The surprising reason you feel awful when you're sick - Marco A. Sotomayor
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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.
In experiments with rats when the vagus nerve is cut, some of the effects of inflammation are abolished such as depression. However, fever can persist. Why do you think this is?
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- Educator Marco A Sotomayor
- Script Editor Emma Bryce
- Director Henrik Malmgren
- Animator Henrik Malmgren
- Narrator Addison Anderson
