This week on Season 2, Episode 7 of the Evolution of Medicine, we take a deeper and more personal dive into immune resilience and the COVID vaccines, a topic that, five years later, continues to shape our work, our patients, and our health system. In the News: A UK Decision That Should Concern Everyone

A recent report from the UK announced that public health authorities will not be releasing records that could clarify whether the COVID vaccines were associated with the rise in excess deaths. Their stated reason: It might create privacy issues and emotional distress for grieving families. As someone who lost my mother three months after her COVID vaccination in the UK in June 2021, I want to be extremely clear: There is nothing more important to bereaved families than the truth. Understanding what happened is not traumatic, it is healing, clarifying, and necessary for public trust. I share a brief personal reflection in the episode, not to stoke controversy, but to highlight the human cost of opacity and why functional medicine practitioners must continue to be leaders in evidence-based immune resilience. Clinical Deep Dive: The Most Important COVID Talk You've Never Seen In the clinical corner, we pivot to what I believe was a critical education session made early in the pandemic: Dr. Ari Vodjii's April 16, 2020 lecture on immune resilience. It outlined, early and brilliantly, the patterns of immune dysregulation that would go on to shape the entire COVID era. And yet… we didn't listen. In the episode, we break down one pivotal slide that every practitioner needs to know cold—a framework that explains:

how host resilience determines patient outcomes
how metabolic fragility and chronic inflammation amplify viral severity

This alone is worth the listen.

Samantha Crain [Performance & Interview Only]