Hey, this is Megan and Stacey with our first fun-size episode of Didn't I Just Feed You.

And these fun-size episodes will take 10 to 15 minutes today into a topic.

We'll jump in and we'll jump out.

And of course, we'll continue the conversation in our Didn't I Just Feed You listeners group on Facebook. We'll have one of these episodes a month, and we'll be announcing soon how you can get a second one every month, too. Woo-hoo! Sometimes it'll be both of us. Sometimes it might be one of us. We may even have a guest expert from time to time. So that's the story. And today we're going to jump right in. What's the deal with

immunity boosting foods? This is super appropriate because we are both sick. Both of our families are

sick. We're like muting in and out during recordings so we can cough. Right. It's the time of year

where everyone's talking about soups and broth and vitamin C and how can we boost our immune systems with food.

Stacey, do you feel like there is truth behind what you eat impacting your health when you're already sick?

This is like a loaded question and I did a little bit of research because I'm a big fat nerd.

So, listen, I don't believe that there has to be like qualified scientific research for

their, like for something to be true necessarily.

But I do think it's a really good reference point.

I understand that we don't always research things that

people have known for years and years and generations and generations, especially when it comes

to food and how that impacts our health. I do think that in general, if you are well-nourished,

if you have a good, healthy-balanced diet, that helps your immune system overall. If you're malnourished,

like if you hate vegetables and you never eat vegetables and you don't take vitamins,

although I question vitamins too, this is such a hard topic, you're more likely to get sick.

That's what I believe. Once you're sick, does Ginger make you better?

I'm not so sure I believe that.

But I also don't think it hurts because I think there are a lot of soothing qualities.

Yes.

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