Probiotics for the Immune System | Ep 126

The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast

Erin Holt

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.9 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Short and sweet one for ya today, friends. This episode will serve as a living resource that gets right to the meat of answering the question, “Should you take probiotics for your immune system?” Erin breaks down probiotic misconceptions, how they work to affect our immune system and how to support your body when rebuilding a healthy gut microbiome. In this episode: -Why you shouldn’t wait until you’re feeling sick to work on your immune system [2:18] -The common misconception about probiotics [4:07] -Colonization resistance: what this is, what it does and why Erin relates this to the Great Woods parking lot [5:02] -How probiotics help to create an unfavorable environment for the growth of gut pathogens [7:20] -The connection between probiotics and Treg cells, and how this helps make our immune system efficient and healthy [8:12] -The probiotic Erin recommends for most people, and why [11:09] -The two most common questions Erin gets about probiotics [13:55] -The three Ps to remember when rebuilding your gut microbiome [16:07] Resources mentioned in this episode: Bio-kult Boosted probiotic (enter code FUNK20 for 20% off!) https://www.bio-kult.com/bio-kult-boosted/p9 Organifi Immune support powder (enter code FUNK for 15% off!) https://www.organifi.com/FUNK Follow Erin on Insta https://www.instagram.com/the.funktional.nutritionist/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Functional Nutrition Podcast.
0:05.3	I'm your host, Aaron Holt.
0:07.0	I'm a functional medicine nutritionist with a feisty attitude in over a decade of clinical experience.
0:13.0	I work with women all over the world through my online programs, and I'm also the founder of
0:18.5	the Functional Nutrition Academy, a 12-month practitioner mentorship
0:22.5	where I help other nutrition pros level up with functional medicine methodologies.
0:28.1	I've got a bone to pick with diet culture and the conventional healthcare model that are both
0:32.8	systematically failing so many of us. Creating a new model is my life's work, and this is what the show's
0:39.4	all about. Please keep in mind this podcast is created for educational purposes only and should
0:45.5	never be used as a replacement for medical diagnosis or treatment. If you like what you hear today,
0:51.2	I'd love for you to subscribe, leave a review in iTunes,
0:54.6	share with a friend, and keep coming back for more. Thanks for joining me. Now let's dive deep.
1:02.8	Hey friends, happy almost Thanksgiving, depending on when you're listening to this. So today I'm
1:09.6	getting right into it, Probiotics for the
1:12.3	immune system. This is going to be a shorter episode. This is not like a comprehensive deep dive.
1:17.7	I've had to rein myself back in when I was creating the notes for today's show because there's
1:24.9	so many different ways I can explore this topic and so many different
1:28.2	things that I can say. But really the point of creating today's show is to have a living
1:34.1	resource that is short to the point and answers the question directly. I am not the type of person
1:42.7	who's going to help you when you're like, oh, just
1:44.9	tell me what to do. I'm like, no, I'm going to help you get to your own answer. But today's
1:48.7	really like a just tell me what to do podcast. So the question that I'm attempting to answer is,
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