When bloggers and lifestyle influencers cultivate their wisdom or life stories from virtual space to libraries, knowledge acquisition is often limited. And vice versa for the first work of Philip Dettmer “Immun”. In order for this Youtuber to do justice to his complex immune system, he has over 150 explainer videos on his successful YouTube channel. Kurzgesagt – short Proved that he has 17 million subscribers. He has now successfully transferred his illustrative concept to paper.
One might think that the best thing about the book is its appearance: it is equipped with many colorful graphics in the style of “Kurzgesagt” videos, which convey the feeling of “reading” a popular passage. But as fascinating as the graphs are, the real USP is the ease with which Dettmer guides his readers through the immune system. Dettmer turns our defense cells into “headless immune soldiers” who fight many enemies. The protagonists of his journey include helper T cells, which eat nothing but sausage, or neutrophils, which can be imagined as “bad-tempered chimpanzees on coke with machine guns.”
Fortunately, they are not alone in defending the body, this “complex poop” that is “very wet, sticky and somewhat disgusting”: there are benevolent “barbarian tribes”, that is, bacteria that live on the skin and mucous membranes that are not their habitat they like to share with other germs . The skin itself becomes the ‘desert kingdom’, a defensive wall ‘full of toxin-spitting geysers that sweep away every enemy’. With so many funny and creative photos, you hardly notice how little by little Dettmer disrupts the immune system – and you yourself are constantly learning.
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