The surprising reason you feel awful when you're sick - Marco A. Sotomayor

What actually makes you feel sick? Discover how your immune system and proteins called cytokines respond to infections.

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It starts with a tickle in your throat that becomes a cough. Your muscles begin to ache, you grow irritable, and you lose your appetite. It’s official: you’ve got the flu. It’s logical to assume that this miserable medley of symptoms is the result of the infection coursing through your body — but is that really the case? Marco A. Sotomayor explains what’s actually making you feel sick.

Lesson by Marco A. Sotomayor, animation by Henrik Malmgren.

[silverspector]

Who is actually sick and came here just to feel better 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️

[katchen]

Shout out to my immune system, thank you for trying to keep me alive

[scott]

The way your body does all this, without us even initiating or noticing it, is just insane

[greendemon]

When I get seriously ill, I become depressed.

On the other hand, I frigging love the feeling I get when I get better!

[sgtruru]

When I'm sick I just think of the epic battle going on inside me.

[tjahjobagaaa]

You feel awful, until you realise that you're sick on a school day

[hitchet]

*3:09** amount of details in these animations is just insane.* Look closely - after our patient coughed bacteria to those three guys, it bounced out of second guy onto the first guy (meaning, immune system of the second guy is still good and able to fight) but then it bounced back to the second guy, meaning that immune system of the first guy is way stronger. On the other hand, the immune system of the third guy was the worst as both of the bacteria he took right away and nothing bounced.

And all that secret information delivered in just a second of this incredible animation, that most of the people won't even notice.
*Hats off, TED.*

[chavin]

Im sick today and Im here to be grateful for my body. Man immune system rocks

[tangyspy]

Brace yourselves for all '' I'm Sick while watching this'' comments

[HeatherSpoonheim]

Somebody PLEASE explain to my immune system that pollen and 'spring dust' are not dangerous!!

[tcogaming]

Body: Makes body temperature high
Doctors: ok so take take this and ur not gonna feel hot
Body: *Am I a joke to you?*

[wendymuir]

Lighting a candle for everyone out there living with autoimmune and\or mystery disease.

[crispyrolls]

So your own immune system effects you psychologically making you irritable and sad. Perhaps this is to make you steer clear of people to prevent the spread of infection?

[victoriawheat]

Anyone else watching this when they are sick?

[lah]

Me: gets sick
My immune system: *we're in the endgame*

[kimberlyperrotis]

Sometimes the day before a cold or flu starts I just feel upset, depressed and/or irritable for no reason, then the next day I get more definitive symptoms. The brain seems to be the first to know.

[TheDanCube]

When you realized that you're sick on a WEEKEND. And it disappears when you go to SCHOOL...

[ShawnRavenfire]

I wonder if the irritability is a tribal survival mechanism to make other people avoid you, so the infection doesn't spread.

[DamnAwesome]

Watching this while sick of covid or flu, or common cold, and I feel better knowing why my body feels bad.

[beckyp]

"Its official, you got the flu."

Coronavirus: AHEM.