Dr. Singh explains how the immune system works like airport security, screening threats while tolerating the body's own cells. When this tolerance breaks down, he calls it 'miseducation.' Conventional medicine suppresses immunity; functional medicine aims to re-educate it instead.
You know, nature made us so wonderful because our bodies are very complex and very sophisticated system. And immune cells, those poor immune cells, I do believe they have the toughest job in our body. Continuously, at every given time, they are continuously at work. It's their job to distinguish between bad and good guys. Right, which are outside forces, the pathogens, the bacteria, viruses, fungi, the cancer cells inside the body, what is bad, what is good, what needs to die off. They are continuously working. Now imagine those poor guys, right? It's like, you know, the airport security check, right? Those people, they are continuously screening what needs to go through, what can fly, what cannot fly, right? Like all the people traveling with their luggages and everything. So similarly, your immune cells— I mean, most of them is sitting in the gut. In the previous video, I spoke about gut health is so important. But I mean, imagine how much work they need to do. They need to distinguish what is good, what is bad. They also need to learn what they need to tolerate in your body, which means they need to tolerate your own body cells in perfect harmony. So when that harmony is disturbed, when that tolerance goes bad, why that goes bad, right? Why immune system is behaving like that? So the overactivation, you want to call that, that is what the miseducation, that is what the misdirection of the immune system is. That is where functional medicine shines beautifully. Because what's happening is in the conventional world, in the medicine world, somebody have autoimmune, they are put on immunosuppressants. So the approach is immune system is activated, let's suppress it down. But you need good immune system, guys. Your immune system is your best friend. Functional medicine take a step back. It look at it, okay, they are misdirected, they are miseducated. Okay, we look at things, okay, immune suppression is not enough, we need to re-educate those guys. So this is where the contrasting difference is. All right guys, stay tuned.
