# Your body vs. implants

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Kaitlyn Sadtler
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/kaitlyn_sadtler_your_body_vs_implants)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Insulin pumps improve the lives of millions of people with diabetes around the world by monitoring blood sugar, delivering insulin, and preventing the need for constant finger-pricking. But there's a catch: they're temporary. And it's not only insulin pumps that have this problem, but all bodily implants. Why is that? Kaitlyn Sadtler details how our immune system reacts to foreign bodies. \[Directed by Andrew Foerster, narrated by Bethany Cutmore-Scott\].

## Lectures

1. [Your body vs. implants](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/kaitlyn_sadtler_your_body_vs_implants/05e81d0faa9d), 5 min (TED's player)