Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

via the way we live our lives.

And that also includes the voice inside our heads.

Yeah, I don't even like the terms physical health and mental health anymore.

I've almost stopped using them.

They slip in because, you know, you're conditioned a certain way, but... People understand them.

People understand them.

So there's always the challenge between what's easy to communicate versus what is...

Totally accurate.

Yeah.

You know, you could make the same case with boosting an immune system.

Yeah.

You know, this idea that boosting your immune system, which I think you're not a huge fan of as a terminology, and I understand why.

At the same time, I think the flip side to that is, is that I think a lot of people understand it as being, I want to improve my immune system function.

Yeah.

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.