333: Is wellness narcissistic? | Rupa Marya, M.D. & Raj Patel, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Rupa Marya, M.D. & Raj Patel, Ph.D.: "Our immunity is completely dependent on supporting the other and getting out of the individualistic mindset." Marya, an internal medicine physician and activist, and Patel, a political economist and New York Times bestselling author, join mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to better your health by prioritizing the health of others, plus: - How to protect the respiratory system - Sneaky triggers for inflammation & what to do - How climate change can affect your immune response - The link between childhood trauma & telomere length - Why we can’t heal our bodies without healing the world Referenced in the episode: - Marya & Patel's book, Inflamed. - A study showing the link between exposure to wildfire smoke & COVID-19 outcomes. - A study on the association between public smoking legislation & a lower risk of hospitalization and death from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. - A study on the link between stressful events during childhood & shorter telomeres. - Deep Medicine Circle. Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
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0:43.6	performance is not guaranteed. Today we have Raj Patal, the renowned political economist in
0:51.8	New York Times bestselling author of the value of nothing alongside physician Dr. Rupa Maria
0:58.5	to offer a radical new cure. The deep medicine of decolonization with their new book titled
1:06.4	Inflamed. Deep medicine and the anatomy of injustice. Europe for a thought-provoking,
1:13.8	provocative and controversial conversation today. Raj Rupa, welcome.
1:22.4	Thanks so much for having us Jason. Hello. It is great to have you both such an important
1:28.0	provocative book and I'm going to start with the title. The title is inflamed so we have to start
1:33.7	with inflammation. And so I thought was so interesting in the context of inflammation in the book
1:39.7	you talk about immunity and the different types of immunity which I thought were fascinating.
1:45.2	So can you walk us through type 1 immunity, type 2 immunity and then followed by type 3 immunity?
1:54.5	Well first let me just give you an overview of what inflammation is. So we know what we're talking
1:59.1	about when we're talking about the immunity. Different types. So inflammation is a response of the
2:05.7	immune system to damage or the threat of damage and it's the way our body corrects itself or
2:13.2	restores our optimum working conditions. A state that we call homeostasis and it's an evolutionarily
2:20.6	conserved response so it's been around for a long time. It's preserved in different animals and
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