As you race toward the end of the year, supporting your immune system is more important than ever.

Today, we'll learn some steps you can take to support a healthy immune system every day.

Welcome back to Essential Oil Solutions with Dutera, the podcast where you'll hear exciting,

useful, and simple everyday uses for essential oils from experts in the field.

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or visit dotara.com slash podcast offer to learn more. Open to U.S. orders only. Today we're excited to talk to Alex DeBelle, Director

of Nutraceutical Development and Innovation, about how to support your immune system. Plus,

we'll take a look at the oils inside of our balance blend. Alex, thank you so much for being here with us today.

You bet.

Happy to join you.

We are so excited to have you, and I want to jump right in with my first question of

how does my metabolic health affect my immune system?

Yeah, this is a great question.

You know, when we think about metabolic health, usually we're thinking like the calories that we consume and the calories that we burn. But metabolic health is much broader than that, actually. It really relates to how our cells are functioning. So the energy that our cells are consuming and generating,

and then the proteins and enzymes that those cells are synthesizing. So then the question becomes,

how does this metabolic process influence the immune system? Well, the immune system is our body's

primary defense against our external environment. So we think of like pathogens or organisms that can harm us.

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