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Ep 63 Poison Ivy: It's Just Us

This Podcast Will Kill You

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The Effects of Arushyal on the Immune System

So Arusia causes a large amount of these T cells to be made kind of at the ready and they just hang out in our body until the next time that you're exposed. You want subsequent contact with Arusia. Those T cells happen to come in and they're like, Oh, hey, I recognize this. Call me on me Right. And then they immediately get to work destroying skin cells. So killing cells wherever they find this antigen. Then also like up regulating your immune response, releasing all these other immune modulators That produce things like vasodilation to help increase blood flow. It's like this feedback loop. Huh. Cool. Yeah. Well, that's wild

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