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Change Your Brain Every Day

How Does Vitamin C Boost Your Immune System? With Dr. Parris Kidd

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

You may have heard that taking vitamin C can help you feel better if you take it when you start getting sick. But did you know how vitamin C works in your body? In the second episode of a series with nutrition scientist Dr. Parris Kidd, supplement class is in session. Dr. Kidd, along with Dr. Daniel and Tana Amen, describe the role vitamin C plays in our immune system, and why it's so important for us to ensure our body has the proper levels of vitamin C to fight off illness and infection.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Brain Warrior's Way Podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tana Aaman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body.

0:19.0

The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast is brought to you by Aaman Clinics, where we have been transforming lives

0:26.0

for 30 years, using tools like brain-spect imaging to personalize treatment to your brain.

0:32.7

For more information,

0:34.1

visit Aaman Clinics.com.

0:35.9

The Brain Warriors Way Podcast is also brought to you by Brain MD

0:39.7

where we produce the highest quality nutraceuticals to support the health of your brain and body.

0:45.4

To learn more, go to brainMD.com.

0:49.6

Welcome back.

0:50.6

We are in immunity week, never a more pressing time to do this. We're here with our friend and colleague Dr. Paris Kid who is the chief science

1:06.8

officer at Brain and D. We just finished talking about Vitamin A and the lining of your lungs, the lining of your gut and how important

1:19.3

in vitamin A is for that. Paris, what else should people be thinking about?

1:26.0

Well, you brought up in the last segment, how do we arm the immune cells, right? Well, not only do we have to arm them, but we have to make

1:36.8

sure they can be mobile. And for them to be able to move alone requires that they have very high levels inside of

1:46.7

vitamin C and certain other water

1:53.4

water-phase, water phase antioxidants, but mostly Vitamin C.

1:58.2

If they have enough Vitamin C, that can actually back up

2:02.3

antioxidants that they may not have sufficient amounts of.

2:06.4

So they need Vitamin C to be mobile.

2:08.6

So if you set up a model, an experiment in which an immune cell is deprived of Vitamin C. First it's rolling along in the

2:17.2

Petri dish and then you take away the Vitamin C and it comes to a grinding heart.

2:21.2

Oh interesting.

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