Phil Patterson on bug-host, and t cell survey

Phil Patterson commented insightfully on the role the immune system plays in keeping us health.

First, medical research should add consideration of the bug-host interactions to their myopia on bug-drug pharmaceuticals. The host (you and me) has a lot to do in fending off disease.

Particularly, our T4 cells help fight off bugs. The level of T4 cells declines with age, so therapies that reverse the decline or supplement them would be helpful. Phil suspects that globally, T4 cell levels are declining (controlled for age and circumstance), so that a helpful research project would survey these levels and report.