Episode 5. Immune System

We are not condemned to immune disease, and to a large extent they are preventable. Learn from Dr. Julia Getzelman and Dr. Kyra Naumoff-Shields what steps you can take to reduce your and your children's risk of immune disease.

Dr. Brian Schroer walks us through the treatments we have today to calm the immune system, to shut down the malfunctioning system, and to retrain the immune system, while Dr Julia Getzelman introduces us to the integrative medicine approach to treatment.  We are farther along than you think!

It’s not just a buzzword to sell you probiotics. Your microbiome is at the root of immune dysfunction. Dr. Kyle Bittinger and Dr. Carina Venter explain exactly how dysbiosis - or a broken microbiome -- causes immune disease.

Armed with an understanding of what’s going wrong in immune diseases, we speak to Dr. Dominic Beal about why the immune system is malfunctioning. What changed in the last 30 years to cause all this illness?

There are so many immune diseases of the gut, we can’t cover them all. Dr. Benjamin Wright and Dr. Marc Rothenberg help us understand allergic diseases and barrier dysfunction of the gut, along with the far-reaching implications of gut disease.

Your skin is your largest single immune organ. Dr. Zelma Chiesa helps us understand immune diseases of the skin and the ways they overlap with other lung diseases, and introduces us to the critical debate -- where do immune diseases originate?

You stop breathing, you die. Yet our immune systems can act out to make it impossible to breathe. Dr. Payel Gupta and Dr. David Lederer help us begin to understand immune diseases with their expertise on the lungs.

If you’ve ever asked, “Why does everyone have allergies?”, you are not alone. Food allergies, asthma, ADHD, Type 1 Diabetes, IBS, eczema, Crohn's disease, and more affect up to 30% of Americans. What’s the common link? They are all diseases of the immune system, and they are all deadly.