Immune Audiobook

Philipp Dettmer Immune Audiobook 🎧

From the creator of the popular scientific YouTube program Kurzgesagt, a deep dive into the immune system that will forever impact how you think about your body. — To summarize
«Immune is a truly brilliant introduction to the human body’s vast system for fighting infections and other threats, with wonderful analogies and a genius for clarifying complex ideas.»
—John Green, The Fault in Our Stars #1 New York Times bestselling author
You awaken with a tickling in your throat. It hurts in your head. You’re irritated as you get the kids ready for school and dress for work. Meanwhile, an enormous battle is raging just beneath your skin. Millions of people are fighting and dying so that you can whine as you walk out the door.

So, precisely what is your immune system?

It is one of the oldest and most important aspects of life on Earth, second only to the human brain in complexity. You’d die in a matter of days if you didn’t have it. Philipp Dettmer, the brains behind YouTube’s most popular science channel, takes readers on a journey through the human body’s fortress and defenses in Immune. Within us lies a never-ending conflict of epic proportions, full of tales of invasion, strategy, defeat, and great self-sacrifice. In fact, as you were reading this, your immune system most likely recognized and eliminated a cancer cell that had begun to grow in your body.

Each chapter delves into a different aspect of the immune system, including defenses like antibodies and inflammation as well as threats like bacteria, allergies, and cancer, as Dettmer explains why boosting your immune system is a myth, how parasites sneak past your body’s defenses, how viruses work, and what happens in your wounds when you cut yourself.

Immune, enlivened by rich descriptions, transforms immunology, one of the most convoluted, interwoven, and perplexing topics, into a gripping voyage through an extraordinary alien planet. Immune is a necessary and surprisingly entertaining crash course in what is arguably and increasingly the most important system in the body.

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Bob Lotich Biography

Philipp Dettmer is the CEO and founder of the YouTube channel Kurzgesagt in a Nutshell. He is a YouTuber who has also made contributions to the entertainment sector. He is also an actor, producer, director, and innovative film director.
Philipp Dettmer has received a lot of praise for his parts. He has worked on a variety of productions, including Summer Break, Backstreet Boys: 2015, Die Arbeit Warten, Night Session, and others.
Philipp Dettmer was born in 1978 in Munich, Germany. He is secretive and prefers to avoid the media. As a result, there is little information on him. Dettmer has German nationality, but his ethnicity remains unknown.
Philipp, on the other hand, completed his schooling at a simple German school before enrolling at Munich University of Applied Science. In 2013, he received his bachelor’s degree in Arts and Science from the same university.
Philipp Dettmer began his professional career as the creator of Philipp Dettmer Information Design, Munich, in the summer of 2010. He then worked at Company until 2013. The following year, Philipp began his YouTube career and established his own YouTube channel, Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell.

His primary motivation for starting the channel was to spread knowledge and education through his inventive information designs. Nonetheless, he chose to try his hand at acting and received credits and numerous accolades for films such as Summer Break, Night Session, Loveland, Mystery Cache, Claudiu and the Fish, and many others. He has also collaborated with outstanding individuals such as sound designer Fabian Glaser, motion designer Stephan Rather, YouTube influencer Petra Kraus, and many others.

Immune Audiobook Excerpt Transcript

The story of the immune system begins with a story of life itself, almost 3.5 billion years ago, in some strange puddle on a hostile and vastly empty planet. We don’t know what these first living beings did or what their deal was, but we know they very soon started to be mean to each other. If you think life is hard because you need to get up early in the morning to get your kids ready for the day or because your burger is only lukewarm. The first living cells on earth would like a word with you, as they figured out how to transform the chemistry around them into stuff.

They could use, it while also acquiring the energy needed to keep going. Some of the first cells took a shortcut. Why bother with doing all the work yourself? If you could just steal from someone else now? There were a number of different ways to do that, like swallowing someone else hole or ripping holes into them and slurping out their insides, but this could be dangerous and instead of getting a free meal, you could end up as the meal of your intended victim, especially If they were bigger and stronger than you so another way to get the prize with less of the risk might be to just get inside them and make yourself comfortable eat what they eat and be protected by their warm embrace kind of beautiful.

If it wasn’t so horrible to the host, as it became a valid strategy to become good at leaching from others, it became an evolutionary necessity to be able to defend yourself against the leeches and so microorganisms competed and fought each other with the weapons of equals. For the next 2.9 billion years, if you had a time machine and went back to marvel at the wonders of this competition, you would be pretty bored as there was nothing big enough to see other than a few faint films of bacteria on some wet rocks. Earth was a pretty dull place for the first few billion years until life was made. Arguably the single largest jump in complexity in its history.

We don’t know what exactly started the shift from single cells that were mostly on their own to huge collectives working closely together and specializing. Around 541 million years ago, multi-cellular animal life suddenly exploded and became visible, and not only that it became more and more diverse, extremely quickly. This, of course, created a problem for our newly evolved ancestors for billions of years. The microbes living in their tiny world had competed and fought for space and resources in every ecosystem available, and what are animals really to a bacteria and other critters, if not a very nice ecosystem, an ecosystem filled top to bottom with free nutrients. So from the very start, intruders and parasites were an existential danger to the existence of multicellular life.

Only multicellular beings that found ways to deal with this threat would survive and get the chance to become even more complex. Unfortunately, since cells and tissues do not really preserve. Well, over hundreds of millions of years, we can’t look at immune system fossils, but through the magic of science, we can look at the diverse tree of life and the animals that are still around today and study their immune systems. The farther separated two creatures are on the tree of life and still share a trait of the immune system. The older that trait must generally be so.

The great questions are: where is the immune system different and what are the common denominators between animals today? Virtually all living beings have some form of internal defense and, as living things become more complex, so do their immune systems. We can learn a lot about the age of the immune system by comparing the defenses in very distantly related animals, even on the smallest scale. Bacteria possess ways to defend against viruses, as they can’t get taken over without a fight in the animal world. Sponges are the most basic and oldest of all.

Animals that have existed for more than half a billion years possess something that probably was the first primitive immune response. In animals, it is called humeral. Immunity Schumer in this context is an ancient Greek term. That means bodily fluids, so humeral immunity is very tiny stuff made out of proteins that floats through the body fluids outside of the cells of an animal. These proteins hurt and kill microorganisms that have no business being there.

This type of defense was so successful and useful that virtually all animals around today have it, including you so evolution did not phase this system out, but rather made it crucial to any immune defense. In principle, it hasn’t changed in half a billion years.