Did You Know!
Your Small Intestine Performs More Immune Work Than the Spleen, Tonsils, and Lymph Nodes Combined
Roughly 70% of your entire immune system is located in the small intestine. Specialized immune tissue called Peyer’s patches constantly scan food and microbes, deciding what’s safe and what the body needs to attack.
This makes the small intestine one of the most important — yet least talked-about — immune organs in the human body.