According to Dr. Jeffrey Bland, the “father of Functional Medicine,” the immune system is nature's greatest protector and innovator. It represents your body’s ability to resist all the things that want to tear you apart — and in doing so it intimately defines what is you and what is not you. In this episode, Dr. Bland and Jeff discuss what degrades our immune system as well as how to rejuvenate it. 

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0:10:01 – Dr. Linus Pauling

0:20:52 – Curiosity in the Scientific Method

0:24:32 – Immune System Basics

0:30:54 – Inflammation

0:33:28 – The Skin

0:34:04 – Innate Immune System

0:35:36 – The Microbiome

0:36:20 – Food as Medicine

0:40:38 – Immune Cells

0:45:04 – Leaky Gut Syndrome

0:45:30 – Postprandial Endotoxemia

0:49:16 – Genes

0:50:14 – Glucose

0:54:11 – Metabolic Dysfunction

0:55:33 – Heart Disease

0:56:40 – Statins

0:58:09 – Adaptive Immune System

1:01:30 – Immunosenescence

1:06:36 – Rejuvenating your Immune System

1:10:29 – Visceral Fat

1:11:41 – Two Kinds of Fat

1:15:05 – Epigenetics

1:20:54 – Immunogenomics

1:23:32 – Hormesis

1:25:03 – Mitochondria

1:26:16 – Xenohormesis

1:30:12 – Soil Microbiome

1:37:52 – Phytochemicals

1:45:05 – Biology of Belief

1:53:34 – Trauma

1:59:43 – Sleep

2:10:53 – Big Bold Health

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