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Veerle Bergink

Veerle Bergink

Researcher

Sep 18, 2026

9:02
Is that why you think there's like an, like an over-revving of the immune system, and there's a lot of these kind of autoimmune issues that come?
9:12
Yeah, absolutely.
9:13
I, uh, I, I think that's very clear, right? But I mean, we know this from old immunities then, or, or almost all the women do feel better after pregnancy have a high risk of relapse, and that is because, yeah, as you say, during pregnancy, the immune system is somehow suppressed.
9:31
Otherwise, a mother would reject her own child.
9:34
It's of course not completely down because otherwise pregnant women would die of infection, and that is not happening at all.
9:41
So it's just that the immune system is differently organized with more prominent role for the innate, the very basic line for defense, and not so much specific adaptive immune response.
9:53
So, um, the professor in immunology I work with say, you know, pregnant women have the, the basic immune system of a snail or so, very simple basic immune defense.

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37:52
I'll kind of bring it up so you can kind of like...

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