Food, Fat, and Your Immune System | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Learn how your diet can be the first line of defense for your immune system.
Dr. Neal Barnard shares the foods that can help prevent the common cold and flu as well as the foods that roll out the red carpet for infection.
He joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll with tips to stay healthy and answer questions during this live Q&A on The Exam Room LIVE.
- Best foods for boosting the immune system
- Foods that weaken the immune system
- How fat affects the immune system
- Nutrients that help the immune system
- Plus, other diet and health questions!
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 | You draw blood sample. |
| 0:01.0 | What you see under a microscope |
| 0:02.6 | is all these red blood cells. |
| 0:04.3 | There are little inner tubes all looking red. |
| 0:07.1 | But here and there, mixed with them are white blood cells. |
| 0:10.9 | They are there to defend you. |
| 0:12.7 | And then your question is like a very good one. |
| 0:15.2 | What the heck does food have to do with it? |
| 0:17.0 | And so researchers have started to look at how fatty junk |
| 0:20.1 | in the diet might affect the white blood cells' |
| 0:22.1 | abilities to work. |
| 0:23.0 | Bottom line, white cells don't work so hot in their oils. |
| 0:25.5 | Like does garlic help, does vitamin C help, does zinc help. |
| 0:29.4 | All of them get kind of a qualified, possibly. |
| 0:33.2 | But hopefully we'll be able to tease that apart |
| 0:34.7 | in today's moment. |
| 0:35.6 | MUSIC |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you |
| 0:43.4 | by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:45.2 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:48.3 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us. |
| 0:52.8 | This is episode 71 of season 4, number 266 overall. |
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