5 Foods for a Naturally Strong Immune System | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 2 November 2023
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Summary
Five foods can help naturally strengthen your immunity to viruses and bacteria that can make you sick. They can also boost your body's ability to fight deadlier diseases such as cancer.
The essential nutrients and vitamins can act as your body's first line of defense when you are exposed to these invaders that enter your body to do harm.
Proper nutrition can help ensure your body's natural defense system can function at a high level even as you grow older.
Dr. Neal Barnard joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE to share his top immune system building foods.
This episode of The Exam Room™ Podcast is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg’s passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the exam room, five foods that can really help strengthen the body's natural |
| 0:06.7 | ability to fight off the cold, the flu, and everything else. |
| 0:10.2 | In fact, there's a lot more than five, and we're going to talk about them today. |
| 0:12.7 | I hope, but let me give you my five tops. |
| 0:15.2 | Number one, people know about oranges. |
| 0:17.3 | They are number one, really for two reasons. |
| 0:19.3 | One is they actually are high in vitamin C. Vitamin C, ascorbic acid, is an antioxidant |
| 0:25.3 | and a good solid immune booster. |
| 0:28.0 | It works, but the other thing about oranges is that they're kind of a symbol or a lot |
| 0:33.2 | of foods that are in that category, starting with the other citrus fruits, whether it's |
| 0:37.6 | grapefruit or lemons or limes, but the other vitamin C rich foods that we don't tend to think |
| 0:42.8 | of right away, like, say, the peppers that garnish your salad or something like that. |
| 0:47.0 | So vitamin C rich foods should be front and center oranges are my archetypal food for |
| 0:51.6 | that. |
| 0:52.6 | Number two, garlic. |
| 0:53.6 | Yes, it's true. |
| 0:58.0 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:07.5 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 1:10.7 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast in the US and in |
| 1:15.2 | more than 150 countries. |
| 1:17.2 | Hi, to everyone listening in Everett Washington, Manchester, New Hampshire, and Crackle, Poland, |
| 1:25.2 | wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
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