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The Lovejoy Hour

Ep. 78 – PROFESSOR DANIEL M DAVIS – How Your Immune System Works – INTERVIEW SPECIAL

The Lovejoy Hour

Lovejoy

Society & Culture, Football, Sports

4.6767 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

This week Tim Lovejoy talks to Professor of Immunology at Manchester University and author Daniel Davis. Whilst chatting about Dan’s book The Beautiful Cure, they discuss the importance of the immune system, how it works and the role of ‘big pharma’ in modern science.
If you would like to contact us then our email address is [email protected] or you can tweet Tim @timlovejoy
Dan’s books are available here - https://amzn.to/2jH6Vye
And he is on Twitter here - @dandavis101

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the award-winning Dear Lovejoy podcast. It's a special.

0:06.0

Today we're having a conversation with Daniel Davis. He's the author of the book, The Beautiful Cure,

0:12.0

harnessing your body's natural defenses. And for those of you who don't know who Daniel Davis is,

0:18.0

he's a professor of immunology at the University of Manchester. His research

0:23.3

using super resolution microscopy to study immune cell biology was listed in Discover magazine

0:30.2

as one of the top 100 breakthroughs of the year. He's a really good guy. He came on Sunday

0:37.3

brunch once and I started talking to him all about disease.

0:39.9

We had 10 minutes with him or so as you do on TV and I went, I really want to speak to

0:44.7

you more about this.

0:45.4

He knows so much about the immune system.

0:47.1

So I invited him down.

0:49.0

He's come all the way down from Manchester and this is an interesting podcast because it's

0:51.9

very long.

0:52.4

It's an hour and 45 minutes. And I think it's worth it because he's talking about health. He's talking about all the

0:58.2

interesting things which go in in your body. And I would be interested to know what you think.

1:05.2

Mark, did you enjoy it at that length? Yes, I did. But like you, I listen to a lot of podcasts that are longer than that.

1:13.4

Yeah, so I'm interested to know whether you're ready for, it is long-form podcast, that's what it is.

1:18.7

There's no two ways about it. It'd be interesting to know what you're saying like it or lump it?

1:23.2

Well, I'm not. I'm saying, I'm saying if you don't, if you want to lump it, let's know what you think. I want to lump off. But also, I'd like to know if you like it. So you can contact me on Twitter

1:31.4

at Tim Lovejoy or you can contact us on email, dear Lovejoy podcast at gmail.com. We cover so

1:38.8

much stuff in this about finances of the pharmaceutical world. We talk about, I don't know.

1:47.0

So this is what I really like about Longform podcasts. Okay, he came on to talk about his book

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