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Big_Adam
I’ve been reading Focus again.
So please bear with me here.
Immunosuppressive drugs I slightly understand. If you have a transplant of some important organ then rather than accepting it the body tries to kill it. I understand that (well not really, stupid human body) so immunosuppressive drugs are used to sort the whole “body tries to kill it” bit.
Now, I just read Focus (think Q.I. the magazine) and there was a little snippet about some clever bonce who found a way to live WITHOUT immunosuppressive drugs. Which is a good thing as they are expensive and it’s something you could forget … I guess (yay, ignorance).
I though the solution was some sort of cool gene therapy or radiation … no. Instead this guys idea was instead of suppressing the immune syste, why not just kill it.
I’m a simple man here but that ring the sound of “bad idea” to me. Yeah, immunosuppressive drugs beat the immune system into submission but to completely get rid of it seem a bit much.
The basic of the idea is to kill the bone marrow off thus wiping the slate clean as you wouldn’t be able to make any more white blood cells. No marrow, no white cells, no immune system.
Okay, immunosuppressive drugs do the same but if you stop them you can stave off a cold at the risk of an important organ. Thing is the cold could kill you as could the lack of kidney so it’s a risk each way. Just removing the whole immune system just seems like a bad idea.
But, what do I know! I’m writing a blog.
Hmmm. I dunno what Focus is nor Q.I. for that matter but I’m pretty glad that I don’t read them because, Adam, that is one whole shedload of weapons grade bullshit.
All the Georgie
g2
P.S. Is it just me or is the 8 number challenge a bit overkill?
Isn’t that what HIV/AIDS does? Bad.