Th1/Th2 balance: the hypothesis, its limitations, and implications for health and disease.

[ema-adama]

As heroic efforts to tailor technological immune therapies go forward, the best immune intervention tools continue to be lifestyle modification, vitamins, minerals, orthomolecules, and selected nontoxic phytotherapies.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...g=content;col1

About 22 pages of reading. Having only started understanding immune systems, I found this article very helpful.

The quote I put in is the conclusion, and I like it

[PaigeC]

Thanks for posting this! I'm learning more about immunology too. This will give me something to read while I have contractions...that aren't going anywhere!! ugh.

[ema-adama]

An experimental Alzheimer's vaccine apparently triggered catastrophic brain degeneration in as many as 15 patients. (93) This vaccine may have exacerbated a tendency in older patients to be progressively more Th1-biased. (94) It would be reckless to proceed further with this approach until the differences between lab animal and human immune mechanisms are adequately understood.

Wouldn't it be fantastic if the whole vaccination programme was considered reckless with us not understanding human immune mechanisms.....

PaigeC - :

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...07835434/pg_21