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An elegant defense
An elegant defense











an elegant defense

For example, you’ll learn about all the key components of the immune response … the ways pathogens can outsmart our defenses … how women’s heightened immune systems lead to longer life on average … how sleep, meditation, and exercise improve immune function … why the pursuit of immortality is a fool’s errand … and why following the “five second rule” for eating food that falls on the floor is actually a healthy thing to do. In the process of reading about the four people in An Elegant Defense, you absorb quite a lot of useful and interesting science. He died in October 2018 of a different form of cancer.) (I came to know this form of cancer all too well when my friend and Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, was diagnosed with it while we were working together. The most poignant of these is the story of Richtel’s lifelong friend Jason Greenstein, a traveling salesman who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He anchors it in the tales of four real people whose health challenges illustrate the immune system’s features and bugs. That’s exactly how Richtel constructs this book. But I know most people who don’t have a degree in immunology prefer books with a story that brings scientific concepts to life.

an elegant defense

Even though I dropped out of college, I really enjoy reading textbooks.













An elegant defense