Don't Fall for these Lies About the Immune System | Eric Edmeades

Wow. Are we ever confused about immunity? Aren't we? I mean, one minute, this is good for your immune system. One minute, this is bad for your immune system. In February of 2020, when the whole COVID pandemic began, I uploaded a video to the Internet that talked about metabolic health and taking care of your baseline health to help you support your immune system, to protect you from the virus. And I am amazed at some of the things people wrote to me. Things that were wrong and some things that were even dangerous. For example, one person says, all you have to do is load up on vitamin C, and all you have to do is load up on vitamin D. And the trouble is, is that like many lies, it's built on a grain of truth. Absolutely. Vitamin D and vitamin C are incredibly important to your immune system, where no matter what, it's fighting. But the challenge is, is that when people misunderstand a misconception like that, they go and overdose on these things. We have to be so careful. Here's another one. Exercise is incredibly bad for your immune system. Well, guess what? I had told people that they should be getting out and walking and getting fresh air, and all of a sudden all these people had to jump on the comments and go, exercise is bad for your immune system. Again, a lie, a dangerous lie built on a grain of truth. What's the grain of truth? Yes, if you were to go to the gym and do an incredibly intensive workout and hurt yourself, that's not good for your immune system. What's really important to know about this is that, yes, of course you can overdo it with exercise. That might hurt your immune system, but moving your body is an incredibly important part of keeping yourself healthy. Look, when somebody's bedridden, they have to be moved around to stop them from getting bed sores. Movement isn't just about fitness. It's about immunity. Here's another one. Immediately, people write to me, you can't strengthen the immune system. Okay, I'm just going to handle that with logic. I just want to keep it simple. Can you weaken the immune system? Sure. You could smoke. You could drink excessive amounts of alcohol. You could eat phenomenal levels of sugar. You could allow a huge amount of stress. So if you can weaken it, you can strengthen it. Oh, and here's the next one. Well, you didn't want to strengthen your immune system because that could strengthen your immune response, which could be dangerous. Okay, again, a lie built on a grain of truth. Yes, it's true. If your immune system overreacts to something, it can create something called a cytokine storm. Bad news. But why does the immune system do that? Not because it was healthy, optimized, and strong. It does it because either it was triggered already, like people were crying wolf and their immune system was kind of worn out and it overreacted, or because there are certain things in their behavior or their environment that had been suppressing their immune system, causing it to overreact. The immune system is one of the most important things for us to understand right now, and it's been something I've been looking at for over 30 years. That's why I've teamed up with mindvalley to create a powerful masterclass about the immune system. Learn how it operates, understand both aspects of it, learn how to stop triggering it, find out how not to suppress it, and answer your body's basic physical needs, some of which you know. You know to breathe, you know to eat. But the question is, do you really know how to breathe? Do you really know what to eat and in what seasons you should be eating? Do you really understand what kind of exercise is going to support your immune function Best join me in Vishen for this powerful masterclass. Learn all about your immune system and find out what you can do to keep you healthy and safe right now.