359: T-cells, medicinal mushrooms & how to tell if your immune system is weak | Immunologist Heather Moday, M.D.

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🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Heather Moday, M.D.: “If you focus on one thing [for your gut and immunity], I would say focus on fiber.” Moday, an allergist and immunologist, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to tell if your immune system is healthy, plus: - How to identify your immunotype (~05:44) - How T-cells protect your immune system (~22:00) - Must-have foods to strengthen immunity (~30:33) - What we can do about antibiotic resistance (~33:48) - The best medicinal mushrooms to have on-hand (~38:26) Referenced in the episode: - Moday's book, The Immunotype Breakthrough. - mbg Podcast episode #144, with Moday - mbg Podcast episode #297, with William Li, M.D. - An Israeli study on COVID and natural immunity. - T-Detect, a T-cell test. - An mbg article on vitamin D levels and COVID outcomes. Don't forget to use the code SLEEP25 for 25% off your first month subscription of mbg's best-selling sleep support+ supplement. To learn more, visit mindbodygreen.com/SLEEP25. 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. Dr. Heather Modae is a board-certified allergist and immunologist
0:52.2	as well as an integrative and functional medicine physician. After years of working as an
0:57.1	allergist and immunologist in private practice, she completed a fellowship in integrative medicine
1:01.8	at the Arizona Center of Integrative Medicine in Tucson and became certified by the Institute for
1:07.6	Functional Medicine. Today I'm excited to chat about her new must read book titled The
1:13.0	Immunotype Breakthrough. Your personalized plan to balance your immune system, optimize health
1:18.9	and build lifelong resilience. Heather, welcome. Thank you, Jason. Great to be here again.
1:32.2	It's so great to have you. I can't imagine a better topic to discuss given what's going on in the
1:37.2	world. Absolutely. In 2021, we're recording this November 17th, but it's going to air in mid-December.
1:44.3	I don't think much will change with regards to immune system, but we're not necessarily in a good
1:49.9	place. You start the book by sharing some really compelling eye-opening, horrifying statistics.
1:57.2	I'm going to read some of them off. 48% of Americans suffer from some form of cardiovascular
2:04.3	disease, everything from high blood pressure to heart failure. You say 34.5 million Americans
2:10.6	are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and that number swells to over 100 million when we count
2:17.1	those living with prediabetes or those who have undiagnosed diabetes or unaware that they have it.
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