32 min

Ep 52 your 'special ops team' immune system with Dr Gina Serraiocco healthHackers®

    • Health & Fitness

Bolstering the most powerful tool we have against COVID-19👉 our own immune system.
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Dr Gina Serraiocco works on the frontline. She has seen the effects of COVID-19 firsthand and has not only diagnosed but has successfully treated over 100 sufferers of the virus.

As a board-certified internal medicine and integrative medicine physician here in California’s Silicon Valley with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Dr Gina is a major advocate of adopting simple lifestyle changes to improve health outcomes.
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While we all wait for a vaccine and pharmaceutical treatment methods, Dr Gina talks us through some evidence-based steps for supporting immune function to help your body fight off a virus.
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Episode 52 covers:

🔹when people with COVID-19 are at their most contagious
🔹lowering unhelpful inflammation
🔹eating for good health
🔹the effect of citrus peel and green tea on your immune system
🔹stress and immunity
🔹an easy breathing meditation
🔹the exercise proven to be best for your immune system
🔹what’s vitamin P and why would we want it?
🔹evidence for vitamin D
🔹vitamin C plus zinc during an infection - research, and lozenge or capsule?
🔹why Dr Gina takes quercetin
🔹melatonin research
🔹the reason hydroxychloroquine may have helped some people
🔹why those taking Pepcid appeared to fare better against COVID-19
🔹supporting immunity during pregnancy
🔹(bonus topic) preventing dementia with habits for a healthy brain
🔹and what it feels like to be a doctor on the frontline of a global pandemic


Here’s the link to Dr Gina’s presentation on the prevention and reversal of early dementia and Alzheimer’s (mentioned in the podcast):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w2_sNbv6L4

Dr Gina’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyWpvAmtpq87Hq9V1nwO0dQ

The healthHackers YouTube channel: youtube.com/HealthHackers

For articles, podcasts, mini clips, health-tech review videos, guest episodes and to sign up for the monthly newsletter 👉 https://healthhackers.org/

🟥Common sense caution: Anything you hear or see within healthHackers content should not be considered personal or medical advice. You’ve all heard it before, so you know the score - always talk to your own health provider about your concerns.👌

Bolstering the most powerful tool we have against COVID-19👉 our own immune system.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Dr Gina Serraiocco works on the frontline. She has seen the effects of COVID-19 firsthand and has not only diagnosed but has successfully treated over 100 sufferers of the virus.

As a board-certified internal medicine and integrative medicine physician here in California’s Silicon Valley with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Dr Gina is a major advocate of adopting simple lifestyle changes to improve health outcomes.
⠀⠀⠀
While we all wait for a vaccine and pharmaceutical treatment methods, Dr Gina talks us through some evidence-based steps for supporting immune function to help your body fight off a virus.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Episode 52 covers:

🔹when people with COVID-19 are at their most contagious
🔹lowering unhelpful inflammation
🔹eating for good health
🔹the effect of citrus peel and green tea on your immune system
🔹stress and immunity
🔹an easy breathing meditation
🔹the exercise proven to be best for your immune system
🔹what’s vitamin P and why would we want it?
🔹evidence for vitamin D
🔹vitamin C plus zinc during an infection - research, and lozenge or capsule?
🔹why Dr Gina takes quercetin
🔹melatonin research
🔹the reason hydroxychloroquine may have helped some people
🔹why those taking Pepcid appeared to fare better against COVID-19
🔹supporting immunity during pregnancy
🔹(bonus topic) preventing dementia with habits for a healthy brain
🔹and what it feels like to be a doctor on the frontline of a global pandemic


Here’s the link to Dr Gina’s presentation on the prevention and reversal of early dementia and Alzheimer’s (mentioned in the podcast):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w2_sNbv6L4

Dr Gina’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyWpvAmtpq87Hq9V1nwO0dQ

The healthHackers YouTube channel: youtube.com/HealthHackers

For articles, podcasts, mini clips, health-tech review videos, guest episodes and to sign up for the monthly newsletter 👉 https://healthhackers.org/

🟥Common sense caution: Anything you hear or see within healthHackers content should not be considered personal or medical advice. You’ve all heard it before, so you know the score - always talk to your own health provider about your concerns.👌

32 min

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