Andrew Huberman· PhD
And there are the cells that are either damaged from the injury or from the parasite, or are suffering because of the bacteria or the virus itself, and the cells of your body will also release an alarm signal, which is not an "eat me" signal, but a "help me" signal. And those "help me" signals come in the form of what we call cytokines. And the cytokines are things like interleukin-1, interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor alpha.