Dr. Jeff Bland
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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Exactly. Yeah, and the spark plugs or whatever.
Yeah, I think what's happened, you can hear it probably from my tone of voice, is this has just sucked me in full on. It's like I opened the door and it was a vacuum and it just sucked me right in because there is so much here that I think will help people once we learn how to really apply this in a personalized way. This is really personalized immunity.
And we now recognize that people have different immune identities. Just like they have different fingerprints, they have different immune identities. That requires different approaches towards their immune identities to maximize their immune rejuvenation. So it starts with some fairly simple things. The simple things are the things we've been going through.
Maybe they're simple to say, but not so easy to do. That is changing some lifestyle principles. So we started... looking at things like your sleep. You start looking at your activity level. You start looking at how much are you eating out of rushed habit patterns of things you know better than to eat, but it's just convenient to eat them.
And one of the things that has been very useful for me, and I found when I did a a series of little Instagram posts on this are these biometric devices that we wear, these wearable devices that give us information.
And I happen to be wearing an Oura ring because after being a biohacker and wearing all sorts of different pieces of equipment, this one I found gives me the most interesting information.
And what I found is from a personal experience, now I've done really kind of a pilot study, and I think it's more general, is that our aura brain is actually a surrogate marker to measure aspects of our immune system.
Because what happens is when you're under immune stress, it's eating, do you realize over 50% of your metabolic energy can be eaten up by your immune system when you're under immune stress? So what happens is your body temperature goes up, your heart rate variability goes down, your respiration goes up, your heart rate goes up, your sleep patterns go down.
So, you know, when you see these very low scores in the morning from an aura ring that says, well, geez, what's going on? It's probably something that happened to you last night that affected your immune system. Could be alcohol, it could be you stayed up too late, it could be stress, but your immune system is telling you It's under demand.
So these tools, to me, are useful for supporting your coaching system, right? Because you need to coach yourself through these behavior changes of improving your sleep, your activity, your diet, things that you need to rhythmically figure out about your life that are directly being manifest through your immune system into your function.
Your immune system is directly connected 24-7 to everything you're doing.
Well, I just told you the first step is assessment, right, is understanding where you are, what's the base. Your immunotype, in a way. That's right, it's your immunotype. And we have a questionnaire on the Bidwell Health website that gives kind of a first kind of look-see.
So we start off with the first thing, which really you've very well stated, and that is finding those patterns of behavior that tie to your immunotype. Are you an allergic type? Are you an inflammatory type? Are you a type that tends to get everything that comes along so you have an immunosuppressed state? So you understand a little bit about what your own immunopersonality is.
And we have a questionnaire on our website that's called the Immuno Identity Questionnaire that gives a little bit of a help for a person identifying their own specific immunotype. Then we go from there saying, well, now you have your immunotype, what are you going to do to move you from an imbalanced immune state to a balanced immune state. That's what we're all hoping for.
Because what we want to do is we don't want to shut off our immune system, or we don't want to hyper-function it. I mean, people always say, boost your immune system. But hold on just a minute. If you're already in an inflammatory state, do you really want to boost your inflammation? No, you want to rebalance your inflammation.
And so people say, I'm just going to take a bunch of immune system boosting nutrients. Well, no, no, no. That may actually only exacerbate the problem and make it worse. So the second step then, is you modulate your immune system based upon what you've learned about your first state. Are you immuno-underactive, immuno-overactive? Do you need to bring your immune system down?
Do you need to bring your immune system up? And we have a series of ways that that can be employed with diet and lifestyle. I would again go back to where you took us earlier, and that is make sure when you introduce the program They're using food as a friend. And you're using rhythmic eating so that time becomes your friend. Your circadian rhythms doesn't become your enemy. Don't overindulge.
Don't too frequently snack. I mean, it used to be, oh, we want to take seven to eight meals a day. Those are the days of hypoglycemia. That was probably not a good idea with regard to what we've learned about circadian rhythms.
Then the next level, the third step, is how can I optimize my immune system by utilizing some of these specific nutrients that we've been describing, the Himalayan, Tartary, Buckwheat phytochemicals. I would also put into this family, there are three families of nutrients that are very important. The phytochemicals we've been discussing a lot.
Second are pre and probiotics because the gut plays such an important role in modulating our immune system. 70% of our immune system It's clustered around our gut, the so-called gut-associated lymphoid tissue. So we want the friendly microbiome. So pre and probiotics would be step two. And then the third are omega-3 fatty acids.
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