The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences
A leading expert introduces the revolutionary new science of the immune system with its break-through medical cures and discusses how stress, sleep and ageing affect our health. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE Our immune system is one of the great marvels of nature – and it holds the key to human health. Here, Professor Daniel Davis charts the ground-breaking scientific quest to understand how it fights disease and enables the body to heal itself. He explains how it is affected by stress, sleep, age and our state of mind, and reveals how all of this knowledge is now unlocking a revolutionary approach to medicine and well-being. The Beautiful Cure tells a dramatic story of detective work and discovery, of puzzles solved and of the mysteries that remain, of lives sacrificed and saved. It presents a revelatory new understanding of the human body – and what it takes to be healthy.
