Your immune system and how to boost it
How the immune system works, when it changes and what you can do to keep it healthy. From covid to the common cold, the course will give you the low down on how your body works to protect you.
Course curriculum
Introduction
How to view this course
Course objectives
The complex and fascinating world of the immune system
What is the immune system?
Objectives and agenda
What does the immune system do? (Part one: new threats)
What does the immune system do? (Part two: past threats)
External threats that can trigger an immune response
The typical signs of infection
The scope of immunology
The history of immune system research
Recent advances in immune system research
What we understand about the immune system and what we've still to learn
Share your thoughts
Test your understanding
How does the immune system work?
Objectives and agenda
Key facts about the immune system
Surveillance: the first line of immune defence
Meet your immune cells
Test your understanding
How your innate immune system works
How your adaptive immune system works
The coordinated immune response
Communication within the immune system
Powering down the immune response
Test your understanding
How does the immune system change?
Objectives and agenda
Changes with age
Changes during a pregnancy
The underactive immune system
The overactive immune system
The dysfunctional immune system
Share your thoughts
Test your understanding
How can we support the immune system?
Objectives and agenda
How to build a vaccine
Different types of vaccines
The power of vaccines and vaccinations
Test your understanding
Diet and the immune system
Can we boost the immune system?
Lifestyle factors and the immune system
Sleep, stress, drugs and the immune system
Share your thoughts
Conclusion
What we’ve learned – and what we still don’t know
The big immune system quiz
More to explore
Speaker profiles
Course glossary
Course feedback