Brain displays an intrinsic mechanism for fighting infection
Brain displays an intrinsic mechanism for fighting infection.
White blood cells have long reigned as the heroes of the immune system. When an infection strikes, the cells, produced in bone marrow, race through the blood to fight off the pathogen. But new research is emerging that individual organs can also play a role in immune system defense, essentially being their own hero. In a study examining a rare and deadly brain infection, scientists at The Rockefeller University have found that the brain cells of healthy people likely produce their own immune system molecules, demonstrating an “intrinsic immunity” that is crucial for stopping an infection.
The brain in itself is a miracle, we will dive deeper on this topic and learn how the brain has an incredible waste system that keeps it so healthy for nearly 100 years! Stay tuned as this theory of slow wave sleep and excretion may play a very large roll in the understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. – J. Wesson Ashford MD PHD and son Curtis Ashford Stanford researchers.
