against all sorts of maladies and how it might also eventually be your own downfall, Immune is a vital and remarkably fun crash course in what is arguably, and increasingly, the most important system in the body.__________

Review: Saving SELF from OTHER - IMMUNE by Philipp Dettmer is not only a highly illustrated book full of information, it is set in a very readable typeface. Dettmer provides recent and well distilled knowledge on the mysterious system that keeps our bodies alive. This defence system has evolutionary old, and comparatively recent systems, the innate and adaptive respectively. The most discerning feature of the book is: the metaphors colour every line. Most complex facets of the immune system of human body are presented before the reader in easily digestible language. Here is an example. The book says for viruses and bacteria our skin is a 'film of death'; it is a real 'hellhole'; and also a 'salty desert.' A masterly skill of the writer slowly enters reader's psyche, and leaves indelible imprint. Each component cell of the immune system has a chapter with colour figures, and the entity is introduced with its most discerning features. For example, a Dendritic Cell is the mighty messanger and intelligence officer. The central attribute of the defense strategy of the immune system, Dettmer underlines, is to distinguish between the 'self' and the 'other.' Immune system has developed ways to mark the cells and molecules as belonging to the body, the self, and also allow those which are essential resource for the body (oxygen, water and other). Whereas cells and molecules, the bacteria, viruses, worms and toxins are marked as the 'other' by the immune system. The book, in each chapter refers to these others which are ready to enter our body and devour it's cells. The immune system is the defense system that our species has evolved to check this. Our body, Dettmer argues is a group of various kinds of specialised cells, a highly cooperative organisation, where the immune cells has the role of maintenance of homeostasis within the body when it is disturbed by the hordes of barbarians, the millions of species of viruses alone. The recent one we witnessed globally is the pandemic caused by 'coronavirus' that is COVID-19. Dittmer theorizes that the interactions among the cells of this organisation, that is the human body, do astonishing things, that any cell can not do alone. These cells, he underlines, are nothing but bags of proteins guided by biochemistry. But together these proteins form a living system that can do really very sophisticated things. Building the unique structure of our body, and laying foundations of behavioural interactions, including the defense system. The immune system is highly sophisticated, each cell of this system undergoes hard training to distinguish between friends and foes. The error, if any, in this training is fatal to the survival of body. However, errors do occur. The viruses and bacteria also evolve new ways to enter into our body. And the Adaptive Immune System has to learn these new ways atleast once in life. And then it stores the information in its memory cells which romes all over the body to keep watch on enemy. The autoimmune diseases are examples of such lapses to wrongly identify the 'other', on the part of immune cells. In such rare cases the immune cells began killing cells of own body, the 'self.' In the end Philipp Dettmer does not hesitate to guide the reader about hygiene, and it's role in immunity. He warns about the flourishing business of boosting immunity. The most feasible way, he writes, is to lower the burden of stress, and enhance mental health.
Review: Nice book - Very nice book. Must read

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #13,015 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #79 in Biology Books #266 in Indian Writing (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 9,194 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Saving SELF from OTHER
*by R***A on 8 January 2024*

IMMUNE by Philipp Dettmer is not only a highly illustrated book full of information, it is set in a very readable typeface. Dettmer provides recent and well distilled knowledge on the mysterious system that keeps our bodies alive. This defence system has evolutionary old, and comparatively recent systems, the innate and adaptive respectively. The most discerning feature of the book is: the metaphors colour every line. Most complex facets of the immune system of human body are presented before the reader in easily digestible language. Here is an example. The book says for viruses and bacteria our skin is a 'film of death'; it is a real 'hellhole'; and also a 'salty desert.' A masterly skill of the writer slowly enters reader's psyche, and leaves indelible imprint. Each component cell of the immune system has a chapter with colour figures, and the entity is introduced with its most discerning features. For example, a Dendritic Cell is the mighty messanger and intelligence officer. The central attribute of the defense strategy of the immune system, Dettmer underlines, is to distinguish between the 'self' and the 'other.' Immune system has developed ways to mark the cells and molecules as belonging to the body, the self, and also allow those which are essential resource for the body (oxygen, water and other). Whereas cells and molecules, the bacteria, viruses, worms and toxins are marked as the 'other' by the immune system. The book, in each chapter refers to these others which are ready to enter our body and devour it's cells. The immune system is the defense system that our species has evolved to check this. Our body, Dettmer argues is a group of various kinds of specialised cells, a highly cooperative organisation, where the immune cells has the role of maintenance of homeostasis within the body when it is disturbed by the hordes of barbarians, the millions of species of viruses alone. The recent one we witnessed globally is the pandemic caused by 'coronavirus' that is COVID-19. Dittmer theorizes that the interactions among the cells of this organisation, that is the human body, do astonishing things, that any cell can not do alone. These cells, he underlines, are nothing but bags of proteins guided by biochemistry. But together these proteins form a living system that can do really very sophisticated things. Building the unique structure of our body, and laying foundations of behavioural interactions, including the defense system. The immune system is highly sophisticated, each cell of this system undergoes hard training to distinguish between friends and foes. The error, if any, in this training is fatal to the survival of body. However, errors do occur. The viruses and bacteria also evolve new ways to enter into our body. And the Adaptive Immune System has to learn these new ways atleast once in life. And then it stores the information in its memory cells which romes all over the body to keep watch on enemy. The autoimmune diseases are examples of such lapses to wrongly identify the 'other', on the part of immune cells. In such rare cases the immune cells began killing cells of own body, the 'self.' In the end Philipp Dettmer does not hesitate to guide the reader about hygiene, and it's role in immunity. He warns about the flourishing business of boosting immunity. The most feasible way, he writes, is to lower the burden of stress, and enhance mental health.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nice book
*by S***E on 17 April 2026*

Very nice book. Must read

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Incredible book for curious readers
*by H***A on 9 November 2024*

I've been watching Kurzgesagt for quite some time now and I've always been fascinated by their work. This book is no different. Just like their videos, this book upholds the values of Kurzgesagt. The book explains the very complex topic in a very simple and fun to read language that goes easy on the mind of any reader. It's made of high quality paper and the visuals are appealing to the eyes, just like their videos. I'm not even studying Biology, I bought this book purely out of curiosity and while I expected it to quite difficult to keep up with, it's the exact opposite. With each page I just want to read further without stopping. For anyone who wants to know about the immune system, this book is probably the best way to start as it gives you a glimpse of the vast (and apparently mind-numbing) world of immunology in a very fun manner and a very easy to understand manner ;)

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