Associate Professor from St Petersburg University about autoimmune diseases in the Heinrich Terahertz podcast
The guest of the 21st episode of the Heinrich Terahertz podcast is Leonid Churilov, Head of the Department of Pathology at St Petersburg University, Member of the International Academy of Sciences and Higher Education, and Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Republic of Moldova. He spoke about how simple household items can affect the hyperstimulation of the immune system.
One of the fathers of immunology is Ilya Mechnikov, Associate Professor at St Petersburg University, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Ilya Mechnikov introduced a concept of the immune system and suggested that the immune system fights foreign substances, regulates multicellularity, and builds and develops our body as a whole.
Over the 120 years of this science’s existence, many theories have been confirmed. The science has gained a deeper understanding of how the immune system works. First of all, the immune system regulates the body activities and ensures harmony of the cells. Your body will function properly if your immune system works well. Otherwise, the immune response may lead to discomfort. An exaggerated response from the body’s immune system may lead to allergy. When the body’s immune response is reduced or absent, immunodeficiency disorders occur. If your immune system is prone to attack the wrong target, it can lead to autoimmune diseases.
Leonid Churilov and his colleagues have prepared ‘Essays on the history of medicine. Biographical essays’. The book focuses on the life and work of outstanding doctors and scientists. The publication is among the winners of the Russian Academy of Sciences contest.
Immune evasion and provocation can also trigger autoimmunity. Hyperstimulation of the immune system can be caused by a variety of reasons, e.g. infectious diseases, such as herpes, tuberculosis, or Covid ‑19. Not only viruses can be provocateurs. In the new episode of the Heinrich Terahertz podcast, Leonid Churilov talked, among other things, about non-infectious diseases and hyperstimulation of the immune system and the impact of aluminum exposure on the immune system.