Hello and welcome to series inquiries only this is episode 409 I'm your host Thomas Smith

and joining me today is Dr Rick we're sick with Dr Rick or how to try to not get sick

with Dr Rick I don't know we'll figure it out either way Dr Rick Sullivan is a

synthetic biologist with a Ph.D. in immunology we had that really fun

conversation about the immune system last time with the you know with the

vampires and the whatever else the zombies all that stuff well this time and

in time for you know you might be doing some holiday travel right now or in the

next week or two that's a time especially around the holidays people are

worried about getting sick I remember emergency for example was the thing I

used to take back in college as someone who's in theater is a way to avoid

getting sick at the wrong time well does that stuff work does vitamin C work does

emergency work is that any good Dr Rick's gonna take us through it and some

really interesting related questions we had some good questions from patrons

this time as a reminder on patreon.com slash series pod we post the interviews

what we're gonna do ahead of time and give patrons a chance to ask questions and

there are some great ones this time so thank you so much like for example are

gender differences in how people get sick possibly or is there such a thing as

an immune debt you know where you're sick with one thing and so you're not as

good at defending against another virus but the main topic is that kind of

emergency vitamin C boost idea and the answer may surprise you so let's get to

the interview but first once again a reminder please pledge at patreon.com slash

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