Allergy & Immune Program
Updated October 10, 2023
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Immune, Allergy & Infection Program
The immune system is like a roving brain that provides surveillance on the outside and inside of our bodies against invasion. When the immune system becomes under-reactive, we develop infections and cancer. When the immune system is over-active, we develop allergies and autoimmune disease. We can have too much (cardio-vascular disease), or too little (cancer). We are born with an innate immune system and over our lives the adaptive immune system learns about the environmental microbes that we encounter