Fixing Sick
8 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAn exploration of the immune diseases that ail us and a path back to health
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Episodes
Episode 8. Prevention
October 29, 2021 14:14 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBWe 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.
Episode 7. Treatment
October 29, 2021 14:14 - 29 minutes - 27.7 MBDr. 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!
Episode 6. Microbiome
October 29, 2021 14:14 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBIt’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.
Episode 5. Immune System
October 29, 2021 14:14 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBArmed 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?
Episode 4. The Gut
October 29, 2021 14:13 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBThere 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.
Episode 3. The Skin
October 29, 2021 14:13 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBYour 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?
Episode 2. The Lungs
October 29, 2021 14:13 - 28 minutes - 26 MBYou 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.
Episode 1. Living Sick
October 29, 2021 14:13 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBIf 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.