How Age Influences Your Immune System

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 11 June 2020

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In this podcast, we’re going to talk about what happens to your immune system as you age. As you age, your risk of viral and bacterial infections increases dramatically.

This can happen because your microbiome changes. Your microbiome refers to all of the microbes living in your body. These microbes make up a great majority of your immune system, but they do a lot of other things as well.

As you age, you have less diversity of your microbiome, and you have more pathogenic bacteria. So, now you have a situation where you have more pathogens and less friendly bacteria. This can make you more susceptible to getting infections. You also won’t make a good quantity of butyrate, which is involved in helping support healthy blood sugars and a healthy immune system.

It’s very important as you age to maintain your gut flora. You may even want to consider taking a high-quality probiotic supplement.

Another thing is that your thymus gland shrinks as you age. The thymus is the key lymph gland that has to do with protecting and supporting the immune system. You may want to take zinc to help support the thymus gland and possibly a thymus extract as well to help boost the immune system.

As people get older, they typically start taking more medications. The medication that really destroys the microbiome is antibiotics. But, antacids, metformin, SSRIs, laxatives, and corticosteroids can have a negative impact on your microbiome as well.

As you age, you also have a more difficult time absorbing vitamin D. Vitamin D is one of the most important immune modulators, which helps control the immune system.

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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting
0:05.3	keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product,
0:10.6	call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557.
0:21.6	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Let's talk about what happens to your immune system when you age. As you age,
0:48.6	your risk factor goes up dramatically for viral and bacterial infections. And the reason why is that the microbiome changes.
1:00.0	That is a term to describe collectively all the microbes living in your body. They're there to make
1:06.7	up a great majority of your immune system. And they do a lot of other things, too, like make
1:11.4	vitamins, but I want to focus on the immune factor. As you age, the microbes age as well. You get
1:18.3	less diversity. You have more pathogenic bacteria. So we get this ratio of more pathogens and less
1:26.8	friendly bacteria, and that makes you more susceptible to getting
1:30.8	infections. Also, if you don't have the diversity of microbes, you're not going to make the
1:35.9	quantity of butyrate. And buterate is involved in helping someone with insulin resistance
1:41.0	and their blood sugars. Also, it has a connection into supporting a healthy
1:44.8	immune system. On the flip side, a baby who's getting breast milk is getting a tremendous amount
1:50.9	of good bacteria in that breast milk, not to mention immune factors, antimicrobials, colostrum,
1:59.5	which is building his or her immune system. It's very, very important
2:03.5	as you age to maintain your gut flora and even take a very high quality probiotic.
2:10.8	Now, the second thing to know is that babies and children have a huge thymus gland. The thymus gland is not the thyroid. The thyroid is in the
2:20.9	front part of the neck. The thymus is a little bit lower, right underneath your sternum, right on top of the
2:26.0	heart. The thymus is the key lymph gland having to do with the training camp for your white blood
2:31.7	cells. They're also a reservoir for a lot of your immune cells.
2:36.2	If a major infection happens, your body will recruit a lot of those T cells, T standing for thymus,
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