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Chasing Life

Is Your Immune System Ready for Fall? Here’s How to Support It

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.47.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Can years teaching in a classroom make you less likely to get sick? Dr. Sanjay Gupta answers a listener’s question about immunity and shares smart strategies for supporting your immune system as cold and flu season kicks off. Plus, how you can get better sleep – and more of it – this fall.   Our show is produced by Eryn Mathewson, Jennifer Lai, Grace Walker, Lori Galaretta, Jesse Remedios, Sofia Sanchez, Kyra Dahring, and Madeleine Thompson.    Medical Writer: Andrea Kane   Showrunner: Amanda Sealy   Senior Producer: Dan Bloom   Technical Director: Dan Dzula  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Paging Dr. Gupta. This is the place I get to tackle your health questions and you've been sending quite a few my way.

0:09.0

Jennifer, one of our producers, is joining us today. Welcome, Jen. Who do we have first?

0:14.0

Hey, Sanjay. Today's question is from a listener who's been wondering about going back to school,

0:20.0

which feels especially relevant

0:21.8

to me too since my daughter's about to start daycare. Have a listen. Hi, my name is Gina,

0:27.7

and I'm calling from Southern California. I'm a teacher who I've been teaching for around 25 years.

0:34.5

And I was just wondering, do teachers tend to build up an immunity over the years,

0:39.9

or does it just depend on the germs going around that season? Besides the flu shot,

0:45.8

is there anything else that teachers can do to boost their immune system as they're going

0:51.4

back to school? Thanks a lot, love the shell.

0:54.5

Jaya, thanks a lot for this question. You know, I think a lot of people are thinking about

0:58.2

their immune systems, maybe even more so as we head into fall, head into school season.

1:03.8

So I've been thinking about this as well, and I'm going to tell you what you need to know

1:08.1

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