Hello and welcome to Ben Kumba Radio so you're here with me Tom and I'm usually the

co-host but once again I've been given the reins to do this Monday show I'm

going to do a couple in the next few weeks as most of you know

Ben's off on paternity leave right now so I've got a little bit more leeway to do

some do some chats with you guys and so I'm taking full advantage of that.

What I want to talk about today very quickly

is the concept of boosting your immune system

within the context of everything

that's going on in the world right now.

I'm seeing an awful lot of misinformation and what I would

refer to as like a cynical use of the current situation to try and sell things

that many people don't really need and this is all based around the idea of boosting your

immune system with specific nutrients or specific foods and so I just wanted to do a

bit of a chat to dispel a little bit of the misinformation that's going about right now and also

give you guys some practical advice that you can actually use to make sure that you're

in the best place possible. So the first concept that we need to go over is the idea of boosting your immune system in the first place.

So to boost something, you're doing one of two things.

You're either making it work better than it would ordinarily work, or you're assuming that it's not working

and you're trying to boost it up to where it should be. Now if you're talking about the second situation,

that's a perfectly reasonable thing to do. If your immune system is not working

optimally then you can definitely boost it in some way to make sure that it is. Of course I'm not discussing

people with conditions that require immunosopresence or things like this.

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