How Stress Impacts Your Immune System

Mark Hyman

Sep 2, 2024

Episode description

Did you know chronic stress can age your immune system faster than almost anything else? In this episode, I dive into the fascinating world of immune and lymph health with some of the leading experts in the field, including Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr. Gerald Lemole, and Dr. Leonard Calabrese. We explore how stress, diet, and lifestyle can either rejuvenate or break down your immune defenses, leading to a host of chronic conditions. Learn practical, science-backed strategies to boost your immune resilience, reduce inflammation, and keep your body’s defenses in top shape.

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Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:

How To Reset Your Immune System At A Cellular Level

Why Our Neglected Lymph System Is A Key To Optimal Health

The Secrets to Creating a Healthy Immune System

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Episode description

Did you know chronic stress can age your immune system faster than almost anything else? In this episode, I dive into the fascinating world of immune and lymph health with some of the leading experts in the field, including Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr. Gerald Lemole, and Dr. Leonard Calabrese. We explore how stress, diet, and lifestyle can either rejuvenate or break down your immune defenses, leading to a host of chronic conditions. Learn practical, science-backed strategies to boost your immune resilience, reduce inflammation, and keep your body’s defenses in top shape.

View Show Notes From This Episode

Get Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. Hyman

Sign Up for Dr. Hyman’s Weekly Longevity Journal

Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:

How To Reset Your Immune System At A Cellular Level

Why Our Neglected Lymph System Is A Key To Optimal Health

The Secrets to Creating a Healthy Immune System

This episode is brought to you by Mitopure, Eudemonia, SleepMe, and Sunlighten.

Support essential mitochondrial health and save 10% on Mitopure. Visit TimelineNutrition.com/Drhyman and use code DRHYMAN10.

For the full lineup and to purchase a ticket, visit Eudemonia.net.

Customize your sleep with ChiliPad. Visit Sleep.me/DRHYMAN and save up to $315 with code DRHYMAN.

Right now, you can save up to $600 on a Sunlighten infrared sauna. Just go to http://sunlighten.com/mark-hyman and mention my name.

Mindsip insights from this episode:

Consume stressed plants to activate healing systems

Eating plants that have been stressed by their environment is like consuming a little bit of adversity, which in turn activates your body's own healing and defense systems.

Incorporate five-minute walks every hour to boost vitality over gym sessions

For sedentary office workers, getting up to walk for five minutes every hour was found to be more beneficial for vitality and mood than a single 30-minute gym session.

Address blocked lymphatics to prevent heart disease

Early heart transplant patients developed rapidly aging arteries, a phenomenon later linked in animal studies to blocked lymphatic vessels, which are crucial for clearing cholesterol from the arterial wall.

Balance exercise intensity to optimize immunity

Immunity follows a J-curve with exercise, where being sedentary is bad, moderate exercise is optimal for building strength, and extreme exercise like ultramarathons can be harmful.

Hug more to boost protection against colds

In a controlled study, people who hugged more were better protected from developing a cold, even when directly inoculated with a cold virus.

Practice gratitude journaling to enhance heart function

A study found that patients with congestive heart failure who practiced gratitude journaling for six weeks showed improved ventricular function, meaning their hearts pumped better.

Stimulate chest lymphatic flow through foot massage

Massaging your feet can stimulate lymphatic flow in your chest's thoracic duct, a connection that traditional Chinese medicine utilizes but is not well understood by Western models.

Utilize Himalayan Tartary Buckwheat to reverse biological age

Preliminary data on Himalayan Tartary Buckwheat, which contains over 132 unique phytochemicals, has shown it can reverse biological age by rejuvenating the immune system.

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