On today's episode of the Real Foodology podcast.

When we think of autoimmunity, it suggests that people become allergic to themselves.

Somehow one Monday morning they wake up and their body hates themselves.

And that's actually not true.

What happens is that the body has developed in response to a perception that it's under attack from something.

That's something, maybe even a non-materialistic

thing like trauma post-traumatic stress so it's not just chemical exposures it's also psychological exposures

environmental and radiation exposures and all of those can be captured by your immune system

to remember them as bad experiences that live longer than the experience.

Hi, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the Real Foodology podcast. I am so excited that

you're here today. And today's episode is a really, really great one. So I sat down with Dr.

Jeffrey Bland, who is frequently referred to as the father of functional medicine.

He's also an iconic figure in the establishment and growth of the natural products industry,

and his goal is to change the global conversation about immunity and get people thinking

about personalization in an entirely new way. It was such an honor for me to have him on the

podcast. If you guys

have been listening to this podcast for a while or following me on real foodology, you know how

important I find functional medicine to be. I talk about it on a lot of my episodes. It is a

root cause way of looking at our current disease model. Right now we are putting band-aids over things and we're not looking

at the root cause and functional medicine and that's where that comes in actually looks at the

whole body and the way the body works in symbiosis and attempts to get to the root cause and looks

at diet lifestyle traumas that you've been through, your emotional state, your social life,

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