With the current Coronavirus pandemic, it feels like a good time to discuss what we can do to make our bodies better at fighting infection (our immune response). In the future we will go into more detail about just how this works, but this post (and podcast) concentrates on the things we can all do …
Our lives are all dominated by Coronavirus (or COVID-19 as it is sometimes called), but what exactly is it and why is it so dangerous? What is a Virus anyway? A virus is an “obligate intracellular parasite”. There. Easy. Only kidding – let’s explore that some more: viruses are parasites (they depend on their host …
These are uncertain times for us all, whatever your age. In this very special blog site only edition of the podcast I chat with my boys Archie (14), Jasper (12) and Rufus (8) to answer some of their corona related questions. This podcast was recorded on 22nd March, so please make sure you are up …