Welcome back to Essential Oil Solutions with Dotaura.

At this time of year, when environmental threats are high,

we know that many of you are looking for natural ways to help support your immune system.

So we're excited to bring you the strong all-season education series.

These episodes will be focusing on all the ways you can keep your body working the best it

can so that you're able to stay strong all season.

Hi, everyone, it's Dr. Hill.

I'm really happy to be with you.

I'm working in my office today, as you can see.

And I wanted to have a few minutes with you where I could

talk with you about how your body protects itself. Of course, the immune system. And I think about it

in three different ways, protection, strengthen, and then respond. We probably move through that continuum

or in various places in that continuum at many different times.

And I've also thought about how does the body protect itself by the barriers that we have.

And so I think about internal environments of immunity and I think about external environments of

immunity. And internally, if we look at it that way, it's pretty easy to understand.

We have mucus layers that offer protection for us.

We have stomach acid that offers protection for us.

We have, of course, the gut, the intestinal flora, and that's a really important element

to remember, is it plays a significant role in immunity.

We also have specialized cells within the body.

So we have immune cells.

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