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Today we're diving into our immune health. You can think of your immune system as your body's personal physician,

diligently working around the clock to monitor, detect and repair anything that might disrupt your health.

However, because this system is often seamless and silent, we can take it for granted.

So how can we better support our internal MD?

Immunologist Jenna Machoki joins me to explore how simple everyday actions,

from what we eat to how we breathe,

can profoundly enhance our immune health.

If I asked you to say, like, where is your digestive system? You could probably point to the

location on your body. If I ask you to point to where your immune system is, you might not know where...

I'm literally like, I don't...

Yeah, but that's because it's everywhere.

Okay.

From your brain to your big toe, it's absolutely everywhere. And that's because essentially it's

helping keep your body safe. So it has to be everywhere. It's really enriched at the barriers to our body, so, you know,

under your skin, because that's exposed to the environment, the lining of your nose, the lining

of your mouth, all the way down your digestive tract, you have huge numbers of immune cells

that are fortifying those barriers because those barriers are very delicate. So the airway

lining and the digestive track lining, they're very delicate and that serves a function that helps us

exchange oxygen when we breathe, it helps us digest our food and absorb nutrients. But we need to

have that extra fortification because that's vulnerable. You know, we can inhale germs or swallow germs

and that could make us sick. So you will find immune cells everywhere. They're also swimming around

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