Feeding immunity

For the immune system, fighting infections is like running a marathon. You can’t buy super fast trainers for your T cells, but can changing your diet change your immune response? Lydia Lynch’s lab at Harvard is looking at how what we eat effects what our immune cells can do.

[akscience]

"Just make sure you give the scientists a decent lunch at the conference"... lol

[kodiakbear]

Broca's. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)

[margueriteoreilly]

100 percent....our foods and air we intake,
Feeds are Cells,
It makes sense
Belfast Ireland 🇮🇪

[Grateful.For.Everything]

I literally ate a honeybun as I watched this lol. 🙄 thanks for the reminder that I really do need to eat better and maybe now I might, 🤷🏻‍♂️, that’s for me to find out as well lol. Anyhow, I think this is one of those things we chose to unremember somehow. Like we just slowly forget about the fact that we do remember something until one day, we have that “oh, now I remember” moment. Where the hell has that memory been all that time?
~ I gotta eat more veggies

[rjung_ch]

I've heard often that sugar abuse causes cancer. My intake has been drastically cut back for years now, right after I read about it.

[TheBillNye]

So we need to eat well to give our bodies the best chance at staying healthy. That makes sense, but things should we be eating?

[lucasmontec]

Sometimes you actually do understand it and still choose to die a bit more

[zahrasattari]

The main translator of a healthy diet into a healthy immune system, in the human body is the gut microbiota. Keep it healthy! Take a lot of fibre, avoid refined sugars, refined carbohydrates and refined oils..

[VR_Wizard]

So which foods should I avoid then. All animal based fets meaning no butter no cheese? Does eating animal proteins is also bad? I guess i need to read the paper but there is no link in the show notes.

[ajmllr]

Can you provide some data, perhaps some citations or evidence to support this?
If you have seen this, please show us.

[a.s.m.islamulhoquelaskar]

Did you provide processed animal fats to the rat or the grass fed animal fat, because that has huge effect depending on the source of animal fat

[vanshikamukheja]

Indian Echinacea Capsules have improved my overall vitality. I feel healthier and more balanced.

[cariyaputta]

High fat diets are obesigenic? I thought it was because of sugar/carbonhydrate, not so much of fat?

[jprandom]

I think there is much space for improvement in the video. You can not define “fats” simply as the enemy. Avocados are full of fats, a good salmon is full of fats, and nuts are a source of fats. Especially when discussing a healthy diet, the differentiation of high monosaturated fats and the role of sugar is important to define.
My best wishes

[rafa_beirigo]

I kinda follow Bulletproof Diet, and haven't had any cold or anything for a couple years now... No meat, but eggs, rice, popcorn, and lots and lots of butter for satiety (homemade ghee (boil until the milky goo coalesces, and remove it; eat the oil)), with intermittent fasting. Pizza or fast food on cheat weekends

[elbowroom]

And the unvarnished fact is that medical education provides utterly inadequate training on the surfeit of knowledge regarding best nutritional practices for preventing disease in the first place. Glad to hear that this investigator has come to the recognition that a plant-based, whole-food, high fiber diet actually provides the best opportunity for avoiding future ill health.

[jaypaans]

Yes, more people. That's exactly what this planet needs!

[watchSophie]

While this is an interesting addition to the way we look at the immune system, I feel like clarifying that eating 'healthy' is not a cure for illness. Genetics, environment and so many other factors play a part in why people get cancer. Vaccines help the immunesystem and lower the risk for fatal diseases.

[catamie]

I'm going to be a vegetarian tonight

[ultraveridical]

But mice didn't evolve to eat animals.