575: Is Your Immune System Broken with Dr Gary Kaplan
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Do you get sick easily? Do you catch every cold and flu that comes through town? This could be due to a depleted immune system or even chronic immune deficiency. This is more common than most people realize, and for a number of lifestyle and environmental reasons, it’s a growing problem with a glaring lack of medical support or recognition. On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet a doctor who focuses on boosting the immune system and treating those with immune problems.
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- How fecal transplants can help with extreme gut problems
- Why cardio and strength exercise and sleep are the foundations for immune health
- Genetic ApoE test
- Genetics vs. epigenetic influence on our health
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Gary Kaplan, D.O., is a clinical associate professor at Georgetown University, director of the Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine. He’s the author of two books, Total Recovery and Why You Are Still Sick are available on Amazon.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you or some friend or family member ever gotten ill and then you recover and then |
| 0:07.2 | you get ill again and it seems to be this vicious cycle maybe it's the same thing that |
| 0:11.7 | comes back like chronic sinusitis or some kind of gastrointestinal infection or maybe it |
| 0:18.0 | just seems like you get every bug that comes through town. |
| 0:21.5 | First is the sinuses, then it's your throat, then it's your gut and it just never seems |
| 0:26.4 | to go away. Many of us are suffering from a chronically impaired immune system and a growing |
| 0:33.5 | percentage of people have autoimmune conditions often undiagnosed and it's really difficult |
| 0:38.8 | to get a diagnosis, to get proper information and in some cases even to get taken seriously |
| 0:43.8 | by your doctor. On this week's podcast you will meet Gary Kaplan who works specifically on |
| 0:49.0 | autoimmunity, long COVID post-limes disease and all kinds of other lingering immunosuppression |
| 0:55.2 | conditions including autoimmune conditions. Hopefully this will be helpful for you. |
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