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The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast

#12 Eat For Immunity (Part 1) - with Dr Jenna Macciochi

The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast

Dr Rupy Aujla

Mindset, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Health And Wellbeing, Health & Fitness, Dr Rupy, Nutritional Medicine, Wellness, Healthy Recipes, Improving Health, Doctor's Kitchen, Health Goals, Medicine, Mental Wellbeing, 868329, Lifestyle, Food And Lifestyle

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In the first episode of the new series, I'm delighted to be joined by Immunologist Dr Jenna Macciochi, who specialises in understanding how nutrition and lifestyle interact with the immune system in health and disease.


As we had so much great content for you guys, we've split the talk into two sections and we talk in detail about the following:

  • What is immunity?
  • Where does immunity work?
  • How it’s not as simple as eating to BOOST Immunity
  • What defines a robust immune system
  • Foods to support immunity
  • Lifestyle practices to support Immune health
  • Vitamin D and it’s impact on Immune health
  • Autoimmune disease and support
  • Clock genes and Sleep Hygiene
  • Is suppressing fever beneficial?
  • Mitochondrial function and support



Follow Dr Jenna on Instagram and Twitter and find further resources on her website at drjennamacciochi.com.


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0:00.0

Today's podcast is sponsored by Zoe and I'm pretty convinced that anyone listening to this

0:04.7

podcast right now has an invested interest in health. Maybe you've tried the recipes,

0:09.6

taken advice from guests, all like me you see food as medicine. But to any of you ever feel like

0:15.4

you're doing all the right stuff to live a healthy lifestyle but you still feel fatigued in the

0:20.8

afternoons. It could be because the advice that we give to most people simply isn't enough

0:27.0

for your unique body. And I'm a believer that personalized nutrition could be beneficial if you

0:32.8

find yourself in this pattern. And Zoe's groundbreaking science does what generic advice

0:38.1

can't do. They look at your blood fat and blood sugar control and you've got microbiome to help

0:43.9

you understand how different foods affect your body so you can feel your best. Nailing your own

0:49.0

nutrition can have huge benefits on long term health as well as relieving more immediate problems

0:54.3

like fatigue. So magnesium supplements for example can help one person sleep better but they

0:59.1

might have little effect on someone else. And as Professor Tim said in our conversation,

1:03.9

personalized nutrition takes away that trial and error and that very long process of trying to

1:09.4

figure out what's going on inside your body on your own. Zoe has been genuinely life changing

1:15.6

for its members who've reported feeling less tired after lunch and that the energy levels are

1:20.3

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1:26.2

and use kitchen, temperate 10% discount that's kitchen, 10 all one word for a 10% discount and I

1:32.0

can't wait for you to try it. There's evidence that endorphins are really helpful in how the

1:44.0

immune system works. So if you're going on holiday and you're fine that you might have if you have

1:49.9

an autoimmune disease or an allergy or some kind of food intolerance, it might suddenly become

1:54.8

a lot better when you go on holiday and you just attribute that to eating a different kind of food.

1:58.4

But it might be because you're happy when you're eating and that actually boosts these regulatory

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