on today's episode of the Real Foodology Podcast.

When we think of auto immunity, it suggests that people become allergic to themselves.

Somehow one Monday morning they wake up and their body hates themselves.

And that's actually not true. What happens is that the body has developed in response to a perception that it's under attack from something that's something and maybe even a non-materialistic thing like trauma, post-traumatic stress.

So it's not just chemical exposures, it's also psychological exposures, environmental and

radiation exposures. All of those can be captured by your immune system

to remember them as bad experiences

that live longer than the experience.

Hi, everyone.

Welcome back to another episode of the Real Foodology Podcast. I am so

excited that you're here today and today's episode is a really great one so I

sat down with Dr. Jeffrey Bland who is frequently referred to as the father of functional medicine.

He's also an iconic figure in the establishment and growth of the natural products industry,

and his goal is to change the global conversation about

immunity and get people thinking about personalization in an entirely new

way. It was such an honor for me to have him on the podcast. If you guys have

been listening to this podcast for a while or

following me on real foodology, you know how important I find functional

medicine to be. I talk about it on a lot of my episodes. It is a root cause way of

looking at our current disease model where right now we are

putting band-aids over things and we are not looking at the root cause and

functional medicine and that's where that comes in actually looks at the whole body and the way the body

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