One thing that I'm incorporating in right now are smoothies. So particularly here in

Austin, it's getting to be summer season and super hot. So I do that pretty much every single morning and my

daughter who's a toddler loves them too. So this morning I made one out of the

cookbook and in fact there's an awesome Facebook live where I was making a smoothie to promote the cookbook and she walked into the kitchen.

I picked her up and it was like, could not have like practiced it and it had been more perfect where she's like watching and smiling and then like I'm

start blending and she hears the blender and she's like you know gets all excited

when she hears the blender and then I pour it and she's like pointing at it and then I like

put a straw in it and she drinks it.

So they are a fan favorite in the entire household.

Welcome back to the Essentially You Podcast all about reinventing your health with safer, cheaper, more effective natural solutions

and powerful lifestyle changes so that you become the CEO of your health.

I am your host Dr. Marisa Snyder. Today I'm talking with Dr Amy

Myers and we are discussing how to prevent and reverse auto-immunity through

diet. Now before I get into the interview I want to set the stage for what

an autoimmune disorder is. Now there is a stark rise in autoimmune disorders over the

past 50 years from type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis immune understanding and controlling the root cause which we'll get into in just a moment.

Now your immune system is your security detail. It is hardwired to differentiate

between what belongs in your body and what doesn't. When it spies a medler such as a virus, a bacteria, or

parasite it shoots to kill. Unfortunately, the system is not perfect.

Sometimes it targets healthy tissues,

a situation that if it persists under certain circumstances

can lead to an autoimmune disease or auto immunity.

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