HOW A GLOBAL PANDEMIC MADE IMMUNE HEALTH HEADLINE NEWS

Whilst research into immune health has always been a focus for scientists, most of us take our own immune function for granted. Unless we have been confronted by illness or an autoimmune condition, we assume that our physiology will do what it is built to do and protect us from harm. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic made even the general public sit up, take notice and try and learn how best to support their own personal immune health. The novel coronavirus resulted in immune health being headline news and not just in scientific circles. Even the uninitiated became aware of terms such as cytokine storm and the microbiome, as a multitude of articles were published within blogs, social media and even general interest publications.

The human body has been constantly assailed, since the dawn of time, by external and internal pathogens, including bacteria, parasites and viruses against which it must defend itself. To do so, the body employs two systems of defence: the first includes external barriers to the body and the second is the immune system, both the innate and adaptive. ...