And these chemicals are easily absorbed through amphibians' permeable skin, causing immunosuppression, or a weakened immune system, and developmental deformities.

It is a drug for people, but the reason is it suppresses the immune system.

So it's very valuable to have that tool in our armamentarium.

I was absolutely enthralled and amazed at what they looked like.

We'd much rather re educate the immune system to be selective, to do what we want it to do and let the rest of the immune system do what it's supposed to do in terms of protecting us.

After HlV penetrates the body's mucosal barriers, it infects immune cells to replicate.

This is just a vitamin shot to boost your immune system.

And I guess I would say it's about time, because for the last 50 years the way that we have treated these kinds of auto immune diseases is through something called immunosuppression.

In experimental feeding in monkeys you can see that it actually downregulates a specific immune system modulator.

Notice these other, smaller protuberances.

It basically is an approach that says

It's not constrained by living within the body that gave rise to it.

Their immune system.

I don't believe it. Nothing could be immune to that.

Hits the body hard like a quart of alcohol, and then it eradicates the immune system.

Besides being sort of more sophisticated and elegant, there's a real reason for this and that is that the immunosuppression, over here, is dangerous, because blocking the immune system means that it blocks the immune system from protecting you from infection.

So we don't want to do that.

Blow the dampeners!

I had to do that properly.

This is one of those signals that the immune system sees in patients who have a disease called type 1 diabetes.

Sir, the restrains!

Sooner or later. Understand they found a rhesus monkey at Dietrich immune.

Unfortunately there are a lot of these signals and there are a lot of mistakes to be made and our immune systems aren't perfect.

DNA repair genes are more active in these animals.

The chain of command is responsible for...

The big change in our understanding of drivers of chronic health in the rich developed world is how important chronic stress from social sources is affecting the immune system, the cardiovascular system.

Let me tell you a little bit about the scale.

It's a hormone.

Still think she's immune?

And on, and on, and on, there are over 80 of these auto immune diseases.

They're incorrect patterns. They're false positives. They're Type I errors.

Full power to containment!

If we go down the small pathway a little bit farther, we're entering the era of nanomedicine, the ability to make devices super small to the point where we can design red blood cells or microrobots that will monitor our blood system or immune system, or even those that might clear out the clots from our arteries.

And so you have a very strong natural selection once immune systems learn what this virus is and we'll talk more about what learning means for an immune system. that they'll start attacking these guys, right?

To stop the immediate happening.

About 5 percent of us have one of these auto immune diseases.

It's not a cure. Just a strong antibiotic to build up resistance.

Okay, we can start with that. I say no.

Bellini's lymphocemia. It's an autoimmune disease.

The B vitamins will protect your brain cells and mitochondria.

Insulin is required for life, it's an essential hormone.

But when it doesn't, we have to do something about that, therapeutically.

It's like the... immune system turns on the fetus.

We've developed an injection, call it a vitamin supplement designed to strengthen the immune system.

On three you jump as high as you can!