Raena Morgan: We’re visiting with Dr. Larry Robinson. He is the Vice President scientific affairs at Embria Health Sciences. So I’d like to ask a very basic question Dr. Robinson, How does the immune system work?
Dr. Larry Robinson: That’s a very complicated question. The immune system is so complex and I could literally speak on hours and hours and hours about this, but just you know, narrow it down to a few sentences, I would say the immune system really is composed of two different parts.
The immune system really controls the health of the entire body. Every system in the body is dependent to a great degree and the immune system functioning properly. If you look at the immune system, you can divide it into two basic groups. You have your innate immunity and you have your adaptive immunity. Your innate immunity is the more primitive type of immune system is the most immediate responses. It’s what your body does first when it’s under attack and is also less specific. Most people think with the very specific immune responses.
Now your adaptive system is less immediate is a delayed type of response and is turned on basically by your innate immune system is much more specific and this is where you get your antigen anti body response that most people are very familiar with.
And these two systems interact with each other quite a bit. They’re very various types of immune cells which I won’t go in to here but they’re all important, they’re very important in defending the body against invading pathogens and in letting the body understand what are self cells versus what is foreign no the body and not self and therefore should be attacked and removed.
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