Episode 54: Your Adaptive Immune System

Don't miss out on the action happening inside your body! Let’s Become Immune Confident together!! 

Dive deeper into the immune system and discover how it specifically fights off bacterial and viral infections with Dr. Kara Wada.

TIMESTAMP
00:50 My Introduction to Immunology - Story Time!
05:14 Timeline of a typical Infection
06:47 How we fight off a typical bacterial infection like a staph or strep infection (extracellular bacteria)
20:35 How bacteria try to fight back
21:11 Our bodies' response to extracellular bacterial infection vs viral infections
23:14 How our bodies respond to viral infections like a cold or the flu
28:31 How viruses try to fight back

Coming up next week: Misbehaving Immune Systems: Allergies & Autoimmunity

ABOUT DR KARA WADA
Quadruple board-certified pediatric and adult allergy immunology & lifestyle medicine physician, Sjogren’s patient and life coach shares her recipe for success combining anti-inflammatory lifestyle, trusting therapeutic relationships, modern medicine & our minds to harness our body’s ability to heal.

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