Boosting Immunity and Reducing COVID Risk with Dr. Aseem Malhotra PH164

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Dr. Aseem Malhotra is a cardiologist with the U.K.’s National Health Service and a world renowned expert in the prevention, diagnosis and management of heart disease. He is a visiting Professor of Evidence Based Medicine at the Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health in Salvador, Brazil, an honorary council member to the Metabolic Psychiatry Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine California, and is Cardiology MSc examiner at the University of Hertfordshire, U.K. Dr. Malhotra is a longtime health activist and a founding member and lead campaigner of Action on Sugar, an initiative which highlights the the harm caused by excess sugar consumption. Most recently, he has been a vocal advocate for improving metabolic health to reduce vulnerability to disease, including COVID-19, and has authored the book The 21-Day Immunity Plan: How to Rapidly Improve Your Metabolic Health and Resilience to Fight Infection. Dr. Aseem and I recently sat down to chat about the link between metabolic health and immune function, ways we can improve our own immunity, and why turning the tide in the fight against poor metabolic health will take more than just personal responsibility.

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0:00.0	I think a lot of doctors kind of know this but it's never really been at the
0:04.5	forefront of their minds until now is we know for example that you know people who
0:10.4	have hyperglucose of types of diabet more, you know, have worse outcomes from any infection, specifically respiratory infections.
0:17.0	So when I started looking in the literature and also looking at how immune health links to excess body fat obesity and type to diabetes
0:24.4	pre-Covid the data was very clear that this is a big risk factor for you know a
0:30.7	dysregulated immune system an immune system that isn't going to function properly.
0:34.4	So it wasn't just about the associations that we were drawing from COVID-19 and worse outcomes. Hello and
0:45.0	welcome to pursuing help. I'm Dr. Julie Fushe, family physician and former cross-fit-A
0:50.0	here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap between fitness and medicine and support your journey toward your healthiest self.
0:58.0	Thank you so much for joining me. Now let's get started with this week's episode.
1:03.6	In this episode I sit down with Dr. Asim Malhotra, who is a cardiologist with the UK's
1:08.6	National Health Service and also a world-renowned expert in the prevention diagnosis and management of heart disease.
1:15.2	He's a longtime health activist and a founding member and lead campaigner of Action on Sugar,
1:20.2	which is an initiative which highlights the harm caused by access sugar consumption.
1:24.3	Dr. Malhotra has been published in numerous research journals including the
1:28.3	BMJ, British Journal of Sports Medicine, BMJ Open Heart and Jama Internal Medicine, as well as print and broadcast media in outlets
1:36.1	like The Guardian and Observer, BBC, Huffington Post, and the Washington Post.
1:41.0	His first book, The Piappi Diet, has become an international bestseller and most recently he's become a very
1:46.5	vocal advocate for the importance of improving metabolic health in order to reduce our vulnerability
1:51.8	to infection, including COVID-19.
1:54.0	And he's authored the book, The 21-Day Immunity Plan,
1:57.0	How to Rapidly Improve Your metabolic Health and Resilience
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