Re: autoimmune - ah, I get it. That's what I get for trying to sound smart in front of people who know their shit :D

The human body is an intricate and incredibly complex machine (more complex then any we have ever built by many orders of magnitude), I am actually amazed that (considering how much is going on, and how minuscule changes wreck functions) we don't have more issues then we do.

Yes, that's something I started to realize the further I went in school and life, really. When we look at the the sheer number of things that can go wrong with us (genetically, developmentally, neurologically, various-permutations-thereof-ally) ... it is frankly astounding that there are this many of us alive, walking the earth and healthy as I type this.

Yes, deeply interesting!