Will vitamin c cure your cold?
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4.7 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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If you’re chugging orange juice or sipping chicken soup to battle colds, you might’ve been sold a bill of goods. Daniel M. Davis is head of life sciences and professor of immunology at Imperial College London. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the facts vs. myths of keeping your immune system healthy, why too strong an immune system might be detrimental, and the surprising remedies that actually work. His book is “Self-Defense: A Myth-Busting Guide to Immune Health.”
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| 0:45.7 | That's omg yes.com. If you tell people you feel a cold coming on, you will be advised to load up on vitamin C. |
| 1:04.1 | Give that immune system a boost, right? |
| 1:06.6 | If it can't hurt to grab an orange juice or pop a supplement, you should know there's |
| 1:11.1 | not a lot of evidence that it helps either. |
| 1:14.2 | From KERA in Dallas, this is think. |
| 1:16.8 | I'm Chris Boyd. |
| 1:18.6 | Human immune systems are like human fingerprints in that no two are exactly alike. |
| 1:23.7 | Our environment, genetics, lifestyle, and life history all shape how our bodies work to defend us from disease and sometimes overreact to make us sick. |
| 1:32.7 | It's a complex thing to study, but my guest has made a career of it. |
| 1:36.6 | And even if we don't fully grasp the workings of T cells and B cells and Bacophils, at the least, we can help ourselves by steering clear of commonly |
| 1:45.5 | held misconceptions. Daniel M. Davis is head of life sciences and professor of immunology at Imperial |
| 1:51.8 | College London. His book is called Self-Defense, a myth-busting guide to immune health. Dan, welcome |
| 1:57.8 | to think. Great. Hi, Chris. Thanks so much for having me. |
| 2:02.4 | What does good immune health mean to an immunologist? Oh, that's already a wonderful question. |
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