Allergies and Autoimmunity – When Defence Misfires

Podcast: Talking Science · Stavros kinnas

Opublikowano: 2026-10-11

A bee sting that sends one person to hospital and barely bothers the person standing next to them; a pancreas that quietly stops making the insulin the body needs; a small intestine that reacts to a slice of bread as though it were under attack. All three are stories of the same basic mistake: an immune system, built over millions of years to protect us, misreading the situation and turning its formidable defences on the wrong target. This episode is a general-science explainer only, not medical advice, and works through what's actually happening in allergies and autoimmune disease, and...