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The number of things your immune system knows about is absolutely enormous and grows everyday. Vaccinations are a tiny drop in the bucket
by russdill 4y ago
The number of things your immune system knows about is absolutely enormous and grows everyday. Vaccinations are a tiny drop in the bucket
- KRAKRISMOTT 4y agoNo to mention that without boosting, immune memory fades over time.
- pc86 4y agoThis is a gross oversimplification. Many things do not need any sort of boosting and you retain lifetime immunity or near-immunity.
- KRAKRISMOTT 4y agoShow me the literature, nothing has true lifetime immunity. You get close to lifetime immunity but the curves will continue dropping.
- jokowueu 4y agoThis is a bit offtopic . Is it possible to wipe that memory? Sounds like it would resolve all Autoimmune disease
- p1mrx 4y agoI think the HIV virus can do that, but there are a few side effects.
- influx 4y agoMy understanding it they do something like this for bone marrow transplants with radiation/chemotherapy. Hopefully helps with Google searches, or someone coming to correct me :)
- rolph 4y agoyes they still do something like this, but its more like yanking the memory modules out, and replacing them rather than flush and zero.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 4y agoAlso notable that this is a beyond extreme treatment. Incredibly stressful on the body, a method of last resort. Through, it has had a few high profile success stories.
- poszlem 4y agoWell, we kind of do it during blood cancer chemotherapy. It probably resolves some autoimmune diseases but also makes you liable to dying of common cold.
- alphazard 4y agoMany autoimmune diseases don't appear to be caused by immune memory, at least alone. There is evidence for cyclic inflammation by the innate immune system and also latent inflammation from gut bacteria and their outputs. What you are describing (bone marrow radiation) has been used to treat Multiple Sclerosis. But diets (which radically change gut bacteria) have also been used to treat MS. So it's complicated, and it's possible for what is currently considered a single disease to be a common symptomatology for different root causes.
- pfdietz 4y agoI believe one of the effects of measles infection is that sort of wiping of immune memory. It's one of the things that makes childhood measles so nasty. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03324-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03324-7
- xtracto 4y agoThat's super interesting. Someone should start investigating that line to treat autoimmune diseases.