What's going on friends, welcome to another episode of the Genius Life.

I'm your host Max Lugovier, filmmaker, health and science journalist

in the author of the New York Times best-selling book, Genius Foods.

On this episode of the show, I'm super excited to introduce you to Matt Richtill.

Matt is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a New York Times best-selling author,

and the author of the new book, An Elegent Defense, the extraordinary new science of the immune system.

In this episode, Matt and I are going to discuss how seemingly unrelated conditions

like cancer, auto-immunity, and even HIV are connected.

Why you should be very skeptical of products that claim to boost your immune system,

the specific tactics that you can use to harness the power of the immune system

to potentially protect yourself against the major modern diseases, and so much more.

Matt is a masterful storyteller, and this is the first time that we've really gone into depth

on the power of the immune system on the Genius Life, so I'm super excited for you to listen to it.

Before we get into it, I want to give a shout out to the sponsor of this episode of the show.

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