Nutritional biochemist Jeffrey Bland explains how B cells in your immune system talk to your muscles through the liver. A healthy immune system helps prevent muscle loss and boost gains during training, while an imbalanced one impairs these signals. Diet supports this immune-muscle connection.
If I told you that your immune system affected how you were gonna respond to exercise and how you were gonna manage your muscle mass, would you be surprised? Well, that's what I'm telling you. Dr. Jeff Bland, nutritional biochemist. I'm here to kinda report the latest finding that the immune system is directly connected and communicating with your muscles. And in fact, you could exercise, and in so doing, you could produce a lot of pain, and you could not do much good to your muscle Composition. Or if you have an immune system that's aligned and in healthy state of resilience, then it's speaking to your muscles in such a way as to do things like prevent muscle loss, that's sarcopenia, or to improve muscle gain as it would occur with trained exercise. Yes, that's the most recent discoveries that the immune system is in direct communication Within your muscles. Yes, you have an immune system within your muscles, and it's communicating with the immune status throughout the whole of the body. So here is a recent paper just coming from a very prominent journal, talks about one cell type of your immune system, which are the antibody-producing cells called the B cells, B like the letter B. And this, in this article, the summary says, B cells just got a workout. And what they're finding is What we're saying here is that the status of your immune-producing antibodies in your body coming from the B cells are communicating through your liver as to how to send a message to your muscles. This is systems biology. So if you have an imbalanced immune system, if you have a tired, worn-out B cell architecture, then it's gonna influence this intercommunication between the immune system, the liver, that then directs certain aspects of amino acids and metabolism that associate themselves with muscle mass. Isn't this fascinating? Fascinating how we're learning how the body works as a system. It's not isolated parts, and diet plays a principal role in all of this as it relates to the orchestration of these processes. So stay tuned. We're gonna talk more about this whole connection between the immune system and our musculature. I've got this in my new book, The Nourished Gene, for those of you who are gonna follow that. So stay tuned, subscribe. See you soon. Thank you, Jeffrey.
