Vitamin C helps fuel our immune cells, like our white blood cells. And actually, humans don't make

vitamin C. We have to get everything from the diet. But like sugar has the opposite effect.

It does, you know, slow down your immune system. So many things that we do are impacting and

supporting our gut and therefore immune health as well.

That's Fisanna Nasser. As a nutritionist, she can help ensure your immune system is robust

enough to cope with winter colds and flus. Hello, I'm Liz Earle and this is the Lizal

Wellbeing Show, the podcast helping all of us have a better second half.

You know full well that my mission is to find ways for all of us to thrive in our later life by investing, putting a little bit of time into our health and our well-being today.

Now, this is the time of the year when there'll always be at least one member of the family and the workplace who's a bit run down.

There's always a cough, a cold, some sniffles, quote, going around, isn't there?

Well, for that reason, all this month we are focusing on seasonal immunity.

What is it about this time of year that makes us all feel a bit under the weather?

And how can we bolster our defences to give ourselves

the best chance of fighting it off or indeed preferably avoiding it in the first place. Well, Fazana

Nasser is a nutritionist and a certified functional medicine practitioner specialising in gut and

immune health. She's also had her own experience with autoimmune conditions.

I want to know what we should be putting on our plates each day to build a healthy immune system

and whether we need to be changing what we eat, drink and supplement with if and when we do fall ill.

Fasanna, thank you so much for joining me today.

You know, some people might well recognise your name from some of the brilliant pieces that you've written for the Lizelle Wellbeing website in the past. And, you know, as so often is the case, you have your own backstory

when it comes to immunity, which we will come to in a bit. But to start off, why is it that around

this time of year, as we head into the winter, everyone just seems to have a constant low-level cough, cold or even

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