Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

So if I sleep eight hours compared to five hours and my natural killer cells go up by 40 or 50%.

Yeah.

I think I would say it's reasonable to say boost that because I think you boosted the number of natural killer cells.

But I understand also that we want to talk more about balance.

I mean, do you want to just speak to that for a moment?

In terms of practical things then that we can think about doing to support our immune system health, we've just mentioned self-compassion being one of those.

You just mentioned stress and the stress response and also how over the past years, it sounds as though you've introduced meditation into your life.

Perhaps let's move on to stress and think about what is the impact of chronic unmanaged stress on our immune systems?

And then what are some of the practical things we can do?

Like for example, you do meditation.

I'd be interested to know if you think meditation has a positive impact on your immune system.

Yeah, and I guess just a point to highlight for people is that they will have heard on this podcast that

On many occasions, me or my guests talking about chronic unresolved inflammation and why it is one of the root causes of most of the chronic diseases that we struggle with these days.

but they might not have drawn the link to the immune system.

Where does that inflammation come from?

Well, it comes from the immune system, right?

So actually, if you're going root, root, root cause, yeah, go to chronic inflammation, but then you actually have to go one step deeper and go, yeah, that's because the immune system, for whatever reason, feels that it needs to propagate an inflammatory response because of what it is sensing.

You know, the news has become quite alarming over the past week, okay?

And flights being cancelled, people wondering about the end of the world, all kinds of things.

And...