How Vaccines Actually Train Your Body ️

[00:00:02]How vaccines actually train your body.

[00:00:07]Your immune system is like a security team. Vaccines are basically practice drills for that team. When a vaccine enters your body, it contains [music] a weakened germ or a dead germ or just a piece of the germ. It's not strong enough to make you seriously sick. What your body does next, your immune system detects it as foreign. It activates [music] white blood cells. It produces antibodies specific to that germ. It creates memory [music] cells. The real magic here we are talking about are memory cells. These memory cells stay in your body for years. So, when the real germ attacks later, your body recognizes it instantly. Antibodies are produced much faster. The infection is destroyed before you even feel sick. Or it becomes very mild. So, vaccines is a safe exposure which leads to antibody formation, which leads to memory cells, and which gives you faster future immunity.