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Immune Resilience: How the Microbiome Affects Immunity with Romilly Hodges

Dr. Kara Fitzgerald | New Frontiers in Functional Medicine, Longevity, Epigenetics

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How Do You Feed Your Mucus Layer?

A study in sell maga sel journal um, two thousand 16 and it was an animal study. They transplanted human microbes into the digestive tract of these mice. And nd, what they saw with the high fiber diet was this healthy layer of mucus and the digestive tract. But with the low fiber diet, they saw that degraded. Then when they introduced a path agin, they saw heightened susceptibility to that pathogen and increased levels of inflammation. That's such a good parol. Well, can you just throw out a thought on how we nourish that? Or when we start, we're going to talk about nutrients and so forth, do you want to bring it

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