#147 Strong Immunity with Dr Jenna Macciochi
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode is all about how to strengthen your immune system and it’s epic. We chat about how the immune system evolves, how a strong immune system is determined by nutrition, stress and our environment, as well as practical tools, supplements and foods to strengthen your immunity.
Dr Jenna Macciochi is an expert immunologist with over 20 years experience. She specialises in understanding how nutrition and lifestyle interact with the immune system in health and disease, and is on a mission to break down the science behind our health and share the secrets of how to be well.
Today we talk about:
- Creating an immunobiography
- Immunometabolism and our Mitochondria
- The damage that sugar can have on immunity
- Supplements to look into such as zinc, vitamin C, turmeric, garlic
- We also talk about: Oregano oil, Honey, N-acetylcysteine 600mg
- How winter spices protect you from viruses via quorum sensor inhibition
- Beta Glucans in mushrooms, cruciferous vegetables
- Our home environment and reducing our body burden
This is a packed episode, you’ll love Jenna’s book on immunity here: Your Blueprint for Strong Immunity and she’s just such a pleasure to chat to.
I’m doing a new thing which is our podcast recipe of the week, a recipe that reflects the topic of conversation on the pod! This week’s recipe is my easy ‘Mushroom Bourguignon’ which you can find on the app here: https://apple.co/3G0zC0Z (iphone only, android users please bear with me)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Holland and Barrett's The Wellness Edit Podcast. The fifth series of |
| 0:05.6 | The Wellness Edit is out now. The prior four series are obviously still available to stream, |
| 0:10.8 | and this season I am a guest on the podcast. You can hear me chat to host Dr. Gemma Newman |
| 0:17.1 | about the connection between our diet, our mind, the importance of gratitude, and what wellness |
| 0:23.2 | means to me. You can also go back and listen to a whole back catalogue of interviews with guests |
| 0:28.9 | including Ella Mills, Dr. Rungan Chatterjee, and Emma Gunns. Listen to the podcast on the Holland |
| 0:34.8 | and Barrett website, HollandandBarrett.com for a slash podcast, or search The Wellness Edit to |
| 0:40.8 | listen wherever you get your podcasts. Dr. Skitchin. Recipes Health Lifestyle |
| 0:49.0 | But I suspect we're sort of scratching the surface of what our current environment might be doing |
| 0:55.1 | in terms of a lot of the rising diseases that we see, submittable disease, inflammatory disease, |
| 1:00.8 | autoimmune disease, and allergies. And so I think that we shouldn't be scared of a well, |
| 1:07.2 | but we can make choices with what we buy, with how we vote, and with how we support our body's |
| 1:14.3 | ability to remove some of these toxic products through sort of diet and lifestyle choices that we make. |
| 1:20.8 | I'll be honest, that does scare me. Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast. |
| 1:30.0 | To show about food, lifestyle, medicine, and how to improve your health today. |
| 1:40.7 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition, and I'm a firm believer in |
| 1:46.2 | the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. Join me and my expert guests, |
| 1:53.8 | where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you to lead your best life. |
| 2:04.5 | Today's episode is all about how to strengthen your immune system, and it is epic. We chat about |
| 2:11.3 | how the immune system evolves, how a strong immune system is determined by nutrition, stress, |
| 2:17.3 | and the interplay of our environment, as well as practical tools. It's a really practical session |
| 2:22.1 | today, where I talk to Jenna about supplements, foods to strengthen your immunity, looking at your |
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