Immunity is basically the ability of our bodies to fight off potential danger. Immune health is now more important than ever!

Listen to Martin breaking down the most important information about how to manage your immune system, and fight off viral (and other) infections all year round, not just in these dangerous times!

Links mentioned in the video:

Khan Academy – Immune System 

Life Enthusiast – Cold, Flu & Immunity

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Podcast 392: How to manage your immune system for health

How to manage your immune system for health, and how to navigate viral and other infections in these dangerous times? First of all, my name is Martin Pytela. I am the CEO of Life Enthusiast. I’m also a health coach and I’m a CMTA, that stands for Certified Metabolic Typing Advisor. Certified Metabolic Typing Advisor is a branch of functional medicine approach to understanding how the genetics and the human health intersect. We learn about how our bodies are preselected genetically to certain diets, but we are not going to talk about that today. My past education: I was trained as a clinical hypnotherapist, and in my previous incarnation I have a degree in computer science and business administration. I spent 20 years working in the hi-tech industry as a trainer, tech support and sales, and I lectured people in various ways.

How I got into health has much to do with my early life. At 25 years of age, I visited a dentist, I ended up with 12 mercury amalgam fillings. Mercury turns out to be one of the most toxic things you can put into your body. And very soon after I had these 12 fillings installed, I started falling apart. I ended up with back pain, plantar fasciitis, and carpal tunnel syndrome, and I developed allergies to pollens, it all really was starting out as the breakdown of the microbiome in the gut. The mercury is very toxic, and it’s very toxic to the immune system, and it’s toxic to all the systems in the body. And in my attempt to fix myself, I first went to the professionals, I went to the medical mainstream, and then to the alternative, the chiropractors, the naturopaths, the osteopaths, and then further afield, all manner of therapies. Most of them focused on treating the symptoms.

They are competent people, but they just are like this. To a man with a hammer, most things look like a nail. They were following the symptoms, they were not asking, but what the cause of this is. So eventually after about 10 years of trying, I had this moment when I realized that I was going to have to help myself or else spend the rest of my life in misery, declining into a disability. In the process of that, I started reading and studying and analyzing, and thank God I was trained as an analyst so I could figure out the hows and the whys of things. And sure enough, eventually, it dawned on me that it was the mercury. So since about the year 1995, I’ve been working as a health coach, since 2001 we have been online with Life Enthusiasts. I have now counseled probably thousands of people.

So let’s talk about this. The immune system, its role, and its purpose, and regulation challenges. How does the immune system regulate itself and how does it all work? Let’s talk about the why, why the immune system? The ingress pathways, ingress as in stuff gets in. First of all, the immune system is protecting us from unwanted incoming traffic. So first of all, of course, the obvious, the cuts, the punctures, and the wounds. And certainly, you can see the system in action. If for example, you get a cut that gets infected by some microbes,