Many more of us are challenging ourselves and performing at a high level in sport, particularly endurance sports, well into our middle age. This podcast explores everything you want to know as a mid-life athlete about how age and fitness affects our immune system.

The listen might raise some eyebrows as we learn that we can influence our immune systems a bit, but not that much. The biggest influence is during a child’s early years when their emotional, physical and mental wellbeing plays a huge role in how the immune system performs throughout life.

The episode delves deeper into the nuances of how the immune system grows, adapts and ultimately diminishes.

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