Immune resilience, COVID & climate change | Jeff Bland, Ph.D., the father of functional medicine 

Jeff Bland, Ph.D.: “The planet has an immune system, we have immune systems, and they're intercommunicating.” 

Bland, the father of functional medicine and founder of Big Bold Health, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss our 2022 Wellness Trend of how doctors are taking charge in the environmental movement, plus:

- How to strengthen the planet’s immune system (~05:56)

- The connection between COVID & climate change (~08:37)

- Why our climate crisis is now a health crisis (~12:11)

- How environmental action shows up in doctors' offices (~17:39)

- Why fake meat is a stepping stone, not the end goal (~21:55)

Referenced in the episode:

- Read our 2022 Wellness Trend on how doctors are treating the planet.

- Read all of our 2022 Wellness Trends.

- mbg Podcast episode #222, with Bland.

- Candace Pert, Ph.D.'s book, Molecules Of Emotion.

- Read about Hans Selye's code of altruistic egoism.

- Big Bold Health.

- Big Bold Health's recipe page.

- Bland's podcast, Big Bold Immunity.

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