Dr. Giulia Enders

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ZOE Science & Nutrition · How 'boosting' your immune system increases inflammation and 4 ways to support balance instead | Dr Giulia Enders · 7 May 2026 podcast

That's really cool.

I think I'm definitely coming away from this with a sense of how complex it all is.

I'd like to come back to something you said a bit earlier, because you said that the immune system can be sort of set too high and attack innocent targets.

What happens?

What are you describing?

And why does that happen?

There's certainly the time when it just has an inflammatory reaction towards something in a wound, for example.

That's usually good, but even there, it can sometimes go overboard a bit.

Like when everything's already done and you're healing up, sometimes it overcompensates.

But then you have it also in things like allergies or autoimmune disease.

And when I hear people say these things like, or promote supplements and like everything's just targeted for...

for having a stronger and stronger and stronger immune system, I say, oh, I think you don't have the whole picture because it's really not about just having the strongest army on the planet, but it's about having a balanced one.

If you had like security personnel around you and they were stoked up all the time, almost like on cocaine, be super aggressive and super strong, then this might lead to some risky situation.

You really want them well balanced and really analyzing the situation well before they overreact.

So this is, I think, the same for the immune system.

And if you have all these substances to stimulate it, or let's just say sugar, because sugar gives all the energy to produce more and more and more immune cells, and with more, more can go wrong.

And sugar also gives it a signal to maybe be a bit more pro-inflammatory because it can afford it.

Studies show that over 20 years or so, if people regularly drink soft drinks with lots of sugar in them, then they just have a higher risk of having, as you said, rheumatoid arthritis for

for example and so you don't want it on overdrive you don't want it doing too much you want a balanced immune system

And of course, I want to really be clear, there's other ways to get those diseases.

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