Dr. Rafael Gonzalez
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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So if it sees something as foreign, it goes on to overdrive to attack that foreign entity.
For instance, in a particular disease that we have a clinical study for, it's called polymyositis dermatomyositis, myo meaning muscle, muscle that attacks muscle, it attacks skin.
Eventually these patients will have issues with their lungs because it'll start wiping out lung tissue also, which they end up succumbing to the lung portion of it because of it.
And it sees your own skin, your own muscle as foreign.
It's killing it.
And it's on overdrive.
It's not balanced.
It's not in what's called a regulatory state, which is the way your immune system is supposed to be.
Our body's supposedly consistently in a regulated state, which is called homeostasis.
And we want to be in homeostasis.
When the immune system is consistently on overdrive and cells are dividing and
At some juncture, we talked about the first thing we talked about earlier, that Hayflick limit.
The cells are no longer going to be able to function correctly.
And then the system says, well, wait a second.
How do I, because your immune systems works in one particular way.
it is attack try to remove try to eliminate which is inflammation and then to the opposite spectrum which is called a th1 inflammatory response and then to the opposite spectrum it has to heal which is a th2 anti-inflammatory response but if you have too much of this
which is that inflammatory response, this healing cannot respond.
It can't do anything.
The weird thing about the immune system is cancer.
I was going to ask about that, but I'll let you go first.
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