The immune system is said to learn by experience..
It is completely unlike the heart, liver, kidneys, spleen or pancreas which already know what to do
as soon as we’re born.
No, the immune system is much more like the brain.
It needs to learn how to respond to the various agents that threaten our survival. .
We are not born with the ability to talk, walk, read, write or do math.
While we can see and hear
we know not what we are looking at nor what it is we are listening to.
Our environment, and the experiences it brings to us, mold us hour by hour, day by day.
For example, it takes us 10-13 years to develop the cognitive ability to perform abstract thinking (Piaget). .
Our immune system goes to school too..
Strangely enough as we are in Kindergarten, Grade school, Junior and Senior High School so is our immune system.
All during these times we are getting exposed to
infectious agents and the immune system is learning
what is
anti-genetic - something it needs to create an
antigen against.
Something that is not part of the body.
.
It creates antigens to mark
a foreign substance so it can remember it should that substance appear again
later in our lives.
To me this is a wholly unsatisfactory way of doing things.
And considering the overall sophistication of all the other body systems, one has to ask:
Why is the immune system the one most prone to errors, mistakes, confusion and plain stupidity? .
Read the entire article: http://allergyexpert.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/mercury-we-are-not-immune-to-our-environment/ .
Best Regards,
David
