Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

So today we're going to talk about what exercise can do to your immune system.

If you're doing regular consistent exercise, you can greatly enhance your immune system.

Number one, you'll have in heightened immune surveillance.

Now, what does that mean?

Well, on the internal part of your body, you have a barrier.

It's all the internal skin.

And the size of that surface area would be about 400 square meters.

The size of two tennis courts.

And so you have immune cells, the colfagocytes, that are guards that do surveillance.

And they are constantly looking for invaders, pathogens to actually come across the barrier,

to attack them and eat them.

So exercise will enhance your phagocytes protection and your defense mechanism.

Number two, it'll increase lymph circulation.

What is the lymphatic system?

Well, you have a circulatory system where blood is traveling through your arteries

and then it goes down into these small little capillaries,

where the blood then can cross into your tissues and it forms lymph.

So the lymph system is like your backup system to the circulatory system.

Then it goes all through the body through your lymph system, where then it dumps back into the circulatory system.

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