"People spend unnecessarily high amounts of money on drugs or supplements that support immunity (for example, fashionable Japanese ginkgo – there is no evidence that it works), meanwhile they do more harm to themselves by their way of life, for example by inadequate diet."
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Mazurek, Maria (7 July 2017): Cudowna armia, która broni naszego ciała. Gazeta Krakowska (in Polish), pp. 18–19.
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Włodzimierz Ptak
Włodzimierz Wojciech Ptak (2 November 1928 – 28 May 2019) was a Polish immunologist and microbiologist, one of the most frequently cited Polish scientists in the field of biomedicine after 1965.
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