Autoimmune Adventures

Why are rates of autoimmune diseases, allergies, and asthma increasing? Moises Velasquez-Manoff, author of An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases, discusses the intriguing theory explaining the rise of immune dysfunction. Linking the inner and outer ecosystem, the macro of our body with the micro world of parasites and microbes, this theory begins to expand our understanding of how the immune system works. Learn why biodiversity is good for your health, how autoimmune genes might have been beneficial, new metaphors for the immune system that go beyond warfare, and where science is with the fringe treatments that emerge from this theory. Show notes available at http://aiadventures.com.