Best Ways to Support Immune Health - Dr. G's Quick Health Tip | EP 354.B

The Dr. Gundry Podcast

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Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Talk Radio

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

I dive into the core principles of a robust immune system and reveal how the battlefield in your gut can leave you vulnerable to viral and bacterial infections. But there’s no need to worry because I share valuable insights into safeguarding your health. Plus, I reveal the eye-opening truth about the threats of sugar and fructose lurking in seemingly 'healthy' foods - and how they may be compromising your immune health.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dr. Gundry podcast, where Dr. Stephen Gundry shares his groundbreaking research from over 25 years of treating patients with diet and lifestyle changes alone.
0:11.1	Dr. Gundry and other wellness experts offer inspiring stories, the latest scientific advancements, and practical tips to empower you to take control of your health and live a long, happy life.
0:23.9	All right, it's that time of year, and it's time to talk about the best ways to support immune health.
0:31.5	Now, what the heck does it mean to have good immune health?
0:35.9	Well, believe it or not, our immune system is there primarily for two
0:41.7	reasons. Number one, to protect you against foreign invaders. And for the most part, those foreign
0:51.0	invaders are bacteria and viruses. Now, there's all sorts of other very uncommon
0:58.4	foreign invaders, but let's keep it simple. And our immune system was basically designed
1:04.7	to handle foreign invaders, bacteria, and viruses.
1:19.9	Now, the other thing our immune system was designed for was to recognize odd cells,
1:24.9	and let's call them cancer cells or even pre-malignant cells,
1:35.1	recognize that these cells are odd, and find a way of destroying that odd cell before it becomes a real problem for you. So, bacterian viruses, foreign invaders, and odd looking cells,
1:48.2	let's call them pre-cancer or even cancerous cells, those are the two things that your immune
1:54.9	system was designed to tackle. An easy way to think of the immune system is your white blood cells. That's really
2:05.9	simplistic and almost naive, but when I'm talking to my patients, white blood cells resonates
2:14.6	because most of us get our white blood cell count measured.
2:20.7	There are multiple types of white blood cells, just as there are immune cells that we
2:27.7	don't routinely measure, but we can count them as a transplant surgeon and transplant
2:33.9	immunologist. I was very interested in measuring
2:37.8	the types of immune cells that normally aren't counted in your blood count. But they're all there
2:44.6	for a purpose and each set of immune cells, and let's just call them white blood cells,
2:50.8	have different capabilities
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