Dr. Jeff Bland
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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Type 1 diabetes. There's a ton of them, right?
Well, that's an interesting question. Just to jump on a sidetrack here for a minute. Is it true that women who haven't had babies or been pregnant don't have as much immune disease?
This whole puzzle of chronic disease, why we're seeing this epidemic. Some people say, oh, well, we didn't have it before because we didn't live that long. And everybody died at 40. Baloney. And that's not really not true. A lot of people live to be very old. Baloney. In many, many cultures. I mean, after you were born.
Not when I was in school in the 80s.
But the idea that these chronic diseases are only occurring because we're getting older and they're sort of a normal part of human development and aging, that they're kind of inevitable.
It's something I've heard people say, but I think there's a real flaw in that, because when you look at the historical records, like for example, the Native Americans and the Plains, they had this highest number of centenarians of any population at the turn of the last century, and they were living on bison.
And yes, you had a lot of maybe death and childbirth, infant mortality, that would affect life expectancy. We have extended life expectancy because of sanitation and hygiene and a lot of reasons, better medical care in some cases.
But these chronic illnesses of aging, which we've come to expect as normal, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, and even things that we don't think of as diseases of aging like mental health issues, depression, anxiety, bipolar, schizophrenia, ADD, autism, Parkinson's. I mean, these are things that we now are understanding are connected to inflammation.
I remember back in 1997 when this paper came out in the New England Journal by Paul Reeker, which... Essentially, he was a Harvard professor that showed that people with high levels of inflammation had a higher risk of heart attacks. And there was following studies where they showed that if your cholesterol was high, but your inflammation was low, you had a low risk.
But if your inflammation was high and your cholesterol was low, you had a high risk. So basically, it was the inflammation that was the problem, not the cholesterol. And pathologists would see in the plaques in arteries back in the 50s, 60s, 70s, they would see macrophages and they'd see T cells in...
Put your part of your immune system in the plaque and they just didn't know what to make of it and they thought it was just a plumbing problem and fat build up in your arteries from eating fat. And that was an overly simplistic model.
And now what's happened since that seminal paper from Paul Ricker at Harvard linking inflammation and heart disease, inflammation is now connected to all the chronic diseases of aging and aging itself.
And so when we look around us, it seems like the final common link between all these chronic illnesses that we're suffering from in today's society are related to inflammation and some dysregulation of the immune system.
Rancid fat, essentially.
Which is kind of foreign. It's not a normal lipid. Precisely. And so now it's doing... Or microplastics, which are now found in artery walls.
You just unpacked why we have so much chronic disease. It's our crappy diet, which is full of processed foods, limited amounts of variety of foods, lack of protective nutrients, lack of nutrients and vitamins, minerals, an overload of environmental toxins and chemicals from petrochemical toxins, from... heavy metal toxins from all the things we're exposed to.
The stress we have, this sleep disruption, this lack of sort of regulation of our circadian rhythm, the lack of connection socially, and so many things that are impacting us. The overuse of certain drugs like antibiotics, the increase in C-section rights, the increase in bottle feeding and lack of breastfeeding. I mean, all these are compounding
over generations to have the worst epidemic of chronic disease in human history. And we are the epicenter in the United States. All these issues and all the things we talked about, at the end of the day, come down to a problem with the immune system. And this is really what the sort of amazing discovery is that we're gonna unpack today, which is,
How does your immune system connect to these diseases? We now sort of understand why it's dysregulated, which means we can do something about it. And we're going to get very specific about how modifying certain things like diet or certain plant chemicals or phytochemicals, for example, like from...
A Himalayan tartary buckwheat, an ancient food that was used for thousands of years, actually has chemicals in it, phytochemicals that regulate the immune system. And we now know this on a granular level.
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