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THE MIRACLE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

crobes they have ingested to be finally discharged from the body in differ-
ent ways.
Each time you breathe, as you are doing now, a war is fought at the
border gates of your body of which you are completely unaware. The
guards at these border gates fight with the enemy to the death to protect
your health.

Protection in the Digestive System

Another vehicle by which microbes gain entry to our body is our
food. However, the guards of our body, which are aware of this method
used by the microbes, await them in the region where the food finally
ends up, which is the stomach. They also have a surprise for the arriving
microbes, which is the gastric acid. This acid is quite an unpleasant sur-
prise for the microbes which have overcome all obstacles and reached the
stomach. The majority, if not all, of the microbes are defeated by this acid.
Some microbes may overcome this obstacle because they have not

made enough contact with the gastric acid, or they have showed resist-

This picture, which
is magnified 865
times, shows a gas-
tric gland hole (en-
try) in the mucous
lining.