Ask Us Anything: Can you boost your immune system?

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Check out the first episode of Ask Us Anything, a brand new podcast from the editors of Popular Science! Claire and Jess dive into whether you can boost your immune system, giving it ninja-like capabilities to vanquish any infectious critter that crosses its path. Click here to subscribe to Ask Us Anything's feed! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ask-us-anything-by-popular-science/id1556759897 Ask Us Anything is a bite-sized show that answers your most outlandish, mind-burning questions—from what the universe is made of to why not everyone can touch their toes. If you like The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week, we promise you’ll love Ask Us Anything—and you’ll hear a few familiar voices on it, too! Check out new episodes of Ask Us Anything every Tuesday and Thursday wherever you get your podcasts. -- Follow AUA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AskPopSciPod Hosted by Claire Maldarelli: https://twitter.com/camaldarelli Produced by Jess Boddy: https://twitter.com/JessicaBoddy Music by Billy Cadden: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LqT4DCuAXlBzX8XlNy4Wq Art by Katie Belloff: https://twitter.com/Katie_Bellz --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/popular-science/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Ask Us Anything where popular science answers your most outlandish
0:11.1	mind-burning questions from what the universe is made of to why not everyone can touch their
0:16.3	toes.
0:17.3	I'm your host Claire Malderelli.
0:19.3	I'm your producer, Jess Bodie.
0:22.2	Let's dive into today's question.
0:24.4	Yeah, so this week's question is, can I boost my immune system?
0:30.4	Oh, right.
0:31.7	Yes. Everyone wants to be that person who never gets sick.
0:35.9	I think of myself as someone who rarely gets colds, but don't want to brag.
0:41.6	You definitely know at least one of those people, the person in that office, oh my gosh,
0:46.3	remember office life.
0:47.3	Yeah, barely.
0:48.3	Really?
0:49.3	Right.
0:50.3	Who somehow skips the bug that's traveling from cubicle to cubicle or the one that doesn't
0:55.2	come down with a cold even when the entire family falls victim?
0:59.5	And considering we're still in the throes of a pretty severe, I would say, viral pandemic.
1:05.5	Yeah, pretty severe, just a little.
1:08.1	Yeah, yeah.
1:09.1	Shoring up that kind of apparent super immunity feels even more imperative.
1:14.7	So it's an enticing idea.
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