Dr. Giulia Enders

And it'll create attention and it'll catch other immune systems, cells going there.

And they will then, with their way of looking at cells, see if something's wrong.

Other cells, for example, will attach to special receptors where there's always a tiny piece of protein showing what the cell has been doing.

throughout the day.

And if this protein suddenly is weird, like one that are actually in virus made and not the cell itself, then those immune cells will say, oh, something's really wrong here.

And other immune cells will have just receptors for typical patterns of microbial walls.

So they'd say, hmm, this is usually not a good microbe that I have learned, you know, to form this receptor against to notice it.

So there's very, very different ways of immune cells asking us and ourselves the questions, how are you doing?

And then there's this conversation that all of these immune cells have with each other.

Let's say all of these types are alarmed at the same time.

Oh, then it's really going down because then they're super sure that something's wrong, like with a viral infection, for example.

But if just one of them is alerted and it asks all the others and they're like, no, no, you're maybe just a bit panicky.

Everything here seems fine for us.

Then other immune cells will tone it down and not initiate an inflammatory reaction.

So there's really this ongoing discussion and debate and research is looking at that like iron arcone.

And this is why I said in the beginning, describe it really more as a way of consciousness, because in consciousness and the brain, we network all these cells to create a

You know, a neural network that is capable of suddenly saying, I am well or I am worried.

And the immune system just does exactly that.

It connects cells that all have a different way of perceiving information.

And then they will say, oh, I'm not well.